Material Religion

Aims & Scope

Material Religion is an international, peer-reviewed journal which seeks to explore how religion happens in material culture - images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture and sacred space, works of arts and mass-produced artifacts.

No less important than these material forms are the many different practices that put them to work.

Ritual, communication, ceremony, instruction, meditation, propaganda, pilgrimage, display, magic, liturgy and interpretation constitute many of the practices whereby religious material culture constructs the worlds of belief.

Highly visual in terms of content and in color throughout, this refereed journal bridges the world of scholarship and museum practice, and supports all those seeking, at whatever level, to understand and explain the relationships between objects, art and belief.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4
2024	0.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.187

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	23

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	21984

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	52

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The spectacular and the spirits: charismatics and neo-traditionalists on ghanaian television

  Citation: 62

  Authors: Marleen

• On the materiality of religion

  Citation: 53

  Authors: Webb

• Heritage and the sacred: introduction

  Citation: 51

  Authors: Birgit, Marleen

• Iconic Religion in Urban Space

  Citation: 50

  Authors: kim, volkhard, birgit

• Media and the senses in the making of religious experience: an introduction

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Birgit

• Hillsong and “megachurch” practice: semiotics, spatial logic and the embodiment of contemporary evangelical protestantism

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Robbie B. H.

• The materiality of cultural construction

  Citation: 30

  Authors: David

• Grasping the elusive and unknowable: material culture in ritual practice

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Nicole

• Spontaneous memorials and contemporary modes of mourning in america

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Erika

• The modern fear of matter: reflections on the protestantism of victorian science

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Peter

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