Call for Review Articles, Journal of Religious & Theological Information

Posted November 25, 2014

The Journal of Religious & Theological Information is currently accepting review articles that address books or electronic resources aligned with the aims and scope of the journal. The review process is an essential scholarly activity that provides critical review and comment on resources available for a variety of academic and non-academic audiences. We welcome your input to this process.

The Journal of Religious & Theological Information focuses on scholarship in the field of library and information studies as it relates to religious studies and related fields, including politics, culture studies, art and literature, sociology, and anthropology. The possibilities for contributions to this aim are vast.

A list of possible titles for review is listed below. Suggestions for books or electronic media to review are also encouraged. If you would like to review a book–or if you simply have questions–please contact Darin Freeburg, review editor, at [email protected]. Please include a CV with an indication of the book you would like to review.

Original and objective reviews are accepted on a rolling basis and will be edited for content, grammar, and style. Reviews should be submitted to the review editor within two months of receiving the resource. Guidelines for reviews are available by request. Information about the journal–as well as previous editions–can be found here.

Current Titles for Review (more available by request)

• Callaway, Kutter. Scoring Transcendence: Contemporary Film Music as Religious Experience. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2013. Print.
• Hoffmann, Frank, Marshall Fishwick, and Beulah B. Ramirez. Great Awakenings: Popular Religion and Popular Culture. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2013. Print.
• Juncker, Kristine. Afro-Cuban Religious Arts: Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espiritismo and Santería. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. Print.
• Paine, Crispin. Religious Objects in Museums: Private Lives and Public Duties. New York: Berg Publishers, 2013. Print.
• Shore-Goss, Robert. Queering Christianity: Finding a Place at the Table for LGBTQI Christians. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, 2013. Print
• Tomalin, Emma. Religions and Development. New York: Routledge, 2013. Print. Usnier, Jean-Claude and Jörg Stolz. Religion as Brands: New Perspectives on the Marketization of Religion and Spirituality. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. Print.
• Wearn, Mary McCartin. Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion: Lived Theologies and Literature. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014. Print.