Aims and Scope
The International Journal of Religion, Arts, and Culture (IJRAC) is a peer-reviewed journal specializing in the academic study of religion in relation to culture. The journal publishes original research that examines how religion interacts with media, visuality, materiality, performance, literature, heritage, identity, and everyday social practice.
IJRAC is committed to developing a clear research profile in the field of religion and culture. It seeks manuscripts that offer strong analytical arguments, explicit methodology, engagement with relevant international scholarship, and meaningful contributions to ongoing debates in the humanities and social sciences. The journal values interdisciplinary work, but only where it serves a focused inquiry into religion in cultural life.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- religion and media
- religion and visual culture
- ritual, performance, and embodiment
- sacred arts and aesthetics
- literature and religion
- material religion
- religion, heritage, and memory
- identity, representation, and public religion
- religion in everyday culture
- comparative and transnational studies of religion and culture
IJRAC welcomes empirical, conceptual, and comparative studies that are academically rigorous and internationally relevant. The journal particularly encourages submissions that connect local or regional cases to wider theoretical discussions.
The journal does not accept manuscripts whose primary focus lies outside the intersection of religion and culture, including general theology, broad cultural studies without a religion dimension, purely historical description without analytical framing, or essays lacking a clear research question, method, and scholarly contribution.
