New in 2007
Religion Compass
Edited by:
Tamara Sonn
Unique in its range, Religion Compass is an online-only journal publishing original, peer-evaluated, state-of-the-art surveys of current research from across the entire discipline. Religion Compass guides students, researchers and non-specialist scholars through the accumulating body of literature, and navigates the field by laying out the territory, describing divisions and subdivisions of Religious Studies and identifying the major issues within those sections.
Fields covered by Religion Compass include:
African Religions | Ancient Near East | Buddhism | Christianity | Indian Traditions | Islam | Japanese and Chinese Traditions | Judaism | Religion in America | New Religions | Theory and Method
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TopNews and Announcements
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Religion Compass has just launched an exciting companion forum, Religion Compass Exchanges. Exchanges will provide a provocative round-table for debate, dealing with matters of most import to professional scholars of religious studies. The aim is to maintain a stimulating balance between scholarly rigour and free-form discussion. The issues debated may range from abortion to the afterlife, from capital punishment to animal rights, or from evolution to miracles. We are confident there is nothing quite like it currently available!
Please do take a few minutes to visit this exciting new forum and get involved in the discussion: http://religioncompass.wordpress.com/
Virtual Issues
We are pleased to announce the Religion Compass Buddhism Virtual Issue featuring pieces on the nature of the Mahâyâna movement, monastic education in Tibet, Tibetan visual culture, as well as Buddhism and self-sacrifice in Thailand, and Buddhism and anthropological approaches in Southeast Asia. Click here to access.
Also available:
Globalization - click here to access
Violence and conflict - click here to access
Gender - click here to access
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TopHighlights
Views of Jihad Throughout History
Asma Afsaruddin
What's New in the History of Christianity?
Anne Thayer
From Exotics to Brainwashers: Portraying New Religions in Mass Media
Sean McCloud
Religion and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Alex Jassen
The Holocaust: Remembrances, Reflections, Revisions
Stephen Whitfield
TopEndorsements
"We live in an age of hyper-specialization and mass proliferation of sometimes too easily accessible information - some of it scholarly, but much of it not. This is especially true in the field of Religious Studies. The Blackwell Religion Compass is a tool to guide students and scholars through this accumulating body of literature, and to navigate the field of Religious Studies."
Tamara Sonn, Religion Compass Editor-in-Chief, College of William and Mary
