journal, scientific, study, religion, jssr, quarterly, peer, reviewed, academic, journal, published, wiley, blackwell, united, states, under, auspices, society, scientific, study, religion, dedicated, publishing, scholarly, articles, social, sciences, includin. The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion JSSR is a quarterly peer reviewed academic journal published by Wiley Blackwell in the United States under the auspices of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion dedicated to publishing scholarly articles in the social sciences including psychology sociology and anthropology devoted to the study of religion It is not a theology journal as its publications tend to be empirical papers in the aforementioned disciplines rather than papers assessing the truth or falsity or otherwise attempting to clarify theological doctrines However the eminent theologian Paul Tillich wrote a preface to the first edition published in 1961 A former editor Ralph W Hood is a major name in the psychology of religion having published scales to assess religious experience and mystical experience Hood was succeeded as editor in 1999 by Ted Jelen the first ever political scientist to edit the journal Jelen was later succeeded as editor by sociologist Rhys Williams The current editor of the journal is Tobin Grant Southern Illinois University Carbondale Journal for the Scientific Study of ReligionDisciplineMultidisciplinaryLanguageEnglishEdited byLaura OlsonPublication detailsHistory1961 presentPublisherWiley Blackwell on behalf of the Society for the Scientific Study of ReligionFrequencyQuarterlyImpact factor1 348 2011 Standard abbreviationsISO 4 alt Bluebook alt1 alt2 NLM alt MathSciNet alt ISO 4J Sci Study Relig IndexingCODEN JSTOR alt LCCN alt MIAR NLM alt ScopusISSN0021 8294 print 1468 5906 web JSTOR00218294LinksJournal homepage Online access Online archiveAccording to the Journal Citation Reports the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 1 348 ranking it 30th out of 138 journals in the category Sociology 1 References Edit Journals Ranked by Impact Sociology 2011 Journal Citation Reports Web of Science Social Sciences ed Thomson Reuters 2012 External links EditOfficial website JSTOR Archives for JSSR This article about an academic journal on religious studies is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it See tips for writing articles about academic journals Further suggestions might be found on the article s talk page vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion amp oldid 1123970904, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
