Archives de sciences sociales des religions (ASSR), known as the Archives de sociologie des religions pre-1973, is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access academic journal focused on religious studies. It is published by the Éditions de l'EHESS.
Henri Desroche was the director of the journal from its creation until 1980.[4] ASSR releases articles bilingually in French and English, and occasionally Spanish.[5] Émile Poulat was one of the most important contributors of the journal, and was a member of its reading committee.[1]
It was formerly a semi-annual publication, and was published by the Institut de Sciences sociales des Religions in Paris, France.[6] The journal was transitioned to a diamond open access model in 2023, available for free on OpenEdition Journals.[7] In 2015 it had 1,000 readers.[8]
Editorial processes
The journal is peer reviewed. It publishes a "bibliographic bulletin" in January, and thematic or variety issues in April, June and November.[3][5] It has published themed issues on the religion of Creole peoples and the relations between Islam and politics in post-communist countries.[9][10]
Influence
Writer David Martin described the journal, along with the journal Social Compass, as "as essential to theory-building [in the context of the sociology of religion] as missionary ethnographies were to the foundations of anthropology".[11] Lionel Obadia described ASSR as "the major journal in social sciences of religion in France".[12]
References
^ abKoniordos, Sokratis; Kyrtsis, Alexandros (4 September 2014). Routledge Handbook of European Sociology. Routledge. p. 166. ISBN978-1-136-71121-3.
^ abOro, Ari Pedro (January 2018). "A "Herança Dürkheimiana" Na Revista Archives De Sciences Sociales Des Religions". Ciencias Sociales y Religión / Ciências Sociais e Religião (in Brazilian Portuguese). 19 (28): 99–113. doi:10.20396/csr.v20i28.12458. hdl:10183/182121.
^Lassave, Pierre (14 July 2015). "France: Re-Founding the Sociology of Religion from Émile Durkheim to the Groupe de Sociologie des Religions and Beyond". In Blasi, Anthony; Giordan, Giuseppe (eds.). Sociologies of Religion: National Traditions. Brill Publishers. p. 232. ISBN978-90-04-29758-6.
^Obadia, Lionel (14 February 2020). Possamai, Adam; Blasi, Anthony J. (eds.). The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion. SAGE. p. 599. ISBN978-1-5297-2196-6.
Further reading
Guizzardi, Gustavo; Pace, Enzo; Poulat, Emile (1981). Sapere e potere religioso: la rivista "Archives de sciences sociales des religions". Bari: De Donato.