Archives de sciences sociales des religions

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.

Archives de sciences sociales des religions
Cover of the 192nd issue
DisciplineReligious studies
LanguageFrench, English, Spanish
Publication details
Former name(s)
Archives de sociologie des religions
History1956–present
Publisher
Éditions de l'EHESS (France)
FrequencyQuarterly
Yes
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Arch. sci. soc. relig.
Indexing
ISSN0335-5985 (print)
1777-5825 (web)
LCCN74645706
JSTOR03355985
OCLC no.224153374
Links

History

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The journal was founded in 1956 under the CNRS as the Archives de Sociologie des Religions. It was renamed as the Archives de sciences sociales des religions in 1973.[1][2] It was founded by a group of five intellectuals: Henri Desroche, Émile Poulat, Jacques Maître [fr], François-André Isambert and Gabriel Le Bras.[3]

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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b Koniordos, Sokratis; Kyrtsis, Alexandros (4 September 2014). Routledge Handbook of European Sociology. Routledge. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-136-71121-3.
  2. ^ Lassave, Pierre (2017). "ASSR, l'alerte soixantaine". La Revue des revues (in French). 57 (1): 96–101. doi:10.3917/rdr.057.0096. ISSN 0980-2797.
  3. ^ a b Oro, 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.
  4. ^ Despland, Michel (18 December 2014). Bastide on Religion: The Invention of Candomble. Routledge. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-317-49061-6.
  5. ^ a b "About the ASSR". Archives de sciences sociales des religions. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 19 July 2024 – via OpenEdition Journals.
  6. ^ "Review of Archives de Sciences sociales des Religions". Jewish Social Studies. 44 (2): 182. 1982. ISSN 0021-6704. JSTOR 4467177.
  7. ^ Fer, Yannick; Trento, Margherita Trento (15 July 2024). "Les Archives de sciences sociales des religions et la politique de science ouverte" [The Archives de sciences sociales des religions and the open science policy]. CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales (in French). Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  8. ^ 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. ISBN 978-90-04-29758-6.
  9. ^ Enhaili, Aziz (2003). "Archives de sciences sociales des religions, « Islam et politique dans le monde (ex-) communiste », no 115, Juillet-Septembre 2001, 201 p." Anthropologie et Sociétés (in French). 27 (2): 233–235. doi:10.7202/007470ar. ISSN 0702-8997.
  10. ^ Bousenna, Youness (10 June 2022). "Les mondes créoles, un « univers de sens » religieux" [Creole worlds, a religious “universe of meaning"]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  11. ^ Martin, David (16 March 2017). Secularisation, Pentecostalism and Violence: Receptions, Rediscoveries and Rebuttals in the Sociology of Religion. Taylor & Francis. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-351-84607-3.
  12. ^ Obadia, Lionel (14 February 2020). Possamai, Adam; Blasi, Anthony J. (eds.). The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion. SAGE. p. 599. ISBN 978-1-5297-2196-6.

Further reading

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  • Guizzardi, Gustavo; Pace, Enzo; Poulat, Emile (1981). Sapere e potere religioso: la rivista "Archives de sciences sociales des religions". Bari: De Donato.
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