About the Journal

JBASR publishes articles that address religion, the disciplinary history of religious studies and articles that advance empirical research and/or theoretical and methodological avenues of enquiry. 

The journal began life in as DISKUS, a pioneering electronic format journal distributed on disk.  In 1993 it became part of The Internet Journal of Religion hosted by Marburg University and moved to the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR) in 2005. It moved to Equinox in 2025.

BASR members receive a subscription to the journal as part of membership which includes access to all backlist issues.  Join BASR at their website https://basr.ac.uk/

 

ISSN: 2516-6379 (Online)

Publication: Annual

 

 

Current Issue

Vol. 25 (2023): Religion and Public Engagement

The 2022 Conference of the BASR was hosted by the Open University in Milton Keynes. The theme was Religion and Public Engagement and this issue of the JBASR showcases some of the insights from the conference. The keynote from Jas Singh, “Becoming an accidental activist: Religion, Academia and Community Engagement” provides a useful starting point for considering what we hope to achieve, and what we can achieve, through public engagement.

Published: 2023-09-13

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The British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR) was founded in 1954 and is a member association of the International Association for the History of Religions and of the European Association for the Study of Religions.