The Journal of Religious History is an international peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Religious History Association. It covers current work in the history of religion

History of religions

The history of religion refers to the written record of human religious experiences and ideas. This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,000 years ago in the Near East. The prehistory of religion relates to a study of religious beliefs that existed prior to the...

s. It also examines the relation of religions with other aspects of human experience.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by Academic Search Elite

Academic Search

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, FRANCIS, America: History & Life, Australian Public Affairs and Information Service, Arts and Humanities Citation Index

Arts and Humanities Citation Index

The Arts & Humanities Citation Index , also known as Arts & Humanities Search is a citation index, with abstracting and indexing for more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals, and coverage of disciplines that includes social and natural science journals. Part of this database is derived from...

, ATLA Religion Database

ATLA Religion Database

The ATLA Religion Database or ATLA RDB, is an index of academic articles in the area of religion. It is updated quarterly by the American Theological Library Association . The database indexes journal articles, essays and book reviews related to a wide range of scholarly fields related to religion...

, CSA Biological Sciences Database, CSA Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database

CSA (database company)

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, Current Contents

Current Contents

Current Contents is a rapid alerting service database from the Institute for Scientific Information, now part of Thomson Reuters, that is published online and in several different printed subject sections.-History:...

/Arts & Humanities, Ecology Abstracts, Historical Abstracts, InfoTrac

InfoTrac

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, ProQuest

ProQuest

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, and Sociological Abstracts

CSA (database company)

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