Nova Religio is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 religious studies

Religious studies

Religious studies is the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions. It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing systematic, historically based, and cross-cultural perspectives.While theology attempts to...

 journal that focuses on New Religious Movement

New religious movement

A new religious movement is a religious community or ethical, spiritual, or philosophical group of modern origin, which has a peripheral place within the dominant religious culture. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may be part of a wider religion, such as Christianity, Hinduism or Buddhism, in...

s. The journal is published by University of California Press

University of California Press

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, in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

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. First published in 1997 as a biannual, Nova Religio changed to a quarterly format in 2005.

Coverage

The journal publishes scholarly interpretations, original research, literature reviews, and conference updates with a focus on New Religious Movement

New religious movement

A new religious movement is a religious community or ethical, spiritual, or philosophical group of modern origin, which has a peripheral place within the dominant religious culture. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may be part of a wider religion, such as Christianity, Hinduism or Buddhism, in...

s, including Ancient Wisdom and New Age groups, new movements within established religious traditions, alternative Christian religions, new Jewish movements, religious organizations based on Asian teachings, new religious movements from the Middle East, African, African American and Black movements, and immigrant religions in Diaspora.

Abstracting and Indexing

Nova Religio is abstracted and/or indexed in the following databases:

• Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals
• 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...
  
  
• British Humanities Index
  British Humanities Index
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• Index to Jewish Periodicals
• Political Science Abstracts
• ProQuest Religion Database
• Religion Index One: Periodicals
• Religious and Theological Abstracts
  Religious and Theological Abstracts
  Religious and Theological Abstracts is a database that indexes many religious and theological journals and other literature. One Guide to Research recently described it as a "popular reference" covering more than 600 periodicals in most major European languages beginning in 1958...
  
  
• Sociological Abstracts

External links

• Nova Religio journal website