Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality is a biannual academic journal

Academic journal

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 published by the Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press

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. It was established in 1993 as the Christian Spirituality Bulletin: Journal of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality and obtained its current title in 2001. It is the official publication of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality and covers research on Christian

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...

 spirituality

Spirituality

Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.” Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop...

 while fostering creative dialogue with non-Christian traditions. As such, it explores the relationship between spirituality and cultural analysis

Cultural studies

Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural...

 using the disciplines of history

History

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, philosophy

Philosophy

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, theology

Theology

Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

, and psychology

Psychology

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, among others. The journal includes original articles, reviews, and translations. Readership includes academics as well as a general audience. The current and founding editor-in-chief is Douglas Burton-Christie (Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in Los Angeles, California, United States...

).

Abstracting and indexing

Spiritus is abstracted and indexed in the Christian Periodical Index, Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the International Bibliography of Periodical Literature

International Bibliography of Periodical Literature

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External links

• Spiritus at Project MUSE
  Project MUSE
  Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon...
  
  
• Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality