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Religião & Sociedade is a journal published three times a year dedicated to religious subjects in all its relationship with society. It was created in 1977 by the Center for Religion Studies (CER) and the Institute for Religion Studies (ISER), which currently publishes it. It publishes cutting-edge research results, conceptual and methodological reflections, as well as visual essays and reviews of recent works in its theme. Religião & Sociedade is one of the most important journals within the Social Sciences area and since its foundation has been contributing to the exchange of the production of different postgraduate programs and research centers in Brazil and abroad on the theme of religion.
Its abbreviated title is Relig. Soc. , which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references and strips. |
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Institutional sponsors
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Editors
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Editor of Reviews
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Editorial Board
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Executive Secretary
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Scope and Editorial policy
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Religion & Society is a quarterly magazine devoted to the theme of religion in all its possibilities of relations with society. It publishes cutting-edge research results and conceptual and methodological reflections, as well as visual essays and reviews of recent works on its theme, in English and Spanish. It is open to various approaches, trends, perspectives and proposals for interpretation within the humanities, especially in the field of social sciences. Each issue includes articles by Brazilian and foreign researchers from different regionally diverse institutions. The three issues of the journal released every year consist of flow articles and reviews of works recently published in Brazil and abroad. In some cases, also by articles linked to thematic dossiers proposed by national and international researchers and announced in the journal's media. Religion & Society accepts the following contributions:
There are no fees for article submission and evaluation |
Rules for papers submission
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1. For article submission
The texts must be sent only through the Scielo collection online system (http://www.scielo.br/rs), in open Word format or other compatible format. The text may have between 7,000 and 10,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography, which should come at the end of the text. The notes must contain complementary and substantive information and cannot consist of bibliographic references only. The standards for bibliographic references are set out below. The cover page should contain: article title and text summary in Portuguese and English (between 80 and 120 words). In the document sent by the Scielo.com system there cannot be any kind of information that identifies the authorship of the article.
The texts will be analyzed first by the journal's editorial committee, which will give a desk review to assess standards of academic quality and adequacy to the journal's scope, objectives and editorial policy / mission.
(a) title in Portuguese and English; The interstice for publication in Religião & Sociedade is 24 months between the publication of one article and the submission of another by the same author or co-author. In the case of proposals for translation of articles, it is the responsibility of the author of the translation to request the necessary authorizations, sending them, in time, to the journal for filing. Articles for translation must be from classical or contemporary authors whose relevance in the present time is attested by the wide citation by the scientific community, according to the interest of the editors of the journal. 1.1 Bibliography presentation rules References should be located in the body of the text and the notes. They follow the form (Author Year) or (Author Year: Page), as in the example (Mauss 1960: 32). If there is more than one title by the same author in the same year, they will be distinguished by a letter after the date, as in the example (Mauss 1960a; Mauss 1960b). Bibliography, at the end of the paper, must be in the following format: Book: Author's last name, first name. (date), Title of Work. Place of publication: publisher, issue number if not first. WEBER, Max. (1965), The Sociology of Religion. Boston: Beacon Press, 2nd ed.
Article: Author's last name, first name. (date), “Article Title”. Journal title, issue number: pages.
Collection: Author's last name, first name. (date), “Chapter Title”. In: initials of the name followed by the surname of the organizer (s). Collection title. place of publication: publisher, issue no. if not first.
Academic Theses: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, first name. (date), Title of the thesis. Place: Academic degree to which it refers, institution in which it was presented. 2. For submission of reviews and visual essays
This section is dedicated to the publication of authorial and critical essays that present new contributions in the scientific approach to themes relevant to Religião & Sociedade. Visual productions and reviews of recent works will be accepted, as they result from original research in the area of social sciences, humanities and arts, in connection with the theme of religion in its multiple possibilities of expression and approach. The reviews must present works published in the last five years, whether academic or literary books, ethnographic documentaries and videos, photobooks, exhibitions, and other scientific and cultural productions. It should indicate the connection and contribution of the analyzed work to the most recent debates in the journal. Reviews can give rise to critical discussions about the interpretation of the facts, the methods adopted or the proposed theoretical choices. In order to preserve textual clarity, it is recommended to gather critical comments in a specific part after the summary itself. Reviews containing allusive (unfounded) criticism and personal attacks will be disregarded. Based on the criteria indicated above, the evaluation may have three results: “approved review”, “approved review with modifications” and “rejected review” (no resubmission). The last two results will be communicated with a brief opinion. The author (s) are requested to give a title to the review available in Portuguese and English. The bibliographic reference of the reviewed work should come at the beginning, according to the rules regarding the submission of articles: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, first name. Title of the work. Place of publication: publisher, date, no. if not the first edition, no. of pages. For example, GEERTZ, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara Koogan, 1989, 325pp. Other works cited in the review should have their complete references presented in a note at the end of the text.
The Visual Essays - of photography, ethnographic drawing or visual arts - must result from detailed research and in connection with debates pertinent to the journal's profile. The images (in 300 dpi) will be accompanied by a text and, optionally, by subtitles, presenting the conditions of elaboration of the essay, its poetics and methodology. They must also present title, abstract, and keywords in English. The authors must send a signed statement authorizing the publication of the images and taking responsibility for the right to use them. The declaration must be attached as a "supplementary document" at the time of submission. Reviews and Visual Essays should be between 1,000 and 2,000 words, including bibliographical references and title. They will be evaluated by the Editors of Reviews and the Editorial Board, who may request a specific opinion if deemed appropriate. All contributions must be submitted through the Religion & Society magazine's SciELO platform: http://submission.scielo.br/index.php/rs 3. Copyright, Exclusiveness and CC-BY License By submitting an article or review, authors commit not to submit it to another journal during the review process. Conversely, the Journal does not accept articles that are still under review in other journals. Neither will the Journal receive two simultaneous evaluations by the same author, understanding that it configures simultaneity to submit a new article while another has not yet been published or rejected. The submission of any collaboration automatically implies the full assignment of the copyright to Religion & Society, including translation, if the article is approved for publication. Authors are allowed to reproduce their articles as long as the original source (Relig. Soc.) is cited. The Journal adopts CC-BY license used internationally by leading open access journals and publishers, in accordance with SciELO. Such a license maximizes the dissemination of articles. It is understood that every author of an article published in Religião & Sociedade agrees to the use of this type of license. 4. Good scientific practices
In line with advances in the field of ethics and good scientific practice, all articles approved in the first stage will be subjected to plagiarism testing and “self-plagiarism” or republishing (publication as unpublished material of texts already published). Any cases of bad practice will be examined and decided by the Editorial Committee The opinions expressed in signed articles and the integrity of the content of the articles are the sole responsibility of their authors. |
