Temenos

Aims & Scope

Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion (previously Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion) is published by the Finnish Society for the Study of Religion. The journal was founded in 1965 as a joint-publication with the learned societies of Comparative Religion in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to promote the research and communication of ideas between scholars. Temenos publishes scholarly articles, academic discussions, conference reports and book reviews within the field of the study of religion and culture. The notion of religion is looked at both as a folk category and a scholarly construct the various uses of which in diverse socio-cultural arenas and contexts - whether in traditional, modern, or late-modern settings - are important objects of critical inspection. Temenos is a peer reviewed open access journal. It is published twice a year (one volume, two issues). In the Finnish Publication Forum it has been rated on top level (3). Please note that abstracts and full-text articles are available only from 2005 and forward in the journal.fi portal. The full-text articles of older issues can be retrieved in the ATLA Religion database . Please contact the Co-Chief Editor Sofia Sjö concerning digital copies if your institution does not provide access to the ATLA Religion database. Temenos hopes to capture the actual intellectual climate in which present-day scholars of religion and culture work, not only in the Nordic countries, but throughout the world. One of the major themes that the editors wish contributors to pay growing attention concerns the role of religious traditions, religious ideas and representations in the making of nationalities, history, individual identities and various sorts of socio-cultural and political formations in different geographical locations. The old and new conversation partners in the fields of cultural and social anthropology, archaeology, folklore studies, cognitive science, economics, geography, history, political science and sociology are invited to join in. Papers addressing the northern aspect are given special consideration. Temenos is a Nordic journal, which means our primary focus is on Nordic topics and researchers. Secondary aims are to publish articles from outside the Nordic context which deal with central methodological and theoretical themes, articles based on presentations given at conferences organised in the Nordic countries and special thematic issues.

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