About Sacred Tribes Journal

Several years ago we started an online journal on new religious movements. Now that journal has been resurrected, with past issues available again, and new issues in production.

Sacred Tribes Journal is an international refereed online journal for the ongoing study of new religious movements. The journal offers descriptive articles on new religious movements as well as articles related to the Christian engagement of these religions from leading Christian academics in the field.

The purpose of this international online journal is to explore the study of religion, including new religious movements, world religions, and popular spiritualities and "religion-like" self-identities, in a scholarly and multi-disciplinary fashion. In order to accomplish this task, this journal draws together the combined insights of sociologists, anthropologists, religious studies scholars, theologians, as well as missiologists, and those from other disciplines from around the world.

One other feature is that from time to time special editions of this journal will be dedicated to engagement with those from a variety of religious and spiritual pathways. These editions will practice and demonstrate a dialogical approach to examining key topics in religion in our time.

ISSN: 1941-8167

Sign up for this free journal, download issue content, or submit an article for publication by visiting the journal’s website.

Endorsements

Sacred Tribes Journal is a gift to all of us who want to be knowledgeable about new religious movements. Too often we have settled for a doctrinal “check list” approach to our assessments of these movements. This is a journal that probes the deeper currents—the conditions out of which they emerge and the hopes and fears that shape their teachings—so that we can be more effective in calling their adherents to the abundant life that can be found in Jesus Christ.
Richard J. Mouw, Ph.D.
President Emeritus and Senior Professor of Faith and Public Life
Fuller Seminary

I can wholeheartedly endorse Sacred Tribes Journal as an exciting venture by committed evangelical Christians to engage others by taking the beliefs of people who hold different beliefs seriously. It is exactly this type of dialogue and serious discussion that Christians and all other believers desperately need in today's world.
Irving Hexham, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Religious Studies
University of Calgary

This electronic journal seeks to capture the dynamic of real-world, real-time situations for the benefit of better equipping the church. The promise of integrating the insights and perspectives of missiology, anthropology, sociology, along with the more traditional disciplines of theology and apologetics, should allows us to discover models for outreach that are more true to the human condition in all its nuances. I look forward with enthusiasm to using the Sacred Tribes Journal as a valuable resource for the latest methodologies to present the matchless gospel of Christ in the complex culture that is North America and beyond.
Rudy Gonzalez , Ph.D.
Professor of Biblical Studies
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary