Academic Journal on Secularism and Non-religion Launched

CNN’s Religion Blog notes the creation of a new academic journal, Secularism and Non-religion, which will start publishing in January, 2012. The journal, a joint project of Trinity College in Connecticut and the Non-religion and Secularity Research Network, an international interdisciplinary research network, posted this description of its focus:

Articles, written in English, will be accepted from experts in the social science disciplines of psychology, sociology, political science, women’s studies, economics, geography, demography, anthropology, public health, public policy, law and religious studies. However, contributions also will be considered from researchers in the fields of history, neuroscience, computer science, biology, philosophy and medicine.
 
Articles published in the new journal will focus on the secular at one of three levels: the micro or individual level, the meso or institutional level, or the macro or national and international level. Submissions should explore all aspects of what it means to be secular at any of the above-cited levels, what the lives of nonreligious individuals are like, and the interaction between secularity, nonreligion and other aspects of the world. Articles will explore the ideology and philosophy of the secular, secularism, nonreligion and atheism.
 
Although Secularism and Nonreligion will adhere to a traditional blind, peer-review referee process, it will be an open-access journal, meaning all articles will be freely available and able to be downloaded on the journal’s Web site: www.secularismandnonreligion.org.

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