Focus and Scope
Starting Volume 48, Number 2, December issue 2025, Dialog Journal will focus on the following focus and scope:
Focus and Scope
DIALOG publishes peer-reviewed articles focusing on the intersection of religion and society in local, national, and global contexts. The journal emphasizes studies that critically examine how religious ideas, institutions, and practices shape—and are shaped by—socio-political dynamics, cultural expressions, and interreligious relations.
The journal welcomes original research in the following areas:
- Interreligious Relations and Social Harmony: Empirical and theoretical studies on dialogue between religious communities, models of coexistence, and challenges of pluralism.
- Religion and Politics: Analyses of how religion interacts with state power, public policy, nationalism, civil movements, and ideological contestations.
- Religious Conflict and Peacebuilding: Investigations into the causes and dynamics of religiously motivated tensions, as well as reconciliation and peace processes.
- Local Culture and Religious Expression: Research on the influence of indigenous traditions, local wisdom, and cultural hybridity in shaping religious identities and practices.
- Religion and Public Discourse: Studies on religious representation in media, public space, popular culture, and digital platforms.
DIALOG promotes interdisciplinary approaches using methodologies from sociology of religion, anthropology, ethnography, hermeneutics, postcolonial studies, discourse analysis, and political theory. The journal seeks to provide a critical and dialogical platform for advancing scholarly conversations about religion’s role in shaping social life.
