JCRT
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory itself is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to both disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship of a cutting-edge nature that deals broadly with the phenomenon of religion and cultural theory. It is supported by the University of Denver, Syracuse University.
Recent Journal Issues
25.1 - Spring
Challenging the Justifications of Domination through Law: Indigenous Resistance and the Undoing of Christian Empire
The following issue has resulted from a conference in the winter of 2023. The conference was sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation, Syracuse University Departments of Religion and Biology, Indigenous Values Initiative, American Indian Law Alliance, American Indian Community House, Good Faith Media (GFM), Neighbors of Onondaga Nation (NOON), Syracuse Peace Council, Syracuse Cultural Workers, Tonatierra, Toward Our Common Public Life, Unitarian Universalist Association.
24.2 - Winter
Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn and They Were Planting Crosses” Part 1 - Table of Contents
The following issue has resulted from a conference in the winter of 2023. The conference was sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation, Syracuse University Departments of Religion and Biology, Indigenous Values Initiative, American Indian Law Alliance, American Indian Community House, Good Faith Media (GFM), Neighbors of Onondaga Nation (NOON), Syracuse Peace Council, Syracuse Cultural Workers, Tonatierra, Toward Our Common Public Life, Unitarian Universalist Association.
24.1 - summer
Special Issue on Religion and Bioethics - Table of Contents
The following issue has resulted from a conference in the fall of 2024. The conference was sponsored by the journal in collaboration with the University of Denver.
23.2 - winter
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Table of Contents
A Whitestone Publication - Issue 23.2 Winter 2025
From the Archive #24.1
Explore All →The Sacred End: Exploring the Ethical Practice of SallekhanĀ in Jaina Tradition
By Nisha Daga; George Kodimattam Joseph • Vol 24.1
Read the sacred end
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Call for Submissions
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) invites submissions for the JCRT.org blog on a rolling basis. JCRT is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to both disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship of a cutting-edge nature that engages the phenomenon of religious and cultural theory broadly construed.
Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Reality
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) invites proposals for an online conference entitled Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Reality. The proceedings will be considered for publication in a special issue of the JCRT. This conference investigates how beliefs, paranoia, and conspiratorial modes of knowing shape a contemporary cognitive battlespace in which actors struggle to define truth, authority, and reality itself. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know and Julia Kristeva’s This Incredible Need to Believe (2024), we focus on practices of selective fact use and “truth-selecting” that construct alternative epistemic orders while claiming privileged access to what is “really” going on.