The Center for Critical Research on Religion publishes the journal Critical Research on Religion and the book series "Studies in Critical Research on Religion."
Himanshi Shinde and Mamta Anand, "Thus spoke the stone women, Ahalya and Galatea: A comparative study of classical myths and their modern feminist retellings by Kavita Kane and Madeline Miller" in the April 2026 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Anjitha Anil and Sushant Kishore, "Gendered vengeance: Gender, agency, and retribution in the Mahabharata" in the April 2026 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Azam Sarwar and Muhammad Safdar, "Disinformation and misinterpretation: Deconstructing the politics of denialism on social media in Pakistan through Islamic feminism" in the April 2026 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Ali Akbar and Abdullah Saeed, "Inclusivist discourses among contemporary Shia religious scholars about people of other faiths" in the April 2026 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Siyaves Azeri, "Conspiracy theories, fetishism, and the spiritual crisis: Marx on religion revisited" in the April 2026 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Simon Schmalen and Thomas Kron, "Confession and grooming: A risk analysis" in the April 2026 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Anonymous, "Where the poem meets the battlefield: Speaking of Palestine and Israel" in the December 2025 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Abolfazl Morshedi, "Theoretical perspectives on Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s constructive concepts: Islamic tradition and modernity in the Iranian context" in the December 2025 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Mehdi Nourian, Hassan Chavoshian, and Hamid Ebadollahi-Chanzanagh, "From ressentiment to revengefulness: An analysis of the discourse of barāʿatī Shīʿism in Iran" in the December 2025 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Kenechi Nnaemeka Afunugo, “Rethinking the Christian vow of matrimonial indissolubility amidst persistent domestic violence in contemporary Nigerian marriages” in the December 2025 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Suleman Lazarus, Peter Tickner, and Mark Button, "Pulpit, power, and predation: “Yahoo Men of God,” prosperity theology, and the Twin Fraud Triangles" in the December 2025 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Theophilus Tinashe Nenjerama and Tavengwa Gwekwerere, "Religious ideologies, legitimation, and citizenship in “second republic” Zimbabwe" in the December 2025 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Hannah Strømmen, "Rendering unto Caesar: Receptions of the Bible as a source for secularism" in the December 2025 issue of Critical Research on Religion:
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Symposium on the Jewish Left 2025
with contributions by Simone Zimmerman, Omer Barton, Adam Seligman, Yousef Munayyer, and Molly Crabapple in the August 2025 issue of
Critical Research on Religion
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(free access until November 9)