Politics, Religion & Ideology

Politics, Religion & Ideology
DisciplinePolitical science, history
LanguageEnglish
Edited byNaveed S. Sheikh
Publication details
Former names
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
History2000–present
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
FrequencyQuarterly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Politics Relig. Ideol.
Indexing
ISSN2156-7689 (print)
2156-7697 (web)
OCLC no.652466953
Links

Politics, Religion & Ideology is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the politics and history of illiberal and radical ideologies, both religious and secular. It is published by Taylor & Francis. The editor-in-chief is Naveed S. Sheikh (Keele University).

Scope

The journal publishes critical analyses of theory and international case studies pertaining to religious radicalism and public policy, totalitarian movements and illiberal ideologies such as fascism, Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, and Ba'athism, political religions and political ideologies, dissent, and politics of memory.[1]

History

It was established in 2000 as Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. The founding editor was English historian Michael Burleigh, who is known for his study of Nazi Germany and political religion.[2][3] He expresses his fundamental debts to earlier antitotalitarian thinkers including Eric Voegelin, Raymond Aron, and Waldemar Gurian.[4] The journal marked a new surge of interest in totalitarianism in the 1990s.[5]

The journal obtained its current name in 2011.[5]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Scopus, EBSCOhost (International Political Science Abstracts, Military & Government Collection and Political Science Complete), Sociological Abstracts, CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Learn about Politics, Religion & Ideology". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  2. ↑ "Michael Burleigh". rcwlitagency.com. Retrieved 2026-04-04.
  3. ↑ "Michael Burleigh". ABC listen. 2006-06-13. Retrieved 2026-04-04.
  4. ↑ "Michael Burleigh as Historian of "Political Religion"". www.catholicculture.org. Retrieved 2026-04-04.
  5. 1 2 Gill, Graeme (2021-12-17). "The Stalin Cult as Political Religion". Religions. 12 (12): 1112. ISSN 2077-1444.
  6. ↑ "Web of Science Master Journal List - WoS MJL by Clarivate". mjl.clarivate.com. Retrieved 2026-04-04.