Description: Religious Magazine Archive offers unprecedented digital access to the archival runs of 18 major consumer periodicals in the field of religion, spanning the 19th-21st centuries. Each title has a deep backfile of several decades, with the earliest content dating from 1845. These publications were not originally scholarly in nature, but are now key primary sources for scholars. These titles, aimed at a popular readership rather than cultural or academic elites, provide a unique insight into the way religious movements engaged with their followers and with wider society. Users can ascertain the responses of religious groups to the contemporary issues, trends, and events during this period, not only in religious life, but also in wider society, politics, and international affairs. The magazines span a wide variety of religions and denominations, allowing for comparative studies of the responses of each to specific events and issues. This material will cater to diverse research interests, in areas including history of religion, theology, sociology, anthropology, international affairs, politics, and more. Among the countless topics on which these publications will shed light are influence of belief systems on public life, the history of popular religions, the means used by religious movements to gain adherents, the relationship between religion and the state, and the growth of heterodox religious cultures in the 20th century. These publications are digitized by default from the first. Issues are scanned from cover to cover in page image format and in color, with fully searchable text. Our policy is to include each issue from volume 1, issue 1 through to a termination point of 2015 and to scan from cover to cover. Due to the rarity of some of the original print volumes, however, there are small gaps (issues or pages) in the runs of some publications.

Concurrent Users: unlimited

Other info: always proxy off-campus, provides full text

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