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Religious Studies Review

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ7311312 ↗
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Religious Studies Review (RSR) is the journal of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion (CSSR), which is based at Rice University. The journal is published quarterly by John Wiley & Sons. RSR reviews over 1,000 titles annually in review essays and critical notes.

History

RSR was wholly produced and distributed by the CSSR until 2005 when they contracted Wiley-Blackwell to manage it. In 2009, Rice University purchased RSR, while Wiley-Blackwell continued the publishing duties.

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“Religious Studies Review” enters the record as academic journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Religious, Studies and Review can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Religious Studies Review” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.