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| Revue de l'histoire des religions | |
|---|---|
| Title | Revue de l'histoire des religions |
| Discipline | Comparative religion |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Société des études historiques et religieuses |
| Country | France |
| History | 1880–present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
Revue de l'histoire des religions is a French scholarly journal devoted to the historical study of religions, founded in the late 19th century. The journal has engaged with scholarship from across Europe and beyond, attracting contributions from scholars associated with institutions such as École pratique des hautes études, Collège de France, Université Paris-Sorbonne, University of Oxford, and Harvard University. Over its run it has published articles referring to figures and topics connected to Jules Ames, Ernest Renan, Max Müller, Émile Durkheim, Mircea Eliade, and Paul Tillich.
Founded in the milieu of fin-de-siècle scholarship, the journal emerged amid debates involving Jules Simon, Jules Ferry, Gustave Le Bon, and participants in the Third Republic's intellectual life. Early editorial influence drew on networks that included Émile Littré, Auguste Comte, Ernest Renan, Charles de Gaulle (as a historical figure referenced in later commemorative issues), and correspondents in Berlin, Vienna, Rome, and Madrid. The periodical chronicled responses to events such as the Dreyfus affair, the Franco-Prussian War aftermath, and the cultural shifts connected to the Belle Époque. During the interwar years the journal featured work intersecting with scholarship from Heinrich Schliemann-informed archaeology, Sigmund Freud-inflected psychohistory, and comparative studies influenced by Bronisław Malinowski and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Under the German occupation and the Vichy France era the journal navigated censorship pressures while publishing analyses related to Pierre Laval-era cultural policy; post‑1945 issues engaged with reconstruction debates tied to Charles de Gaulle's return and Europe's intellectual realignment around centers such as Princeton University and Columbia University.
The journal's remit encompasses historical, philological, archaeological, and textual studies of religious phenomena from antiquity to modernity, often publishing work on sources hosted at archives like the Bibliothèque nationale de France, manuscripts from Vatican Library, inscriptions studied in British Museum collections, and field reports tied to expeditions to Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Indus Valley. Contributions examine traditions including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Shinto, and Indigenous religions of Africa, Americas, and Oceania, situating them in dialogues with scholarship from Cambridge University, University of Göttingen, Leiden University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and University of Tokyo. The journal has also published comparative analyses referencing texts such as the Bible, Qur'an, Bhagavad Gita, Avesta, and Talmud, cross-referenced with archaeological reports from Pompeii and epigraphic corpora from Ephesus.
Editorial leadership historically comprised members affiliated with institutions like École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, and international associates from University of Chicago, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, Heidelberg University, and University of Cambridge. Boards have included scholars influenced by the work of Gustave Flaubert-era philologists, medievalists linked to Marc Bloch, and specialists trained at the Sorbonne and Padua. The journal issues peer-reviewed articles, critical editions, and book reviews on a quarterly schedule, distributed through libraries such as the British Library, Library of Congress, and university systems in Berlin, Milan, and Madrid.
The periodical is indexed in major bibliographic services connected to research infrastructures like JSTOR, Scopus, Web of Science, and regional databases managed by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and CNRS platforms. Abstracting coverage links the journal to catalogues used at Harvard Library, Bodleian Library, Biblioteca Nacional de España, and digital repositories maintained by Gallica and university presses including Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Citation tracking connects articles to scholarly conversations appearing in journals such as Journal of Ecclesiastical History, History of Religions, Numen, and Journal of Near Eastern Studies.
Scholarly reception has highlighted the journal's role in shaping historical approaches to ritual, doctrine, and institutional development, with debates appearing alongside works by Mircea Eliade, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Karl Jaspers. The journal influenced historiographical trends discussed at conferences organized by bodies like the International Association for the History of Religions, the International Congress of Historical Sciences, and symposia at Collège de France and Princeton University. Citation networks show links to monographs published by Routledge, Brill, Peeters Publishers, and University of California Press, and to critical receptions in outlets such as Le Monde, The Times Literary Supplement, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Notable contributions include philological editions of texts from the collections of Vatican Library and Bodleian Library, archaeological syntheses referencing excavations at Nineveh, Hattusa, and Knossos, and comparative essays engaging with theories advanced by Max Müller, Mircea Eliade, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Ernest Renan. The journal published influential work on Christian liturgy tied to manuscripts from Saint-Germain-des-Prés, studies of Islamic legal history anchored in archives of Cairo, and analyses of Vedic ritual drawing on editions in Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. Special issues have been devoted to themes intersecting with scholarship on Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, and modern movements such as Secularism debates in the context of French Third Republic politics and international responses traced through archives in Washington, D.C. and Moscow.
Category:French academic journals Category:Religious studies journals Category:Publications established in 1880