Arc is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published annually by the School of Religious Studies (formerly Faculty of Religious Studies), McGill University. Founded in 1973, the journal was restructured into a formal scholarly journal in 1990. In 2022 Arc shifted to a fully open-access format with the support of the McGill library. Accordingly, there are no fees associated with reading or publishing in Arc, and authors retain copyright over their articles.
Arc offers a space for innovative and original scholarly work that engages with: theology; comparative studies in religion; theory and method in the study of religion/theology; philosophy of religion; religion, law and politics; history of religions; sociology of religion; anthropology of religion; religious ethics; religion and literature; religion and art; religion and linuistics; studies of sacred texts; religion and health, interreligious studies.
Religious studies is a notoriously diverse discipline. This diversity does not just include the complexity of the world’s religions and the multifarious phenomena contained within them, but more broadly encompasses the manifold sets of methods employed to study these phenomena. In this spirit, Arc is proud to present the following series of articles, as they both embrace and reflect the diverse character of religious studies as it is known and practiced in the academy today. This volume is being published on a rolling basis, which means that the volume is opened and articles are added until the volume is closed.
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