Focus And Scope
PENAMAS
Lived Religion and Plural Societies
PENAMAS Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal that focuses on the study of lived religion and plural societies. The journal examines how religion is practiced, interpreted, negotiated, institutionalized, and transformed within diverse social, cultural, political, educational, historical, and digital contexts.
PENAMAS is particularly concerned with religion as it appears in everyday life, local traditions, public institutions, interreligious relations, community practices, educational settings, digital media, and social change. The journal welcomes empirical, comparative, and critical studies that show how religious beliefs, rituals, texts, authorities, identities, and policies interact with society.
The journal is grounded in Indonesian and comparative experiences, while remaining open to broader scholarly debates on religion and society. PENAMAS prioritizes manuscripts that are based on clear empirical evidence, strong analytical frameworks, and original contributions to the study of religion in plural and changing societies.
Scope
1. Religious Tradition and Religious Practice
Religious rituals, local traditions, and indigenous communities.
2. Contemporary Transformations in Religious Traditions
Religious social change, digital religious culture, religion-based economic empowerment, and contemporary socio-religious challenges.
3. Religious-Culture Authority
The relationship between religious traditions and state policies that influence religious practices and people’s identities.
Manuscript Boundary
PENAMAS does not prioritize purely doctrinal, normative, or theological essays unless they are clearly connected to empirical social realities, cultural practices, institutional dynamics, historical processes, public issues, or contemporary social change.
PENAMAS advances scholarly discussion on religion as lived, negotiated, and transformed within plural societies.
