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
PENAMAS publishes articles in the following areas:
1. Lived Religion, Tradition, and Religious Practice
Studies on everyday religious life, rituals, ceremonies, pilgrimage, local traditions, indigenous communities, vernacular religiosity, living Qur’an and hadith practices, religious texts in social contexts, collective memory, and the interaction between religion and culture.
2. Religion, Diversity, and Social Relations
Studies on interreligious relations, religious harmony, tolerance, coexistence, minority-majority dynamics, social solidarity, religious identity, migration, community resilience, conflict, reconciliation, and local responses to diversity.
3. Religious Authority, Institutions, and Public Life
Studies on ulama, religious leaders, faith-based organizations, religious movements, religious education, pesantren and madrasah, digital religion, online religious authority, religious policy, governance, public services, and the role of religion in social and political change.
4. Religion and Contemporary Transformation
Studies on religion and social change, digital culture, ecology, economy, tourism, youth religiosity, gender, public discourse, and religion-based responses to contemporary societal challenges.
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.
