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Use when targeting History of Religions or deciding whether a comparative-historical religious-studies manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, its comparative-method and primary-source bar, textual/philological and morphological expectations, house style and review norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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# History of Religions (history-of-religions)

## Journal positioning

History of Religions, published by the University of Chicago Press, is the field-defining
venue for the comparative and historical study of religious traditions worldwide. Its
defining commitment is the **"history of religions" methodology** — cross-cultural,
comparative, and morphological analysis of religious phenomena (myth, ritual, symbol,
cosmology, the sacred) grounded in primary-source and philological control of specific
traditions. A strong submission joins close, language-based study of particular materials
to a comparative or historical argument that illuminates how a religious form works across
cases or develops over time. It is distinct from `the-journal-of-religion`, which is broader
and welcomes theology and philosophy of religion, and from `harvard-theological-review`, with
its textual, biblical, and early-Christian focus: History of Religions foregrounds method —
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