About the Journal
- ISSN: 2502-3489 (online)
- ISSN: 2527-3213 (print)
- DOI: 10.15575/jw
- Accreditation Number : No. 158/E/KPT/2021 (SINTA 2)
- URL: http://journal.uinsgd.ac.id/index.php/jw/index
Wawasan: Jurnal Ilmiah Agama dan Sosial Budaya (Journal of Religious and Socio-Cultural Studies) is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of religion in relation to public life and social transformation. The journal examines how religious beliefs, practices, institutions, authorities, identities, and material expressions interact with changing social, political, cultural, technological, and environmental conditions.
Wawasan provides an academic forum for theoretically informed and empirically grounded scholarship that investigates religion as a dynamic social force rather than as an isolated system of belief. It is particularly interested in how religion is lived, mediated, governed, negotiated, contested, and transformed within contemporary societies.
The journal gives particular attention to Southeast Asia and the wider Global South, while welcoming comparative, transregional, and globally relevant studies from other parts of the world. Research based on local or national cases is encouraged when it contributes to broader theoretical, comparative, or international scholarly debates.
Wawasan welcomes contributions from religious studies and related disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, political science, cultural studies, media and communication studies, gender studies, environmental humanities, history, philosophy, and other relevant fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Through this interdisciplinary orientation, Wawasan seeks to advance international scholarly conversations on the changing place of religion in contemporary public life.
Current Issue
This issue features eight contributions authored by 23 scholars from four countries: Indonesia, Singapore, Israel, and France. The articles explore the intersections of religion, governance, culture, identity, ecology, and public life across diverse contexts. Several studies examine contemporary questions of religious authority and governance, including digitally mediated faith in Indonesia and state responses to religious deviance. Other contributions investigate the relationship between religion and culture through analyses of Bugis marriage traditions, Madurese honour practices, and the experiences of Bahá’í, Druze, and Yazidi communities in the Middle East. Environmental and indigenous perspectives are highlighted through discussions of traditional ecological knowledge and Islamic environmental ethics in Ternate, as well as a reinterpretation of Marian devotion in the Mollo indigenous community as a resource for dignity, ecological awareness, and cultural resilience. Complementing these research articles, the issue also includes a philosophical-theological essay that reflects on the relationship between theology and democracy in contemporary society. Together, these contributions demonstrate the continuing relevance of religious studies in addressing contemporary social, political, cultural, and environmental challenges across local and global settings.
