About Us
The Yale Undergraduate Journal of Religion (YUJR) is an interdisciplinary student-run journal committed to publishing outstanding undergraduate research on religion. We believe the academic study of religion is essential to understanding the complexity of human experience, culture, and meaning-making. Our mission is to showcase original, rigorous, and diverse scholarship that investigates religious traditions, practices, texts, and ideologies across time and space. We are guided by a commitment to accessibility, intellectual integrity, and methodological pluralism. YUJR welcomes work that draws from history, anthropology, philosophy, political theory, sociology, theology, psychology, and beyond. We aim not only to foster critical inquiry into religion’s role in individual and collective life, but also to provide students with firsthand experience in academic publishing, peer review, and collaborative editorial work. Through annual journal publication, regular editorial workshops, public-facing blog content, and interdisciplinary events, we seek to build an intellectually serious, welcoming, and ethically grounded community of emerging scholars.
