I was going through my blog roll and other links weeding out the out of date or forsaken ones and discovered that Axis Mundi, a peer reviewed journal for Religious Studies students hosted at the University of Alberta is still in business. It went through a rough period with only occasional publications and I stopped visiting it, but it has a number of articles up from 2010 and 2011, some of which would be of great interest to folks in biblical studies. The most recent article is:
- ERÉNDIRA CERVANTES-ALTAMIRANO Recovering the Progressive Spirit of Islam: Ijtihad and Its Transformative Possibilities in Islamic Feminism
There is also a series of articles on Early Christian Communities and Hagiography
- RYAN OLFERT “Food for the Wild Beasts,” or The Very Special Dead: A Conference Panel on Martyrdom in Early Christian Communities
- ANGELA BRKICH-SUTHERLAND The Power and Authority of Perpetua the Proto-Martyr
- RYAN OLFERT Bodies of Suffering: Discourse and Power in the Martyrs of Hagiography
- CHELSEY VARGO Jesters, Jongleurs, Clowns and Other Unsavoury Types:A Review of Benedicta Ward’s Harlots of the Desert: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources. Cistercian Studies Series 106. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1987
Here is the Journal’s blurb:
Axis Mundi is an online journal edited and maintained by Religious Studies students at the University of Alberta. Axis Mundi accepts contributions from students in any year of studies – undergraduate and graduate – in Universities and Colleges across Canada. We encourage submissions pertaining to any aspect of the academic study … Continue reading