Much of the world’s most awe-inspiring visual art and architecture was created as an expression of religious faith. A wealth of scholarship is available examining the relationship between religion and art, and to support this, Atla intentionally includes dozens of titles on this subject in our research tools. Please join us in highlighting some of the titles within our databases that present how faiths and religions have enriched the world through the beauty of their art and architecture.
Indexed in Atla Religion Database®
- Actas de Arquitectura Religiosa Contemporánea, published by Universidad de Coruña, examines contemporary religious architecture from theoretical, historical, technical, graphic, and educational perspectives. https://sites.google.com/view/oarc/noticias
- Ars Judaica, published by Liverpool University Press, is a peer-reviewed publication on Jewish visual culture, showcasing the Jewish contribution to the visual arts and architecture from antiquity to the present from a variety of perspectives.
- Church Monuments, published by the Church Monuments Society, publishes scholarly material on the art of commemoration, including early incised stones, medieval effigies, ledgerstones, brasses, and modern gravestones.
- Dumbarton Oaks Papers, published by Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, is one of the world’s preeminent journals in the field of Byzantine Studies, covering all aspects of society, culture, and art from roughly the fourth through the fifteenth century in the Roman Empire and in successor and neighboring states.
- Gesta, published by University of Chicago Press, publishes original research on medieval art and architecture, embracing all facets of artistic production from ca. 300 to ca. 1500 C.E. in every corner of the medieval world.
- Ikon, published by Brepols, promotes a wide range of contents and themes of iconographic studies, focusing on the role and function of “image” within the period and place of its origin as well as its contemporary reception and discernment.
- Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, published by Center for Religious Humanism, invites scholarly articles on Jewish art and visual culture, ranging in time from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day.
- Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, published by Taylor & Francis, seeks to explore how religion happens in material culture – images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture and sacred space, works of art, and mass-produced artifacts.
- MAVCOR Journal, published by Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale University, is an open access born-digital, double blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting conversation about material and visual cultures of religion.
- Sacred Architecture, published by Institute for Sacred Architecture, is dedicated to a renewal of beauty in contemporary church design, seeking to inspire and inform through scholarly and popular articles on architectural history, principles of design, and contemporary buildings.
- Syria: revue d’art oriental et d’archéologie, published by Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient, is a multidisciplinary and multilingual academic journal covering architecture in the Semitic Middle East from prehistory to the Islamic conquest.
Full Text in Atlas® and Atlas PLUS®
- ARTS: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, published by United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, explores the intersections between theology and the arts in the study, studio, sanctuary, classroom, and gallery.
- Eastern Christian Art, published by Peeters, is devoted to studies in Christian art and archaeology in the Middle East, including Late Antique, Byzantine, Islamic, and crusader elements.
- Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, published by Brill, is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary.
- Religion and the Arts, published by Brill, promotes the development of discourses for exploring the religious dimensions of the verbal, visual, and performing arts.
Be on the lookout for future announcements of other interdisciplinary titles that cover a plethora of interesting topics. We will continue to spotlight these titles and invite you to suggest content for inclusion in our research tools.
Find more information about coverage and how to access Atla’s trusted research tools on religion and theology.
View our full title lists, updated monthly.
Read more information on how content is evaluated and how to recommend a title for inclusion in Atla’s research tools.
Enjoying the Atla Blog?
Subscribe to receive email alerts of new blog posts of a specific type. Members, subscribers, publishers, or anyone interested in the study of religion & theology are welcome to sign up to one or all alerts to keep up to date with the Atla community. If you or your institution are a member, the Atla Newsletter delivers a monthly curated email of top posts to your email inbox.