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About the Journal
Southeast Asian Religion, Culture, and Humanity (SEARCH) is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to exploring the complex intersections of religion, culture, and humanity within Southeast Asia and beyond. Published in both digital and print formats, SEARCH aims to establish a dynamic intellectual forum where the study of religion and culture is not merely descriptive but interpretive, comparative, and critical, contributing to broader humanistic and social scientific discourses.
SEARCH is driven by the conviction that the lived realities of Southeast Asian societies—shaped by diverse faith traditions, cultural negotiations, and postcolonial experiences—offer fertile ground for rethinking global theories of religion, culture, and human identity. The journal seeks to foreground Southeast Asia as a vibrant site of theorization, where local practices and cosmologies challenge the conventional boundaries of Western epistemologies and invite new forms of comparative reflection on belief, meaning, and coexistence.
SEARCH understands “religion” and “culture” not as fixed or separate domains, but as intertwined dimensions of human world-making—domains in which ethics, aesthetics, ritual, and social imagination continuously interact. By engaging scholars, thinkers, and practitioners from across disciplines such as anthropology, religious studies, philosophy, sociology, history, literature, and cultural studies, the journal aspires to cultivate cross-disciplinary dialogue and theoretical innovation rooted in empirical richness.
The title SEARCH itself embodies a spirit of inquiry: a search for understanding across differences, for the meanings embedded in everyday life, and for the possibilities of reimagining humanity amid plural worlds. The journal welcomes contributions that explore how Southeast Asian experiences illuminate global questions of faith, identity, ethics, ecology, and human flourishing.
SEARCH invites submissions that:
- Engage critically with religious, cultural, and philosophical traditions in Southeast Asia;
- Theorize the relation between religion, modernity, and postcoloniality;
- Examine practices of devotion, ritual, and spirituality in everyday life;
- Explore cultural expressions of morality, aesthetics, and social belonging;
- Analyze encounters between religion and politics, gender, technology, media, and ecology;
- Contribute to comparative and theoretical reflections on humanity, coexistence, and transcendence.
Through these explorations, SEARCH aims to foster a renewed understanding of how religion and culture continue to shape the imagination of humanity—past, present, and future.
