REVIEW OF RELIGION. - A quarterly periodical published by Columbia University in New York City, beginning in 1936-37. Through the collaboration of many specialists, it critically surveys the most notable research in the vast field of religion, understood in a very broad sense.
The *Review of Religion* aims not only to diligently describe religious facts while avoiding facile generalizations, but also to study them within their philosophical, psychological, sociological, cultural, historical, archaeological, etc., contexts. Judging from the reviews it contains, it distances itself from sociologism, psychoanalysis, the phenomenology of G. van der Leeuw, and criticizes exaggerated evolutionism. In its assessment of biblical or Christian dogmatic facts, historical interpretation prevails; it does not admit a dogmatic stance nor a system of historical-cultural method, such as that developed by Schmidt for ethnology. In addition to scientific questions about religion, it takes a lively interest in current religious issues, follows judicial studies, developments in systematic theology and Protestant exegesis, as well as Catholic philosophy and theology.