 | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. (March 2025) |
 | |
| Discipline | Theology |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1950–present |
| Publisher | University of North Carolina Press on behalf of the Association for Public Religion in Intellectual Life (United States) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | CrossCurrents |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0011-1953 (print) 1939-3881 (web) |
| LCCN | 55026985 |
| JSTOR | 00111953 |
| OCLC no. | 1565510 |
| Links | |
CrossCurrents is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life.[1] The editor-in-chief is S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate (Hamilton College). Before 1990, it was published by Cross Currents Corporation, under co-editors William Birmingham and Joseph Cunneen.[2] They transferred publication to the association in 1990.[1]
The journal began with the vision of Joseph Cunneen, a Catholic soldier in General Patton's army. Taking advantage of the G.I. Bill after WWII, Cunneen wanted to bring European religious thinking to the United States. As a result, the journal became committed to post-Holocaust theology and Jewish-Christian relations.[3]
In time, it would expand to multiple religious traditions, including Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Indigenous traditions. It also remained committed to issues of social justice, publishing feminist theology in the 1960s (especially Rosemary Radford Ruether and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza), Black theology in the 1970s (especially James H. Cone), and was one of the first English-language journals to publish work of the Latin American liberation theology movement.[citation needed]
Work in the journal is supplemented by an online magazine, The Commons.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:[4]
