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From the Editor Guest Column: Who Was Jack Shand?

Author(s) -

Silver Christopher F.,

Coleman Thomas J.,

Hood Ralph W.

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal for the scientific study of religion

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941

H-Index - 71

eISSN - 1468-5906

pISSN - 0021-8294

DOI - 10.1111/jssr.12221

Subject(s) - tribute , nexus (standard) , theme (computing) , variety (cybernetics) , sociology , multidisciplinary approach , column (typography) , anthropology , epistemology , religious studies , social science , art history , history , philosophy , computer science , telecommunications , artificial intelligence , embedded system , operating system , frame (networking)

Members of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) hail from a number of diverse disciplines, but one theme unites them all: a commitment to studying religion scientifically. While many readers of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion ( JSSR ) are quantitatively oriented, SSSR has a long history of sharing membership with fields utilizing a variety of qualitative methods, including religious studies, anthropology, and other scholarly disciplines within the humanities. As such, SSSR serves as a nexus for the sharing of different research, ideas, perspectives, and methodologies. Our guest “From the Editor” column is about a psychologist who appreciated SSSR and its multidisciplinary approach so much that he became a major benefactor to SSSR after his passing. That person was John Douglas “Jack” Shand, and this is a brief tribute to his legacy.

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