''CrossCurrents'' is a quarterly

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published by the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life. The

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is S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate (

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). Before 1990, it was published by Cross Currents Corporation, under co-editors William Birmingham and Joseph Cunneen. They transferred publication to the association in 1990. The journal began with the vision of Joseph Cunneen, a Catholic soldier in General Patton's army. Taking advantage of the

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after

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, Cunneen wanted to bring European religious thinking to the United States. As a result, the journal became committed to post-

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theology and Jewish-Christian relations. In time, it would expand to multiple religious traditions, including

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, and Indigenous traditions. It also remained committed to issues of

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, publishing

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in the 1960s (especially Rosemary Radford Ruether and

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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. Work in the journal is supplemented by an online magazine, ''The Commons''.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: * Atla Religion Database * EBSCO databases *

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* ProQuest databases

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*{{Official website, https://www.aprilonline.org/crosscurrents-overview/ Quarterly journals Academic journals established in 1950 Religious studies journals English-language journals Wiley (publisher) academic journals 1950 establishments in the United States