From the Editor Guest Column: Who Was Jack Shand?

• Published in: Journal for the scientific study of religion Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 1 - 9
• Main Authors: Silver, Christopher F., Coleman III, Thomas J., Hood Jr, Ralph W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2015
• ISSN: 0021-8294; 1468-5906
• DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12221

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.