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JOURNAL
FOR CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS THEORY
A Whitestone Publication
The Journal for Cultural and Religious
Theory (JCRT) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to both disciplinary and
interdisciplinary scholarship of a cutting-edge nature that deals broadly with
the phenomenon of religious and cultural theory. Subfields include, but
are not limited to, philosophical and cultural theory, theological studies,
postcolonial and globalization theory, religious studies, literary theory,
cultural studies, ethnic, area, and gender studies, communications, semiotics,
and linguistics.
The JCRT is free of charge, and is published two
to three times a year.
Current institutional sponsors are the University of Denver and South
Dakota State University. For more information about institutional sponsorship,
contact the Senior Editor Carl Raschke at carl.raschke@du.edu. If you have an
article you would like to consider for publication, you need to submit a 500-word abstract
of the article along with a curriculum vitae to the editor. All articles must rigorously fit the mission of the JCRT (See Submissions
Policy below). No term papers, religious advocacy pieces, unsolicited
book reviews or opinion pieces, etc. will be considered.
Any redistribution or archiving of materials published in this journal is
strictly prohibited without written permission from the publisher. Copyright
for individual contributions are held by the
author(s). Rights and permission to reproduce must be obtained by the author(s)
and must acknowledge original publication in this journal.
A Note on Open Source Publishing
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory was established in 1999 as one of the true, early
pioneers in electronic, open source publishing, and
has been committed to that mission ever since. Because of the ongoing
commercialization of the internet during that same period, many once easily
accessible print journals have increasingly been locked up behind high-priced,
electronic subscription paywalls by international publishing conglomerates who
have at the same time managed to corner the market on citation access and
convince some university administrators that these kinds of publications are
therefore more “credible” and “prestigious”, when in fact the opposite is
often the case. In addition, academic reputations are made by readers
becoming widely familiar with published material, not by corporate publishers
demanding exorbitant fees for simple access to one’s scholarly contributions.
As a non-profit entity, we at the Journal
for Cultural and Religious Theory believe
that this unholy alliance between profit-oriented, commercial publishers,
university administrators, and (by extension) tenure and promotion committees
is unconscionable, and we do, and continue to, resist this invidious
"neoliberal” trend in academic publishing. We also invite our
authors to resist it as well, and we are more than happy to provide letters of
support to faculty to assure them that their submissions have been thoroughly
peer-reviewed and chosen for their genuine quality.
Submissions
and Publication Policy
Articles may be of any length. Please submit documents in MS
Word format. Authors should include a brief (3-4 line) biography, contact
information, and endnote citations in Documentation One (Chicago Manual of
Style) format.
All manuscripts submitted, or revised, for publication must be in Microsoft
Word format. The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory uses
the Chicago Manual of Style for all published reviews and articles. All
notes must be footnotes. Citations should follow CMS.
Bibliographies or lists of references should not be used unless absolutely necessary. Citations in footnoting should be
written so as to be sufficient. All articles or
reviews must have the title, first and last name of the author, and institutional
affiliation at the top of the article - flush left.
Do not in the body of the text give acknowledgements. Do so in a
footnote. All paragraphs must have a blank space between them and start
flush left without indentation. Paragraph numeration is no longer necessary for
the JCRT. Once the article is accepted for publication, it is the
author's responsibility to resubmit the review or article using the standard
journal style within twenty days after notification of acceptance. . At that time the author must also submit a brief
biographical sketch of themselves two or three sentences in length.
Timing
and Format For Publishing
All articles and reviews, including
unsolicited pieces, are published initially (after receiving approval from
reviewers) with a quick turnaround on the blog site Religious Theory. The
exception are those articles solicited through calls for special issues.
Such a policy allows immediate and much wider visibility for authors as
well as improved feedback. Articles published in this format will be
published as
is once they are submitted and approved, although authors will
be allowed to corrected typos or grammatical problems, and they will be vetted
in advance by the journal’s copy editors as well. At the same time, all
weekly, online articles (not including reviews) will be republished in
PDF format within one of the quarterly issues of the journal within 18 months
after appearing in Religious
Theory starting with the Winter issue (2017-18). Authors
in this instance will be permitted to make minor revisions for republicaton
and to receive advance proofs before the volume goes “live.”