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The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 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.
The Journal is FREE of charge, is published three times a year (Winter, Spring and
Fall) and is presently
dispersed in three ways:
[1] as this web site (containing all back issues),
[2] as a listserv (tables of contents are emailed to list members),
[3] as an RSS feed (tables of contents are
dynamically updated using RSS newsreaders).
Current institutional sponsors are Villanova University, University of Denver,
University of Central Arkansas, York College of Pennsylvania, and
Lebanon Valley College. For more information about institutional
sponsorship, contact the Senior Editor Carl Raschke at
craschke@jcrt.org
The Journal also maintains a Discussion Board for users to exchange
announcements, Calls for Papers, conference notices, or other issues
within the scope of this journal.
The editors invite submissions of articles,
essays, and book reviews from various fields
and perspectives, including philosophy, theology, religious
studies, literary theory, cultural studies, ethnic, area, and
gender studies, communications, semiotics, and linguistics.
Any redistribution or archiving of materials published in this journal is strictly prohibited.
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.
The JCRT mailing list is a majordomo daemon that sends the contents of each issue directly to your
email account. It will also be used for occasional announcements from the editors. Please be aware that this list is NOT available for postings from subscribers or outside users, only from the editors of the JCRT.
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- Articles and Essays
Articles of any length are welcome. 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. Contributors must read and comply with the
Journal's Submissions Policy.
Send all inquiries and submissions to the managing editor
Colbey Emmerson Reid. Please use the email header "JCRT Submission".
- Book Reviews
The JCRT invites proposals for book reviews. Suggested texts in need of review can be found on the current list of
Books for Review. If you would like to
review a book, please send an email to Dan Miller, Review Editor.
Indicate the author and title of the book, the publisher, year of
publication (JCRT will not review books that are over a year old), and a
short explanation of why you think the book should be reviewed. Please
include as well your postal mailing address and a short bio, or attach a
vita. If the editors decide to commission a review, they will contact
the publisher and have the title sent directly to you.
 We are listed in the
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
and the Serials Solutions
e-journal AMS database.
Submissions Policy for The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
All manuscripts submitted, or revised, for
publication must be in Microsoft Word format. One copy should be submitted to
the managing editor Colbey Emmerson Reid <creid@ycp.edu>
and the senior editor Carl Raschke <craschke@jcrt.org>. Please use the
email header "JCRT Submission".
No hard copies of manuscripts will be accepted.
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
uses the Chicago Manual of Style for all published reviews and articles.
The basic elements of the CMoS can be found at
http://www.fsu.edu/library/explore/guides/chicago.shtml and
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.html.
Of particular importance:
- All notes must be footnotes. Internal
references, i.e. page numbers for a previous footnote citation, are allowed.
- Citations should follow CMS,
documentation one. [See especially 15.83ff., 15.217ff., 15.244.] The use of
p. or pp. should be avoided. Here are some example footnotes:
- Slavoj Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf:
The Perverse Core of Christianity (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003),
5.
- Carl Raschke, "Bataille's Gift," The
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 5.1 (December 2003), 7.
- Steven G. Smith, Review of Levinas and the
Philosophy of Religion, by Jeffrey L. Kosky, Journal of the American
Academy of Religion 71.2 (June 2003), 469.
- 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. Revised
copies must be sent to the editorial assistant Ammon Allred at <aallred
@ jcrt.org>. At that time the author must also submit a brief biographical
sketch of themselves two or three sentences in length.
If the author does not resubmit the article within
the stipulated time period, or does not observe the aforementioned formatting
protocols, the journal reserves the right not to publish the article
Editorial Board
- John D. Caputo, Syracuse University,
Chair
- Thomas J.J. Altizer, State University of NY
- Stony Brook
- Philip Blond, University of Exeter, UK
- Clayton Crockett, University of Central
Arkansas
- James J. DiCenso, University of Toronto
- Thomas Flynn, Emory University
- Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham,
UK
- Kevin Hart, Notre Dame University
- Thomas Idinopulos, Miami University of Ohio
- Richard Kearney, Boston College
- Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University
- Jonathan Lee, Colorado College
- Charles H. Long, University of North
Carolina
- Julia Lupton, University of California,
Irvine
- Peter Ochs, University of Virginia
- Carl Raschke, University of Denver
- Kenneth Reinhard, UCLA
- Jill Robbins, Emory University
- Theresa Sanders, Georgetown University
- Regina Schwartz Northwestern University
- Frank Seeburger, University of Denver
- Susan Shapiro, Columbia University
- Jere Surber, University of Denver
- Hent de Vries, The Johns Hopkins University
- Sharon Welch, University of
Missouri-Columbia
- Merold Westphal, Fordham University
- Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University
In the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style,
the University of Chicago Press has provided a
useful
FAQ for Internet citations. It also answers confounding questions like
Internet vs. Internet, E-mail vs. email vs. e-mail, and so on:
 I can't seem
to find guidelines for citing electronic sources in the CMS. How can
this be?
 Actually,
there are a couple of examples, at 15.424 and 16.209. In the next edition of
the Manual of Style, we hope to address the topic in somewhat greater
depth. In the meantime, there are some helpful Web sites. MLA guidelines for
documenting WWW sources can be found at
http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm#sources; The International Federation of
Library Associations and Institutions also has a guide for citing electronic
documents, at
http://www.ifla.org/I/training/citation/citing.htm; and the
International Organization for Standardization offers guidance at
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/index.htm. In addition, a couple of
good reference books on the subject are Xia Li and Nancy B. Crane, Electronic
Styles: A Handbook for Citing Electronic Information (Medford, N.J.:
Information Today, 1996); and Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger, Online!
A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources (New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1997). Online! also has a Web site where you can post
questions, at
http://www.smpcollege.com/o nline-4styles~help.
Other organizations offering on-line tip sheets
include the American Psychological Association at
http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html; and the World Association of
Medical Editors at
http://www.ama-assn.org/public/peer/wame/uniform.htm.
A recent
article in the Washington Post (�On the Web, Research Work Proves
Ephemeral,� by Rick Weiss, November 24, 2003) reports that URLs often become
obsolete. It also says that there are lots of errors even in citations to
conventional sources. What�s a researcher to do?
It is
important to remember that the URL (uniform, or universal, resource locator)
is essentially an address�something less than a permanent identifier for a
source�and, like the Dewey decimal classification number on a book that sits
on a library shelf, its primary function is to tell you where an item
is, not what it is. At least until the widespread adoption of a truly
permanent identifier, citations should always include information such as
author, title, and publication date to the extent these can be determined.
The Post article cited above, for example, will continue to be findable from
its title, author, and publication date�through a library database or a
search engine�long after a particular URL for the source is dead. If such
basic but essential information about an online source is unavailable or
difficult to discern, consider citing a more permanent source (or save or
print out a copy of the source for your files). A URL should never be the
sole component in a citation. As for errors, authors and researchers should
transcribe source information and include all the required elements as if
there will be no opportunity to check for accuracy later. If computers make
some information ephemeral, they also help ensure that, for example, a typo
in the volume number of a journal won�t provide an overwhelming obstacle to
finding the article from the rest of the citation�or to checking the
accuracy of the citation at manuscript stage. (See chapters 16 and 17 in
CMS for a full discussion of documentation, including information about
how and when to incorporate URLs into citations.)
Other useful resources:
The JCRT has adopted the practice of providing the
URL for each document within an issue at the bottom of the page (see the footer
of this document for an example). It is also committed to the PURL (Persistent
Uniform Resource Locator) format, which means that the initial address given for
any particular document will remain valid at all times (by either remaining at
that address or redirecting to its new location). The footer also provides
copyright information, the date of the last update to the document, the size of
the file, and contact information for the journal.
Additionally, the JCRT numbers (and in some cases
letters) paragraphs for citation of text within a particular document. This
allows even more accurate citing (over page numbering):
http://www.jcrt.org/archives/01.2/long.shtml �33.
Sample Bibliography
Long, Charles H. "Mircea Eliade and the
Imagination of Matter." The Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory
1.2 (April, 2000) <http://www.jcrt.org/archives/01.2/long.shtml> �12-15.
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