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Welcome


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.


 

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Submissions

  • 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.

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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:

     

    1. Slavoj Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003), 5.
    2. Carl Raschke, "Bataille's Gift," The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 5.1 (December 2003), 7.
    3. 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 Staff

Senior Editor:  Carl Raschke, University of Denver
Executive Editor:  Victor E. Taylor, York College of Pennsylvania / The Johns Hopkins University
Consulting Editor:  Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas
Associate Editor:  Jeff Robbins, Lebanon Valley College
Review Editor:  Dan Miller, Rollins College
Managing Editor:  Colbey Emmerson Reid, York College of Pennsylvania
Technical Editor:  Francis Sanzaro, Syracuse University

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

 

Making Citations

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.