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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The manuscript is original, has not been published previously and is not under consideration by another journal.
  • The submission fits the CRS aims and scope and states its comparative or religious-studies contribution clearly.
  • A separate title page and an anonymized manuscript have been prepared for double-blind review.
  • Sources, editions, translations, transliteration, field methods and analytical choices are documented transparently.
  • Ethics approval, informed consent, permissions and safeguards for sacred or culturally sensitive knowledge are reported where applicable.
  • Funding, competing interests, author contributions and material AI-tool use are disclosed where applicable.

Author Guidelines

Authors should read the aims and scope before submission. Manuscripts must be original, clearly written and not under review elsewhere.

Article types

  • Original research articles
  • Comparative and historical studies
  • Textual, philosophical and interpretive studies
  • Ethnographic and sociological research
  • Systematic reviews, research notes and scholarly perspectives

Scholarly approach

State the research question, comparative framework, sources, methods and limitations clearly. Avoid treating traditions as uniform or timeless, and distinguish participants' accounts from the author's analytical claims.

Languages, sources and transliteration

Identify editions, archives, translations and original-language sources. Use a recognized transliteration system consistently and provide English translations for non-English quotations.

Ethics and community respect

Research involving people or communities must report ethics approval where required, informed consent, privacy safeguards and respectful handling of sacred, restricted or culturally sensitive knowledge.

Review files

Provide a separate title page and anonymized manuscript for double-blind review. Disclose funding, competing interests, author contributions, permissions and material use of generative AI.

Articles

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Research and community data

Authors must remove direct identifiers and protect sensitive personal, religious, cultural and community information. Consent, ethics approval and lawful data governance remain the authors' responsibility.

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