Submission Information: Processes, Guidelines, & Considerations
We want to see your work published. That is fact. So our efforts are oriented toward helping submitters to that end. However, and despite that, we do not commit to the eventual publication of all or any particular submissions.
This is based on a number of factors, including: (1) current volume of proposals; (2) limitations of the editorial staff relative to that volume; (3) sub-graduate level quality of proposal/submission; (4) non-topical submissions; (5) submission received outside open submission periods (OSPs), or lacking sponsorship; and/or (6) other prohibitive natures apply to the proposed work.
In order to best position your proposal for acceptance and the possibility of publication, please carefully read this page, in its entirety. The content here will provide an explanation of all the steps, some pertinent considerations for writers, and familiarize you with the processes involved with publishing material in TheoDiálogos (hereafter, the Journal).
Please read this information thoroughly, prior to contacting The Third Cohort with any questions about submitting proposals, editorial or peer review processes, or publication.
Our Goal
The goal of this publication is to offer high-quality scholarly essays, to both the academy and the church, while turning the cost-prohibitive, and low-probability process of getting research printed in professional academic journal, on its head.
Think of TheoDiálogos like a graduate academic student journal of theology ... only one that is institutionally unaffiliated … enrollment in a particular program, institution, and/or adherence to a particular set of organizational tenets is not required to participate. Like an “in-house” student journal, we wish to offer students of theology, divinity, and religious studies related fields, an opportunity to share their research and knowledge with the academic community.
It’s just that our house is very open. In fact, we do not even require that contributors are currently students.
Additionally, our aim is seeing your work published and to hear your voice furthering the theological discourse. Our desire is eliminating the unsavory and exclusionary hurdles of professional journals, that make pursuing peer-review publication so unattractive to so many scholars.
Recognizing the cost prohibitions of publishing in most “open-access” journals, we also look to offer no-cost publication of accepted essays, for absolutely as long as we are able, and always at minimal expense when we no longer can.
Remember, the TheoDiálogos staff, contributors, and affiliates who serve as our editorial team and cadre of blind peer-reviewers is limited. Thus, the number of pieces we are able to accept for publication is unfortunately equally constrained.
Thus, in the interest of your precious time and efforts, we can only accept your proposals during an open submission period (OSP), or in direct response to a “call for papers” (CFP).
OSPs and CFPs will always be posted on the Journal main page, and on The Third Cohort home page.
See our submission guidelines for further details.
Editorial
Managing Editor: J. M. Zabick
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Editorial Board: Nathan Hackman, Geoffrey Bruschi, Rohan Samuels, J. Douglas Krider