Aim & Scope

Rize Theology Journal is an independent, double-blind peer reviewed, open access and online journal aiming to publish articles in all fields related to theology. The aim of the journal is to contribute to science by publishing qualified articles. For this purpose, research articles, translated articles, research notes and book/scientific conference reviews are published in the field of religious studies. Articles that are not clear to be suitable for the scope of the journal are discussed and reconsidered by the members of the Editorial Board of the Rize Theology Journal. The final decision for all submitted articles rests with the Editor in Chief. The Editorial Board of the Rize Theology Journal undertakes to comply with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) criteria and the Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive prepared by the Higher Education Institution (YÖK).

Subject Category:
Social Sciences and Humanities: Religion, History, Philosophy, Language and Literature
Library of Congress/LCC Subject Headings: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Philosophy (General)

Keywords:
Religion, Philosophy, History, Intercultural Studies, Türkiye

Publication Language
The publication languages of Rize Theology Journal are Turkish, English and Arabic. The Editorial Board decides on the publications in other languages.

Article Submissions
Papers sent to Rize Theology Journal should be in accordance with the purpose and scope of the journal. All articles, except for editorial works, are subject to double-blind peer review process. To be accepted for review process, the papers must be original, unpublished and not in the process of review in another journal. In addition, the content and submission of the article must be approved by each author. The authors declare that the data they used have not been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

Audience
Target audience: professionals, experts, researchers, postgraduate students in the field of theology as well as any students who are interested in the field.

Price Policy
No processing fee or submission fee is charged for articles submitted to the journal or accepted for publication. Rize Theology Journal does not accept sponsorships and advertisements due to its publication policies. All expenses of the journal are covered by the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Theology of Recep Tayyip Erdogan University.

Copyright
The copyrights of the works published in the Rize Theology Journal belong to their authors. The authors allow the intellectual work they sent to be published by the Rize Theology Journal under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

Authenticity of Articles
Rize Theology Journal does not accept papers previously published elsewhere. However, on occasion when a paper published in a foreign language is reviewed and the findings and results are re-evaluated as a Turkish study, such studies can be processed with the approval of the Editorial Board. Likewise, studies produced from other academic activities such as symposiums, workshops and congresses are also included in the publication process if they are reviewed and updated by the author; but exact the same work will not be accepted. The authenticity of the articles is checked by a special program (iThenticate) used for plagiarism detection.




  

Period Months
April October