A special issue based on selected papers presented at the Summer School and Conference “Religion: Concealed and Revealed” will be edited for the peer-reviewed open access journal Approaching Religion, published by the Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture in co-operation with the Polin Institute for Theological Research.

You find the journal website at: https://journal.fi/ar

The website of the Donner Institute: https://www.donnerinstitute.fi/en

AR is open access and has a wide readership among academia (download rates at best over 1000 per article). It is indexed in some of the largest scientific databases in the world (DOAJ, EBSCO, ATLA, ERIH Plus, Web of Science), as well as Google Scholar. Thus, the journal articles are searchable at more than 90 % of the world’s universities. AR is primarily a channel for publishing articles based on presentations given at conferences that DI has been involved in, and scholars from a wide range of fields have published with us – not just scholars of religion as the title might suggest.

After the event, we cordially invite you to submit manuscripts for a special issue of AR. We encourage doctoral candidates to consider publishing – the AR has provided the experience of being the first article publisher for several doctoral candidates and has experience in guiding new publishers.

The submissions will undergo peer review. You find editorial policies, guidelines for authors as well as information on the review and publication processes at the journal website. If you do not wish to submit a full-length research article, we also welcome shorter reflections from the workshop and review articles.

Schedule:

Submission of articles: 15 February 2026

Response from reviewers: 15 May 2026

Final submission: 15 August 2026

Publication: 15 October 2026

We hope you will keep this publication option in mind when preparing for the workshop and conference and we look forward to receiving your manuscripts.

If you have questions, please contact donner.institute@abo.fi.