Call for Papers for the Seventeenth Issue of the International Journal of Catholic Studies
Thomas Aquinas and Asia: Parallels, Encounters, Providence
The International Journal of Catholic Studies is a bilingual semi-annual academic journal published in Chinese and English by the Centre for Catholic Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. It has merged the former Hong Kong Journal of Catholic Studies and Catholic Theological Review. On the one hand, it aims to promote academic exchanges between the Chinese and the Western cultures by developing Catholic studies through different fields such as social sciences, history, culture and interfaith dialogue, etc; on the other hand, it aims to strengthen the relationship between the Catholic faith and contemporary Chinese culture in terms of dialogue, interaction, and integration by promoting the Chinese expression of various Catholic disciplines (Bible, theology, canon law, etc.).
This journal adopts the peer review mechanism to maintain academic standards. It welcomes individual submissions or special research projects by teamwork; the latter will be published in the form of Special Theme. Other than the Special Theme, the rest is divided into three categories: Selected Topic, Forum, and Book Review. Selected Topic aims to explore the same topic from different angles. The Forum is for essays that do not belong to the selected topic. They could be any study on Catholicism, while dialogue and discussion on papers published in this journal or certain current phenomena in the Church and society are particularly welcomed. The scope of the Book Review focuses mainly on recent titles in the study of Catholicism and various ecclesiastical disciplines in Chinese and foreign languages.
The International Journal of Catholic Studies welcomes academic papers from Catholic and non-Catholic scholars. The essay must be original work that has not been published publicly. The word count for the Chinese essay is preferably between 8,000 and 15,000 Chinese characters, with a maximum of 20,000 characters. Chinese book reviews should be more than 3,000 characters. Essays in English should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words, with a maximum of 15,000 words. …. Read More…