Primarily as well supported as largely encouraged by the Faculty of Theology of the University of Dorpat (Estonia), by the Institute of Theology in Tallinn and by the Estonian Academic Theological Society, providing appropriate contributions, a special issue of the periodicals “Usuteaduslik Ajakiri” (UA, ISSN (print): 1406–6564) will be published at the end of 2018. This edition (6–7 papers) is concerned with the “Religions” of the Roman Imperial Period. It is devoted to opening up new perspectives on specific phenomena based on international humanistic standards.
In particular, doctoral students from Classical Studies as well as associated disciplines and young scientists are provided a forum to present their considerations interdisciplinarily and to subject them to negotiation. Not only one’s own reflections should benefit substantially from this, but also the research itself should be fostered. In order to make your paper available to the international scientific community the special issue is published in printed form. Moreover, it will be available to readers online and free of charge. The UA is for example incorporated in the following services: CEEOL, Elsevier – SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS.
Conditions of submission and evaluation
The relative broad thematic focus provides the opportunity to publish papers (30,000–40,000 characters in the running text (excl. blank lines), primary publication, Eng. or Ger.) dealing with different issues. For example, your exploration may discuss
- essential methodological issues
- the relation between Christianity and Paganism in the (pre-)Christian Empire
- the situation of the Jews in the (pre-)Christian Empire
- the conceptualisation of Otherness
Are you interested in bringing your considerations to the attention of a wider and interdisciplinary audience and are you interested in contributing to a well-founded revaluation of specific historical issues, then please send an e-mail containing an abstract (max. 1,800 characters, excl. blank lines), five keywords and a brief description of your academic and professional development (no longer than one page, Eng. or Ger., contact details) to one of the following e-mail addresses until Oct. 31st, 2017 (Subject: UA-2018-application):
Prof. Dr. Jaan Lahe: jaan.lahe@eelk.ee
Dr. Eike Faber: eike.faber@uni-potsdam.de
Daniel Mielke: DMielke@uni-potsdam.de
Matthias Sandberg, M. A.: sandberm@uni-muenster.de
Depending on the quantity of the submitted documents you will immediately be informed whether you belong to the authors of the special issue appearing in 2018. An international as well as interdisciplinary editorial board mainly makes its decision on the basis of your abstract. If there is an overall positive vote you will receive promptly further information, in particular with regard to the stylesheet and the deadlines. Of course a peer-review precedes the forthcoming publication. The elaborate reports serving as a basis for the reworking of your article will be sent to you as close in time as possible.
You will find an overview of the editions published since 2000 at http://usuteadus.ee/wordpress/?page_id=785&lang=eng=en .
For the editorial board of the special issue of 2018
Associate Prof. Jaan Lahe
University of Tallinn
School of Humanities
Narva Road 29
10120 Tallinn, Estonia