Open Access Statement

The Journal for the Study of Religion is committed to the principle of making scholarly research freely available to the global community. We believe that open access accelerates scientific progress and promotes a wider dissemination of knowledge.

Therefore, The Journal for the Study of Religion publishes all articles under an open access model. This means that all articles are immediately available upon publication without any fees or barriers to access. Readers are free to:

• Read
• Download
• Copy
• Distribute
• Print
• Search
• Link to the full text of articles

This permission is granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which allows for non-commercial reuse and distribution of the material with proper attribution to the authors and the journal.

We believe that open access publication fosters:

• Increased citation rates for articles
• Broader public engagement with research
• Enhanced collaboration among researchers worldwide

Author Self-Archiving

Authors are encouraged to deposit the final published version of their articles in their institutional repositories or on their personal websites.

For any questions regarding our open access policy, please don't hesitate to contact our editorial team.

Article Processing Charges (APCs) 

This journal charges R450.00 per page as APC.  Included in this cost is the English language editing for each article.