Aims and Scope
Kwaghe International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Religious Studies publishes peer-reviewed scholarship in the arts, humanities, and religious studies that deepens critical understanding of culture, meaning, values, identity, and human experience. The journal welcomes historically grounded, theoretically informed, and methodologically transparent work that contributes to scholarly debate, interpretation, and public understanding across diverse cultural, literary, philosophical, ethical, and religious contexts.
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Aims
Advance Humanistic Scholarship
Publish original studies that enrich interpretation, critique, and understanding of texts, traditions, arts, practices, and ideas.
Encourage Culturally Grounded and Comparative Inquiry
Support research that situates artistic, cultural, philosophical, and religious phenomena within meaningful historical, social, and comparative contexts.
Promote Rigorous and Reflective Engagement
Welcome scholarship that demonstrates conceptual precision, critical depth, methodological transparency, and fair engagement with sources and traditions.
Strengthen Dialogue Across Disciplines and Communities
Encourage contributions that connect academic analysis with broader ethical, cultural, educational, and societal conversations.
Authors are encouraged to make explicit the theoretical lens, interpretive framework, source base, contextual boundaries, and scholarly contribution of the manuscript.
Scope
The journal considers original research articles, critical and interpretive essays, textual and historical analyses, comparative studies, philosophical and theological reflections, cultural and media studies, arts-based inquiry, and systematic or scoping reviews where appropriate. Submissions should present a clear argument, sound engagement with sources, methodological transparency suitable to the discipline, and ethical scholarly practice.
1) Literature, Language, and Textual Studies
Literary criticism, comparative literature, linguistics, discourse analysis, translation studies, philology, and textual interpretation.
2) History, Heritage, and Cultural Memory
Historical inquiry, heritage studies, archival research, collective memory, local wisdom, and the cultural transmission of knowledge.
3) Philosophy, Ethics, and Intellectual Traditions
Philosophy, moral reasoning, intellectual history, epistemology, aesthetics, and critical reflections on contemporary and classical thought.
4) Religious Studies and Theology
Scriptural studies, lived religion, theology, comparative religion, ritual studies, ethics, and religion in public life.
5) Visual, Performing, and Creative Arts
Art history, music, theatre, performance, design, film, and arts-based research with documented analytical or creative frameworks.
6) Media, Communication, and Society
Media studies, cultural representation, digital culture, narrative analysis, and communication practices in social and religious contexts.
7) Education, Identity, and Community
Humanities and religion in education, identity formation, intercultural dialogue, peacebuilding, and community-based inquiry.
8) Reviews and Integrative Scholarship
Critical reviews, theoretical syntheses, and interdisciplinary humanities scholarship that advance debate across arts, culture, and religion.
Types of Manuscripts Considered
The journal considers, among others: original research articles, analytical essays, historical and archival studies, interpretive and comparative papers, philosophical and theological analyses, arts-based research reports, conceptual pieces, book-based synthesis papers, and systematic or scoping reviews where methodologically appropriate. Submissions must offer a clear scholarly argument, strong source engagement, and rigorous academic positioning.
Kwaghe International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Religious Studies supports intellectually rigorous and ethically grounded scholarship that illuminates arts, culture, humanities, and religious life in ways that are critically meaningful and internationally relevant.