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history-of-religions

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Use when targeting History of Religions or deciding whether a comparative-historical religious-studies manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, its comparative-method and primary-source bar, textual/philological and morphological expectations, house style and review norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

When to use

• comparative study of religious phenomena
• historical study of religious forms
• morphological and typological analysis
• close source-based study of specific traditions
• method and theory in comparative history of religions
• fit and framing check for History of Religions
• reframing single-tradition studies for comparative argument
• choosing between History of Religions and other venues

When not to use

• theological advocacy
• comparison floating free of sources and languages
• confessional or constructive concerns
• parallel-hunting catalogue without principled argument
• comparison untethered from primary sources
• claims out of proportion to evidence

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