The e-Journal for Interdisciplinary Research on Religion and Science is an international forum for interdisciplinary research on Religion, Philosophy and Science, half-yearly (with issue in 31st of January and 31st of July), edited in English, French or German Languages by The Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research on Religion and Science, The Faculty of Orthodox Theology "Dumitru Staniloae", "Al. I. Cuza" State University of Iasi, ROMANIA

Purpose

JIRRS aim is to develop the interdisciplinary research component regarding Religion, Philosophy and Science by publishing original research. Its title highlights the general framework of the scientific contributions of those who will support it with their studies and articles; it is quite a generous framework that allows for many-sided approaches and interpretations of the dialogue between the scientific rationality and the existential experience of religious faith, with all their positive or negative effects upon the human conscience and its life environment.

We are keenly aware of the painstaking efforts that need to be made in this area, on the one hand, in order to rethink, in a critical way, the potential, the means and the limits of the dialogue between Religion and Science, and on the other, in order to escape two irrelevant attitudes to this dialogue, namely: the propensity towards a totalizing monism of knowledge, based on the desire to achieve a balanced synthesis between scientific data and metaphysical and religious truths, and the tendency towards a dividing dualism, which precludes any systematic correlation between the domains of scientific knowledge and those of religious knowledge.

In order to surpass these two extreme attitudes, which could block the edifying dimension of dialogue, we consider it necessary that all those interested in this dialogue assume intellectual diligence and a permanent concern for being up-to-date, both in their own field of research and in those of their partners in dialogue; acknowledge that the ultimate statements of religious faith, called metaphysical in traditional language, are not the conclusions of an epistemological undertaking, part of a continuum of scientific effort. The aim of their application is not the instrumental scientific reason, but the integral reason illuminated by the faith in a transcendental sense of life in general and of the human person in particular.

All articles should be consistent with an interdisciplinary perspective from Religion and Science.

Papers in the following categories will be considered for publication:

1. 1. Theoretical or applied articles dealing with interdisciplinary subjects on science and religion.
   
2. Research articles that have relevance to interdisciplinary dialogue, studies, or advanced research in one of the following interdisciplinary domains:
1. Systematic Theology, Hard and Natural Sciences
(fields: Systematic Theology, Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Genetics, Geophysics, Ecology, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Science)
2. Religious Anthropology, Hermeneutics and Human/Socio Sciences
(fields: Religious Anthropology, Anthropology, hermeneutics, social psychology, sociology, cultural studies, theories of arts, media sciences)
3. Religious Ethics, Bioethics and Medical Sciences
(fields: Medical Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Personal Development Sciences, Bio-ethics, Law, Genetics, Neurology).

3. Reactions to current or past journal articles.
4. Reviews of relevant books from the field of psychology and theology.
   

1. Send three typewritten, double-spaced hard copies of the manuscript or a computerized copy in Microsoft Word, which can be mailed on a floppy disk to the address (see contact). The author should also sent the papers as an e-mail attachment to submission.jirrs@gmail.com
2. A standard font such as Times New Roman 12 should be used.
3. Two of the three copies should delete the author’s name on the title page, etc., for purpose of blind review. All 3 copies should have an abstract of no more than 150 words (summary of the thesis and major findings); number all subsequent manuscript pages.
4. If accepted, the author will be required to submit a computerized copy in Microsoft Word, which can be mailed on a floppy disk to the above address, or sent as an e-mail attachment to submission.jirrs@gmail.com
5. Authors should use endnotes. Each note must have a unique number.
6. Spell out all authors' first and last names at first mention. In the References (Bibliography), provide authors' last name, first name and middle initial. For books, provide City and Publisher. For edited volumes, indicate also name of the editor. For essays in edited volumes, provide inclusive page numbers. Foreign-language titles should have English translation in brackets. For journal articles, indicate Volume Number, Issue Number and inclusive page numbers (from - to). For magazine or newspaper articles, indicate dates (day, month, and year), and pages.
7. Avoid submitting a manuscript which has been published previously or is being considered simultaneously for publication in other journals. If the manuscript is rejected by the Journal, it may then be submitted to another journal.
8. Limit the manuscript to 20 double-spaced pages excluding tables, figures, and references or 6000 words excluding endnotes.
9. Include an abstract (if typewritten, please include it on a separate sheet of paper.)
10. Articles should be in Microsoft Word, and should be in English, French or German. The articles in English should have their abstract in French or in German, while the articles in French or German should have their abstract in English.
11. Include the following current vita information for each author: address, title, degree(s) and institution(s) where earned, and specialization(s).
12. Include telephone number, fax number, and electronic mail address if available.
13. Tables, figures, and references should be at the end of the manuscript. Annexes should be add at the end.
14. Figure captions should be provided as a list at the end of the manuscript text.
15. Authors are required to also send the tables and figures as individual electronic files (JPEG or TIFF format, at least 300 dpi resolution).
16. JIRRS editors encourage authors to build on, and connect with relevant ideas and articles in previous JIRRS volumes.
17. Authors may also send their manuscript as an e-mail attachment to submission.jirrs@gmail.com. In this case, 2 copies are required, one bearing and one not bearing the name of the author, for the same purpose of blind review.

Publicity
E-mails will be sent to all members of various professional organizations alerting them to a new paper of special interest. All registered users of the JIRRS web site will be notified whenever a new paper is posted.

Rights
All articles will be copy-righted by JIRRS, but authors are granted the right to reprint an article in whole or in part in any work written (or coauthored) or edited (or co-edited) by them. Others than authors must obtain written permission from JIRRS to reprint or electronically distribute an article.