New issues of Studies in Comparative Religion will be published starting in 2009. Each new issue of Studies will focus on only one unifying topic or theme. A free on-line copy of each issue will be sent to each subscriber and to every member of World Wisdom’s Reader Advantage Program. Paper copies of each issue will also be available for purchase by interested readers.

New issues will be published as they are completed and without a set publication schedule. It is anticipated that approximately three new issues will be published every two years.
Characteristics of most new issues will include:

• Diverse essays centered around a specific topic, including
• New articles prepared for each issue.
• Classic Perennialist articles on the selected topic but never before published in Studies.
• A bibliography of articles on the selected topic in the Studies on-line archive.
• Selected book reviews of books on the specific topic.
• Contributors will be encouraged to prepare new articles that summarize the thought of deceased Perennialist authors on the selected topics, including extensive quotations from throughout the entire corpus of the deceased author.

Some issues may also include articles summarizing the thoughts of saints and sages of the world’s religions, or which summarize the teachings of the great wisdom traditions.

Each new issue will therefore consolidate diverse articles on a single topic by authors who have been influenced in different ways by Traditionalism or Perennialism. This broad mix of sources will include new articles, classic articles by deceased Perennialist authors, articles that summarize the thought of deceased Perennialist authors, primary and secondary texts from the different religions, and writings of the great sages of history. In many respects, these issues will complement the anthologies in World Wisdom’s Perennial Philosophy Series, which are based around a central topic or theme.

The goal of this overall format is to allow readers to better understand the specific topic of each issue by placing the differences of the authors—from both within and without the Perennialist School—in sharp relief. While it is evident that common principles are identifiable in the writings of authors who are associated with or influenced by the Perennialist school of thought, there is no shortage of strong opinions among these authors; thus, readers will be able to identify differences of opinion and note different points of emphasis.

Information about some of the forthcoming issues is posted below in order to inform readers and to solicit potential interest from prospective contributors. Starting in 2009, these forthcoming issues will be published as they are completed and without a set publication schedule. Planned issues include the following:

• Crossing Religious Frontiers, edited by Harry Oldmeadow
• Education in the Light of Tradition, edited by Jane Casewit
• Universal Dimensions of Islam, edited by Patrick Laude
• Perennialism and Christianity, edited by Mateus Soares de Azevedo
• Psychology and the Perennial Philosophy, edited by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

Each new issue of SCR will have a rotating (or guest) editor who will arrange for new articles and copyright permissions in the same manner that an editor would prepare a book for publication. The rotating editor will be listed as the author for the print-on-demand (POD) book that will also be created with each issue. Each POD book will have its own CIP data listing in the Library of Congress and be sold on this site and Amazon. The new printed issues should be welcome additions to public or private libraries that want to maintain a complete set of printed copies of the journal.

We may be able to provide prospective editors and contributors with various types of assistance, including copyright permissions and digital scans of the writings of authors that include Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, A.K. Coomaraswamy, Marco Pallis, and others. E-mails from prospective contributors will be forwarded to the respective rotating editors.

There are no time deadlines for rotating editors, although we will appreciate knowing the progress and approximate date of completion. Each issue will be published as it is completed.

Please write to webmaster@worldwisdom.com to express your interest.

Studies in Comparative Religion invites its readers from around the world to submit articles that are likely to be of interest to perennialist/traditionalist readers. You can submit your article directly to webmaster@worldwisdom.com and we will forward it to one of the rotating editors for their review.

Articles should be written in MS Word and must be saved as rtf. files. Footnotes or endnotes should be dynamic, i.e. containing a link from the main text to the footnote or endnote. If a full set of diacriticals is used (e.g. for Sanskrit or Arabic transliteration) the font type should be Arial Unicode MS. If a simplified system of diacriticals is used, i.e. containing only macrons, the font type should be Times New Roman. More information of this kind can be provided to authors if required.