Journal of Contemplative Studies

The Journal of Contemplative Studies (JCS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia. The journal publishes original research and scholarship on topics related to contemplative practices with a focus on humanistic studies and transdisciplinary scholarship with a humanistic core.

The mission of the journal is to provide an academic forum for specialists to publish rigorous, innovative, humanities-based scholarship in Contemplative Studies and to promote interconnections across disciplines, perspectives, and traditions. JCS and its associated preprint service are committed to supporting the growth of an academic field for a global community of scholars who study contemplative practices in all of their diversity. This includes scholarship that examines practices, first-person meditative experiences, and the historical and cultural contexts in which forms of contemplation are embedded and from which they derive. 

JCS is focused on publishing rigorous academic work on contemplation that is deeply grounded in the humanities in the most capacious sense. The journal publishes original research and scholarship on topics related to the world’s contemplative practice traditions—historical and contemporary, religious and secular. Articles are not restricted to a particular disciplinary or methodological approach and submissions could be, but are not limited to, scholarly methods that are comparative, text-critical, historical, theoretical, ethnographic, or phenomenological.

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