Publication policies and Open Access/Copyright

Open access

The Religionspädagogische Beiträge.  Journal for Religion in Education is published open access, free of charge for authors, readers and libraries.

We are online

Articles finally approved by the editors and the corresponding author of the article will be published online. We do not offer printed copies of our journal.

Regular issues

The Journal publishes up to three issues per year, but at least one in April and one in September.

ISSN

The Religionspädagogische Beiträge. Journal for Religion in Education holds an ISSN for its electronic edition: 2750-3941. The previous ISSN up to  2020 for the printed version was 0173-0339.

Digital Object Identifiers

Each article published in the Religionspädagogische Beiträge. Journal for Religion in Education is identified by a persistent Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

License

The Religionspädagogische Beiträge. Journal for Religion in Education is published under a Creative Commons BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Authors of those articles are granted permission to re-publish or re-print the article or parts of it, provided that the initial publication in the RpB is properly acknowledged.

Religious Education Contributions. Journal for Religion in Education does not charge authors for publication (so-called Article Processing Charges, APCs) or submission (so-called Submission Charges).