Publishing in Scholarly Journals

In The Archive, we republish an article that, in hindsight, may have been ahead of its time with its prescience. Our pull for this issue is a 1984 piece by Robert P. Scharlemann. In this paper Scharlemann, the former editor of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lends his experience—from being on both sides of the journal publishing divide—to Religious Studies colleagues who are newer to the field.