Dear colleagues,

The following Special Issue will be published in Religions (ISSN 2077-
1444, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/) and is now open to receive
submissions of full research papers and comprehensive review articles for
peer-review and possible publication:

Special Issue: Recent Work on Catholicism
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/si/religions/catholism/
Guest Editor: Dr. Steven M. Avella
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2012

You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline.
Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under
consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send
us their tentative title and short abstract by e-mail for approval to the
Editorial Office at religions@mdpi.com.

This Special Issue will be fully open access, with Article Processing
Charges (APC) waived for well prepared manuscripts before 1 July 2012.
The APC for manuscripts submitted from 1 July 2012 onwards are 300
CHF per accepted paper. In addition, a fee of 250 CHF may apply if
English editing or extensive revisions must be undertaken by the Editorial
Office. More information can be found at http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/.
Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and
promotes more frequent citations as indicated by several studies. Open
access is supported by the authors and their institutes. More information is
available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.

Please visit the website of Instructions for Authors before submitting a
paper at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/instructions/. Manuscripts
should be submitted through the online manuscript submission and editorial
system at http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/.

Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) is an international, open access scholarly
journal publishing peer-reviewed studies of religious thought and practice.
It is available online to promote critical, hermeneutical, historical, and
constructive conversations. It aims to serve the interests of a wide range of
thoughtful readers and academic scholars of religion, as well as theologians,
philosophers, social scientists, anthropologists, psychologists,
neuroscientists and others interested in the multidisciplinary study of
religions.

MDPI publishes several peer-reviewed, open access journals listed at
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In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at:
religions@mdpi.com

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
MDPI AG

On behalf of the Guest Editor

Dr. Steven M. Avella
Department of History, Coughlin Hall 301
Marquette University
PO Box 1881
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
E-Mail: steven.avella@marquette.edu

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