The journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for examining philosophical ideas, religious worldviews, and intellectual practices within and across diverse historical, linguistic, and cultural settings. It encourages sustained engagement with philosophical and religious traditions from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Indigenous intellectual communities, and other cultural contexts, recognising both the distinctiveness of individual traditions and the possibilities for meaningful dialogue among them.

CPRT seeks to contribute to the development of comparative scholarship through careful conceptual analysis, historically informed interpretation, critical examination of established categories, and engagement with emerging questions in global philosophy and religious studies. The journal welcomes research that advances philosophical understanding, reconsiders inherited interpretive frameworks, or illuminates significant relationships among intellectual traditions.

Scope of the Journal

CPRT publishes scholarship addressing philosophical questions and religious traditions through comparative, historical, textual, hermeneutical, and interdisciplinary approaches. Its scope encompasses both classical intellectual traditions and contemporary debates, with particular attention to the conceptual, ethical, metaphysical, epistemological, and social dimensions of philosophical and religious thought.

The journal welcomes original contributions addressing, among others, the following areas:

• Comparative Philosophy across Civilizations: Comparative investigations of philosophical concepts, arguments, traditions, and systems of thought across different cultural and historical contexts.
• Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion: Philosophical examinations of religious belief, rationality, knowledge, transcendence, religious experience, and the relationship between faith and reason.
• Comparative Theology and Interreligious Thought: Critical and constructive engagement with theological concepts, religious doctrines, and modes of reasoning across traditions.
• Classical Texts and Hermeneutics: Comparative interpretation of philosophical and religious texts, including questions of translation, textual transmission, commentary, reception, and interpretive authority.
• Ethics and Moral Philosophy: Comparative approaches to moral reasoning, virtue, responsibility, human flourishing, justice, and ethical practices within philosophical and religious traditions.
• Religion and Political Philosophy: Philosophical inquiries into political authority, legitimacy, law, governance, social order, and the relationship between religious traditions and political institutions.
• Mysticism and Metaphysical Traditions: Comparative studies of metaphysical systems, contemplative practices, mystical experience, ontology, cosmology, and conceptions of ultimate reality.
• Secularism, Modernity, and Post-Secular Thought: Critical examinations of secularisation, religious transformation, modern intellectual movements, and the continuing public significance of religion.
• Religion, Science, and Technology: Philosophical and religious responses to scientific developments, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, environmental change, and other contemporary technological challenges.
• Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspectives: Critical reconsiderations of philosophical canons, epistemic hierarchies, colonial legacies, and the representation of non-Western and Indigenous intellectual traditions.
• Intercultural Dialogue and Global Intellectual History: Studies of intellectual exchange, conceptual transformation, philosophical encounters, and the historical circulation of religious and philosophical ideas.

These areas are indicative rather than exhaustive. The journal also welcomes theoretically innovative and interdisciplinary contributions that engage substantively with its central concerns and demonstrate clear relevance to comparative philosophy or the scholarly study of religious traditions.

Types of Contributions

CPRT accommodates several forms of scholarly contribution, reflecting the methodological and disciplinary diversity of comparative philosophical and religious research.

• Research Articles: Original studies presenting sustained philosophical arguments, critical interpretations, or research findings that make a substantive contribution to the field.
• Comparative Text Studies: Detailed analyses of primary philosophical or religious texts, with particular emphasis on interpretation, historical context, and comparative significance.
• Dialogue Forums: Scholarly exchanges that bring distinct intellectual traditions, theoretical positions, or disciplinary approaches into critical conversation.
• Critical Review Essays: Extended analytical discussions of significant scholarly debates, theoretical developments, or related bodies of literature.
• Book Reviews: Critical evaluations of recent publications relevant to comparative philosophy, religious studies, and associated disciplines.
• Thematic Special Issue Contributions: Articles and related scholarly works developed around focused themes of contemporary, historical, or interdisciplinary significance.

Intellectual Orientation

CPRT is committed to intellectual pluralism, scholarly independence, and critical inquiry. The journal does not privilege or advocate any particular philosophical school, theological doctrine, or religious tradition. Its editorial orientation is grounded in the principle that differing intellectual perspectives can be examined through rigorous argumentation, contextual understanding, and constructive scholarly engagement.

The journal encourages contributors to engage respectfully and critically with traditions other than their own, while recognising differences in conceptual vocabulary, historical development, epistemological assumptions, and interpretive practice. Comparative inquiry should avoid reductive generalisations and unsupported claims of equivalence or universality, and should remain attentive to the intellectual integrity and internal diversity of the traditions examined.

CPRT welcomes contributions from scholars working in philosophy, religious studies, theology, intellectual history, comparative literature, cultural studies, and related disciplines. Interdisciplinary collaboration and diverse methodological perspectives are encouraged where they contribute to a clearly formulated scholarly question and a coherent analytical framework.

Open Access Commitment

CPRT operates as an open access scholarly journal, making its published content freely available to readers worldwide without subscription barriers. Published works are made available under the applicable Creative Commons licence, with the relevant licensing and reuse conditions identified in the publication record.

Through open dissemination, the journal seeks to facilitate international scholarly exchange, support wider access to philosophical and religious scholarship, and enable researchers, educators, students, and interested readers to engage with research across disciplinary and geographical boundaries. CPRT is committed to transparent editorial procedures, responsible research practices, and the ethical communication of scholarly knowledge.