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Greetings and welcome back to Cumhuriyet University Journal of the Faculty of Theology, which reached the 20th year in the academic publication journey. Our journal has achieved great progress in the field of both national and international academic publication. We would like to share with you the achievements have been made since 20th volume 1st issue published on 15th June 2016. Considering the length of our name that has been in use since 1996, it has been also decided to change the journal’s name Cumhuriyet Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakultesi Dergisi to Cumhuriyet Ilahiyat Dergisi = Cumhuriyet Theology Journal in order to provide convenience for readers to cite articles. Our Journal has completed all the technical requirements to use the new and open access online system of DergiPark Akademik, which is an electronic system to organize a journal that TUBITAK- Turkish National Database recently offers. Within this framework, our new website has come on stream on 1st June 2016. The previous website: http://dergipark.ulakbim.gov.tr/cumuilah/ The new website        : http://dergipark.gov.tr/cuid In order to make known the articles, which are academic productions of highly significant endeavours, to international academia and increase the chance of getting referenced in international academic studies, we require both Turkish and English 150-word abstracts and 750-word summaries of the article that has accepted after peer-review process. The articles are available with abstracts and summaries in this issue. Our journal now has been indexed by international index ATLA Religion Database indeks from 20/05/2016. ATLA index conveys the information of articles via EBSCO to readers through library subscriptions. ATLA indexes only three journals from Turkey. Moreover, we have also announced the article preliminary review forms and the blind review process. We examine Turkish and English titles, summaries, and keywords to make sure that they correspond to the field’s terminology. Furthermore, we require proper nouns and concepts/terms to be written in the reference style of TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam. We also particularly require for the articles to use Chicago manual style referencing, which is clearly highlighted in our author guideline. To improve the academic quality of the journal, we have also checked the article up for plagiarism in a specific computer program designed for this job. The articles that are marked with a result higher than %15 on this program are returned to the authors with a plagiarism report. We have applied the double-blind review process for the issue 20.1 and decided not to announce the identities of reviewers since 2016. It might be right to note here that we have been getting more attention from scholarly world day by day with our mission and standards. The journal has received 114 articles between January-December 2016 from the Turkish academics. All articles have gone through the pre-review process to check the referencing and transliteration style before testing them via plagiarism checker. We then have forwarded the articles that are successfully passed the plagiarism check to our reviewers. After all this process, we have been able to offer to you 12 articles, one book review, and symposium introduction. We are delighted to offer you the various ranges of themes and topics with this new issue. We sincerely thank the authors who contributed to this issue, the editorial and review boards, and particularly to the assistant editors, R.A. Maruf Cakir, Asst. Prof. Adem Ciftci, and Asst. Prof. Sema Yilmaz, and the assistant editors of the language review-process Dr. Emrah Kaya and Dr. Zeynep Yucedogru. We hope to see you all on 15 June 2017 with our next issue. 15 December 2016 Abdullah Demir & Hasan Özalp  

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