About the Journal

Dissertia Research Reviews (ISSN 3053-6669) is an international, peer-reviewed, bi-monthly, open-access journal publishing thesis-based articles as well as extended abstracts of MA, PhD, and postdoctoral theses and dissertations across the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS). We aim to promote comparative, interdisciplinary, and cross-regional research that bridges emerging and established fields of inquiry. The journal’s mission is to make graduate scholarship visible, citable, and globally accessible; empowering early-career researchers to share work that is often original, data-driven, and grounded in local contexts. Each publication receives DOI registration and is indexed in Dissertia’s AI-powered database, envisioned as the world’s most inclusive repository of graduate research in the humanities and social sciences.

Current Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Special Issue for Comparative Religion

This inaugural issue of Dissertia Research Reviews constitutes a Special Issue dedicated to the field of Comparative Religion. It brings together exemplary graduate research that investigates religious traditions, concepts, and encounters through comparative,cross-cultural, and multi-disciplinary frameworks. As the first published issue of the journal, it formally inaugurates our commitment to disseminating diverse scholarship derived from MA, PhD, and Postdoctoral studies, and to promoting an intellectual space where emerging researchers can contribute to contemporary debates in the study of religion.

Published: 26-11-2025

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Articles

  • Difference, Reflexivity, and the Making of Comparison: Introducing Dissertia Research Reviews Editorial Foreword

    Rasool Akbari
    1-3
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.drci

  • Review and Criticism of Thomas Luckmann’s Theory of Invisible Religion

    Samane Feyzi, Mahdi Hasanzadeh, Behzad Hamidiye
    4-8
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.rcir

  • Puranic Cosmology in Vishnu Purana and Vayu Purana Compared with the Qur’anic Cosmology

    Mohsen Sharfaei Marghaki, Abolfazl Mahmoodi, Seyyed Fathollah Mojtabaei, Mohammad Javad Shams
    9-14
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.pqc

  • Theology of Tourism: Foundations and Functions

    Hamideh Amiryazdani, Mehrab Sadeghnia, Ahmad Reza Meftah, Hamid Zargham Boroujeni
    15-22
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.ttsa

  • Sayyid Yaḥyā Shirvānī’s Love for the Ahl al-Bayt and His Sufi Views

    Ilahe Memmedova Kurşun, Reşat Öngören
    23-29
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.syls

  • Muslim-Christian Theological Controversies about the Trinity during the First Centuries of the Hegira

    Vali Abdi, Mohammad Ilkhani, Fatemeh Lajevardi
    30-36
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.mcct

  • The Role of Women in Jesus Christ’s Religious Movement with an Emphasis on Mary Magdalene

    Maryamalsadat Siahpoosh, Tahereh Hajebrahimi, Leila Hooshangi
    37-43
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.rwjmm

  • A Comparative Study of Cultural Policy-Making Models of the Vatican and Āstān Quds Rażavī Based on Strategic Documents and Cultural Activities

    Ramazanali Izanloo, Mansour Motamedi, Ali Ashraf Emami
    44-53
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.cmvq

  • A Critical Review of Peter L. Berger’s Approach to Religion

    Mahdi Hasanzadeh, Ghorban Elmi
    54-65
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.pbar

  • Methodology of Comparative Theology in Transcendental Wisdom (Hekmat-e Mota‘aliyeh)

    Morteza Peirojafari, Vahideh Fakhar Noghani, Jahangir Masoudi
    66-72
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.mcthm

  • The History and Teachings of Christianity in Shi‘a Hadith Heritage: The Case of Bihār al-Anwār by Muhammad-Bāqir Majlisī

    Seyedhossein Biriaei, Mansour Motamedi, Ali Ashraf Emami
    73-79
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.cshb

  • The Role of Culture as a Variable in Christian–Muslim Dialogue

    Mahdi Salehi, Mehrab Sadeghnia
    80-86
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.rcvd

  • Book Review for Ostūreh-ye Sophia: Tajallī-ye Zanāneh-ye Hekmat-e Elāhī (The Myth of Sophia: The Feminine Manifestation of Divine Wisdom), written by Maryamalsadat Siahpoosh; originally published in Persian, Tehran, Pileh Publishing, 2nd ed., 2021, 152 pp., price not provided (paperback), ISBN 978-622-7620-04-7.

    Mehrzad Shojaei
    87-93
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.65394/dissertia2025.1.1.oszel
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