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Agent skill stack for manuscripts targeted at the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) — the flagship journal of religious studies and the official journal of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the largest scholarly society for the academic study of religion, published by Oxford University Press. JAAR publishes top scholarship across the full range of world religious traditions and the methodologies by which religion is studied.
This repository is opinionated. It is not a generic humanities toolbox and it is not a social-science pack relabeled — JAAR has no datasets, statistics, or replication policy. It is a JAAR-specific stack for the academic study of religion: an argument of broad and fundamental interest to the study of religion, careful handling of primary texts and traditions, method-conscious and reflexive (non-confessional) scholarship, and JAAR's distinctive in-text author-date citation style.
JAAR's constraints differ from a specialist religion journal and from any social-science venue:
| Constraint | JAAR | Implication |
|---|---|---|
| Owner / publisher | American Academy of Religion (AAR) / Oxford University Press | Submitted via ScholarOne (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jaarel) |
| Framing gate | Must speak to broad and fundamental interest to the study of religion | Subfield-only papers are returned to reframe before review |
| Premium on | An essay that "has a point" — analysis with a contestable thesis | Description / survey is off-fit |
| Methods | Textual, historical, philosophical, comparative, ethnographic — and studies of method itself | Method-conscious, reflexive, non-confessional |
| Review model | Double-blind (double-anonymous) | Anonymized main document + separate title page |
| Selectivity | ~90% rejection (~8 articles/issue, ~32/year) | Field-level significance is non-negotiable |
| Length | ~8,000–12,000 words including references and footnotes | Notes count; reserve them for substance |
| Abstract | ≤ 150 words | Concise statement of problem, argument, contribution |
| Citations | In-text author-date (NOT footnote citations); CMOS as fallback | Footnotes are for substantive remarks only |
| Book reviews | Commissioned only (no unsolicited; none from graduate students) | Not an entry point |
Volatile specifics (editors and term, exact length, CMOS edition, OA APC) change — items not directly
confirmed are marked 待核实 in resources/official-source-map.md.
Verify on the official journal page.
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/jaar-skills
/plugin install jaar-skills
/reload-pluginsgit clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/jaar-skills.git
cd jaar-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -R skills/jaar-* ~/.claude/skills/
# or
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills && cp -R skills/jaar-* ~/.codex/skills/Use jaar-workflow to tell me which skill I should use next for my JAAR manuscript.
jaar-topic-selection (reframe for broad significance here)
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jaar-scholarly-positioning
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jaar-argument-development
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jaar-sources-and-evidence
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jaar-theory-and-method
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jaar-structure-and-exposition
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jaar-writing-style (polish)
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jaar-citation-and-style (in-text author-date)
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jaar-review-process
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jaar-submission
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jaar-revision-and-response
jaar-workflow is the router — it tells you which skill to use next based on where you are. The first
gate is always the reframing test: state what your article teaches the study of religion as a whole.
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
jaar-workflow |
Router — decides which sub-skill to invoke next |
jaar-topic-selection |
Fit + reframing to broad, fundamental interest to the study of religion |
jaar-scholarly-positioning |
Locate the intervention across traditions and methods |
jaar-argument-development |
Build a thesis-driven argument that "has a point" |
jaar-sources-and-evidence |
Rigorous primary-source, textual, and fieldwork evidence |
jaar-theory-and-method |
Method-conscious, reflexive, non-confessional framing; responsible comparison |
jaar-structure-and-exposition |
Architecture of a humanities essay within the word budget |
jaar-writing-style |
Clear, analytic prose; gender-neutral, serial comma, italicized foreign terms |
jaar-citation-and-style |
In-text author-date citations; CMOS fallback; year-keyed reference list |
jaar-review-process |
Editor pre-screen, double-blind review, ~90% rejection, timeline |
jaar-submission |
ScholarOne preflight (anonymized doc + title page, framing, abstract) |
jaar-revision-and-response |
Response to readers' reports across traditions/methods |
resources/external_tools.md— primary-source databases (ATLA / TLG / CBETA / Sefaria…), languages/transliteration, theory-and-method references, and reference managersresources/official-source-map.md— official AAR / OUP URLs behind every fact, with 待核实 markers
- It does not write a submittable article for you
- It does not simulate any specific editor's or reader's taste
- It does not assert volatile metadata (current editors and term, exact length, CMOS edition, OA APC) — verify on the official page; unverified items are marked 待核实
- It does not decide whether your work is of broad and fundamental interest to the study of religion — that is the scholar's call
- awesome-journal-skills — Index of journal-specific skill packs
- Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Oxford) — author guidelines, style sheet, policies
- American Academy of Religion (AAR) — owner, the scholarly society for the study of religion
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