The main purpose of the paper is to study the publishing trends of the open access religious
journals available in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The data were collected
online from the Directory of Open Access Journals and quantitative method was applied for data
analysis. The data were collected in December 2017 and later presented in tabular forms to reveal
the findings. The findings show that 119 religious journals are registered in the DOAJ, published
from the 27 countries by 114 publishing agencies in 14 languages. The maximum number of
journals (21, 17.65%) is published from Indonesia in the English language (79, 66.39%) during the
2nd decade (2010-2017) of the 21st century
