Kanien is a journal edited by the professors of the Jesuit Institute of Theology of Abidjan. Kanien is a biannual scholarly interdisciplinary journal open to theologians, scholars in religious studies as well as human and social sciences (philosophy, sociology, history, economics, political science, psychology, etc) open to religious issues.

Kanien favors intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches that put in dialogue various aspects of religious experience in Africa and in the rest of the world. Kanien is a scholarly forum located within the changing and dynamic context in Africa characterized by challenges at the political, economic, cultural and religious levels.