Special Issues

Religions publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated EBM will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Postcolonial Religion and Theology in/as Practice
edited by Federico Settler and
submission deadline 20 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 467 | Submission Open
Keywords: postcolonialism; theology; religion; practice; praxis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
The Valorization of Religion by Media
edited by
submission deadline 22 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1388 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious symbols; religious publicity; publicization; mediation; mediatization; marketization; commodification; digital religion; religious entertainment; populist politics
Islamic Philosophy: Past and Present
edited by Khurram Hussain
submission deadline 25 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 1613 | Submission Open
Keywords: Islamic philosophy; artificial intelligence; climate change; kalam; Muslims; taṣawuff; modern Islam; global challenges; crisis of democracy; falsafa; modernity
Race, Religion, and Nationalism in the 21st Century
edited by and Gustavo Melo Cerqueira
submission deadline 30 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 1633 | Submission Open
Keywords: race; racism; religion; nationalism; religious racism; Christian nationalism
Theology and Science: Loving Science, Discovering the Divine submission deadline 30 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1301 | Submission Open
Keywords: science; artificial intelligence; technology; ethics; spirituality; religion; theology
Communication with the Dead
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 648 | Submission Open
Keywords: the dead; dreams; ecstasy; near-death experience; necromancy; visions; rituals; mediums; seers; visionaries; fortune tellers; ancestors; ghosts
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Reimagining Catholic Ethics Today submission deadline 30 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 429 | Submission Open
Keywords: common good; colonialities and decoloniality; ethics; environmental ethics; ethical imagination; existentialism; gender and sexuality; hermeneutics and politics of language; humanism; posthumanism; religious ethics; social ethics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Inter-religious Relations: Prejudices and Conflicts—Dialogue and Integration submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 32980 | Submission Open
Keywords: inter-religious relations; religious pluralization; prejudice; conflict; dialogue; integration; globalization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Modern Approaches to the Sīrah Genre, Prophetic Stories, and Prophethood in Islamic Thought
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11538 | Submission Open
Keywords: Prophet Muhammad; sīrah; Islamic modernism; prophethood; nubuwwah; fiqh al-sīrah; sīrah  philosophy; Qasas al-anbiya; Stories of Prophets
The Intelligibility of Reality: Theology and Science between Mystery That Calls and Research Humility
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9112 | Submission Open
Keywords: theology; science; mystery; humility; trans-disciplinary; intelligibility; revelation; multilevel reality; truth
Religion and Planetary Climate Crisis submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8167 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; activism; collapse; religion; ethics; resilience; adaptation; global warming; theology
Religion, Ritual, and Healing
edited by and Gerald Murray
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7886 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; ritual practices; symbol; healing; wellbeing; healthcare; religious communities; globalization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Pentecost at the Margins: Explorations in Marginalisation and Christianity
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7403 | Submission Open
Keywords: renewal Christianity; Pentecostalism; Pentecostal studies; marginalisation
Musicology of Religion: Selected Papers on Religion and Music
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3045 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; music; musicology; ethnomusicology; sacred sound; chant; ritual; liturgy; phenomenology; theology
Child and Adolescent Spirituality/Religiosity and Religious Education submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2979 | Submission Open
Keywords: spirituality; religiosity; religious education; children/adolescents  
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Current Trends in Pauline Research: Philippians
edited by Isaac Blois and Gregory Lamb
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2642 | Submission Open
Keywords: Philippians; hermeneutics; pauline studies; ethics; early Christianity; comparative studies; Paul within Judaism; social scientific studies; social identity theory; Carmen Christi; Christ Hymn
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Spirituality in Psychiatry
edited by Rogier Hoenders and Bennard Doornbos
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2558 | Submission Open
Keywords: purpose; meaning; spirituality; religion; psychopathology; psychiatry; existential; transcendence; psyche-delics; ASC; coping
Womanist Thought: Freedom, Violence, and Sexual Embodiment submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2160 | Submission Open
Keywords: womanist; justice; power; violence; sexual violence; freedom; legacy; activism; ritual; education; intersectionality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Devotion Practice and Performative Expression in the Religious Art of Medieval Europe
edited by Barbara Crostini and Vlad Bedros
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1619 | Submission Open
Keywords: medieval art; materiality; performance; devotion; museum studies; iconoclasm; Byzantium
Buddhist Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Buddhist Theories of Mind
edited by Chien-Te Lin
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1598 | Submission Open
Keywords: buddhist psychology; mindfulness; well-being; consciousness; self
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Religion and Prison: Practices, Actors, Spaces, and Challenges of Pluralism submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1374 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious plurality in prison; religious care; chaplaincy; sacralisation processes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Aquinas and the Sciences: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future
edited by and Ignacio Silva
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 1070 | Submission Open
Management of Religious Diversity: Comparing and Contrasting Experiences across the World
edited by and Juan Cruz Esquivel
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 642 | Submission Open
Keywords: management of religious diversity; state; local level; comparative studies; integration; discrimination; religious minorities
Gods and Protests: Religious Belief and Social Action
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 479 | Submission Open
Keywords: belief; social action; protest; human experience; interpretation; religion; conflict; human responsibility
Dissolutions of Monasteries
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 279 | Submission Open
Keywords: monasteries; secularisation; anticlericalism; comparative history
Religion, Diaspora and Pluralism
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 235 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and diaspora; religious pluralism; cultural pluralism; ethical pluralism; diversity; values; norms
Christian Spirituality and Its Contributions to 20th and 21st Century Theology
edited by Inigo Bocken and Thomas Quartier
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 212 | Submission Open
Keywords: spirituality; contemplation; action; mystical theology; philosophy of religion; theology of religious life; history of mysticism and spirituality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Middle East Religions from Comparative Perspectives—How Religion Is Shaping the Middle East
edited by and Zofia Sawicka
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 159 | Submission Open
Keywords: diversity of religions; Middle East; interreligious dialogue; intercultural communications; religion and politics; religious identity; Judaism; Christianity; Islam; Hinduism; Buddhism
Religious Ethics in a Conflicted World
edited by Ralf K. Wüstenberg, Zeina Barakat and Thies Münchow
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; ethics; political theology; conflict; ideology; politics; dialogue; reconciliation; justice; empathy; truth; antisemitism
New Trinitarian Paradigm of Thinking
edited by Robert Woźniak
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
From Dogmatism to a Public Theology: An Archeology of Theological Knowledge and Religious Studies submission deadline 1 Apr 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6385 | Submission Open
Keywords: archaeology of theological knowledge; Michel de Certeau; public theology; public rationality; Michel Foucault; Giorgio Agamben; religion and public agenda; public ethics; heterologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Mystical Theology: Negation and Desolation
edited by
submission deadline 1 Apr 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4844 | Submission Open
Keywords: Mysticism; Negativity; Nothingness; Negation; Apophasis; Desolation; Spiritual Struggle; Suffering; Trauma; Self-Mortification
The Global Urgency of Interreligious Studies
edited by John D. Barton
submission deadline 1 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 164 | Submission Open
Keywords: interreligious/interfaith; secular myopia; peacebuilding; social change; dispute resolution; conflict transformation; collaborative solutions; restorative justice; justpeace; activism; sustainability; religious literacy
Deviance and Religiousness: Exploring the Interplay between Religion and Criminality
edited by Chris Allen and
submission deadline 1 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 104 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; hate; extremism; crime; criminality; deviance; prisons; criminal justice system; extremism; terrorism; violence; equality; diversity; human rights; prosecution; communities; radicalization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religiosity and Spirituality in Philosophical Practice: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives submission deadline 10 Apr 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7214 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; religiosity; spirituality; counseling; pastoral counseling; psychological counseling; philosophical practice; philosophical counseling; philosophical therapy; philosophy of religion; Christianity; Islam; Hinduism; Buddhism; Judaism; Daoism; mindfulness; meditation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
The Platonic Tradition, Nature Spirituality and the Environment
edited by Alexander J. B. Hampton
submission deadline 12 Apr 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2906 | Submission Open
Keywords: nature; environmental crisis; religion; spirituality; Platonism; realism; human/nonhuman relations; environmental ethics; environmental philosophy; metaphysics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Healing Masters: Asian Religious Traditions and Their Views on the Root of Disease
edited by
submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5388 | Submission Open
Keywords: healing masters; health; Asian religions; Medicine Tathāgata; Medicine Buddha; Yà oshī Rú lá i 藥師如來; Buddhism; Daoism; Shamanism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Finding a Way between Science and Religion
edited by
submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1456 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; theology; science; faith and philosophy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Christian Asceticism in Late Antiquity
edited by
submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1424 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christian asceticism; patristics; late antiquity; church fathers/mothers; Christian monasticism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Post-Holocaust Theologies of Jews and Judaism
edited by
submission deadline 20 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1177 | Submission Open
Keywords: anti-Judaism; antisemitism; church history; Vatican II; inter-religious dialogue; Jewish– Christian relations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Decolonizing the Study of Religion and Spirituality submission deadline 20 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 757 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; spirituality; mysticism; European colonialism; ideology; critical theory
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Moravian Theology
edited by
submission deadline 20 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 254 | Submission Open
Keywords: Hussites; Unity of the Brethren; Comenius; Zinzendorf; post-colonialism; Tanzania; Caribbean theology; Philadelphianism; ecumenism; Pietism; atonement; Christology; Holy Spirit
Promising Images of Love: Religion, Norms, and the Mediatisation of Weddings
edited by Marie-Therese Mäder and Anna-Katharina Höpflinger
submission deadline 24 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2351 | Submission Open
Keywords: weddings; religions; values; norms; mediatisation; tradition; transformation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Global Catholicism
edited by Bryan Froehle and Massimo Faggioli
submission deadline 25 Apr 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2517 | Submission Open
Keywords: case study; catholicity; circle method; culture; development of doctrine; ecclesiology; hermeneutics; intercultural theology; interdisciplinarity; method; methodology; Missio Dei; missiology; political economy; practical theology; sensus fidelium; sensus fidelium fidei; synodality; world Christianity; world regions
The Interaction of Daoist, Buddhist and Confucian Thinkers in the Sui and Early Tang Dynasty submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6990 | Submission Open
Keywords: Tang dynasty philosophy; Tang dynasty religions; inter-religious discourses; three teachings; Tang dynasty Buddhism; Tang dynasty Daoism; Tang dynasty Confucianism
The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Times of Crisis submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6830 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; spirituality; crisis; religiosity; religious coping; well-being
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Constructing the ‘European Muslim Crisis’: Discourse, Policy, and Everyday Realities
edited by Tahir Abbas, Richard McNeil-Willson and Lianne Vostermans
submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 1432 | Submission Open
Keywords: crisis; nationalism; Islamophobia; identity construction; othering
Anthropological Perspectives on Diaspora and Religious Identities
edited by
submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1338 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious identity; diasporas; anthropology; commonsense; strangeness; movement; sedentarism
Religiosity and Psychopathology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 365 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious depression; demon possession; demon obsession; religious hysteria; magic
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Where Is God? Contemporary Views on Arguments for God’s Existence submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 302 | Submission Open
Keywords: the existence of God; theistic arguments; atheistic arguments; natural theology; theism; atheism; ultimism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
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