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Interpreting the Bible: Re-Reading Texts, Characters, and Images from Scripture

edited by

Ianire Angulo Ordorika

and Ignacio Rojas Gálvez

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9686 | Submission Open

Keywords: inner-biblical interpretation; exegesis; old testament; new testament; early Judaism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)

Embellishing Belief: Sacred Objects and Spaces in Premodern East Asia and Southeast Asia

edited by Cynthea J. Bogel and Daniel Borengasser

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 1024 | Submission Open

Keywords: premodern East Asia; premodern Southeast Asia; religious visual and material culture; methodologies of sacred materiality and space; embellishment; religious symbolism; authenticity; precious materials; iconography and symbology; ritual praxis; sacred object contextualization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Bible Translation and Biblical Hermeneutics: Exploring the Nexus of Language and Interpretation

edited by

Stefano Salemi

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1620 | Submission Open

Echoes of the Divine: The Historical, Literary, and Theological Dimensions of Prophetism

edited by

Marta García Fernández

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 767 | Submission Open

Keywords: prophecy and the ancient Near East; prophecy as a religious phenomenon; prophetic hermeneutics; major and minor prophets; former or historical prophetic books; prophecy and Second Temple extrabiblical literature

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)

Himalayan Ecospiritual Knowledges and Ethics of Sustainability in the Anthropocene

edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters,

Dan Smyer Yü

and Mary Evelyn Tucker

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 21700 | Submission Open

Keywords: Himalayan– Tibetan highlands; religious ecology; spiritual environmentalisms; commoning; ethics; the Anthro-pocene

Transitions of Islam and Democracy: Thinking Political Theology

edited by

Ronen A. Cohen

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7620 | Submission Open

Keywords: political Islam; political thought; Islam and democracy; Islamic philosophy; religion and state; Muslim state; Islamic constitution; political rights; political liberty; anocracy

Arts, Spirituality, and Religion

edited by

Fátima Matos Silva

and Emília Simão

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7284 | Submission Open

Keywords: spirituality and religion; arts as a spiritual practice; spirituality and technology; spirituality and education; pilgrimage and celebrations; spirituality; health; and well-being

Chinese Christianity and Knowledge Development

edited by Mingyu Lu and

Qinghe Xiao

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6435 | Submission Open

Keywords: missionaries; knowledge development; publications; transition of knowledge; Chinese Christianity; Chinese culture; interdisciplinary studies; Chinese– Western cultural exchange; architecture; arts; customs

Religious Transmission Across Generations: Challenges, Continuities, and Changes

edited by Christel Gärtner and

Roberta Ricucci

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2488 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious transmission; young peoples belief; nones; atheism; cultural religion; religious education; religious institutions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

The Question of “Theodicy” in Contemporary Society: The Imagery of (after) Death in Religion and New Forms of Spirituality

edited by Antonio Camorrino

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1425 | Submission Open

Keywords: theodicy; religion; new forms of spirituality; ultimate meanings; suffering; death; after-life; imagery

Exploring Hagiography and Monasticism

edited by

James Clark

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 690 | Submission Open

Keywords: hagiography; monasticism; saints; relics; miracles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)

Interreligious Dialogue: Validity and Sustainability

edited by

Heon C. Kim

and

Song-Chong Lee

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 418 | Submission Open

Keywords: interreligious/interfaith dialogue; interreligious relations and interactions; comparative religions; religious pluralism and diversity

Practice of Religious Media in the Twenty-First Century

edited by Thomas Jerome Sienkewicz

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 336 | Submission Open

Keywords: broadcasting media; social media; Facebook; Twitter; YouTube; Instagram; religious media; religious television; religious radio

Religious Institutions in the Mediterranean: A Comparative Perspective

edited by

Daniela Tarantino

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 245 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious institutions; law; society; Mediterranean; New World

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)

Islamic Colloquia of Edinburgh (ICE) Conference (7–9 July 2025): Miracles in Islam

edited by

Shoaib Ahmed Malik

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 117 | Submission Open

Keywords: miracles; Islam; Islamic theology; Islamic philosophy; Qurʾān; ʾIʿjāz al-Qurʾān; scientific miracles; faith and reason; Islam and science; prophecy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)

Sacred Music: Creation, Interpretation, Experience

edited by Róisín Blunnie and

Bradford A. Anderson

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2308 | Submission Open

Keywords: sacred music; religious studies; musicology; performance; classical music; vocal music; choral music; religious litera-ture

Computational Approaches to Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts

edited by Jacob P.B. Mortensen

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2202 | Submission Open

Keywords: New Testament; scriptures of Israel; early Christian texts; computational and algorithmic approaches; distant reading; macro analysis; text analysis

The Roles of Religion and Spirituality in Healthcare

edited by Anne Klee, Arielle Rubenstein and Glen Milstein

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 618 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; spirituality; and healthcare; religious faith and medical considerations; health and spirituality

Witness of the Orthodox Church in the Political Context of the Secularized Modern State

edited by Paul Brusanowski and

Cristian-Sebastian Sonea

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4108 | Submission Open

Keywords: Church and state; missiology; Christian witness; Secularization; religious beliefs and practices; ecumenism; nationalisms; identities

No God, No Science? Reassessing the Relationship Between Theology and Modern Science

edited by George M. Coghill and Ximian Xu

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 812 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and science; apologetics; artificial intelligence and religion; history of science; theology

Early Modern Female Mysticism: At the Crossroads of Religion, Medicine, Economics, and the Press

edited by Vittoria Feola and Erin Bell

submission deadline 17 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 635 | Submission Open

Keywords: mysticism; women; early modern; medieval; neurology; saint; Islam; Catholicism; Quakerism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Religion, Theology, and Bioethical Discourses on Marriage and Family

edited by Mirosław Brzezinski

submission deadline 24 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6046 | Submission Open

Keywords: marriage; family; faith; religion; God's design for marriage; sacrament of marriage; sexuality; sexuality; ethics of married life; morality of married life; pastoral care of families.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Innovative Approaches to Religious Pluralism: Integrating Law, Policies and Practice

edited by Eugenia Relaño Pastor and

Kyriaki Topidi

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2289 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious pluralism; governance of diversity; secularism and state neutrality; legal recognition of religious minorities; equality; freedom of religion or belief (FoRB)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)

Clashing Civilizations and Civilizational Identities in Populist Discourses

edited by

Ihsan Yilmaz

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 57844 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Religion, Culture and Spirituality in a Digital World

edited by

Víctor Manuel Pérez Martínez

, Miguel Ángel Motis Dolader and Carmen Herrando Cugota

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6223 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious mediatisation; communication and faith; religious culture; cyberphilosophy; cybertheology; digital religion; online religious practices; media influence on spirituality; virtual religious communities; theology and artificial intelligence

Daoist Inner Alchemy Atlas: Practice and Related Medicine, Thunder Rites and Iconology

edited by Wenhua Shen,

Yuhao Wu

and

Lu Zhang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6104 | Submission Open

Keywords: inner alchemy; daoist medicine; thunder rites; iconology

The Hebrew Bible: A Journey Through History and Literature

edited by Pierfrancesco Cocco

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6074 | Submission Open

Keywords: Hebrew Bible; ancient history; literary criticism; biblical theology; biblical narratives; biblical archaeology; biblical poetry; cultural studies; near eastern literature

Casta Meretrix: The Paradox of the Christian Church Through History

edited by

Jonathan Farrugia

and

Nicholas Doublet

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5135 | Submission Open

Keywords: christianity; ecumenical councils; apostolic succession; monasticism; constantinian shift; great schism; reformation; canon law; nicene creed; sacraments; orthodoxy; heresiology; iconoclasm; mysticism; missionary movements; church-state relations; crusades

Classical Arabic Texts and the Pre-Modern Islamic Rhetorical Tradition: Rethinking the Qur’an and Early Arabic Poetry as Cultural Foundations

edited by

Ali Ahmad Hussein

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4360 | Submission Open

Keywords: Qur’ an; pre-Islamic poetry; Umayyad poetry; classical Arabic poetry; Qur’ anic rhetoric; rhetoric of pre-and early Islamic poetry; Arabic cultural heritage; comparative literary analysis; classical Arabic lexicon; interrelationship between Qur’ anic and classical literary texts

Functions of Religion Among Young People: Diverse Religious, Spiritual and Non-Religious Worldviews

edited by Eduardo Duque,

José Francisco Durán Vázquez

and Francis Davis

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3633 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; youth; belief; unbelief; spirituality; plurality; generations

Faith and Education: Contemporary and Global Issues in Historical Perspective

edited by

Stephen G. Parker

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2838 | Submission Open

Keywords: faith schools; religious education; theology of education; history of education; church and state; collective worship

Pilgrimages of Repair: Journeys to Return, Rebuild and Restore

edited by Heather Warfield

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2068 | Submission Open

Keywords: repair; pilgrimages; multidisciplinary; sacred sites

Revisiting Islamic Ethics: Shifting Epistemologies and Boundaries

edited by

Etin Anwar

and Syed A. H. Zaidi

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1576 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islamic ethics; epistemological shifts; innovative Islamic ethical thoughts; Islam and AI ethics; Global citizenship; social justice; and plurality; co-existence; human dignity; renewal in Islamic ethics; ethics of modesty; identity; body politics; applied Islamic ethics; decolonizing Islamic ethics

Temple Art, Architecture and Theatre

edited by

Xiaohuan Zhao

, Duanfang Lu and Qing Chang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 816 | Submission Open

Keywords: temple; art; architecture; theatre

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Faith in Action: Exploring the Intersection of Religion and Social Justice

edited by Nicole Johnson and Dean Johnson

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 774 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; faith; social action; social justice; peace; social change; nonviolence; faith-based activism; inter-faith; vocation/calling/purpose

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)

Religion and the Book in Medieval Europe: Between Manuscripts and Print

edited by

Lucie Doležalová

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 465 | Submission Open

Keywords: manuscripts; scribes; early print; bible; sermons; devotional literature; catechism; religious reform; polemic; media transformation

New Images of God in Contemporary Physics, Quantum Metaphysics, and Theism: Quantum God, Emptiness, Consciousness, and Energy

edited by

Paolo Di Sia

and Pierfrancesco Stagi

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 412 | Submission Open

Keywords: (quantum) God; (quantum) vacuum; modern/contemporary physics; (quantum) metaphysics; theism; mind and matter; mindfulness and consciousness; synchronicity; holism; eastern religions

Transformations in East Asia Religious Diversity: Technology, Hybridity, Equality

edited by

Francis Khek Gee Lim

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 394 | Submission Open

Keywords: pluralism; social inequalities; technology

Humans, Science, and Faith

edited by

John A. Bloom

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 386 | Submission Open

Keywords: science; religion; Christianity; artificial intelligence; human dignity; human flourishing; Darwinism; abortion; euthanasia; anthropic principle

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Reconciling Religion and Remains—Faith and Biblical Archaeology

edited by Mark D. Janzen, Kyle H. Keimer and Chris McKinny

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 363 | Submission Open

Keywords: biblical archaeology; biblical criticism; fundamentalism; positivism; worldview; apologetics; funding sources; history of research; nomenclature

Classical and Alternative Conceptions of the Divine in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion

edited by

Jacek Wojtysiak

and

Miłosz Hołda

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 217 | Submission Open

Keywords: philosophy of religion; classical and non-classical [alternative] concepts of God; classical theism; pantehism; panenthiesm; polytheism; religious naturalism

Exploring Eco-Spirituality: Intersections of Faith, Nature, and Ethics

edited by

Peter Ellard

and Ryan Patrick McLaughlin

submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 984 | Submission Open

Keywords: eco-spirituality; environmental ethics; theological perspectives on nature; climate change and religion; indigenous spiritual practices; ecotheology; sustainability and faith; interfaith environmental activism; sacredness of nature; religious responses to ecological crises

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Dreaming a Better World: Aristotelians, Marxists, & Christians in Dialogue & Action for Social Equilibrium and Peace

edited by Jeffery Nicholas

submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 207 | Submission Open

Keywords: change (the world); dialogue; marx; Marxists; Aristotle; Aristotelians; common good; justice

Catholic Propaganda on the Frontiers: Evangelizing Pagans, Protestants, and Non-Believers in the 16th and 17th Centuries

edited by Manuel Mendez Alonzo and Gregor Pobežin

submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 217 | Submission Open

Keywords: Catholic mission; comparative missionary endeavors; global religion; paganism and heresies; cultural adaptation

Forced Migration and the Bible: Displacement, Statelessness, and Resiliency in Sacred Texts

edited by Roberto Mata

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 991 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate migration; trauma; borderlands; statelessness; neocolonialism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Renewal, Innovation, and Transformation: The Changing Face of Judaism in Modern Times

edited by

Yaakov Ariel

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 16936 | Submission Open

Catholic Social Thought in the Era of the Un-Common Good

edited by James P. O’Sullivan

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1536 | Submission Open

Keywords: Catholic social teaching; solidarity; subsidiarity; human rights; common good; preferential options for the poor and marginalized; integral human development; sustainability; nuclear disarmament; nationalism

Digital Religion in the Age of the Metaverse

edited by

Vincenzo Pace

and

Alessandra Vitullo

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 743 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital religion; metaverse; internet; sociology; online communication; digital humanities

Religion and Creativity

edited by

Christopher Hartney

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 729 | Submission Open

Keywords: creativity; sacred creativity; play; invention; innovation; blasphemy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Thresholds of Reality: Exploring the In-Between in Indian Thought

edited by Gergana Ruseva and Milena Bratoeva

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 341 | Submission Open

Keywords: myth; ritual; Brahmanism; Hinduism; Buddhism; liminal spaces and level of existence; transformation; dream; death; rebirth

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

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