Editorial Board
- Religions and Theologies Section
- Religions and Humanities/Philosophies Section
- Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences Section
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
Interests: interdisciplinary dialogue between theology and human sciences, esp. psychology, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis; interdisciplinary anthropology and ethics; religions and their social welfare as well as (social) ethics; theology, history, and spirituality of Caritas; Caritas and Christian social work in its ecclesiological, civil and international contexts
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Interests: mind-body medicine approaches; spirituality and health; quality of life; coping; questionnaire development; integrative medicine; clinical studies; health service research; spiritual dryness; awe
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Interests: religion and politics; political Islam; religious extremism and counter-terrorism
Interests: religion and politics; comparative Asian politics; religious fundamentalism; engaged Buddhism
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Interests: games and social networks; games and religion; media and conspiracy culture; popular culture
Interests: health; religion; family; gender; youth; social welfare
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Interests: the gospels; biblical models of leadership; hermeneutics; Pauline literature; ecclesial leadership
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Interests: clinical psychology; epidemiology; behavioural science; health psychology; psychiatry; aging/gerontology
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Interests: global Christianity; colonialism; British empire; religious conversion; East Africa; evangelicalism; revivalism
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Interests: social sciences; multiculturalism, ethnic and religious segregation; gender and sexuality; Islamism; integration
Interests: William James; Michel Foucault; philosophy of religion; psychology of religion; religion and critical theory; psychoanalysis and religion
Interests: East Asian Buddhism
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Interests: religious studies; religious philosophy; comparative religious studies; ancient Chinese religious philosophy; medieval philosophy; Christian theology and philosophy; Augustine; Mysticism; Neoplatonism
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Interests: East Asian Buddhism; Buddhism and literature; Buddhism and film; Buddhism and science; theories and methods in the study of religion
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Interests: sociology of religion; popular religiosity; religious symbols; qualitative analysis of religion
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Interests: classical Hinduism in the Sanskrit and Tamil traditions; comparative Christian-Hindu theology; Christian missionary encounters with Asia religions
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Interests: Anglophone Protestantism from the Reformation to the nineteenth century, especially Puritanism, Dissent and Evangelicalism; slavery and antislavery
Interests: Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations (Late Antiquity to Early Modern); medieval history; gender and sexuality (Late Antiquity to Early Modern); medieval Islam; history of pre-modern medicine
Interests: world Christianity; global Christianity; history of Christianity; world religions; religion in India; interreligious dialogue; ecumenical movement; ecumenism; history and theology of Christianity; secularization; sociology of religion; ethnography and religion; new religious movements; comparative religion
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Interests: comparative study of Western and Indian culture; secularism; religion in political thought; European accounts of Indian 'religion'
Interests: history of Islam; history of Islamic Thought; Kalam; Islamic Eschatology; Islam-Christian dialogue; Middle Eastern Studies; Islam and Renaissance; Islam and Medieval Europe
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Interests: the history of Islamic theology (kalām); Islam and religious pluralism; Christian-Muslim relations and theological interactions; Christian-Muslim textual sources in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish; Ottoman intellectual history; Islamic manuscripts
Interests: Buddhist philosophy (in particular Sarvāstivāda and Mahāsāṃghika); Buddhist school formation; New Confucianism
Interests: meaning in life; meaning making; existential psychology; old age; chronic pain; religion; spirituality and care
Interests: medieval philosophy and theology; Thomas Aquinas; Anselm; Augustine; analytic philosophy of religion; religious epistemology; Thomas Reid; virtue epistemology; Plantinga; transhumanism; digital immortality; philosophy of history; evolutionary biology and morality
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2. Religious Literacy, VID Specialised University, Oslo, Norway
3. Leadership, Religion & Society, Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Sheffield University, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Interests: faith-based social action & faith communities; religion and belief in the public sphere; religious literacy
Interests: religion and philosophy in modern Japan; Catholic thought and literature in modern Japan; nationalism; Tanaka Kōtarō; Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko
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Interests: South Asian religions; religion and politics; religious extremism; religion and terrorism; religion and material culture (archaeology etc.)
Interests: values in Initial teacher education - (fundamental British values in teacher education and in schools); values and leadership; religious education, spirituality; creative teaching and learning; education in India
Interests: psychology and religion; spirituality; spirituality and health; bioethics; spiritual care