Religions and Humanities/Philosophies

Special Issues

Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:

• Materiality and Gender Constructs in Hagiography: Saints and Sacred Space (Deadline: 14 July 2025)
• Between Philosophy and Theology: Liminal and Contested Issues (Deadline: 15 July 2025)
• Old Texts, New Insights: Exploring Buddhist Manuscripts (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• Religion, Mobility, and Transnational History (Deadline: 1 August 2025)
• Traditional and Civil Religions: Theory and Political Practice (Deadline: 15 August 2025)
• Church, Clergy, and Authority: An Exploration of Medieval Religious Life and Culture (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
• Exploring Free Will in Faith Traditions in Conversation with Contemporary Challenges (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
• Mysticism and Nature (Deadline: 25 September 2025)
• Peccata Lectionis (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Divine Narratives: Exploring the Intersection of Poetry, Myth, and the Spiritual in Literature and Theatre (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Psychedelics and Religion (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Continental Philosophy and Catholic Theology (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Experience and Non-Objects: Towards a Phenomenology of Indiscernibility (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• New Work on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• The Modern Reception and Interpretation of Daoism in East Asia and the West: A Comparative Perspective (19th–21st Centuries) (Deadline: 1 October 2025)
• Embellishing Belief: Sacred Objects and Spaces in Premodern East Asia and Southeast Asia (Deadline: 20 October 2025)
• Monastic Lives and Buddhist Textual Traditions in China and Beyond (Deadline: 30 October 2025)
• Philosophical Theology, Doctrine, and the Theological Virtues (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
• Religious Transmission Across Generations: Challenges, Continuities, and Changes (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
• Divine Inspirations: Exploring Religious Themes in Female Visionary Writing of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Deadline: 15 November 2025)
• Early Modern Female Mysticism: At the Crossroads of Religion, Medicine, Economics, and the Press (Deadline: 17 November 2025)
• Religion, Theology, and Bioethical Discourses on Marriage and Family (Deadline: 24 November 2025)
• Temple Art, Architecture and Theatre (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Humans, Science, and Faith (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Clashing Civilizations and Civilizational Identities in Populist Discourses (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Through the Lens of a Realist Metaphysics: Gender and the Catholic Church (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Exploring Eco-Spirituality: Intersections of Faith, Nature, and Ethics (Deadline: 1 December 2025)
• Forced Migration and the Bible: Displacement, Statelessness, and Resiliency in Sacred Texts (Deadline: 14 December 2025)
• Thomas Aquinas and the Philosophy of Religion (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
• The Interplay Between Narrative, Ritual, and Religiosity in East Asian Literary and Cultural Traditions (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
• Religion and Creativity (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
• Thresholds of Reality: Exploring the In-Between in Indian Thought (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
• The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious Traditions in Dialogue (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Advancing the Study of Religion and International Relations: Thirty Years After Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" (1993, 1996)—A Critical Evaluation and Appraisal of the Current State of Art (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Sacred Landscapes and Social Reform in Medieval Europe (Deadline: 15 January 2026)
• Communication in Abrahamic Religions (Deadline: 15 January 2026)
• Mysticism and Ethics: Bridging Transcendence and Action in Religious Experience (Deadline: 15 January 2026)
• Religion, Superstition, and Philosophy in Ancient Rome (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Intellectual Crossroads: Religion, Knowledge, and Science in the Early Modern World (Deadline: 2 February 2026)
• Reframing Vodun: Imagery, Practice, and Performance (Deadline: 13 March 2026)
• Landscape (山水) as Transcendent Existence (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Preserving the Master’s Word: Rituals and Protective Accessories for Sacred Scriptures in the Himalayan Culture (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Perspectives in Contemporary Catholic Philosophy: Ethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Metaphysics (Deadline: 1 June 2026)
• Languages and Buddhist Texts: Translation, Transmission, and Interpretation Across Traditions (Deadline: 1 June 2026)