Religions and Humanities/Philosophies

Special Issues

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

• 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)
• Temple Art, Architecture and Theatre (Deadline: 30 January 2026)
• Religious Transmission Across Generations: Challenges, Continuities, and Changes (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• A Sociological Approach to the Study of the Sanskrit Purānas (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Religion, Superstition, and Philosophy in Ancient Rome (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Religion, Mobility, and Transnational History (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Through the Lens of a Realist Metaphysics: Gender and the Catholic Church (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Exploring the Relationship Between Religion and Science from a Historical Perspective (Deadline: 1 February 2026)
• Intellectual Crossroads: Religion, Knowledge, and Science in the Early Modern World (Deadline: 2 February 2026)
• Behind the Veil: Gender, Religion, and Power in the 21st Century (Deadline: 22 February 2026)
• Philosophical Theology, Doctrine, and the Theological Virtues (Deadline: 28 February 2026)
• The Teaching of Pope Francis on Marriage (Deadline: 28 February 2026)
• Reframing Vodun: Imagery, Practice, and Performance (Deadline: 13 March 2026)
• Muslim Cultures of Care and the Fracture of Civil Society (Deadline: 15 March 2026)
• Religion and Film in the 21st Century: Perspectives and Challenges (Deadline: 15 March 2026)
• Religion and Restorative Justice (Deadline: 15 March 2026)
• Body-Mind Relations and Ethical Living in Medieval Chinese Buddhism (Deadline: 30 March 2026)
• Peccata Lectionis (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Revealing the Hidden: Apocryphal Texts and the Shaping of Religious Thought (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Landscape (山水) as Transcendent Existence (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Experience and Non-Objects: The Limits of Intuition (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Continental Philosophy and Catholic Theology (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Monastic Lives and Buddhist Textual Traditions in China and Beyond (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Exploring Free Will in Faith Traditions in Conversation with Contemporary Challenges (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Religious Nationalism in Contemporary Europe (Deadline: 1 April 2026)
• Psychedelics and Religion (Deadline: 1 April 2026)
• Between Soul and Algorithm: Religion and the Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 1 April 2026)
• Divine Inspirations: Exploring Religious Themes in Female Visionary Writing of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Deadline: 15 April 2026)
• Modern Myths and National Narratives: Exploring the Role of Religions in Shaping Cultural Memory (Deadline: 15 April 2026)
• Negotiating Difference: Unity and Diversity in Jewish History from Antiquity to the Present (Deadline: 1 May 2026)
• Spatio-Temporal Plurality in the Connection Between Art and the Sacred in Contemporary Society (Deadline: 1 May 2026)
• Interpretation of Biblical Literature in Translation: A Literary and Theological Perspective (Deadline: 1 May 2026)
• Religious Art of the Renaissance (Deadline: 15 May 2026)
• Jewish Thought in Light of Deleuze and Guattari Studies (Deadline: 20 May 2026)
• Jewish Intellectual Traditions in Eastern Europe and the Baltic Region: Between Tradition, Enlightenment, and Modernity (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Political Secularism, Religious Reform and International Relations (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Religion, Law, and Human Rights: Towards Equality and Inclusion (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)
• Energy and Religion (Deadline: 15 June 2026)
• Living Faith, Shaping Identity: Social and Religious Practices of Minority Communities in Japan (Deadline: 15 June 2026)
• Thresholds of Reality: Exploring the In-Between in Indian Thought (Deadline: 15 June 2026)
• The Evolution of Chinese Buddhist Knowledge Systems (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Buddhist Philosophy: Logic and Epistemology (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Preserving the Master’s Word: Rituals and Protective Accessories for Sacred Scriptures in the Himalayan Culture (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• The Interplay Between Narrative, Ritual, and Religiosity in East Asian Literary and Cultural Traditions (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Exploring Eco-Spirituality: Intersections of Faith, Nature, and Ethics (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Religions in Colonial Korea: Traditions, Reconfigurations, and New Beginnings (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Religionizing Confucianism: Ritual, Transcendence, and Social Formations in East Asia (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• The Sacred and the Secular: Perspectives and Methodologies in Religious Studies (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• The Confluence of Islam and Confucianism: A Paradigm for Civilizational Exchange and Mutual Learning (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Theology and Public Life: Contemporary Perspectives on Public Theology (Deadline: 1 July 2026)
• Materiality and Gender Constructs in Hagiography: Saints and Sacred Space (Deadline: 14 July 2026)
• Religion and Creativity (Deadline: 15 July 2026)
• Drawing a Roadmap for Research on the History of Christianity in Modern China (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
• Early Modern Female Mysticism: At the Crossroads of Religion, Medicine, Economics, and the Press (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
• Religion and Media Cultures in the Digital Public Sphere (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
• Christian Movements, Media and Society in Modern America (Deadline: 1 August 2026)
• Yijing's Cosmology–Divination–Ethics Continuum: The Sacred Intercourse of Yin-Yang and the Manifestation of Tian-Di (Deadline: 15 August 2026)
• Divine Algorithms: Religion and Faith in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
• Music as a Ritual Practice in Religious Contexts (Deadline: 1 September 2026)
• Symbolic Hermeneutics: Interpretations, Imaginaries, and Surpluses of Meaning (Deadline: 1 September 2026)
• Faith, Doubt, and the Rationality of Theistic Belief: Analytic and Continental Perspectives (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Mendicant Networks and Mobility in the Global Medieval and Early Modern Worlds (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Walking, Wandering, and Journeying: Approaches from Chinese and Greek Thought (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Histories of Islamic Civilizations (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Jewish Women Thinkers in the Face of Shoah and Its Aftermath (Deadline: 5 October 2026)
• Polemics and Conversion: Setting and Crossing Boundaries in Medieval Jewish–Christian Relations (Deadline: 15 November 2026)
• Fate and Providence in Ancient Greek Philosophy as a Way of Life and a Religious Quest (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Historical Erasure in the Context of Religion (Deadline: 31 January 2027)