Religions and Humanities/Philosophies

Special Issues

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

• Modern Jewish Identities (Deadline: 1 May 2025)
• Light from the East: The Catholic Eastern Churches Sixty Years After Vatican II (Deadline: 19 May 2025)
• Intellectual Crossroads: Religion, Knowledge, and Science in the Early Modern World (Deadline: 25 May 2025)
• New Work on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
• Religious Transmission Across Generations: Challenges, Continuities, and Changes (Deadline: 31 May 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 May 2025)
• Theological Reflections on Moral Theories (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
• Otherness-Reception and Self-Rediscovery in the Dialogue and Comparative Study of Christianity and Buddhism (Deadline: 10 June 2025)
• Fate in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Religion (Deadline: 15 June 2025)
• Divine and Secular Sovereignty: Interpretations (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
• A Sociological Approach to the Study of the Sanskrit Purānas (Deadline: 1 July 2025)
• Is an Ethics without God Possible? (Deadline: 1 July 2025)
• Forced Migration and the Bible: Displacement, Statelessness, and Resiliency in Sacred Texts (Deadline: 5 July 2025)
• 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)
• Exploring Free Will in Faith Traditions in Conversation with Contemporary Challenges (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
• Embellishing Belief: Sacred Objects and Spaces in Premodern East Asia and Southeast Asia (Deadline: 20 September 2025)
• Mysticism and Nature (Deadline: 25 September 2025)
• Divine Narratives: Exploring the Intersection of Poetry, Myth, and the Spiritual in Literature and Theatre (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)
• Peccata Lectionis (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Psychedelics and 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Humans, Science, and Faith (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Through the Lens of a Realist Metaphysics: Gender and the Catholic Church (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Clashing Civilizations and Civilizational Identities in Populist Discourses (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Exploring Eco-Spirituality: Intersections of Faith, Nature, and Ethics (Deadline: 1 December 2025)
• Religion and Creativity (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
• Thresholds of Reality: Exploring the In-Between in Indian Thought (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
• Mysticism and Ethics: Bridging Transcendence and Action in Religious Experience (Deadline: 15 January 2026)