Religions and Humanities/Philosophies

Special Issues

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

• Continental Philosophy and Catholic Theology (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Philosophical Theology, Doctrine, and the Theological Virtues (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Landscape (山水) as Transcendent Existence (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Spatio-Temporal Plurality in the Connection Between Art and the Sacred in Contemporary Society (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Walking, Wandering, and Journeying: Approaches from Chinese and Greek Thought (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Mendicant Networks and Mobility in the Global Medieval and Early Modern Worlds (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Histories of Islamic Civilizations (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Orthodox Christianity in Sociopolitical Landscapes (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Cross-Religious Encounters in East Asian Thought: Transcendence, Practice, and Shared Intellectual Horizons (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Religion (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Jewish Women Thinkers in the Face of Shoah and Its Aftermath (Deadline: 5 October 2026)
• Religion and Restorative Justice (Deadline: 8 October 2026)
• Divine Infinity: Philosophical and Theological Considerations | Religions (Deadline: 15 October 2026)
• Monastic Lives and Buddhist Textual Traditions in China and Beyond (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
• Preserving the Master’s Word: Rituals and Protective Accessories for Sacred Scriptures in the Himalayan Culture (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
• Divine Algorithms: Religion and Faith in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
• Interpreting Islamic Sacred Texts (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
• The Challenges and Future of Religious Education (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
• Buddhist Prints of the Ancient Northern Silk Road: Text, Religion and the Exchange of Knowledge (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
• The Qur’an as Civilizational Nexus and Hermeneutical Matrix (Deadline: 1 November 2026)
• Living Faith, Shaping Identity: Social and Religious Practices of Minority Communities in Japan (Deadline: 5 November 2026)
• Polemics and Conversion: Setting and Crossing Boundaries in Medieval Jewish–Christian Relations (Deadline: 15 November 2026)
• Religious Architecture in East Asia and the Manifestation of Cultural Identity (Deadline: 15 November 2026)
• Kierkegaard and Faith in a Time of Crisis (Deadline: 15 November 2026)
• Theology and Public Life: Contemporary Perspectives on Public Theology (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Myth and Religion: Research Paths and Perspectives (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Religion and the Senses: Perception, Artifacts, Practices (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Phenomenology and Theology: Methods, Limits and Transformations (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Music as a Ritual Practice in Religious Contexts (Deadline: 1 December 2026)
• Christian Movements, Media and Society in Modern America (Deadline: 1 December 2026)
• The Transfer of Jewish Thought from Prewar Germany to Postwar France (Deadline: 1 December 2026)
• The Teaching of Pope Francis on Marriage (Deadline: 15 December 2026)
• Religion, Law, and Human Rights: Towards Equality and Inclusion (Deadline: 23 December 2026)
• The Sacred and the Secular: Perspectives and Methodologies in Religious Studies (Deadline: 30 December 2026)
• Between Soul and Algorithm: Religion and the Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Religious Nationalism in Contemporary Europe (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Political Secularism, Religious Reform and International Relations (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• The Confluence of Islam and Confucianism: A Paradigm for Civilizational Exchange and Mutual Learning (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Drawing a Roadmap for Research on the History of Christianity in Modern China (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Religionizing Confucianism: Ritual, Transcendence, and Social Formations in East Asia (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Fate and Providence in Ancient Greek Philosophy as a Way of Life and a Religious Quest (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Yijing's Cosmology–Divination–Ethics Continuum: The Sacred Intercourse of Yin-Yang and the Manifestation of Tian-Di (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Buddhist Theories of Mind and Their Contemporary Ethical Implications (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Exploring Anthropology in the History of the Church (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Self-Organized Religious Life: The Jiangnan Region as a Case Study (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• “Favour Is Deceitful, and Beauty Is Vain (Proverbs 31:30)”: Writing the Sacred and the Lure of Aestheticism (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Early Modern Encounters: Religious and Knowledge Exchange in the Global Mission (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Negotiating Law and Ethics in the Rabbinic Tradition (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• The Movement of the Great Dao: Daoism and Its Exchange with Foreign Cultures (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Between Faith and Algorithms: Religion and Religiosity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Arts, Spirituality, and Religion—2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Theological Anthropology and Technological Mediation: AI, Formation, and Human Agency (Deadline: 15 January 2027)
• Faith, Doubt, and the Rationality of Theistic Belief: Analytic and Continental Perspectives (Deadline: 30 January 2027)
• Historical Erasure in the Context of Religion (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
• Religion and Media Cultures in the Digital Public Sphere (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
• Perspectives in Contemporary Catholic Philosophy: Ethics, Epistemology, and Metaphysics (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
• Philosophical Interpretation of Biblical Narratives (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
• The Qur'an in Late Antiquity (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
• Silk Road, Buddhism and Cultural Memory in East Asia (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
• Religious Architecture and Social Dynamics: Adaptive Reuse, Heritage, Visibility, and Digital Transformation of Sacred Space (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
• Moral Sources and Political Limits: Religious Ethics, Humanitarianism, and National Interest (Deadline: 15 February 2027)
• Languages and Buddhist Texts: Translation, Transmission, and Interpretation Across Traditions (Deadline: 28 February 2027)
• The Interplay Between Narrative, Ritual, and Religiosity in East Asian Literary and Cultural Traditions (Deadline: 28 February 2027)
• Body-Mind Relations and Ethical Living of Chinese Buddhism (Deadline: 28 February 2027)
• Jewish Thought in Light of Deleuze and Guattari Studies (Deadline: 28 February 2027)
• Religious and Philosophical Conceptions of Death (Deadline: 28 February 2027)
• Literature and Religion in Dialogue: Continuity and Contestation (Deadline: 28 February 2027)
• Words of Wisdom, Words of Faith (Deadline: 28 February 2027)
• The Glocality of Korean Buddhism: Philological and Cultural–Historical Reinterpretations (Deadline: 28 February 2027)
• Religion in the Clash Between the Modern State World Order and the Postmodern Stateless Global Order (Deadline: 28 February 2027)
• Exploring the Relationship Between Religion and Science from a Historical Perspective (Deadline: 1 March 2027)
• The Bible and Music: Expanding the Discourse (Deadline: 1 March 2027)
• New Work on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion—Part 2 (Deadline: 15 March 2027)
• Between Judaism and Hellenism: The Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire and Its Development in Late Antiquity (Deadline: 15 March 2027)
• Violence, Sacrifice, and the Sacred: Religious Origins and Modern Reflections (Deadline: 15 March 2027)
• Behind the Veil: Gender, Religion, and Power in the 21st Century (Deadline: 20 March 2027)
• Religious Art of the Renaissance (Deadline: 27 March 2027)
• The Buddhist-Christian Dialogue and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations (Deadline: 31 March 2027)
• Media as Sites of Memory: German Religious History and the Culture of Remembrance (Deadline: 31 March 2027)
• Religious Epistemology Across Traditions: Pluralism, Pragmatism and Beyond (Deadline: 31 March 2027)
• Ancient Greek Religion and Philosophy in the Context of Mutual Learning Between Eastern and Western Civilizations (Deadline: 31 March 2027)
• Desecularization of Society and Politics (Deadline: 31 March 2027)
• Gender, Intermediality, Confession—Religious Gender Norms Revisited (Deadline: 31 March 2027)
• Kierkegaard's Legacy in Existential Phenomenology of Religion (Deadline: 31 March 2027)
• Human Dignity in Theory and Practise in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 31 March 2027)
• Science and Religion in the Modern World: Intradisciplinary Perspectives Beyond Dialogue (Deadline: 31 March 2027)
• Negotiating Virtue: Prudent Women in the Bible and Beyond (Deadline: 1 April 2027)
• The Circulation and Localization of Buddhism in Asia: Networks, Adaptation, and Enduring Religious Landscapes (Deadline: 10 April 2027)
• Inscriptions, Tablets, Ostraca, and Scrolls: Exploring the Intersection of Text, History, and the Material Culture Behind the Bible (Deadline: 30 April 2027)
• Ancestral Communities and Global Chinese Religion (Deadline: 30 April 2027)
• Heritage, Memory, and Reconfiguration: Religious Cultural Heritage of the Western Regions and the South China Sea (Deadline: 31 May 2027)
• Reclaiming the Classroom: Radical Thinkers and Religious Education for a Radical Time (Deadline: 31 May 2027)
• The Evolution of Chinese Buddhist Knowledge Systems (Deadline: 30 June 2027)
• Symbolism in the Post-Human Age: Between Tradition and Innovation (Deadline: 30 June 2027)
• Global African and Afrodiasporic Religions, Gender(s), and M/Other Earth (Deadline: 30 June 2027)
• Sacred Sound in the Christian West: Music, Devotion, and Religious Experience Through History (Deadline: 30 June 2027)
• Teaching Christian Doctrine in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era (Deadline: 31 July 2027)
• Practicing Theory with Ancient Religious Literature (Deadline: 1 August 2027)
• Pentecostal Contributions to Public Theology (Deadline: 15 August 2027)
• Theological and Historical Encounters Between Judaism and Christianity (Deadline: 31 August 2027)
• Transnational Buddhist Networks in Early Modern East Asia: Mobility, Materiality, and Inter-Religious Exchanges (Deadline: 30 September 2027)
• The Multidimensional Development of Daoism During the Wei-Jin Dynasties (Deadline: 31 October 2027)
• The Interplay of Religious Theology and Music: Exploring Worship and Expression (Deadline: 31 October 2027)
• The Path, Not the Peak: Rethinking the Liezi Beyond the Laozi and Zhuangzi (Deadline: 31 October 2027)
• Theology in Dialogue with Modern Science (Deadline: 1 November 2027)
• Ecology and the Sacred: Towards a Sacramental Vision of the Cosmos (Deadline: 28 November 2027)