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Special Issues

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

• Theology and Anthropology: A Critical Discussion (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Divine Encounters: Exploring Religious Themes in Literature (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• The Diversity and Harmony of Taoism: Ideas, Behaviors and Influences (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Chinese Religious Cultures: Historical Traditions and Modern Interpretations (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• “Searching for a Better Life with My Community”: Migratory Trends in Religious-Based Social Net-Works (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• The Multiple Images and Forms of Classical Confucian and Daoist Ethics for Living (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Explorations into Yan Zun’s Edition and Commentary to the Daodejing: Laozi Zhigui (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Christian Monasticism Today: A Search for Identity (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Viktor Frankl and the Future of Religion (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Breath of Life: Black Spirituality in Everyday Life (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• On the Font: Human Nature Seen Through Baptism and the Baptismal Font (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Europe, Religion and Secularization: Trends, Paradoxes and Dilemmas (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Disseminating Christian Beliefs Through Word and Image in Medieval and Renaissance Times (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Kant’s Critique of Rational Theology and His Project of Moral Religion (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Science and Religion: Natural Theology in the Contemporary Context (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Folk Religion in the Ancient Levant and Mediterranean (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Religion in 20th- and 21st-Century Fictional Narratives (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Indigenous Conversion(s) to Islam: Causes, Processes, and Consequences (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Multilingualism, Translation, and Religion in the Premodern Islamic World(s): Texts, Contexts, and Crossroads (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Nationalisms and Religious Identities—2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Reimagining Protestant Theology: The Asian Experience and Christian Tradition (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• The Intangible into the Perceptible: Ethereal Aspects of Religious Spaces and Their Theological Foundations (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Diasporic Hybridity: How It Impacts Religious Identity and Practice in Today’s Pluralistic World (Deadline: 5 January 2026)
• Religion and Politics: Ritual, Performativity, and (Political) Theatre in Comparative-Historical and International Perspective (Deadline: 15 January 2026)
• Divine Creativity and Participatory Cosmologies: Theological Perspectives on Science, Technology, and the Future of Humanity (Deadline: 15 January 2026)
• Catholic Social Thought in the Era of the Un-Common Good (Deadline: 15 January 2026)
• Seeking Truth and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion and Philosophy (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Religious Symbols and Fashion: Identification, Representation and Regulation in Dress (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• The Politics of Digital Religiosities (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Spirituality, Culture, and Sustainability: Integrating Cultural Sensitivity into Responsible Religious Tourism (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Words and Images Serving Christianity (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Religious Extremism in a Global Context: Analyzing the Rise and Impact of Movements (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Anthropology and Religion: Rethinking Identity in a Fragmented Cultural Landscape (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Buddhist Art Along the Silk Road and Its Cross-Cultural Interaction (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Worship in the 16th-Century Reformation: Theology and Practice (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Healing the Earth: Spirituality and Planetary Health (Deadline: 1 February 2026)
• The Legacy of the Nation of Islam: African American Muslim Identity and Religious Community Formation (Deadline: 15 February 2026)
• History of Evangelization: Encounters and Disencounters During the Modern Age (16th–19th Centuries) (Deadline: 20 February 2026)
• Pilgrimage: Diversity, Past and Present of Sacred Routes (Deadline: 28 February 2026)
• Religion and Migration in the Middle Ages (c.1100–c.1500): From a Religious Perspective, Redefining the Boundaries of Community and Identity (Deadline: 28 February 2026)
• New Testament Studies—Current Trends and Criticisms—2nd Edition (Deadline: 28 February 2026)
• Religion and Culture: Post-Christianity, Culture, Democracy, and Great Power Relations (Deadline: 1 March 2026)
• Latin American Theology of Liberation in the 21st Century—2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 March 2026)
• Critical Issues in Christian Ethics (Deadline: 23 March 2026)
• The Encounter of Colonialism and Indian Religious Traditions (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• The History of the Arabian Peninsula in the Early Islamic Centuries (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Religion and Craft Production in Iron Age Cis- and Transjordan (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Classical and Alternative Conceptions of the Divine in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Social Dimensions of Religion in the Age of De-Globalization (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Sacred Algorithms: Religion in the Digital Age (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Social Factors in Religions Converting: Focusing on the Social Group Disparities (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Treasures of Khotan: Multidisciplinary Studies on Khotan as a Hub for Religious and Cultural Exchanges (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Origins and Development of the Pure Land Tradition Through the Lens of Sacred Site Transference (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Forgiveness, Mercy & Reconciliation: Theological Insights from Pope Francis to Pope Leo XIV (Deadline: 1 April 2026)
• Systematic Theology as a Catalyst for Renewal in Catholic Education (Deadline: 10 April 2026)
• Witness of the Orthodox Church in the Political Context of the Secularized Modern State (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
• Religious Communities and Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
• God, Logic and Language (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
• Magic, Religion, and Mysticism: Occult Traditions in Europe from Late Antiquity Through the Early Modern Period (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
• An Enduring Legacy: The Theology of Thomas Aquinas in Dialogue with the Contemporary Age (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
• Religion and the State: Secularism, Identity, and the Politics of Exclusion (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
• New Religious Movements in Historical and Political Contexts: Interactions, Conflicts, and Identities (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
• Life-and-Death Education at the Intersection of Public Theological and Secular Sciences (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
• Texts, Language, and Style in Biblical Literature, the Semitic Literatures of the Ancient Near East, and Post-Biblical Literature (Deadline: 1 May 2026)
• Sacred Harmony: Music and Spiritual Transformation (Deadline: 15 May 2026)
• Religion and Economy in a Global Era: New Articulation After Secularization (Deadline: 17 May 2026)
• Muslim Da ’Wah and Christian Mission. New Perspectives in the Global Interfaith Context (Deadline: 30 May 2026)
• Daoist Inner Alchemy Atlas: Practice and Related Medicine, Thunder Rites and Iconology (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, Scientific, and Beyond—Second Edition (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Jewish Ethics: Foundations, Developments, and Contemporary Challenges (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Heresies, Heterodoxies, and Process–Relational Theologies (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Religion and Eco-Anxiety: Pastoral and Ethical Perspectives (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Theological and Ethical Reflections on Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Reformed Theology in Dialogue: Faith, Culture, and Everyday Practice (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• No God, No Science? Reassessing the Relationship Between Theology and Modern Science (Deadline: 1 June 2026)
• The Roles of Religion and Spirituality in Healthcare (Deadline: 1 June 2026)
• The Influence of Religion on the American Founding and Revolution: In Celebration of the Semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence (Deadline: 1 June 2026)
• Holy Cities in the 21st Century: Images, Identities, and Networks (Deadline: 1 June 2026)
• Studies on Religious Rituals and Practices (Deadline: 1 June 2026)
• The Eucharist as the Bread of Life: Phenomenological and Existential Explorations (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• New Perspectives on East Asian Buddhist Architecture (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Evolving and Flourishing in an Age of Disruption: The Role of Spirituality in Realignment and Transformation (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Comparative Thinking on Islam in a Global Age (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Transformations in Daoist Ritual Texts and Other Daoist Literature Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties—2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Science, Religion, and Health—Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Flourishing (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Reimagining Jewish-Muslim Relations After October 7th (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Constructive Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pauline Theology (Deadline: 1 July 2026)
• Piety and Ethical Foundations in Islamic Moral Economy (Deadline: 10 July 2026)
• Modern Jewish Thought and Philosophy (Deadline: 15 July 2026)
• Sanctity in the Medieval Muslim West: Questions of Genre, Cultural and Religious Identity (Deadline: 30 July 2026)
• Embodiment, Sport and Spiritual Traditions (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
• Wisdom Traditions, Religion, and the Global Era (Deadline: 1 August 2026)
• Science and Christian Theology: Past, Present, and Future (Deadline: 10 August 2026)
• Divine Warfare, Heresy and Witchcraft: Connecting Witch Trials and Religious Persecutions in the Premodern World (to 1900) (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
• Catholic Propaganda on the Frontiers: Evangelizing Pagans, Protestants, and Non-Believers in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
• Youth Ministry, Youth Work, and the Role Religion Plays in the Lives of Today’s Youth (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
• Textual Embodiment: Ritual Praxis and Scriptural Hermeneutics in Hindu Traditions (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
• The Nature of Religion in Ancient Egypt (Deadline: 1 September 2026)
• Religion and Violence in South Asia (Deadline: 1 September 2026)
• Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts (Deadline: 1 September 2026)
• Engaged Spiritualities: Theories, Practices, and Future Directions (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Modernity and Its Discontents: Religion, Social Life, and the Politics of Diversity Culture Wars in a Global Perspective (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Christian and Muslim Communities and Interactions in the Balkans and Eastern Europe (Deadline: 1 October 2026)
• Ecclesiological Legacy of the Second Vatican Council in Light of Contemporary Challenges (Deadline: 1 October 2026)
• Hebrew Bible in the Ancient Near Eastern Context (Deadline: 30 October 2026)
• Practice of Religious Media in the Twenty-First Century (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
• New Images of God in Contemporary Physics, Quantum Metaphysics, and Theism: Quantum God, Emptiness, Consciousness, and Energy (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Language and Religion: Multilingual Perspectives on Contemporary Theolinguistics (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Out of Religion: Leaving Faith as a Form of Migration (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• From World Catholicism to the Emergence of Global Catholicism, 1800–2025: Encounters and Transformations (Deadline: 10 December 2026)
• Religion, Marriage, and Family: Elements of Human Flourishing (Deadline: 31 December 2026)