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Special Issues

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

• The Diversity and Harmony of Taoism: Ideas, Behaviors and Influences (Deadline: 1 July 2025)
• Religion and Immigrants in Western Europe (Deadline: 1 July 2025)
• Religion and the Modern Government: Is Neutrality Still an Option? (Deadline: 15 July 2025)
• Witness of the Orthodox Church in the Political Context of the Secularized Modern State (Deadline: 15 July 2025)
• Biblical Interpretation: Literary Cues and Thematic Developments (Deadline: 15 July 2025)
• Pilgrimages of Repair: Journeys to Return, Rebuild and Restore (Deadline: 25 July 2025)
• Shaping Sacred Knowledge: The Transmission and Legacy of the Chinese Buddhist Canon (Deadline: 30 July 2025)
• Digital Religion in the Age of the Metaverse (Deadline: 30 July 2025)
• Situating Religious Cognition (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• Devotion Practice and Performative Expression in the Religious Art of Medieval Europe (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• Systematic Theology and Social Ethics: On the Unity of Theory and Praxis (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• Consciousness between Science and Religion (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• ‘On the Lapsed’: Comparative Ethnographic Perspectives on ‘Lapsing’ among Christians around the World (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• The Multiple Images and Forms of Classical Confucian and Daoist Ethics for Living (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• Pilgrimage: Diversity, Past and Present of Sacred Routes (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• Spirituality, Culture, and Sustainability: Integrating Cultural Sensitivity into Responsible Religious Tourism (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• Accommodating the Other: Negotiating Christianity, Indigenous Practices, and Colonialism in the Jesuit Reductions (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• The Involvement of Religion in Modern States' Political and Government Systems (Deadline: 15 August 2025)
• Theology and Disability: Inclusion in Religious Communities (Deadline: 15 August 2025)
• The Challenge of Syncretism in Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism (Deadline: 30 August 2025)
• The Energy God and Other Alternatives to the Theistic View of God and Spirituality (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
• Cancer and Theology: Personal and Pastoral Perspectives (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
• The Encounter of Colonialism and Indian Religious Traditions (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
• Islam and Citizenship: Intersecting Experiences among Migrants and Their Descendants in Europe (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
• “Searching for a Better Life with My Community”: Migratory Trends in Religious-Based Social Net-Works (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
• Religious Communities and Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
• The Microcosm Holds Mountains and Seas: The Sinicization of Buddhism in ‘Multi-Layered Contextualization’ from Local to Global History (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
• Seeking Truth and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion and Philosophy (Deadline: 1 September 2025)
• Saintly Voices: Sounding the Supernatural in Medieval Hagiography (Deadline: 1 September 2025)
• Divine Creativity and Participatory Cosmologies: Theological Perspectives on Science, Technology, and the Future of Humanity (Deadline: 1 September 2025)
• Sacred Music: Creation, Interpretation, Experience (Deadline: 1 September 2025)
• Bible and Liturgy in Dialogue (Deadline: 15 September 2025)
• Re-Thinking Religious Traditions and Practices of Korea (Deadline: 20 September 2025)
• Sacred Experience and Aesthetic Connections in Religious Festivals (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Heavens and Grottos: New Explorations in Daoist Cosmography (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Religion and Indigenous Traditions (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Reconciling Religion and Remains—Faith and Biblical Archaeology (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Engaged Spiritualities: Theories, Practices, and Future Directions (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Women and Religion in the Medieval and Early Modern World (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Buddhism and Medicine from an Interdisciplinary and Global Historical Perspective (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Existential Health, Religion and Youth in a Global Perspectives (Deadline: 1 October 2025)
• Europe, Religion and Secularization: Trends, Paradoxes and Dilemmas (Deadline: 1 October 2025)
• The Qur’an and Ethics: Methodology of Studying Qur’anic Morality (Deadline: 1 October 2025)
• Systematic Theology as a Catalyst for Renewal in Catholic Education (Deadline: 10 October 2025)
• Bible Translation and Biblical Hermeneutics: Exploring the Nexus of Language and Interpretation (Deadline: 30 October 2025)
• God, Logic and Language (Deadline: 30 October 2025)
• The Question of “Theodicy” in Contemporary Society: The Imagery of (after) Death in Religion and New Forms of Spirituality (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
• Transitions of Islam and Democracy: Thinking Political Theology (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
• Himalayan Ecospiritual Knowledges and Ethics of Sustainability in the Anthropocene (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
• Arts, Spirituality, and Religion (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
• Practice of Religious Media in the Twenty-First Century Century (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
• Interreligious Dialogue: Validity and Sustainability (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
• Chinese Christianity and Knowledge Development (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
• Computational Approaches to Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts (Deadline: 1 November 2025)
• The Roles of Religion and Spirituality in Healthcare (Deadline: 1 November 2025)
• No God, No Science? Reassessing the Relationship Between Theology and Modern Science (Deadline: 15 November 2025)
• Faith and Education: Contemporary and Global Issues in Historical Perspective (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Functions of Religion Among Young People: Diverse Religious, Spiritual and Non-Religious Worldviews (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Casta Meretrix: The Paradox of the Christian Church Through History (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• New Images of God in Contemporary Physics, Quantum Metaphysics, and Theism: Quantum God, Emptiness, Consciousness, and Energy (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Daoist Inner Alchemy Atlas: Practice and Related Medicine, Thunder Rites and Iconology (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Religion and the Book in Medieval Europe: Between Manuscripts and Print (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Classical and Alternative Conceptions of the Divine in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Revisiting Islamic Ethics: Shifting Epistemologies and Boundaries (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
• Dreaming a Better World: Aristotelians, Marxists, & Christians in Dialogue & Action for Social Equilibrium and Peace (Deadline: 1 December 2025)
• Catholic Propaganda on the Frontiers: Evangelizing Pagans, Protestants, and Non-Believers in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Deadline: 5 December 2025)
• Renewal, Innovation, and Transformation: The Changing Face of Judaism in Modern Times (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
• Sacred Space and Contemporary Art (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
• Catholic Social Thought in the Era of the Un-Common Good (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
• Theology and Anthropology: A Critical Discussion (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Divine Encounters: Exploring Religious Themes in Literature (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
• Chinese Religious Cultures: Historical Traditions and Modern Interpretations (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)
• 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)
• The Eucharist as the Bread of Life: Phenomenological and Existential Explorations (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)
• Religion and Craft Production in Iron Age Cis- and Transjordan (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)
• Language and Religion: Multilingual Perspectives on Contemporary Theolinguistics (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)
• Piety and Ethical Foundations in Islamic Moral Economy (Deadline: 20 January 2026)
• Science and Christian Theology: Past, Present, and Future (Deadline: 30 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)
• 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)
• Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, Scientific, and Beyond—Second Edition (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Buddhist Art Along the Silk Road and Its Cross-Cultural Interaction (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
• Healing the Earth: Spirituality and Planetary Health (Deadline: 1 February 2026)
• History of Evangelization: Encounters and Disencounters During the Modern Age (16th–19th Centuries) (Deadline: 20 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)
• Critical Issues in Christian Ethics (Deadline: 23 March 2026)
• Divine Warfare, Heresy and Witchcraft: Connecting Witch Trials and Religious Persecutions in the Premodern World (to 1900) (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• The History of the Arabian Peninsula in the Early Islamic Centuries (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Social Dimensions of Religion in the Age of De-Globalization (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
• Magic, Religion, and Mysticism: Occult Traditions in Europe from Late Antiquity Through the Early Modern Period (Deadline: 30 April 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)
• New Perspectives on East Asian Buddhist Architecture (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Evolving and Flourishing in an Age of Disruption: The Role of Spirituality in Rea-Lignment and Transformation (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Constructive Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pauline Theology (Deadline: 1 July 2026)
• Sanctity in the Medieval Muslim West: Questions of Genre, Cultural and Religious Identity (Deadline: 30 July 2026)
• Wisdom Traditions, Religion, and the Global Era (Deadline: 1 August 2026)
• Christian and Muslim Communities and Interactions in the Balkans and Eastern Europe (Deadline: 1 October 2026)