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Special Issues

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

• Muslim Da ’Wah and Christian Mission. New Perspectives in the Global Interfaith Context (Deadline: 30 May 2026)
• Worship in the 16th-Century Reformation: Theology and Practice (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Daoist Inner Alchemy Atlas: Practice and Related Medicine, Thunder Rites and Iconology (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Religion and Migration in the Middle Ages (c.1100–c.1500): From a Religious Perspective, Redefining the Boundaries of Community and Identity (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Religion and Eco-Anxiety: Pastoral and Ethical Perspectives (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
• Studies on Religious Rituals and Practices (Deadline: 1 June 2026)
• The Roles of Religion and Spirituality in Healthcare (Deadline: 1 June 2026)
• No God, No Science? Reassessing the Relationship Between Theology and Modern Science (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)
• Science, Religion, and Health—Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Flourishing (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)
• Reimagining Jewish-Muslim Relations After October 7th (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)
• Words and Images Serving Christianity (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• The Eucharist as the Bread of Life: Phenomenological and Existential Explorations (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
• Divine Creativity and Participatory Cosmologies: Theological Perspectives on Science, Technology, and the Future of Humanity (Deadline: 1 July 2026)
• Constructive Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pauline Theology (Deadline: 1 July 2026)
• Piety and Ethical Foundations in Islamic Moral Economy (Deadline: 10 July 2026)
• Science and Religion: Natural Theology in the Contemporary Context (Deadline: 10 July 2026)
• Reformed Theology in Dialogue: Faith, Culture, and Everyday Practice (Deadline: 15 July 2026)
• Modern Jewish Thought and Philosophy (Deadline: 15 July 2026)
• Religion and Economy in a Global Era: New Articulation After Secularization (Deadline: 17 July 2026)
• Hinduism: Belief and Practices Within the Family (Deadline: 20 July 2026)
• Life-and-Death Education at the Intersection of Public Theological and Secular Sciences (Deadline: 30 July 2026)
• Sanctity in the Medieval Muslim West: Questions of Genre, Cultural and Religious Identity (Deadline: 30 July 2026)
• Change from the Ground Up: Buddhism and Other East Asian Religions at the Grassroots (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
• Texts, Language, and Style in Biblical Literature, the Semitic Literatures of the Ancient Near East, and Post-Biblical Literature (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
• Religion and Culture: Post-Christianity, Culture, Democracy, and Great Power Relations (Deadline: 31 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)
• 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)
• Divine Warfare, Heresy and Witchcraft: Connecting Witch Trials and Religious Persecutions in the Premodern World (to 1900) (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
• Religious Extremism in a Global Context: Analyzing the Rise and Impact of Movements (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
• Explorations into Yan Zun’s Edition and Commentary to the Daodejing: Laozi Zhigui (Deadline: 31 August 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)
• The Nature of Religion in Ancient Egypt (Deadline: 1 September 2026)
• Science, Technology, and Religious Belief: A Dialectical Discussion (Deadline: 15 September 2026)
• Sacred Algorithms: Religion in the Digital Age (Deadline: 30 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)
• Anthropology and Religion: Rethinking Identity in a Fragmented Cultural Landscape (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• The Science of Preaching (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
• Ecclesiological Legacy of the Second Vatican Council in Light of Contemporary Challenges (Deadline: 1 October 2026)
• Christian and Muslim Communities and Interactions in the Balkans and Eastern Europe (Deadline: 1 October 2026)
• Religious Identity and Solidarity in Sociological Theory (Deadline: 16 October 2026)
• Hebrew Bible in the Ancient Near Eastern Context (Deadline: 30 October 2026)
• New Religious Movements in Historical and Political Contexts: Interactions, Conflicts, and Identities (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
• Practice of Religious Media in the Twenty-First Century (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
• The Intangible into the Perceptible: Ethereal Aspects of Religious Spaces and Their Theological Foundations (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
• Reimagining Protestant Theology: The Asian Experience and Christian Tradition (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
• Holy Cities in the 21st Century: Images, Identities, and Networks (Deadline: 1 November 2026)
• Out of Religion: Leaving Faith as a Form of Migration (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Oral Narrative Traditions and Performances in Islamicate Societies (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Governance and Management of Religious Diversity in the Face of the Challenges of European Pluralism (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Comparative Thinking on Islam in a Global Age (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Textual Embodiment: Ritual Praxis and Scriptural Hermeneutics in Hindu Traditions (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• God, Logic and Language (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Jewish Ethics: Foundations, Developments, and Contemporary Challenges (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Religion and the State: Secularism, Identity, and the Politics of Exclusion (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• An Enduring Legacy: The Theology of Thomas Aquinas in Dialogue with the Contemporary Age (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Language and Religion: Multilingual Perspectives on Contemporary Theolinguistics (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• New Images of God in Contemporary Physics, Quantum Metaphysics, and Theism: Quantum God, Emptiness, Consciousness, and Energy (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• Theological and Ethical Reflections on Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
• From World Catholicism to the Emergence of Global Catholicism, 1800–2025: Encounters and Transformations (Deadline: 10 December 2026)
• Chinese Christianity and Knowledge Development—2nd Edition (Deadline: 12 December 2026)
• Blessed and Bounded: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Rise of Nationalism (Deadline: 14 December 2026)
• Bible Translation and Biblical Hermeneutics (Deadline: 15 December 2026)
• Social Dimensions of Religion in the Age of De-Globalization (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Nationalism and Anti-Nationalism Within African Political Theology (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• New Testament Studies—Current Trends and Criticisms—2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Indigenous Conversion(s) to Islam: Causes, Processes, and Consequences (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Religion in 20th- and 21st-Century Fictional Narratives (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Religion, Marriage, and Family: Elements of Human Flourishing (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Chinese Religious Cultures: Historical Traditions and Modern Interpretations—2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
• Media in Religious Education (Deadline: 15 January 2027)
• Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, Scientific, and Beyond—Second Edition (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
• Heresies, Heterodoxies, and Process–Relational Theologies (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
• Religion, Industrial Design, and Public Space (Deadline: 15 April 2027)
• Religious Communities and Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 30 April 2027)
• Chatbots, LLMs, and Religion: Human Flourishing in an AI Age (Deadline: 31 May 2027)
• Women in Islam: Spirituality, Mysticism and the Occult (Deadline: 1 June 2027)