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Traditional and Civil Religions: Theory and Political Practice

edited by Lan T. Chu, Anthony Kammas and

Jeffrey Haynes

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3803 | Submission Open

Keywords: religions; politics; civil religion; ideology; sectarianism; faith communities; civil society; social movements

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

The Involvement of Religion in Modern States' Political and Government Systems

edited by

James T. Richardson

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 281 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and politics; secularism; religious freedom; government policy; international relations; multiculturalism; religious in-fluence; human rights; secular governance; identity

Theology and Disability: Inclusion in Religious Communities

edited by

Mary Jo Iozzio

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 180 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; disability; intersectionality; kinship; the natural world; participation; play/playgrounds; recreation; reverence; rest; sustainability; welcome

The Challenge of Syncretism in Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism

edited by

Marius Nel

and

Mookgo Solomon Kgatle

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 272 | Submission Open

Keywords: syncretism; contextualisation; culture; experiential faith; compromises; ancestor veneration

The Energy God and Other Alternatives to the Theistic View of God and Spirituality

edited by

Roy C. Amore

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7230 | Submission Open

Keywords: mysticism; spirituality; dao; ground of being; brahman; kabbalah; sufism; nirvana; panentheism

Church, Clergy, and Authority: An Exploration of Medieval Religious Life and Culture

edited by Jack Cunningham and Angelo M. Silvestri

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7124 | Submission Open

Keywords: church; authority; community; dissent; culture; clergy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Cancer and Theology: Personal and Pastoral Perspectives

edited by Brian C. Macallan and Ronald T. Michener

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4265 | Submission Open

Keywords: cancer and theology; suffering; disease; hope and cancer; healing

The Microcosm Holds Mountains and Seas: The Sinicization of Buddhism in ‘Multi-Layered Contextualization’ from Local to Global History

edited by

Jinhua Chen

and Ru Zhan

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3497 | Submission Open

Keywords: sinification of Buddhism; localization of Buddhism; globalization of Buddhism; modernization of Buddhism; overseas/diaspora Chinese Buddhism; spread of Buddhism through land and the maritime Silk Road

“Searching for a Better Life with My Community”: Migratory Trends in Religious-Based Social Net-Works

edited by

Jakub Isański

, Jarosław Kozak, Błażej Dyczewski and Malika Ouacha

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2600 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious communities; social integration; parochialism; civil society and religion; migrant diasporas; new media and AI in religion; secularization and religious polarization; religious-based social networks

Religious Communities and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Mónika Andok

Zoltán Szűts

and

Szilvia Dornics

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2576 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious communities; artificial intelligence; AI and religious content creating; AI and religious ceremonies; AI and religious education; religious social shaping of technology; cultured technology

Transdisciplinary Theological Study: Animals, Divinanimality, and Creaturely Theology

edited by Laura Hobgood

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2161 | Submission Open

Keywords: divinanimality; creaturely theology; the animal; human-animal; critical animal; transdisciplinary studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)

Exploring Free Will in Faith Traditions in Conversation with Contemporary Challenges

edited by Nazif Muhtaroglu and Safaruk Chowdhury

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1078 | Submission Open

Keywords: human will; human authonomy; decision-making; accountability; faith traditions; artificial intelligence; neuroscience; cognitive psychology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

The Encounter of Colonialism and Indian Religious Traditions

edited by Enrico Beltramini

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 570 | Submission Open

Keywords: India; religion; colonialism; mission; Christianity; Islam; Hinduism; assimilation; dialogue; practice; theology

Islam and Citizenship: Intersecting Experiences among Migrants and Their Descendants in Europe

edited by

Stefano Allievi

and Andrea Calabretta

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 547 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islam; lived citizenship; migrants’ descendants; Europe; Muslim activism; citizenry; faith

Divine Creativity and Participatory Cosmologies: Theological Perspectives on Science, Technology, and the Future of Humanity

edited by Matthew Segall and Ashton Arnoldy

submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1049 | Submission Open

Keywords: participatory theory; process philosophy; integral theory; sacramental epistemology; relational ontology; pluralism; divine agency; science; technology; spirituality; metamodernism

Saintly Voices: Sounding the Supernatural in Medieval Hagiography

edited by Catherine Saucier

submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 406 | Submission Open

Keywords: hagiography; cult of saints; devotion; supernatural and natural environments; identity; liminality; sensory perception; voice; sound; performance; religious arts

Christian Theologies of Deification

edited by Myk Habets and

Stephen Finlan

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1939 | Submission Open

Keywords: theosis/deification; kenosis; divinization; human character ascent; Jacob’ s ladder; Peter’ s ladder; theosis as salvation; energy vs. essence; pre-Platonic Christianity; ante-Nicene teaching; metaphor; participation vs. ontological change; joint heirship

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)

Religious Changes and Challenges in the Wake of Increasing Global Migration

edited by Anja Zalta and

Primož Krašovec

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1828 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious changes; religious challenges; religious conflicts; secularism; post-secularism; religious policies; state policies; religious plurality; migration; religious literacy; new religious movements; intrareligious and interreligious differences

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)

Bible and Liturgy in Dialogue

edited by Marco Benini

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3687 | Submission Open

Keywords: bible; liturgy; hermeneutics; old/new testament; interpretation; reception; readings; psalms; sacramentality; anamnesis

Re-Thinking Religious Traditions and Practices of Korea

edited by Kevin N. Cawley and David J. Kim

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5570 | Submission Open

Keywords: Korean religion; Confucianism; Buddhism; Shamanism; new religious movements; transculturalism; comparative studies; everyday life; magic and divination

Theological Traditions of Politics: Tracing History and Its Continuity

edited by Nikolaos Asproulis

submission deadline 22 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2817 | Submission Open

Keywords: political theology; religious traditions; state; human rights; nationalism; fundamentalism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)

Mysticism and Nature

edited by

Cristóbal Serrán-Pagán y Fuentes

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1147 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological spirituality; ecofeminism; deep ecology; indigenous rights; animal rights; land rights; holism; panentheism; pantheism; cosmic interdependence; anthropocentrism; animism; conservationism; creation spirituality; New England transcendentalism; goddess movement; nonviolence; stewardship; vegetarianism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

New Work on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion

edited by

Sebastian Sunday Grève

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 28 articles | Viewed by 20524 | Submission Open

Keywords: Ludwig Wittgenstein; philosophy of religion; religious belief; religious language; religious point of view; ethics; faith; form of life; cognitivism; fideism; John Henry Newman; Kierkegaard; Tolstoy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Buddhism and Medicine from an Interdisciplinary and Global Historical Perspective

edited by

Jinhua Chen

and Ru Zhan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4448 | Submission Open

Keywords: medical sciences; medical practice; Jīvaka; Buddhist medical literature; Bhaiṣajyaguru; compassionate care clinics’ 悲田養病坊; globalization of Buddhism; philanthropy

Links Between Psychology/Psychiatry and Religion

edited by

Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 3847 | Submission Open

Keywords: psychology; psychiatry; religion; cooperation; interrelationship; obstacles; similarities; differences; convergencies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)

Psychedelics and Religion

edited by

Hans Van Eyghen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3789 | Submission Open

Keywords: psychedelics; spirituality; meditation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Sacred Experience and Aesthetic Connections in Religious Festivals

edited by Federico Aguirre, Wilson Muñoz and Lily Jimenez

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3212 | Submission Open

Keywords: art and the sacred; religious festivals; popular/lived religion; material religion studies; visual and performance studies

Religion and Indigenous Traditions

edited by Craig Ginn and Durga Kale

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3172 | Submission Open

Keywords: Indigenous traditions; Indigenous knowledge; ways of knowing; ways of being; reconciliation; revitalization; colonial; postcolonial; decolonizing; Indigenizing; Indigenization; syncretism; assimilation; missionary impulse; animal theology; ecotheology; natural theology

Heavens and Grottos: New Explorations in Daoist Cosmography

edited by Zhaojie Bai, Vincent Goossaert, Johan Rols and Jonathan Pettit

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2741 | Submission Open

Keywords: Daoist heavens; Grotto-heavens; Daoist cosmography

Experience and Non-Objects: Towards a Phenomenology of Indiscernibility

edited by

Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

and

Michael D. Barber

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2436 | Submission Open

Keywords: God; subatomic particles; subjectivity; intuition; inwardness; religious cognition; Kant; Husserl; Merleau-Ponty; Henry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Engaged Spiritualities: Theories, Practices, and Future Directions

edited by

Stefano Sbalchiero

and

Giuseppe Giordan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1830 | Submission Open

Keywords: engaged spiritualities; spirituality and religion; spiritual experiences; everyday life

Peccata Lectionis

edited by Marton Hovanyi

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 1556 | Submission Open

Keywords: theory of reading; history of reading; interdisciplinarity; sin; Judaism; Christianity; literary and cultural criticism; biblical hermeneutics; constructive theology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Continental Philosophy and Catholic Theology

edited by

Glenn Morrison

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1551 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christianity; Catholic; continental philosophy; theology; metaphysics; mystery; phenomenology; synodality; truth; wisdom

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Divine Narratives: Exploring the Intersection of Poetry, Myth, and the Spiritual in Literature and Theatre

edited by Jamal Assadi

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1302 | Submission Open

Keywords: divine narratives; poetry and myth; spirituality in literature; the sacred and the profane; ritual and performance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Reconciling Religion and Remains—Faith and Biblical Archaeology

edited by Mark D. Janzen, Kyle H. Keimer and Chris McKinny

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 235 | Submission Open

Keywords: biblical archaeology; biblical criticism; fundamentalism; positivism; worldview; apologetics; funding sources; history of research; nomenclature

Women and Religion in the Medieval and Early Modern World

edited by Antónia Fialho Conde

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 232 | Submission Open

Keywords: property; heritage management and luxury in a cloistered environment; monasticism and gender; building monastic historical landscapes; prosopography and social identity; women's monastic literacy; nuns' mobility(s); the monastic populations and its mechanisms of pressure and attraction; patronage and artistic commissions in a cloistered environment; expressions of cloistered devotions; implementing justice: times and manners

Ecclesiology in Context: Exploring the Historical, Cultural, and Theological Dimensions of the Church

edited by Csaba Fazekas

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1224 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecclesiology; church images; self-images of christian churches; images of others’ churches; schisms; impact of historical changes on the interpretation of the church; conflicts of church images

Europe, Religion and Secularization: Trends, Paradoxes and Dilemmas

edited by

Jorge Botelho Moniz

and

Grace Davie

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 970 | Submission Open

Keywords: Europe; modernity; secularization; religion and politics

The Modern Reception and Interpretation of Daoism in East Asia and the West: A Comparative Perspective (19th–21st Centuries)

edited by

Kaspars Klavins

and

Lihua Li

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 937 | Submission Open

Keywords: daoism; philosophy; existentialism; dialectics; alchemy; modernization; science; spirituality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

The Qur’an and Ethics: Methodology of Studying Qur’anic Morality

edited by Nuha Alshaar and Yasmin Amin

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 328 | Submission Open

Keywords: Qurʾān; ethics; tafsīr; taqwā; iḥsān; psycho-spiritual analysis of the Qurʾān; ‘ adl; ḥikma; raḥma

Existential Health, Religion and Youth in a Global Perspectives

edited by Katarina Westerlund

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 286 | Submission Open

Keywords: existential health; religion; youth; spirituality; contextual perspectives

Systematic Theology as a Catalyst for Renewal in Catholic Education

edited by

Thomas V. Gourlay

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1862 | Submission Open

Keywords: Catholic education; systematic theology; trinitarian and relational ontologies; Catholic faith and culture; ecclesiology; religious education; catechesis

Interpreting the Bible: Re-Reading Texts, Characters, and Images from Scripture

edited by

Ianire Angulo Ordorika

and Ignacio Rojas Gálvez

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6540 | Submission Open

Keywords: inner-biblical interpretation; exegesis; old testament; new testament; early Judaism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)

Embellishing Belief: Sacred Objects and Spaces in Premodern East Asia and Southeast Asia

edited by Cynthea J. Bogel and Daniel Borengasser

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 796 | Submission Open

Keywords: premodern East Asia; premodern Southeast Asia; religious visual and material culture; methodologies of sacred materiality and space; embellishment; religious symbolism; authenticity; precious materials; iconography and symbology; ritual praxis; sacred object contextualization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Monastic Lives and Buddhist Textual Traditions in China and Beyond

edited by Limei Chi,

Zhiyuan Chen

and Dewei Zhang

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2360 | Submission Open

Keywords: monastic lives; Buddhist textual traditions; transmission and transformation of Buddhist texts; Buddhist manuscript culture; Buddhist biography and hagiography; Buddhist miracle tales

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Bible Translation and Biblical Hermeneutics: Exploring the Nexus of Language and Interpretation

edited by

Stefano Salemi

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1212 | Submission Open

Echoes of the Divine: The Historical, Literary, and Theological Dimensions of Prophetism

edited by

Marta García Fernández

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 438 | Submission Open

Keywords: prophecy and the ancient Near East; prophecy as a religious phenomenon; prophetic hermeneutics; major and minor prophets; former or historical prophetic books; prophecy and Second Temple extrabiblical literature

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)

Himalayan Ecospiritual Knowledges and Ethics of Sustainability in the Anthropocene

edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters,

Dan Smyer Yü

and Mary Evelyn Tucker

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 15095 | Submission Open

Keywords: Himalayan– Tibetan highlands; religious ecology; spiritual environmentalisms; commoning; ethics; the Anthro-pocene

Transitions of Islam and Democracy: Thinking Political Theology

edited by

Ronen A. Cohen

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5033 | Submission Open

Keywords: political Islam; political thought; Islam and democracy; Islamic philosophy; religion and state; Muslim state; Islamic constitution; political rights; political liberty; anocracy

Arts, Spirituality, and Religion

edited by

Fátima Matos Silva

and Emília Simão

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2790 | Submission Open

Keywords: spirituality and religion; arts as a spiritual practice; spirituality and technology; spirituality and education; pilgrimage and celebrations; spirituality; health; and well-being

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