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Traditional and Civil Religions: Theory and Political Practice
edited by Lan T. Chu, Anthony Kammas and
submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3635 | 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 submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 255 | 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
submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 158 | 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 submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 255 | 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
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7105 | 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 6936 | 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 4032 | 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 and Ru Zhan
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3163 | 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
Religious Communities and Artificial Intelligence submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2200 | 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
“Searching for a Better Life with My Community”: Migratory Trends in Religious-Based Social Net-Works
edited by , Jarosław Kozak, Błażej Dyczewski and Malika Ouacha
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2160 | 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
Transdisciplinary Theological Study: Animals, Divinanimality, and Creaturely Theology
edited by Laura Hobgood
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1885 | 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 1030 | 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 555 | 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 and Andrea Calabretta
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 532 | 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 | Viewed by 883 | Submission Open
Keywords: participatory theory; process philosophy; integral theory; sacramental epistemology; relational ontology; pluralism; divine agency; science; technology; spirituality; metamodernism
Seeking Truth and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion and Philosophy
edited by B. Keith Putt
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 390 | Submission Open
Keywords: truth; meaning; philosophy; religion; interdisciplinary perspectives
Saintly Voices: Sounding the Supernatural in Medieval Hagiography
edited by Catherine Saucier
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 364 | 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
submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1814 | 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
submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1732 | 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 3580 | 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 5372 | 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 2755 | 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 submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1089 | 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 submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 24 articles | Viewed by 19260 | 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 and Ru Zhan
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4170 | 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 submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 3783 | 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
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3509 | 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 3117 | 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 3090 | 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 2611 | Submission Open
Keywords: Daoist heavens; Grotto-heavens; Daoist cosmography
Experience and Non-Objects: Towards a Phenomenology of Indiscernibility submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2409 | 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 submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1747 | 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 1532 | 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
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1525 | 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 1273 | 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 230 | 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 221 | 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 | Viewed by 1013 | 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 submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 938 | 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 and
submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 816 | 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 310 | 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 270 | Submission Open
Keywords: existential health; religion; youth; spirituality; contextual perspectives
Systematic Theology as a Catalyst for Renewal in Catholic Education
edited by
submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1785 | 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 and Ignacio Rojas Gálvez
submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6360 | 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 787 | 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, and Dewei Zhang
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2185 | 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
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1171 | Submission Open
Echoes of the Divine: The Historical, Literary, and Theological Dimensions of Prophetism submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 397 | 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)
God, Logic and Language
edited by
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open
Keywords: concept of God; divine attributes; omnipotence; omniscience; eternity; language and theology; theism; existence of God
Himalayan Ecospiritual Knowledges and Ethics of Sustainability in the Anthropocene
edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters, and Mary Evelyn Tucker
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14196 | Submission Open
Keywords: Himalayan– Tibetan highlands; religious ecology; spiritual environmentalisms; commoning; ethics; the Anthro-pocene
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