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Forced Migration and the Bible: Displacement, Statelessness, and Resiliency in Sacred Texts
edited by Roberto Mata
submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1138 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate migration; trauma; borderlands; statelessness; neocolonialism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Renewal, Innovation, and Transformation: The Changing Face of Judaism in Modern Times
edited by
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 21832 | Submission Open
Religion and Creativity submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2374 | Submission Open
Keywords: creativity; sacred creativity; play; invention; innovation; blasphemy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Digital Religion in the Age of the Metaverse submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1019 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital religion; metaverse; internet; sociology; online communication; digital humanities
Sacred Space and Contemporary Art
edited by
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 464 | Submission Open
Keywords: sacred space; hierophany; sacred art; contemporary sacred art
Thomas Aquinas and the Philosophy of Religion
edited by
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 273 | Submission Open
Keywords: Aquinas; philosophy; theism; atheism; religion; evil; hiddenness; epistemology; divine attributes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion, Gender and Social Development
edited by
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2313 | Submission Open
Keywords: gender; social construction; religion; development; women; theory
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Chinese Religious Cultures: Historical Traditions and Modern Interpretations
edited by , Chuanhui Zeng, and Xuedan Li
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 22 articles | Viewed by 39029 | Submission Open
Keywords: modern interpretations; Chinese religious cultures; Buddhist culture; Daoist culture; Islamic culture; Christian culture; Chinese folk religion; Confucian religious thoughts
The Multiple Images and Forms of Classical Confucian and Daoist Ethics for Living
edited by and Hongxing Lin
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 17 articles | Viewed by 23595 | Submission Open
Keywords: Confucianism; Daoism; ethics for living
The Diversity and Harmony of Taoism: Ideas, Behaviors and Influences
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 21806 | Submission Open
Keywords: Taoism; diversity; harmony; ideas; behaviors; contemporary value
Divine Encounters: Exploring Religious Themes in Literature
edited by Enrique Santos Marinas and Svetlana Maliavina
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11207 | Submission Open
Keywords: sciences of religions; theology; epiphanies; theophanies; literature; mythology; myth criticism
Disseminating Christian Beliefs Through Word and Image in Medieval and Renaissance Times submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10892 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christianity; Christian doctrine; patrology; theology; Christian iconography; church history; medieval culture; Christian society; popular devotion; religious experience; liturgical hymns; interdisciplinary studies; middle ages; renaissance
“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 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7319 | 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
Advancing the Study of Religion and International Relations: Thirty Years After Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" (1993, 1996)—A Critical Evaluation and Appraisal of the Current State of Art submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5162 | Submission Open
Keywords: international Relations; religion; culture; identity; regionalism; clash of civilizations; Huntington; ambivalence of the sacred
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Christian Monasticism Today: A Search for Identity
edited by Bernard Łukasz Sawicki and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5131 | Submission Open
Keywords: monasticism; culture; history; spirituality; anthropology; philosophy; sociology; archeology
Experience and Non-Objects: The Limits of Intuition submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4918 | 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)
Viktor Frankl and the Future of Religion
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4267 | Submission Open
Keywords: logotherapy; Viktor Frankl; phenomenology; self-transcendence; meaning of life; future of religion; religious studies; psychotherapy
Peccata Lectionis
edited by Marton Hovanyi
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3395 | 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)
Mysticism and Nature submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3187 | 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)
Europe, Religion and Secularization: Trends, Paradoxes and Dilemmas submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2960 | Submission Open
Keywords: Europe; modernity; secularization; religion and politics
Kant’s Critique of Rational Theology and His Project of Moral Religion
edited by Kezheng Li
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2698 | Submission Open
Keywords: Kant; rational theology; moral religion; moral argument; radical evil
Explorations into Yan Zun’s Edition and Commentary to the Daodejing: Laozi Zhigui
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2602 | Submission Open
Keywords: Yan Zun; Laozi zhigui; Laozi Daodejing; Daoist religion and philosophy
Breath of Life: Black Spirituality in Everyday Life
edited by Brianne Painia and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2095 | Submission Open
Keywords: employment of Black faith practices; expansions and/or reflections; Black secular life; spiritual practices and rituals in Black life; African and Pan-African-informed spiritual traditions
Science and Religion: Natural Theology in the Contemporary Context
edited by Kai Man Kwan
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1700 | Submission Open
Keywords: kalam cosmological argument; the fine-tuning argument or the anthropic principle; multiverse; design arguments; cognitive science of religion; naturalistic explanations of religious experience; the existence of soul & neuroscience; why there is something rather than nothing; panpsychism or cosmopsychism; cosmic axiology or teleology; the existence of God and artificial intelligence; faith and transhumanism
Multilingualism, Translation, and Religion in the Premodern Islamic World(s): Texts, Contexts, and Crossroads
edited by Hany Rashwan and Ross Brann
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1629 | Submission Open
Keywords: premodern Islamic multilingualism; multiculturism; translation; Islamic lingua franca
Indigenous Conversion(s) to Islam: Causes, Processes, and Consequences
edited by Ayca Arkilic
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1059 | Submission Open
Keywords: Islam; indigenous; conversion; intersectionality; colonialism; discrimination; interaction
Theoretical and Behavioral Approaches to the Growth of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1044 | Submission Open
Keywords: Soka Gakkai International; Buddhist lay movement; Buddhist social engagement; Buddhist citizenship; Buddhist growth; Buddhist humanitarianism; Buddhist global community
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Religion in 20th- and 21st-Century Fictional Narratives
edited by Thomas Jerome Sienkewicz
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 999 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and literature; modern religious narrative; religion in fictional narrative
Folk Religion in the Ancient Levant and Mediterranean
edited by Baruch Halpern, Tyler Kelley and Amanda Walls
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 929 | Submission Open
Keywords: folk religion; domestic religion; folk theology; material culture; Bible; Levant; Judah; Israel; Greece; Anatolia; Bronze Age; Iron Age; Archaic Period
Theology and Anthropology: A Critical Discussion
edited by Peter Versteeg and Petruschka Schaafsma
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 602 | Submission Open
Keywords: anthropology; theology; dialogue; transformation; reception; methodology
The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious Traditions in Dialogue
edited by Lóránd Ujházi and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 536 | Submission Open
Keywords: just war theory; ethical dimensions of war; religious ethics; religion and violence; peacebuilding; interreligious dialogue; reconciliation; nonviolence; theology and conflict; comparative theology; religion and international relations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
On the Font: Human Nature Seen Through Baptism and the Baptismal Font
edited by Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen and Line M. Bonde
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 444 | Submission Open
Keywords: baptism; iconography; liturgy; material culture; ontology; sacred space
Nationalisms and Religious Identities—2nd Edition
edited by Slavica Jakelić
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 416 | Submission Open
Keywords: nationalisms and religious identities; gender; race; and class; citizenship; transnational politics; postcolonial and decolonial critiques
Reimagining Protestant Theology: The Asian Experience and Christian Tradition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 306 | Submission Open
Keywords: Asian theology; Asian christianity; contextualization; theology of Korea; theology of India; theology of China; theology of Philippines; comparative studies; comparative ethics; theological imagination
The Intangible into the Perceptible: Ethereal Aspects of Religious Spaces and Their Theological Foundations
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 255 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious architecture; sacred buildings; space and form; philosophical concepts; theological concepts
Language and Religion: Multilingual Perspectives on Contemporary Theolinguistics
edited by Jonathan M. Watt
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 219 | Submission Open
Keywords: linguistics; language; dialect; register; style; religion; spirituality
Diasporic Hybridity: How It Impacts Religious Identity and Practice in Today’s Pluralistic World
edited by Julius-Kei Kato and Peniel Rajkumar
submission deadline 5 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3131 | Submission Open
Keywords: diasporic hybridity (in the context of “ diasporic hybridity; ” all of the key expressions below); religion and diaspora; religion and hybridity; religious pluralism; religious diversity; religious identities; religious practices; interreligious dialogue; religious communities; yheology and pluralism; postcolonial thought
Christian Theologies of Deification
edited by Myk Habets and
submission deadline 10 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4436 | 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)
Religion and Politics: Ritual, Performativity, and (Political) Theatre in Comparative-Historical and International Perspective
edited by Patricia J. Sohn
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7290 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; ritual; political; theatre; performativity; politics
Divine Creativity and Participatory Cosmologies: Theological Perspectives on Science, Technology, and the Future of Humanity
edited by Matthew Segall and Ashton Arnoldy
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5047 | Submission Open
Keywords: participatory theory; process philosophy; integral theory; sacramental epistemology; relational ontology; pluralism; divine agency; science; technology; spirituality; metamodernism
Catholic Social Thought in the Era of the Un-Common Good
edited by James P. O’Sullivan
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2707 | Submission Open
Keywords: Catholic social teaching; solidarity; subsidiarity; human rights; common good; preferential options for the poor and marginalized; integral human development; sustainability; nuclear disarmament; nationalism
Mysticism and Ethics: Bridging Transcendence and Action in Religious Experience
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2390 | Submission Open
Keywords: mysticism; ethics; action; love; virtues; god; religious experience; justice; transcendence; moral
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Sacred Landscapes and Social Reform in Medieval Europe
edited by Kathryn Jasper
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 412 | Submission Open
Keywords: christianity; religion; sacred spaces/places; hagiography; popular devotions; monasticism; landscape; environment; church reform; gender; labor; class
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Communication in Abrahamic Religions
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 255 | Submission Open
Keywords: Abrahamic religion; inter-religious communication; spiritual meaning; communicative action; interfaith unity; textual comparisons
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Piety and Ethical Foundations in Islamic Moral Economy
edited by , and Tareq Moqbel
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 1600 | Submission Open
Keywords: Islamic moral economy; piety; ethical finance; Islamic charities; Islamic finance; developmentalism; Islamic institutional economics; zakah and awqaf; faith-based development; social justice in eco-nomics
Innovative Approaches to Religious Pluralism: Integrating Law, Policies and Practice
edited by Eugenia Relaño Pastor and
submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4216 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious pluralism; governance of diversity; secularism and state neutrality; legal recognition of religious minorities; equality; freedom of religion or belief (FoRB)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Science and Christian Theology: Past, Present, and Future
edited by Joseph R. Laracy and Jamie Boulding
submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2637 | Submission Open
Keywords: science; theology; creation; cosmology; evolution; artificial intelligence; epistemology; metaphysics; Stanley Jaki; Ian Barbour
Temple Art, Architecture and Theatre
edited by , Duanfang Lu and Qing Chang
submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 1115 | Submission Open
Keywords: temple; art; architecture; theatre
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion, Mobility, and Transnational History
edited by Anthony Miller
submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10959 | Submission Open
Keywords: pilgrims; mobility; transnational turn; refugees; missionaries; migrants; border crossing; orthodoxy; cultural adaptation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religious Symbols and Fashion: Identification, Representation and Regulation in Dress submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10415 | Submission Open
Keywords: fashion and religions; symbolism of clothing; philosophy and theology of clothing and fashion; art; clothing; fashion; and theology; modern adaptations and fashion; mystical practices and rituals; gender roles and distinctions; personal and spiritual connection; spiritual practice and devotion; interreligious and interspiritual dialogue; spirituality and contemporary culture
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