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Religion and Conflict, Religion and Peace: Demystifying the Role of Religion in Conflict Dynamics

edited by

Jeremy A. Rinker

and Daniel Rhodes

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 255 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and conflict; religion and peacemaking; interfaith dialogue; interreligious contract; religious miltants; Countering Violent Extremism (CVE); conflict dynamics; values conflicts; belief/faith; peacebuilding

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

Landscape (山水) as Transcendent Existence

edited by Jingdong Qu and

Xi Ju

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 229 | Submission Open

Keywords: Shanshui; ritual sacrifice; sacred Grotto-Heavens; hermitism; folk religion; transcendence

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

Revealing the Hidden: Apocryphal Texts and the Shaping of Religious Thought

edited by

Dorota Rojszczak-Robińska

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 228 | Submission Open

Keywords: apocrypha and pseudepigrapha; parabiblical tradition; biblical exegesis; devotional literature and culture

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

Origins and Development of the Pure Land Tradition Through the Lens of Sacred Site Transference

edited by

Jinhua Chen

and Kai Sheng

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 156 | Submission Open

Keywords: Pure Land; Huiyuan; Mount Lu; Mount Wutai; Shandao; Fazhao

Treasures of Khotan: Multidisciplinary Studies on Khotan as a Hub for Religious and Cultural Exchanges

edited by Ru Zhan and

Jinhua Chen

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 151 | Submission Open

Keywords: Khotan; Yutian; Silk Road; Buddhism; multidisciplinary studies

Reinterpreting the Bible: Intercultural Approaches to Biblical Hermeneutics

edited by Larry W. Caldwell

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open

Keywords: intercultural Bible interpretation; cultural exegesis; ethnohermeneutics; contextual hermeneutics; intercultural hermeneutics

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

Faith in Motion: Religious Perspectives on Immigration

edited by

Alexia Salvatierra

and Sam George

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 114 | Submission Open

Keywords: migration; forced displacement; transnational faith; Christian nationalism; missiology; multifaith partnership; hospitality

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

Psychedelics and Religion

edited by

Hans Van Eyghen

submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10353 | Submission Open

Keywords: psychedelics; spirituality; meditation

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

Links Between Psychology/Psychiatry and Religion

edited by

Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca

submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5321 | 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)

Between Soul and Algorithm: Religion and the Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

edited by Nuha Alshaar and

Hureyre Kam

submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 493 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; ethics; post- and transhumanism; religion; philosophy; theology; cultural relevance theory; peace studies; education; media; critical literacy; AI; smart government

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

Fasting, Renunciation, and Moderation in Early Christian Thought, Greco-Roman Culture, and the Abrahamic Traditions

edited by

Catalin-Stefan Popa

submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 296 | Submission Open

Keywords: fasting; moderation; renunciation; Early Christianity; classical culture; Abrahamic traditions; antiquity; asceticism; abstinence; simplicity; modesty

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

Forgiveness, Mercy & Reconciliation: Theological Insights from Pope Francis to Pope Leo XIV

edited by

Joshua Snyder

submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 214 | Submission Open

Keywords: Pope Francis; Pope Leo XIV; forgiveness; justice; mercy; reconciliation; nonviolent; peacebuilding; polarization; just war; tradition and nonviolence

Religious Nationalism in Contemporary Europe

edited by Reka Szilardi and

Tamás Szilágyi

submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 81 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and nationalism European politics; society Religion and identity

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

Systematic Theology as a Catalyst for Renewal in Catholic Education

edited by

Thomas V. Gourlay

submission deadline 10 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6348 | Submission Open

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

Divine Inspirations: Exploring Religious Themes in Female Visionary Writing of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

edited by María Del Mar Graña Cid

submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 259 | Submission Open

Keywords: female mysticism; visionary literature; women’ s religious writing; female authority; feminist theology; female prophetic voice; female thought

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

Modern Myths and National Narratives: Exploring the Role of Religions in Shaping Cultural Memory

edited by István Povedák and László-Attila Hubbes

submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 236 | Submission Open

Keywords: memory culture; religious nationalism; ethno-paganism; vernacular religion; alternative spiritualities; modern mythologies

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

Religion, Music, and Healthcare

edited by

Theodore W. Burgh

submission deadline 27 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open

Keywords: health; music; musical instruments; sound; healing; religion; spirituality

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

Religious Communities and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Mónika Andok

Zoltán Szűts

and

Szilvia Dornics

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 12130 | 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

Witness of the Orthodox Church in the Political Context of the Secularized Modern State

edited by Paul Brusanowski and

Cristian-Sebastian Sonea

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5474 | Submission Open

Keywords: Church and state; missiology; Christian witness; Secularization; religious beliefs and practices; ecumenism; nationalisms; identities

Experimental Theological Aesthetics

edited by Julio Bermudez and Matthew Niermann

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3067 | Submission Open

Keywords: theological aesthetics; experimental theology; experimental philosophy; empirical methods; aesthetic experiences; sacred space; architecture; liturgical arts; beauty; phenomenology; semiotics

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

An Enduring Legacy: The Theology of Thomas Aquinas in Dialogue with the Contemporary Age

edited by

Piotr Roszak

and

Kenny Ang

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1863 | Submission Open

Keywords: Thomas Aquinas; Thomism; systematic theology; metaphysics; grace; natural law; virtue ethics; faith and reason; sacramental theology; contemporary theology

Interfaith Encounters: Religious Polemics from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period—2nd Edition

edited by Golda Akhiezer

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1763 | Submission Open

Keywords: dialogue; religious polemics; apologetics; theology; methodology; typology

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

God, Logic and Language

edited by

Brian Huffling

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 417 | Submission Open

Keywords: concept of God; divine attributes; omnipotence; omniscience; eternity; language and theology; theism; existence of God

Sacred Geographies and Pilgrimage

edited by Dino Bozonelos

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 402 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; spirituality; pilgrimage; religious tourism; sacred sites; spiritual travel; religious travel

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

Religion and the State: Secularism, Identity, and the Politics of Exclusion

edited by Alberto Spektorowski

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 343 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and state; secularism and exclusion; religious nationalism; post-secular critiques

Magic, Religion, and Mysticism: Occult Traditions in Europe from Late Antiquity Through the Early Modern Period

edited by Martha Rampton

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 320 | Submission Open

Keywords: magic; magical mysticism; occultism; late antique magic; early medieval magic; high medieval magic; late medieval magic; early modern magic; Renassaince magic

Life-and-Death Education at the Intersection of Public Theological and Secular Sciences

edited by

Francis-Vincent Anthony

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 292 | Submission Open

Keywords: life education; life and death education; public theology; secular sciences; human well-being; common good; intradisciplinarity; interdisciplinarity; transdisciplinarity

New Religious Movements in Historical and Political Contexts: Interactions, Conflicts, and Identities

edited by William Ashcraft

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 239 | Submission Open

Keywords: New Religious Movements; New Religious Studies; the history of NRMs; NRMs and politics; NRMs’ beliefs and practices

Integrating Christian Spirituality into Contemporary Therapy Practice

edited by

Thomas Frederick

and Susan Purrington

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 159 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christian devotion meditation; MBCT; ACT; Christian contemplative practices; psychotherapy

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

The Fate and Future of Psychoanalysis in Spiritual Care

edited by

Pamela Cooper-White

and Peter Capretto

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open

Keywords: psychoanalysis; spiritual care; pastoral care; psychotherapy; psychodynamic theory; psychology of religion; chaplaincy; psychotherapy; relational theory; social scientific study of religion

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

Texts, Language, and Style in Biblical Literature, the Semitic Literatures of the Ancient Near East, and Post-Biblical Literature

edited by

Shamir Yona

and

Haim Dihi

submission deadline 1 May 2026 | Viewed by 203 | Submission Open

Keywords: biblical Hebrew; Aramaic; Ben Sira; Rabbinic Hebrew; wisdom literature; Ugaritic literature; stylistic patterns; myth; epic; polemical texts

Spatio-Temporal Plurality in the Connection Between Art and the Sacred in Contemporary Society

edited by Juan Antonio Roche Cárcel

submission deadline 1 May 2026 | Viewed by 132 | Submission Open

Keywords: sociology of arts; sociology of religion; contemporary society; plastics arts; musique; architecture; danse; theatre; cinema; religious festivals

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

Negotiating Difference: Unity and Diversity in Jewish History from Antiquity to the Present

edited by

Francesca Sofia

and Guido Bartolucci

submission deadline 1 May 2026 | Viewed by 107 | Submission Open

Keywords: Judaism; Jewish history; sectarianism; halakhic authority; diaspora; Kabbalah; Zionism; religious identity; pluralism

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

Interpretation of Biblical Literature in Translation: A Literary and Theological Perspective

edited by Ottó Pecsuk

submission deadline 1 May 2026 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bible; translation; equivalence; ethics of translation; functionalist; mission; linguistics; theology; translator; formal; dynamic; meaning; skopos; word of God

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

Post-Secularism: Society, Politics, Theology

edited by

András Máté-Tóth

and George Joseph Vellankal

submission deadline 4 May 2026 | Viewed by 292 | Submission Open

Keywords: post-secularism; pluralism; public religion; secularisation; public sphere and private sphere; sociology of religion

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

Sacred Harmony: Music and Spiritual Transformation

edited by

Guy Beck

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1517 | Submission Open

Keywords: music; spirituality; sacred sound; ritual; liturgy; philosophy of music; theology of music; religious studies; ethnomusicology; musicology of religion

Religious Art of the Renaissance

edited by Bonnie Noble

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 155 | Submission Open

Keywords: Counter-Reformation; Religious identity; Devotional image; Iconoclasm; Ritual

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

Religion and Economy in a Global Era: New Articulation After Secularization

edited by Raquel Lázaro-Cantero and

Germán Roberto Scalzo

submission deadline 17 May 2026 | Viewed by 367 | Submission Open

Keywords: work and transformation; modes of time and health and pathologies; social relationships and human figures; world and natural and social; worship and work; religion and capitalism; economy and Christianity; common good and different goods; human life; work; and meaning; globalization and identities

Jewish Thought in Light of Deleuze and Guattari Studies

edited by

Iddo Dickmann

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 176 | Submission Open

Keywords: continental philosophy; Deleuze; Guattari; Bible; Talmud; Kabbalah; Jewish philosophy

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

Muslim Da ’Wah and Christian Mission. New Perspectives in the Global Interfaith Context

edited by

Gaetano Sabetta

and Joseph Victor Edwin

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 406 | Submission Open

Keywords: mission in Christianity; Da ‘ wah in Islam; Muslim– Christian relations; interfaith dialogue

Transforming Religion in the Anthropocene

edited by

Patrick Becker

and

Claudia Gialousis

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open

Keywords: anthropocene; globalization; technology; technological progress; ecological crisis; nature; (cultural) narratives; Human-nature-dynamics; (religious) worldviews

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

Reimagining Ministry: Formation, Leadership, and Innovation for the 21st Century

edited by Seidel Abel Boanerges

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open

Keywords: ministry; ministerial formation; church leadership; digital innovation; digital theology; practical theology; ecclesiology; global christianity; theological education; faith and practice

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

Dialogues Between East and West: Catholic and Orthodox Churches in Past and Present

edited by

András Forgó

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 43 | Submission Open

Keywords: autocephaly; Catholicism; church governance; church history; Church Union Movements; Conciliarism; ecumenical movements; Greek Catholics; liturgical movements; Orthodoxy; papacy

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

Daoist Inner Alchemy Atlas: Practice and Related Medicine, Thunder Rites and Iconology

edited by Wenhua Shen,

Yuhao Wu

and

Lu Zhang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12871 | Submission Open

Keywords: inner alchemy; daoist medicine; thunder rites; iconology

Jewish Ethics: Foundations, Developments, and Contemporary Challenges

edited by

Tsuriel Rashi

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 1370 | Submission Open

Keywords: Jewish ethics; halakha; moral philosophy; rabbinic thought; applied ethics; theology; Jewish law; responsibility; tradition and modernity; religious pluralism

Social Justice in Theological Education: Challenges and Opportunities

edited by

Ana Thea Filipović

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 817 | Submission Open

Keywords: social justice; human rights; world religions; public theology; contextual theologies; theological education; epistemic justice

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

Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, Scientific, and Beyond—Second Edition

edited by

Jeffery D. Long

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 331 | Submission Open

Keywords: afterlife; metempsychosis; past life memory; past lives; paranormal; rebirth; reincarnation

Theological and Ethical Reflections on Artificial Intelligence

edited by Rafael Amo Usanos and

Andrea Ciucci

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 328 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; theology; ethics; religious traditions; human singularity; concept of God; moral evaluation; technological culture; interreligious dialogue; responsible innovation

Contemporary Johannine Scholarship: Texts, Contexts, and Trajectories

edited by

Martin Micallef

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 270 | Submission Open

Keywords: theological interpretation; narrative theology; christological analysis; pneumatological approach; symbolic interpretation; trinitarian reading; historical– contextual analysis; literary– critical method; reception history; intertextual reading

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

Contemporary Black Theology

edited by

Kurt Buhring

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 240 | Submission Open

Keywords: black theology; womanist theology; African American religion

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

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