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Heresies, Heterodoxies, and Process–Relational Theologies
edited by Donna Bowman
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 222 | Submission Open
Keywords: process theology; heresy and heterodoxy; theological dissent; church discipline; religious institutions; open and relational theology
Religion, Ritual, and Healing—2nd Edition
edited by and Gerald Murray
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 201 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; spirit beliefs; ritual practices; specialist religious leaders; healing        ; cultural systems; ethnography; symbols; transcendent realities; interdisciplinary dialogue
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
The Implications of Spirituality for Mental Well-Being and Public Health
edited by
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 185 | Submission Open
Keywords: ethics; ethical practice; social seterminants of health; negative spiritual coping; positive spiritual coping; spiritually integrated healthcare; spiritual practices in healthcare; well-being of caregivers  
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Political Secularism, Religious Reform and International Relations
edited by Youssef Choueiri
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 185 | Submission Open
Keywords: enlightenment; colonialism; post-secularism; liberal secularism; Kemalism; diversity; pluralism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion and Eco-Anxiety: Pastoral and Ethical Perspectives submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecology; eco-theology; eco-anxiety; God’ s creation; environment; sustainability; ethics; pastoral teachings for the environment; responsible management of environment
Outworking the “Birds of the Air”: Early Christians’ Attitudes Toward Labor and Work
edited by and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 170 | Submission Open
Keywords: early Christianity; labor and work; eschatological expectations; apocalypticism; delay of the eschaton; early Christ groups; early Christians and ethics; attitudes toward the environment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Religion, Law, and Human Rights: Towards Equality and Inclusion
edited by and Jeremy Kingsley
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 94 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; law; human rights; equality; inclusion; pluralism; gender justice; secularism; freedom of belief; social justice
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Reformed Theology in Dialogue: Faith, Culture, and Everyday Practice
edited by David Jensen
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open
Keywords: reformed theology; confessions; revelation; authority; christology; covenant; divine sovereignty; sin; election
Jewish Intellectual Traditions in Eastern Europe and the Baltic Region: Between Tradition, Enlightenment, and Modernity submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 73 | Submission Open
Keywords: Eastern European Jewry; intellectual history of Jews from the Baltic countries; Haskalah in Eastern Europe; modern hasidism; Zionism; religious Zionism; Yiddish culture; Jewish press; modernity and traditional identity; YIVO
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Languages and Buddhist Texts: Translation, Transmission, and Interpretation Across Traditions
edited by , and
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4192 | Submission Open
Keywords: Buddhist texts; multilingualism; translation studies; Buddhist philology; languages of Buddhist scriptures; linguistic philosophy; corpus linguistics; natural language processing (NLP); digital humanities; comparative Buddhist studies; Chinese Buddhist translations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
No God, No Science? Reassessing the Relationship Between Theology and Modern Science
edited by George M. Coghill and Ximian Xu
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 969 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and science; apologetics; artificial intelligence and religion; history of science; theology
The Roles of Religion and Spirituality in Healthcare
edited by Anne Klee, Arielle Rubenstein and Glen Milstein
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 863 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; spirituality; and healthcare; religious faith and medical considerations; health and spirituality
Studies on Religious Rituals and Practices
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 256 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; religious rituals; ritual practices; rites of passage; ritualization; symbolism; migration and refugees; war and violent conflicts; everyday and holiday rituals; postmodern religious experience
Perspectives in Contemporary Catholic Philosophy: Ethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Metaphysics
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 242 | Submission Open
Keywords: Catholic philosophy; realism in epistemology; moral realism; natural theology; theology; religion and philosophy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
The Influence of Religion on the American Founding and Revolution: In Celebration of the Semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence
edited by , and Jess Chupp
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious beliefs and practices during the American Revolution; Declaration of Independence; pulpits of the American Revolution; Natural Law and the American founding; Imago Dei and inalienable rights; religion and inalienable rights; historical development of inalienable rights; enlightenment— radical and moderate
Holy Cities in the 21st Century: Images, Identities, and Networks
edited by Stanley Brunn
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open
Keywords: holy cities; pilgrimage; religion and globalization; sacred and secular; interfaith encounters; digital religion; religious tourism
Echoes of the Divine: The Historical, Literary, and Theological Dimensions of Prophetism submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3332 | 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)
Interfaith Dialogue and Transformation
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 1137 | Submission Open
Keywords: interfaith dialogue; transformation; comparative theology; peacebuilding; interreligious engagement; atheist– theist dialogue
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Energy and Religion
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 755 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy humanities; theology of energy; philosophy of energy; energeia; patristics; aristotle; divine energies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Thresholds of Reality: Exploring the In-Between in Indian Thought
edited by Gergana Ruseva and Milena Bratoeva
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 402 | Submission Open
Keywords: myth; ritual; Brahmanism; Hinduism; Buddhism; liminal spaces and level of existence; transformation; dream; death; rebirth
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Living Faith, Shaping Identity: Social and Religious Practices of Minority Communities in Japan submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 70 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious diversity in Japan; minority communities; cultural identity; indigenous religions; social practices and rituals; intercultural dialogue; minority rights and inclusion; migration and religion; religious and cultural preservation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religious Socialization in Current Sociology
edited by Lena De Botton and
submission deadline 26 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 112 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; social impact; equality; interfaith dialogue; social justice; violence and abuse prevention; sustainability; successful actions; inclusive education; gender
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
The Interplay Between Narrative, Ritual, and Religiosity in East Asian Literary and Cultural Traditions
edited by , and David Sevillano López
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1968 | Submission Open
Keywords: Asian literature; Buddhism; religions; India; China; Korea; Japan
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Exploring Eco-Spirituality: Intersections of Faith, Nature, and Ethics
edited by and Ryan Patrick McLaughlin
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 1401 | Submission Open
Keywords: eco-spirituality; environmental ethics; theological perspectives on nature; climate change and religion; indigenous spiritual practices; ecotheology; sustainability and faith; interfaith environmental activism; sacredness of nature; religious responses to ecological crises
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
The Eucharist as the Bread of Life: Phenomenological and Existential Explorations
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1363 | Submission Open
Keywords: sacramental theology; eucharist; metaphysics; existentialism; phenomenology; transubstantiation; consubstantiation
Buddhist Philosophy: Logic and Epistemology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 703 | Submission Open
Keywords: logic; hermeneutics; epistemology; cognition; Nāgārjuna; Dignāga; Dharmakīrti; Madhyamaka; Yogācāra; Abhidharma
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
The Evolution of Chinese Buddhist Knowledge Systems
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 548 | Submission Open
Keywords: Chinese Buddshit knowledge system; classified knowledge; knowledge of Buddha dharma; knowledge about the Buddhist monastic system; knowledge about the Buddhist faith; knowledge about monastic– lay relations; Confucian and Daoist knowledge systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Comparative Thinking on Islam in a Global Age submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 506 | Submission Open
Keywords: Islam; globalization; Middle East; new media and social communication; religious diplomacy; interreligious dialogue; policy; intercultural communication; Islamic studies; digital religion; mediatization; religious authority; cultural security; Islamic media; online communities; digital transformation; media ethics; digital diplomacy; decentralized networks; multi-platform communication
Transformations in Daoist Ritual Texts and Other Daoist Literature Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties—2nd Edition
edited by , Bony Schachter and Jacopo Scarin
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 436 | Submission Open
Keywords: Daoist canonical texts; Daoist literature; Daoist ritual texts; religious writings; contemporary Daoist texts; transformation of texts; symbolism in writing; circulation of texts; Daoist community
Christian Theology Across Non-European Cultures: Local Wisdoms and Cross-Philosophical Approaches submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 422 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christian theology; cross-cultural theology; non-European theological thought; philosophy and Christianity; inculturation; contextual theology; global Christianity; theology in Asian; African; and Latin American traditions; theological language and translation; non-Western theological perspectives
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Evolving and Flourishing in an Age of Disruption: The Role of Spirituality in Realignment and Transformation
edited by , Indrani Margolin and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 417 | Submission Open
Keywords: spirituality; religion; evolving; flourishing; transformation; transdisciplinary; spiritually sensitive practice
New Perspectives on East Asian Buddhist Architecture
edited by Puay Peng Ho
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 282 | Submission Open
Keywords: Buddhist architecture; East Asia; places of worship; Buddhist monuments; religious and cultural functions
Reimagining Jewish-Muslim Relations After October 7th
edited by and Elad Ben David
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 222 | Submission Open
Keywords: Muslim— Jewish relations; Islamic theology; Abraham Accords; post-October 7th; Gaza War; peacebuilding; interfaith dialogue; utopian studies; Israel; Hamas; countering extremism
Radical Embodiment and Religious Practice and Thought: Rethinking the Body in Religious Studies and Theology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 192 | Submission Open
Keywords: embodiment; enactive cognition; embedded cognition; extended cognition; meaning; evolution; adaptiveness; ritual; theories of religion; theology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Preserving the Master’s Word: Rituals and Protective Accessories for Sacred Scriptures in the Himalayan Culture
edited by Michela Clemente
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 189 | Submission Open
Keywords: consecration rituals; book rituals; Himalayan book culture; Buddhist studies; bon studies; materiality of the books; codicology; book conservation; Himalayan art history
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Science, Religion, and Health—Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Flourishing submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 167 | Submission Open
Keywords: health; well-being; religion; science; medicine; philosophy; ethics; spirituality; human flourishing; holistic care
Religions in Colonial Korea: Traditions, Reconfigurations, and New Beginnings
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 116 | Submission Open
Keywords: modernization; westernization; colonialism; modern Korean religions; Korean Buddhism; Won Buddhism; Korean new religions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
The Confluence of Islam and Confucianism: A Paradigm for Civilizational Exchange and Mutual Learning
edited by Guiping Yang
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 91 | Submission Open
Keywords: the confluence of Islam and Confucianism; civilizational dialogue; civilizational exchange and mutual learning; Han Kitab; comparative philosophy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
The Hebrew Prophets: Poetic Imagination, Covenant Memory—in Honor of Walter Brueggemann
edited by Jerome F. D. Creach
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 80 | Submission Open
Keywords: Brueggemann; covenant; imagination; memory; rhetoric; royal ideology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Constructive Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pauline Theology
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2292 | Submission Open
Keywords: pauline theology; interdisciplinary theology; transhumanism; artificial intelligence; medical ethics; political theology; eco-theology; cognitive linguistics; theology and race; theology and gender
Theology and Public Life: Contemporary Perspectives on Public Theology
edited by Teresa L. Smallwood
submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 69 | Submission Open
Keywords: public; theology; voice; prophetic; power; witness; political; sphere; truth; false
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Locating Catholicity Amid the Complexities of Church and World
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 25 | Submission Open
Keywords: catholicity; christianity; church; universal church; global christianity; ecumenical dialogue
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Materiality and Gender Constructs in Hagiography: Saints and Sacred Space
edited by Michelle M. Sauer
submission deadline 14 Jul 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3191 | Submission Open
Keywords: materiality; gender; sexuality; hagiography; saints; sacred space
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Modern Jewish Thought and Philosophy
edited by and Hanoch Ben Pazi
submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophy and Judaism; Jewish humanism; Jewish hermeneutics; Jewish universalism and particularism; Holocaust; Zionism; Jewish interreligious thought; Jews and modernity; rabbinical thought
Synodality, Sacramental Renewal, and Mission: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ecclesial Transformation
edited by Samuel Komlanvi Amaglo
submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 36 | Submission Open
Keywords: synodality; theology; sacramental renewal; mission; interdisciplinarity; ecclesial transformation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Religious Ethics and Theology in Contemporary Human Life submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2258 | Submission Open
Keywords: culture and religious ethics; diversity; ethics; and theology; gender and sexuality; humanism and human flourishing; migration ethics and theology; politics; identity; and the human person; religious ethics; sociology and theology; technology; theology; and the common good; theological anthropology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Sanctity in the Medieval Muslim West: Questions of Genre, Cultural and Religious Identity
edited by and Manuela Marín
submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 205 | Submission Open
Keywords: sufism; hagiographies; male and female saints; gender; Maghreb and Al-Andalus; medieval period
Early Modern Female Mysticism: At the Crossroads of Religion, Medicine, Economics, and the Press
edited by Vittoria Feola and Erin Bell
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 797 | Submission Open
Keywords: mysticism; women; early modern; medieval; neurology; saint; Islam; Catholicism; Quakerism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Embodiment, Sport and Spiritual Traditions
edited by Patrick Kelly, SJ
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 233 | Submission Open
Keywords: lived religion; embodiment; play; sport; spirituality
Religion and Media Cultures in the Digital Public Sphere
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 226 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and media; digital public sphere; representation; religious authority; activism; identity and politics; digital culture; postsecularism; popular culture; algorithmic media
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
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