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Drawing a Roadmap for Research on the History of Christianity in Modern China

edited by

Yihua Xu

and Peter Tze Ming NG

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 200 | Submission Open

Keywords: history of Christianity; modern China; critical review; comparative studies; interdisciplinary studies

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

Teaching and Interpreting Biblical Texts in “Such a Time as This”

edited by Jina Kang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 45 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bible; religion; critical pedagogy; trauma; postcolonial; interdisciplinary; critical praxis; community

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

The Theological Legacy of Pope Francis

edited by Gerard Kevin Whelan

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 43 | Submission Open

Keywords: theological legacy; Synodality; integral ecology; graduality; Laudato Si’ ; Fratelli Tutti; Amoris Laetitia; Global Compact on Education; Vatican II Reception; Ecumenical Dialogue; interreligious collaboration

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

Religious Converso Phenomenon

edited by Claude B. Stuczynski

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 32 | Submission Open

Keywords: Converso religiosities; Converso theologies; Crypto-Judaisms; Converso religious heterodoxy; Judaeo-Christian acculturation; syncretism; early-modern Iberian Catholicism; religious resistance and oral and written “ Marrano” traditions

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

Intersections of Religion and Law: Freedom, Social Change, and Human Rights

edited by Nadirsyah Hosen

submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 821 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious freedom; legal pluralism; human rights; secularism; constitutional law; social change; religion and gender; religious minorities; law and theology; health and religion; religious activism

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

African Religious Thought: A Dynamic Web of Traditions Impacting the Globe

edited by Ullrich Relebogilwe Kleinhempel and John Ayotunde (Tunde) Isola Bewaji

submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 526 | Submission Open

Keywords: African philosophy; African religion; African theology; divination; ritualistics; experience; syncretism; religion and culture

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

Wisdom Traditions, Religion, and the Global Era

edited by

Lavonna Lovern

submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 340 | Submission Open

Keywords: wisdom traditions; religion; spirituality; health; culture; community

Christian Movements, Media and Society in Modern America

edited by

Christina Littlefield

and Jason Guthrie

submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 32 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christian movements; media; society; politics; history

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

Creative Eco-Theology: Responding to the Ecological Crisis of Creation

edited by Tamás Kodácsy

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 43 | Submission Open

Keywords: eco-theology; ecological crisis; creation care; environmental ethics; ecological hermeneutics; sustainability

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

Divine Warfare, Heresy and Witchcraft: Connecting Witch Trials and Religious Persecutions in the Premodern World (to 1900)

edited by Gayle Brunelle

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 611 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious wars; divine warfare; witchcraft; witch trials; heresy; sorcery; state formation; confessionalization; traditional magic; traditional medicine; patriarchy; ethnic identity and magic; religious mysticism

Youth Ministry, Youth Work, and the Role Religion Plays in the Lives of Today’s Youth

edited by

Patrik C. Höring

and Fahimah Ulfat

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 605 | Submission Open

Keywords: youth ministry; youth work; religious development; faith; youth; Christian; Jewish; Muslim

Catholic Propaganda on the Frontiers: Evangelizing Pagans, Protestants, and Non-Believers in the 16th and 17th Centuries

edited by Manuel Mendez Alonzo and Gregor Pobežin

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 439 | Submission Open

Keywords: Catholic mission; comparative missionary endeavors; global religion; paganism and heresies; cultural adaptation

Christian Spirituality: Ancient Foundations, Modern Expressions

edited by

Les Hardin

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 176 | Submission Open

Keywords: spirituality; spiritual formation; discipleship; spiritual disciplines; new testament; Christianity; prayer; scripture; restoration; renewal

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

Divine Algorithms: Religion and Faith in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Xiaojun Ding

Young E. Rhee

Peter Harteloh

and

Balaganapathi Devarakonda

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence (AI); generative AI; AI ethics; AI and religion; AI and spirituality; digital religion; algorithmic; theology faith and the posthuman faith; transformation religious practice; AI in religious education

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

Christian–Muslim Encounters and Dialogues over the Centuries: The Christian–Muslim Relationship for Bringing Peace and Harmony

edited by

Robert Fastiggi

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

Keywords: Christian– Muslim interactions; Tawhid; dialogues; conflicts; peaceful coexistence; Qur’ anic perspectives on Christians; Christian perspectives on Muslims

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

Textual Embodiment: Ritual Praxis and Scriptural Hermeneutics in Hindu Traditions

edited by

Ferdinando Sardella

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open

Keywords: bhakti; yoga; Vaiṣṇavism; Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism; Hinduism; lived religion; ritual studies; embodiment; hermeneutics; text and practice; pilgrimage; Kīrtana; performance; theology; Indian philosophy; transnational Hinduism

Music as a Ritual Practice in Religious Contexts

edited by

Martin Hoondert

and Hanna Rijken

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 1196 | Submission Open

Keywords: music; ritual; religion; liturgy; worship; embodiment; sound; sacrality; participation; tradition; innovation

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

The Nature of Religion in Ancient Egypt

edited by

Antonio Muñoz Herrera

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 293 | Submission Open

Keywords: anthropology of religion; phenomenology; landscape archaeology; pyramid texts; ontological turn; kingship; Egyptian religion; funerary ritual; religious art; architecture of religion

Orthodox Spirituality: Fundaments and Contemporary Perspectives

edited by

Ştefan Iloaie

and Gabriel Noje

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 192 | Submission Open

Keywords: Orthodox spirituality; theosis; desert fathers; church fathers; Philokalia; spiritual healing; Christian asceticism; spiritual discernment; spiritual schools; contemporary Orthodox; spiritual figures

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

Religion and Violence in South Asia

edited by Leah M. Renold

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 75 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; violence; communalism; myth; nationalism; Hindutva; dehumanization

Symbolic Hermeneutics: Interpretations, Imaginaries, and Surpluses of Meaning

edited by Joaquín Esteban Ortega

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open

Keywords: symbolic hermeneutics; religion and culture; myth and meaning; sacred and symbolic; philosophical anthropology; hermeneutics of the body; symbolic imagination; transdisciplinarity; reason and mystery; spiritual interpretation

(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 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4913 | Submission Open

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

Theology and Interpretation of the Gospel of Mark: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Perspectives

edited by C. Clifton Black

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 231 | Submission Open

Keywords: the Bible; New Testament; the Gospel of Mark; Biblical theology; early church; history of biblical interpretation; history of Christian thought; literary and sociological interpretations of the Bible; reception of biblical literature in the arts; lived religion

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

Modernity and Its Discontents: Religion, Social Life, and the Politics of Diversity Culture Wars in a Global Perspective

edited by

Celso Sánchez Capdequí

Zakaria Sajir

and Pablo Echeverría-Esparza

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 188 | Submission Open

Keywords: culture wars; multiple modernities; multiple secularisms; religion and diversity; global governance; identity politics; secularism; pluralism; intersectionality; conflict

Walking, Wandering, and Journeying: Approaches from Chinese and Greek Thought

edited by

Dimitra Amarantidou

and

Thomas Michael

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 111 | Submission Open

Keywords: Chinese philosophy; Greek philosophy; comparative philosophy; way or path (Dao; odos); walking; wandering; journey; self-cultivation

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

Faith, Doubt, and the Rationality of Theistic Belief: Analytic and Continental Perspectives

edited by

Lubos Rojka

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open

Keywords: theistic belief; epistemic justification; reformed epistemology; evidentialism; faith and doubt; phenomenology of religion; continental philosophy; analytic philosophy; rationality; metaphilosophy

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

Christian and Muslim Communities and Interactions in the Balkans and Eastern Europe

edited by

Petko Hristov

and Mila Maeva

submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 1326 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christianity; Islam; local and transnational communities; interactions; Balkans; coexistences; conflicts

Spiritual Care and Bioethics: Exploring Theological Perspectives and Practical Applications

edited by

Gusztáv Kovács

and Matyas Szalay

submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 345 | Submission Open

Keywords: bioethics; religion; spirituality; medical ethics; ecological ethics; principlism; clinical chaplaincy; beginning-of-life questions; end-of-life questions; neuroethics

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

Ecclesiological Legacy of the Second Vatican Council in Light of Contemporary Challenges

edited by Alenka Arko

submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open

Keywords: Second Vatican Council; mystery-based ecclesiology; communion; hierarchical structure of the Church; synodality; accountability; contextual reception of the Council; missionary conversion; dialogue

Jewish Women Thinkers in the Face of Shoah and Its Aftermath

edited by Orietta Ombrosi

submission deadline 5 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 43 | Submission Open

Keywords: Jewish thought; gender difference; Jewish feminism; Shoah; antisemitism; violence; history & Judaism; 20th- and 21st-century philosophy

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

Hebrew Bible in the Ancient Near Eastern Context

edited by

Jose Andrés Sánchez Abarrio

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open

Keywords: the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near-East; comparative studies; extra-canonical parallels; ANE comparative literature; intertextuality; Ancient Near-Eastern Literature

Practice of Religious Media in the Twenty-First Century

edited by Thomas Jerome Sienkewicz

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 421 | Submission Open

Keywords: broadcasting media; social media; Facebook; Twitter; YouTube; Instagram; religious media; religious television; religious radio

Creating a Robust Spirituality in Family and Relational Life in a Challenging World

edited by Suzanne Coyle

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 248 | Submission Open

Keywords: family; relationship; spirituality

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

Polemics and Conversion: Setting and Crossing Boundaries in Medieval Jewish–Christian Relations

edited by Eveline Brugger

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 75 | Submission Open

Keywords: Middle Ages; Jewish history; conversion; polemics; Jewish– Christian relations

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

New Images of God in Contemporary Physics, Quantum Metaphysics, and Theism: Quantum God, Emptiness, Consciousness, and Energy

edited by

Paolo Di Sia

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 551 | Submission Open

Keywords: (quantum) God; (quantum) vacuum; modern/contemporary physics; (quantum) metaphysics; theism; mind and matter; mindfulness and consciousness; synchronicity; holism; eastern religions

Out of Religion: Leaving Faith as a Form of Migration

edited by Aviad Moreno and Mordy Miller

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 44 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious disaffiliation; Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy (Haredi); migration theory; push– pull factors; acculturation; liminality; identity reconstruction; social integration; health and well-being; support networks

Religion, Marriage, and Family: Elements of Human Flourishing

edited by Joseph C. Atkinson

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 49 | Submission Open

Keywords: marriage and family; human flourishing; individualism and freedom; theology and sociology; gender identity and social change

After the Arab Spring: Reassessing the Religious Landscape in Tunisia’s Democratic Journey and Societal Debates

edited by

Zouhir Gabsi

submission deadline 30 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 58 | Submission Open

Keywords: Tunisia; Arab Spring; Ennahda; Islam; democracy; cultural hybridity; Tunisian youth; globalization; glocality; cultural hybridity; religiosity

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

Historical Erasure in the Context of Religion

edited by Karen McCluskey and Karen Pack

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 172 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious history; queer history; LGBTQIA+ experience; gender; marginalization; Indigenous history; history of disability

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

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