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Radical Embodiment and Religious Practice and Thought: Rethinking the Body in Religious Studies and Theology

edited by

David H Nikkel

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 253 | 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)

Science, Religion, and Health—Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Flourishing

edited by

Jiwon Shim

Piotr Roszak

and

Saša Horvat

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 204 | Submission Open

Keywords: health; well-being; religion; science; medicine; philosophy; ethics; spirituality; human flourishing; holistic care

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 188 | 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)

Religions in Colonial Korea: Traditions, Reconfigurations, and New Beginnings

edited by

Seong Uk Kim

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 158 | 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)

Religionizing Confucianism: Ritual, Transcendence, and Social Formations in East Asia

edited by Qiyong Guo and

Vincent Goossaert

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 110 | Submission Open

Keywords: Confucianism as religion; rujia and rujiao; inner transcendence; sanjiao heyi (unity of three teachings); ritual and social organization; local cults and popular religion; art; materiality; and sacred space

(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 98 | Submission Open

Keywords: Brueggemann; covenant; imagination; memory; rhetoric; royal ideology

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

The Sacred and the Secular: Perspectives and Methodologies in Religious Studies

edited by

Kai Sheng

and

Yifeng Liu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 54 | Submission Open

Keywords: sacred and secular; religious methodology; religious anthropology; myth and history; hermeneutics of religion; political theology; comparative religion

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

Comparative Theology—Hindu–Christian Relations

edited by

John Cappucci

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 31 | Submission Open

Keywords: Hindu– Christian relations; comparative theology; interfaith dialogue

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

Constructive Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pauline Theology

edited by

Michael Reardon

submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2417 | 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 106 | 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

Richard Schaefer

submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open

Keywords: catholicity; christianity; church; universal church; global christianity; ecumenical dialogue

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

Piety and Ethical Foundations in Islamic Moral Economy

edited by

Alija Avdukic

Fawad Khaleel

and Tareq Moqbel

submission deadline 10 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 1669 | 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

Materiality and Gender Constructs in Hagiography: Saints and Sacred Space

edited by Michelle M. Sauer

submission deadline 14 Jul 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3745 | Submission Open

Keywords: materiality; gender; sexuality; hagiography; saints; sacred space

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

Religion and Creativity

edited by

Christopher Hartney

submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3122 | Submission Open

Keywords: creativity; sacred creativity; play; invention; innovation; blasphemy

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

Modern Jewish Thought and Philosophy

edited by

Ephraim Meir

and Hanoch Ben Pazi

submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 168 | 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 110 | Submission Open

Keywords: synodality; theology; sacramental renewal; mission; interdisciplinarity; ecclesial transformation

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

Hinduism: Belief and Practices Within the Family

edited by Mugdha Yeolekar

submission deadline 20 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 26 | Submission Open

Keywords: Hinduism; family rituals; domestic religion; everyday religiosity; belief and practice; India

Religious Ethics and Theology in Contemporary Human Life

edited by

SimonMary Asese A. Aihiokhai

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2806 | 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

Rachid El Hour

and Manuela Marín

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 229 | 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 832 | Submission Open

Keywords: mysticism; women; early modern; medieval; neurology; saint; Islam; Catholicism; Quakerism

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

Religion and Media Cultures in the Digital Public Sphere

edited by

Dilyana Mincheva

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 314 | 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)

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 279 | 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)

Embodiment, Sport and Spiritual Traditions

edited by Patrick Kelly, SJ

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

Keywords: lived religion; embodiment; play; sport; spirituality

The Theological Legacy of Pope Francis

edited by Gerard Kevin Whelan

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 102 | 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 88 | 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)

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

edited by Jina Kang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 77 | Submission Open

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

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

Feminist Theologies and Social Engagement: Justice, Inclusion, and Community Practice

edited by

Silvia Martínez Cano

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open

Keywords: feminist theology; postcolonial theology; womanist theology; mujerista theology; inclusion; justice; beauty; ethics; feminist community practice; feminist pastoral theology

(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 952 | 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 679 | 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 369 | 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 104 | Submission Open

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

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

Migration and Religion: Exploring the Impacts and Challenges of Cross-Cultural Integration

edited by

Eduardo Duque

José Francisco Durán Vázquez

and Salam Al Rabadi

submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 34 | Submission Open

Keywords: migration; religion; cross-cultural integration; religious diversity; identity; social cohesion; intercultural dialogue; transnationalism; social inclusion

(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 10 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3300 | Submission Open

Keywords: science; theology; creation; cosmology; evolution; artificial intelligence; epistemology; metaphysics; Stanley Jaki; Ian Barbour

Yijing's Cosmology–Divination–Ethics Continuum: The Sacred Intercourse of Yin-Yang and the Manifestation of Tian-Di

edited by Solsar Kong, Zhenyu Zeng, Qiuli Li and Lili Zhang

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open

Keywords: Yijing; tian-di; yin-yang; divination; ethics

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

Adolescent Flourishing: Theological and Educational Approaches to Supporting Catholic Youth

edited by Cynthia L. Cameron

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 32 | Submission Open

Keywords: adolescence; flourishing; Catholic church; Catholic schools; Catholic theology

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

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

edited by

Tamás Kodácsy

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

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

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

Explorations into Yan Zun’s Edition and Commentary to the Daodejing: Laozi Zhigui

edited by

Thomas Michael

and

Misha Tadd

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3448 | Submission Open

Keywords: Yan Zun; Laozi zhigui; Laozi Daodejing; Daoist religion and philosophy

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 690 | Submission Open

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

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 670 | 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

, Fahimah Ulfat and

Sandra Anusiewicz-Baer

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 630 | Submission Open

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

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 276 | 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 Spirituality: Ancient Foundations, Modern Expressions

edited by

Les Hardin

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 213 | 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)

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 203 | 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 95 | 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

Dialogues on Mysticism and Grace in the Christian Traditions

edited by

Marek Chmielewski

and Adam Rybicki

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 46 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christian mysticism; grace; mystical experience; spiritual theology; mistology; typology of mysticism; mystical phenomena; Marian mysticism

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

Digitalizing Religious Education in Global Perspectives

edited by Britta Baumert and Christine Wenona Hoffmann

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 41 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital religious education; digitality and religion; digital transformation of religious education

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

The Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ: Tradition and Postmodern Approaches

edited by Radu Petre Muresan

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 12 | Submission Open

Keywords: death and resurrection of Jesus Christ; postmodernism; history of Christianity; Christian faith; theological debates; biblical and patristic studies

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

Music as a Ritual Practice in Religious Contexts

edited by

Martin Hoondert

and Hanna Rijken

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 1309 | 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 369 | 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 234 | 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)

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