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Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts

edited by Maria Luisa Jacquinet

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 166 | Submission Open

Keywords: women’ s religious life; early modern Western world; council of Trent; papal enclosure; contemplative life; apostolic life; religious vows; education; charitable work; monasteries; houses of retreat; beaterio; third orders; ecclesiastical authority; women’ s religious life in European colonial territories

Symbolic Hermeneutics: Interpretations, Imaginaries, and Surpluses of Meaning

edited by Joaquín Esteban Ortega

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 122 | 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)

Religion and Violence in South Asia

edited by Leah M. Renold

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open

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

Climate and Creation: Theological Responses to the Anthropocene

edited by Clive Pearson

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 31 | Submission Open

Keywords: Anthropocene; creation; providence; theodicy; eschatology; Zalasiewicz; multidisciplinary; intersectionality

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

Science, Technology, and Religious Belief: A Dialectical Discussion

edited by Marek Słomka and

Arkadiusz Gut

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: theological anthropology; artificial intelligence and spirituality; mind– body dualism; human uniqueness; soul and personhood; religion and environment; theology and science; technology and transcendence

Engaged Spiritualities: Theories, Practices, and Future Directions

edited by

Stefano Sbalchiero

and

Giuseppe Giordan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6019 | 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 278 | 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 226 | 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 180 | 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)

Reinterpreting the Bible: Intercultural Approaches to Biblical Hermeneutics

edited by Larry W. Caldwell

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 154 | Submission Open

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

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

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

edited by

Lubos Rojka

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 125 | 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)

Mendicant Networks and Mobility in the Global Medieval and Early Modern Worlds

edited by

Anna Busquets Alemany

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

Keywords: mendicant orders; Franciscans; Dominicans; missionary activity; mobility networks; medieval history; early modern history; material culture; knowledge circulation; cross-cultural interaction; religious exchange

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

Histories of Islamic Civilizations

edited by

Rüdiger Lohlker

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islamic Civilizations; technology and religion; (Post-)Colonialism; Islamic Law; Sufism; bodies

(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 1346 | 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 383 | 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 184 | 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

The Interplay of Religion, Media, and Politics in the Digital Age

edited by Stefan Bratosin and Mihaela-Alexandra Tudor

submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 115 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious and political mediatization; artificial intelligence and symbolic power; media visibility and legitimacy; religion– politics– media entanglement; critical methodologies in communication

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

Jewish Women Thinkers in the Face of Shoah and Its Aftermath

edited by Orietta Ombrosi

submission deadline 5 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 118 | 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)

Faith, Communication, and Culture: Ecumenism in Religion and Theology

edited by Nicu Dumitrascu

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 31 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christian unity; the “ little way” of ecumenism; contemporary secularism; countercultural revolution; theological communication; faith and reason; transmission of faith; public discourse; confessional language; reconciliation; interconfessional marriage

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

Hebrew Bible in the Ancient Near Eastern Context

edited by

Jose Andrés Sánchez Abarrio

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 117 | 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 452 | Submission Open

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

Reimagining Protestant Theology: The Asian Experience and Christian Tradition

edited by

Shinhyung Seong

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 335 | 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

Iakovos Potamianos

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 294 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious architecture; sacred buildings; space and form; philosophical concepts; theological concepts

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

edited by Suzanne Coyle

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 281 | 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 112 | 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 597 | Submission Open

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

Language and Religion: Multilingual Perspectives on Contemporary Theolinguistics

edited by Jonathan M. Watt

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 270 | Submission Open

Keywords: linguistics; language; dialect; register; style; religion; spirituality

Out of Religion: Leaving Faith as a Form of Migration

edited by Aviad Moreno and Mordy Miller

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 105 | 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

From World Catholicism to the Emergence of Global Catholicism, 1800–2025: Encounters and Transformations

edited by Raffaella Perin

submission deadline 10 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 64 | Submission Open

Keywords: global Catholicism; Catholic internationalism; missionary networks; transnational circulation; inculturation; ecclesiological transformation; media and religion; interreligious relations; center-perophery relations; Vatican II

Religion in 20th- and 21st-Century Fictional Narratives

edited by Thomas Jerome Sienkewicz

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1640 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and literature; modern religious narrative; religion in fictional narrative

Indigenous Conversion(s) to Islam: Causes, Processes, and Consequences

edited by Ayca Arkilic

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 1182 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islam; indigenous; conversion; intersectionality; colonialism; discrimination; interaction

Religion, Marriage, and Family: Elements of Human Flourishing

edited by Joseph C. Atkinson

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open

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

Fate and Providence in Ancient Greek Philosophy as a Way of Life and a Religious Quest

edited by

David Torrijos-Castrillejo

and

Miguel Martí

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 97 | Submission Open

Keywords: fate; providence; divine foreknowledge; determinism; free will; divination; fortune; causality; contingent future; necessity; ethics; divinity; worship

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

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 108 | 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 209 | 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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