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Between Judaism and Hellenism: The Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire and Its Development in Late Antiquity

edited by

Arnaldo Marcone

and Patrizia Arena

submission deadline 15 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 148 | Submission Open

Keywords: Hellenism; Christianity; Paul; Judaism; Mithraism; Early Roman Empire; Late Antiquity

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

Spirituality, Mental Health and Education in the Spanish-Speaking World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

edited by

Rafael López-Cordero

and

María del Carmen Olmos-Gómez

submission deadline 15 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 109 | Submission Open

Keywords: faith; psychology; religiosity; spirituality; mental health; education; well-being; beliefs

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

Violence, Sacrifice, and the Sacred: Religious Origins and Modern Reflections

edited by Giuseppe Fornari, Marco Stucchi and Andrea Basso

submission deadline 15 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; sacrifice; death of God; humanity; mythology; symbolic order

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

Interpreting Religion: Philosophy, History, and Textual Studies in a Changing World

edited by Marya Alhattali, Mohammed Al-Azeezi, Mohamad Abdullah Alsaied and

Mohammed Khalid Rhazzali

submission deadline 15 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 88 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious studies; theology and kalam; philosophy of religion; interfaith dialogue; religious diversity; comparative religion; religious anthropology; hermeneutics and textual studies; religion and science; coexistence and tolerance

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

Behind the Veil: Gender, Religion, and Power in the 21st Century

edited by Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh

submission deadline 20 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 756 | Submission Open

Keywords: hijab/veiling; patriarchy/patriarchal control; bodily autonomy; personal choice/agency; internalized patriarchl norms; identity; discrimination; social exclusion; muslim women

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

Religion and Relationality: Discernment, Ethics and Human Flourishing

edited by

Wojciech Sadlon

submission deadline 24 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 63 | Submission Open

Keywords: relationality; religion; discernment; ethics; human flourishing; religious experience; social agency; subjectivity; moral formation; lived religion

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

Religious Art of the Renaissance

edited by Bonnie Noble

submission deadline 27 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 593 | Submission Open

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

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

Religious Ethics and Theology in Contemporary Human Life

edited by

SimonMary Asese A. Aihiokhai

submission deadline 30 Mar 2027 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7181 | 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)

The Buddhist-Christian Dialogue and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations

edited by

Shiying Zhang

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1555 | Submission Open

Keywords: buddhist–christian dialogue; mutual civilizational learning; religions and cultures; comparative religion; comparative philosophy

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

Dialogues on Mysticism and Grace in the Christian Traditions

edited by

Marek Chmielewski

and Adam Rybicki

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1523 | 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)

Religious Epistemology Across Traditions: Pluralism, Pragmatism and Beyond

edited by Walter Scott Stepanenko

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 589 | Submission Open

Keywords: epistemology of religion; philosophy of religion; comparative theology; interreligious theology; religious pluralism; multiple religious belonging; rationality; knowledge; justification

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

Oral Narrative Traditions and Performances in Islamicate Societies

edited by Hande Birkalan-Gedik and Erdoğan Gedik

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 466 | Submission Open

Keywords: oral tradition; narratives and performances; Islamicate societies; folklore; Sufism; Alevism; gender; digital media

Desecularization of Society and Politics

edited by

Piotr Musiewicz

and

Ignacio Sepúlveda

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open

Keywords: secularization; sociology of religion; politology of religion; religion and politics; post-secularity; public sphere; deprivatization of religion; religious nationalism

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

Ancient Greek Religion and Philosophy in the Context of Mutual Learning Between Eastern and Western Civilizations

edited by Zhimeng Lin and

Wei Hua

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 143 | Submission Open

Keywords: ancient Greek religion; ancient Greek philosophy; mediterranean civilizations; east-west civilizational exchange; ancient near east; ancient Egypt; Greek mythology; cosmology; soul and afterlife; Christian thought

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

Religiosity and Human Flourishing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Well-Being, Mental Health, and Meaning

edited by Benjamin R. Doolittle

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open

Keywords: religiosity; human flourishing; well-being; meaning in life; psychology of religion; spirituality; moral formation

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

Religion and Secularization: Perspectives from Political Science and Social Thought

edited by

Janusz Węgrzecki

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open

Keywords: contemporary world; multicultural contexts; relations between religion and secularization; religion; Christianity; Islam; Judaism; secularization; thought of religion

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

Human Dignity in Theory and Practise in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Lóránd Ujházi

and

Ádám Darabos

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open

Keywords: human dignity; human rights; theological anthropology; artificial intelligence; technological development; religious ethics; theological ethics

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

Gender, Intermediality, Confession—Religious Gender Norms Revisited

edited by Martina Bär and Benedikt Bauer

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 69 | Submission Open

Keywords: gender norms; intermediality; confession; religious studies; embodiment; media and religion; gender performativity; theology and gender; religious aesthetics; intersectionality

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

Kierkegaard's Legacy in Existential Phenomenology of Religion

edited by

Andrzej Słowikowski

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 45 | Submission Open

Keywords: Kierkegaard; phenomenology; existence; religious experience; religion; faith; transcendence; immanence

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

Negotiating Virtue: Prudent Women in the Bible and Beyond

edited by Tobias Nicklas,

Stephanie Hallinger

and

Osnat Emily Rance

submission deadline 1 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 160 | Submission Open

Keywords: biblical women; prudence (phronesis); gender and virtue ethics; agency in religious texts; post-biblical traditions; apocrypha and reception history; visual and material religion

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

Religious Communication in Times of Crisis, Conflict, and Transformation

edited by Brian Muzás and Matthew Emile Vaughan

submission deadline 1 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious communication; crisis; conflict; interfaith dialogue; pastoral care; spiritual care; public health; peacebuilding; faith-based organizations; transformation

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

Religion, Industrial Design, and Public Space

edited by

Alba Arboix-Alió

, Anna Majó-Rossell and

Oriol Ventura Rodà

submission deadline 15 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 205 | Submission Open

Keywords: public space; material culture; urban design; industrial design; urban elements; parish environments; contemporary uses, agency; relationality; visuality

Religious Communities and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Mónika Andok

Zoltán Szűts

and

Szilvia Dornics

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | 5 articles | Viewed by 24684 | 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

Experimental Theological Aesthetics

edited by Julio Bermudez and Matthew Niermann

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7943 | 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)

Inscriptions, Tablets, Ostraca, and Scrolls: Exploring the Intersection of Text, History, and the Material Culture Behind the Bible

edited by

Gad Barnea

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 623 | Submission Open

Keywords: inscriptions; ostraca; scrolls; tablets; Hebrew Bible; Aramaic; Greek; Akkadian; Hebrew; epigraphy; paleography; Judea; Samaria; Elephantine

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

Sacred Connections: The Rhetoric of African American Religion and the Digital Age

edited by

Solomon W. Cochren

and Christopher A. House

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 592 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; African American religion; African American studies; rhetoric; technology; digital media; cultural studies

Ritual Healing in Early East Asia

edited by

Eléonore Caro

and Constance Cook

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 312 | Submission Open

Keywords: ritual healing; ancient Asian medicine; transmission of local knowledge; artifacts

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

Body, Healing, and Religion in a Secular Age

edited by

Carmen Massé García

José María Pardo

and

Roberto Noriega Fernandez

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 248 | Submission Open

Keywords: body; healing; salvation; religion; corporeality; autonomy; hope; transhumanism; holistic care

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

Beyond the Human: Theological Perspective on Transhumanism and Posthumanism

edited by

Odilon-Gbènoukpo Singbo

and Ivana Greguric

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 140 | Submission Open

Keywords: theological anthropology; transhumanism; posthumanism; human dignity; artificial intelligence; artificial consciousness; human enhancement; religious traditions; embodiment; technology and religion

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

Religious Education of Children and Youth: Between Faith Formation and Personal Identity Development

edited by

Paola Dal Toso

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 135 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious education; faith formation; personal identity; childhood; adolescence; educational practices

Ancestral Communities and Global Chinese Religion

edited by Kenneth Dean

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 114 | Submission Open

Keywords: ancestral communities; migrating gods and ritual practices; Asian definitions of religion

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

Beyond the Mainstream: Forgotten Diasporas and the Plurality of Jewish Identities

edited by Edith Bruder

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open

Keywords: Jewish identity; mainstream Jewry; Jewish traditions; Jewish models; diasporas at the margins; cultural forms; plurality; polycentric phenomenon

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

Buddhist Art Along the Silk Road and Its Cross-Cultural Interaction

edited by

Liming Zhang

and Yinggang Sun

submission deadline 1 May 2027 | 9 articles | Viewed by 15365 | Submission Open

Keywords: Buddhist art; Asian civilizations; the Silk Road; mutual learning through exchange; Sinicization of Buddhism; Gandhara

Religion, Gender, and Health: Lived Experiences in Contemporary Communities

edited by

Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar

and Fany Yuval

submission deadline 15 May 2027 | Viewed by 120 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; gender; health; lived experiences; caregiving; communication; environmental responsibility; community well-being

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

Chatbots, LLMs, and Religion: Human Flourishing in an AI Age

edited by

Calvin Mercer

Randall Reed

and

Tracy J. Trothen

submission deadline 31 May 2027 | Viewed by 325 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; large language models; chatbots; religion; spirituality; human flourishing; digital afterlife; AI ethics; spiritual care; transhumanism

Heritage, Memory, and Reconfiguration: Religious Cultural Heritage of the Western Regions and the South China Sea

edited by

Zhongyue Guan

, Shubin Zhang and

Yun Ji

submission deadline 31 May 2027 | Viewed by 163 | Submission Open

Keywords: western regions; South China sea; religious cultural heritage; silk roads; Buddhist heritage; Nestorian and Islamic heritage; digital humanities

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

Reclaiming the Classroom: Radical Thinkers and Religious Education for a Radical Time

edited by

Barbara A. Fears

submission deadline 31 May 2027 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open

Keywords: critical pedagogy; conscientization; agency; emancipatory education; culturally relevant pedagogy; AI; cultural hegemony; othering; imperialism; decolonization

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

Revisiting Paul’s Hymn to Christ (Phil 2:5-11)

edited by Isaac Blois and Simon Walter Dürr

submission deadline 1 Jun 2027 | Viewed by 292 | Submission Open

Keywords: Philippians; New Testament; Christ Hymn; Christology; rhetorical criticism; New Testament theology; Kenosis; ethics; worship; New Testament use of the Old Testament

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

Women in Islam: Spirituality, Mysticism and the Occult

edited by

Amina Inloes

and Maryam Abbasi

submission deadline 1 Jun 2027 | Viewed by 201 | Submission Open

Keywords: women in Islam; Islamic spirituality; Sufism; Shi'ism; Islamic mysticism; Islamic esotericism; occult practices; gender and religion; spiritual authority; ritual and devotion

The Evolution of Chinese Buddhist Knowledge Systems

edited by

Wenli Fan

and

Kai Sheng

submission deadline 30 Jun 2027 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4092 | 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)

Faith in Motion: Christian Education and Faith Formation in Contexts of Migration and Displacement

edited by

Heesung Hwang

and

Sunghyun Lee

submission deadline 30 Jun 2027 | Viewed by 768 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christian education; faith formation; developmental theories; migration and displacement; intercultural theology; trauma-informed formation; postcolonial theology; border and belonging; diaspora churches; hospitality; resilience; theological pedagogy

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

Symbolism in the Post-Human Age: Between Tradition and Innovation

edited by

Vinicio Busacchi

and Annie Kunnath

submission deadline 30 Jun 2027 | Viewed by 362 | Submission Open

Keywords: symbols; hermeneutics; sacred texts; body art; tattoos; Ricoeur; Lyotard; Tillich; post-humanism

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

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

edited by Raffaella Perin

submission deadline 31 Jul 2027 | Viewed by 391 | Submission Open

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

Teaching Christian Doctrine in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era

edited by

José María Salvador-González

submission deadline 31 Jul 2027 | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christian doctrine; theology; Christology; Mariology; medieval liturgical hymns; catechetical strategies; Christian iconography; Christianity; patrology; church history; medieval culture; Christian society; popular devotion; religious experience; interdisciplinary studies; middle ages; modern era

(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 2027 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2301 | 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)

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

edited by C. Clifton Black

submission deadline 30 Sep 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1977 | 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)

The Multidimensional Development of Daoism During the Wei-Jin Dynasties

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Oct 2027 | Viewed by 398 | Submission Open

Keywords: Wei-Jin Dynasties; Xuanxue; religious Daoism; three teachings; chinese intellectual history; Daoist commentaries; Waidan (external alchemy); comparative philosophy; Daoist scriptures; state–religion relations

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

The Interplay of Religious Theology and Music: Exploring Worship and Expression

edited by

Shawn David Young

and

Kelsey Kramer McGinnis

submission deadline 31 Oct 2027 | Viewed by 368 | Submission Open

Keywords: music; religion; worship

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

Theology in Dialogue with Modern Science

edited by

John A. Bloom

submission deadline 1 Nov 2027 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open

Keywords: science; religion; Christianity; natural theology; evolution; naturalism; cosmology

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

Ecology and the Sacred: Towards a Sacramental Vision of the Cosmos

edited by Miguel Escobar Torres and

Francisco Javier Rubio Hípola

submission deadline 28 Nov 2027 | Viewed by 4 | Submission Open

Keywords: sacred ecology; sacramental cosmology; disenchantment; re-enchantment; cosmic liturgy; ecological imagination; premodern cosmologies; patristic and medieval thought; ecology and ecclesiology; sacred ways of dwelling

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

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