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Buddhist Philosophy: Logic and Epistemology

edited by

Andrew Schumann

submission deadline 1 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 592 | Submission Open

Keywords: logic; hermeneutics; epistemology; cognition; Nāgārjuna; Dignāga; Dharmakīrti; Madhyamaka; Yogācāra; Abhidharma

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

Religion and Culture: Post-Christianity, Culture, Democracy, and Great Power Relations

edited by

G. Doug Davis

submission deadline 1 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 271 | Submission Open

Keywords: post-christianity; democracy; culture; great-power relations

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

edited by

Heesung Hwang

and

Sunghyun Lee

submission deadline 1 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 226 | 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)

Advances and Challenges in Pastoral Psychology

edited by

Teofil Tia

and

Ioana Cristina Todor

submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 404 | Submission Open

Keywords: pastoral psychology; digital pastoral care/tele-chaplaincy; trauma-informed ministry; positive psychology constructs; practical theology; clergy burnout; eco-psychology/creation care

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

Reframing Vodun: Imagery, Practice, and Performance

edited by Timothy R. Landry and

Sela Adjei

submission deadline 13 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open

Keywords: Vodú n; Vodou; Benin; Togo; Ghana; Haiti

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

Religion and Film in the 21st Century: Perspectives and Challenges

edited by Irena Sever Globan

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 435 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and film; transcendental style; theology and cinema; sacred and screen; religious aesthetics; spiritual expe-rience; media and religion; representation of religion; film and meaning; visual theology

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

Muslim Cultures of Care and the Fracture of Civil Society

edited by Kathleen M. Moore

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islamic ethics; moral economy; civil society; faith-based organizations; Muslims in diaspora; religion and governance; ethics of care; affective labor; spiritual care; pastoral care; intergenerational care; caring subjectivity

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

Religion and Restorative Justice

edited by Harold Dean Trulear

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 45 | Submission Open

Keywords: restorative justic; harmed party; responsible party; criminal justice reform; theological anthropology; redemption; punishment; accountability

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

Latin American Theology of Liberation in the 21st Century—2nd Edition

edited by

Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer

Alex Villas Boas

and

Peter Casarella

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1164 | Submission Open

Keywords: Latin American theology; theology of liberation; theology of the people; contextual theology; Pope Francis and Latin America; ecological theology; gender and theology; intercultural theology; social movements and religion

Critical Issues in Christian Ethics

edited by

Kenneth L. Waters

, Richard Rose and Sandra Morgan

submission deadline 23 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6112 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christian; conversion; discipleship; ethics; evil; faith; forgiveness; fruit of the spirit; God; gospel; good and bad; Heaven; Hell; holiness; justification; Jesus; judgment; justice; law; light; love; Paul; rebirth; religion; salvation; repentance; righteousness; right and wrong; Romans 12; sanctification; sin; the Ten Commandments; truth and lie; the Sermon on the Mount; works of the flesh

Family Health and Its Threats in the Physical, Mental, Religious–Moral, and Social Dimensions

edited by

Urszula Dudziak

and Piotr Guzdek

submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1308 | Submission Open

Keywords: religions; marriage; family; moral norms; health; raising; Christianity; Judaism; Islam; Hinduism; Buddhism

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

Religions and Society: Between Navigating Secularism and Lived Religion

edited by

Andrea Casavecchia

and Urszula Soler

submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 1077 | Submission Open

Keywords: spirituality; religions institutions and community; belief and technology; religions and IA; secularism and religion belonging

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

Body-Mind Relations and Ethical Living in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

edited by

Kai Sheng

and

Jing Guo

submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 218 | Submission Open

Keywords: body– mind relations; mind– nature theory; embodied cognition; history of Buddhist ideas and social life; morality and belief

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

Monastic Lives and Buddhist Textual Traditions in China and Beyond

edited by Limei Chi,

Zhiyuan Chen

and Dewei Zhang

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6117 | Submission Open

Keywords: monastic lives; Buddhist textual traditions; transmission and transformation of Buddhist texts; Buddhist manuscript culture; Buddhist biography and hagiography; Buddhist miracle tales

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

Continental Philosophy and Catholic Theology

edited by

Glenn Morrison

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3197 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christianity; Catholic; continental philosophy; theology; metaphysics; mystery; phenomenology; synodality; truth; wisdom

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

Exploring Free Will in Faith Traditions in Conversation with Contemporary Challenges

edited by Nazif Muhtaroglu and Safaruk Chowdhury

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1715 | Submission Open

Keywords: human will; human authonomy; decision-making; accountability; faith traditions; artificial intelligence; neuroscience; cognitive psychology

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

Meeting at the Crossroads: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion

edited by

Andre E. Johnson

and Denise Burgher

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 1674 | Submission Open

Keywords: rhetoric; race; religion; theology; rhetorical criticism; media; gender; religious communication; performance; social justice; social movements; political rhetoric

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

Sacred Algorithms: Religion in the Digital Age

edited by

Luís M. Figueiredo Rodrigues

and

Lana Kazkaz

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 890 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital religion; algorithms; artificial intelligence; faith and technology; spiritual mediation; online ritual; religious authority; cybertheology; digital culture; contemporary spirituality

The Encounter of Colonialism and Indian Religious Traditions

edited by Enrico Beltramini

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 780 | Submission Open

Keywords: India; religion; colonialism; mission; Christianity; Islam; Hinduism; assimilation; dialogue; practice; theology

The History of the Arabian Peninsula in the Early Islamic Centuries

edited by Ida Zilio-Grandi

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 719 | Submission Open

Keywords: Arabian Peninsula; early Islam; Rashidun Caliphate; Umayyad dynasty; Abbasid dynasty; Islamic conquests; Islamic society; political history; religious transformation; Arab empire; early Islamic thought; historical roots of Islam

Buddhist Meditation: Culture, Mindfulness, and Rationality

edited by

Heather Kempton

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 454 | Submission Open

Keywords: Buddhism; meditation; mindfulness; culture; psychology; philosophy; rationality; introspection; secularization; in-terdisciplinarity

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

Social Factors in Religions Converting: Focusing on the Social Group Disparities

edited by

Botos Máté

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 264 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; apostasy; conversion; social disparities; inclusion; social exclusion; identity; intersectionality

Classical and Alternative Conceptions of the Divine in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion

edited by

Jacek Wojtysiak

and

Miłosz Hołda

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 250 | Submission Open

Keywords: philosophy of religion; classical and non-classical [alternative] concepts of God; classical theism; pantehism; panenthiesm; polytheism; religious naturalism

Social Dimensions of Religion in the Age of De-Globalization

edited by

Myengkyo Seo

Amelia Burhan

and

Pradeep K. Das

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 229 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious majorities and minorities; migration; nationalism; gender; media; religious identity and identification

Revealing the Hidden: Apocryphal Texts and the Shaping of Religious Thought

edited by

Dorota Rojszczak-Robińska

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 190 | Submission Open

Keywords: apocrypha and pseudepigrapha; parabiblical tradition; biblical exegesis; devotional literature and culture

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

Religion and Conflict, Religion and Peace: Demystifying the Role of Religion in Conflict Dynamics

edited by

Jeremy A. Rinker

and Daniel Rhodes

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 190 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and conflict; religion and peacemaking; interfaith dialogue; interreligious contract; religious miltants; Countering Violent Extremism (CVE); conflict dynamics; values conflicts; belief/faith; peacebuilding

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

Landscape (山水) as Transcendent Existence

edited by Jingdong Qu and

Xi Ju

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 164 | Submission Open

Keywords: Shanshui; ritual sacrifice; sacred Grotto-Heavens; hermitism; folk religion; transcendence

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

Faith in Motion: Religious Perspectives on Immigration

edited by

Alexia Salvatierra

and Sam George

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

Keywords: migration; forced displacement; transnational faith; Christian nationalism; missiology; multifaith partnership; hospitality

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

Reinterpreting the Bible: Intercultural Approaches to Biblical Hermeneutics

edited by Larry W. Caldwell

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

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

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

Psychedelics and Religion

edited by

Hans Van Eyghen

submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8087 | Submission Open

Keywords: psychedelics; spirituality; meditation

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

Links Between Psychology/Psychiatry and Religion

edited by

Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca

submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 4459 | Submission Open

Keywords: psychology; psychiatry; religion; cooperation; interrelationship; obstacles; similarities; differences; convergencies

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

Between Soul and Algorithm: Religion and the Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

edited by Nuha Alshaar and

Hureyre Kam

submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 291 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; ethics; post- and transhumanism; religion; philosophy; theology; cultural relevance theory; peace studies; education; media; critical literacy; AI; smart government

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

Fasting, Renunciation, and Moderation in Early Christian Thought, Greco-Roman Culture, and the Abrahamic Traditions

edited by

Catalin-Stefan Popa

submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 244 | Submission Open

Keywords: fasting; moderation; renunciation; Early Christianity; classical culture; Abrahamic traditions; antiquity; asceticism; abstinence; simplicity; modesty

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

Forgiveness, Mercy & Reconciliation: Theological Insights from Pope Francis to Pope Leo XIV

edited by

Joshua Snyder

submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open

Keywords: Pope Francis; Pope Leo XIV; forgiveness; justice; mercy; reconciliation; nonviolent; peacebuilding; polarization; just war; tradition and nonviolence

Religious Nationalism in Contemporary Europe

edited by Reka Szilardi and

Tamás Szilágyi

submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and nationalism European politics; society Religion and identity

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

Systematic Theology as a Catalyst for Renewal in Catholic Education

edited by

Thomas V. Gourlay

submission deadline 10 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5159 | Submission Open

Keywords: Catholic education; systematic theology; trinitarian and relational ontologies; Catholic faith and culture; ecclesiology; religious education; catechesis

Divine Inspirations: Exploring Religious Themes in Female Visionary Writing of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

edited by María Del Mar Graña Cid

submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 242 | Submission Open

Keywords: female mysticism; visionary literature; women’ s religious writing; female authority; feminist theology; female prophetic voice; female thought

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

Modern Myths and National Narratives: Exploring the Role of Religions in Shaping Cultural Memory

edited by István Povedák and László-Attila Hubbes

submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 159 | Submission Open

Keywords: memory culture; religious nationalism; ethno-paganism; vernacular religion; alternative spiritualities; modern mythologies

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

Religion, Music, and Healthcare

edited by

Theodore W. Burgh

submission deadline 27 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 54 | Submission Open

Keywords: health; music; musical instruments; sound; healing; religion; spirituality

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

Religious Communities and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Mónika Andok

Zoltán Szűts

and

Szilvia Dornics

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9292 | 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

Witness of the Orthodox Church in the Political Context of the Secularized Modern State

edited by Paul Brusanowski and

Cristian-Sebastian Sonea

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4627 | Submission Open

Keywords: Church and state; missiology; Christian witness; Secularization; religious beliefs and practices; ecumenism; nationalisms; identities

Experimental Theological Aesthetics

edited by Julio Bermudez and Matthew Niermann

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1981 | 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)

Interfaith Encounters: Religious Polemics from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period—2nd Edition

edited by Golda Akhiezer

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1432 | Submission Open

Keywords: dialogue; religious polemics; apologetics; theology; methodology; typology

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

An Enduring Legacy: The Theology of Thomas Aquinas in Dialogue with the Contemporary Age

edited by

Piotr Roszak

and

Kenny Ang

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 673 | Submission Open

Keywords: Thomas Aquinas; Thomism; systematic theology; metaphysics; grace; natural law; virtue ethics; faith and reason; sacramental theology; contemporary theology

God, Logic and Language

edited by

Brian Huffling

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 372 | Submission Open

Keywords: concept of God; divine attributes; omnipotence; omniscience; eternity; language and theology; theism; existence of God

Sacred Geographies and Pilgrimage

edited by Dino Bozonelos

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 318 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; spirituality; pilgrimage; religious tourism; sacred sites; spiritual travel; religious travel

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

Magic, Religion, and Mysticism: Occult Traditions in Europe from Late Antiquity Through the Early Modern Period

edited by Martha Rampton

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

Keywords: magic; magical mysticism; occultism; late antique magic; early medieval magic; high medieval magic; late medieval magic; early modern magic; Renassaince magic

Religion and the State: Secularism, Identity, and the Politics of Exclusion

edited by Alberto Spektorowski

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 244 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and state; secularism and exclusion; religious nationalism; post-secular critiques

New Religious Movements in Historical and Political Contexts: Interactions, Conflicts, and Identities

edited by William Ashcraft

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 184 | Submission Open

Keywords: New Religious Movements; New Religious Studies; the history of NRMs; NRMs and politics; NRMs’ beliefs and practices

Life-and-Death Education at the Intersection of Public Theological and Secular Sciences

edited by

Francis-Vincent Anthony

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open

Keywords: life education; life and death education; public theology; secular sciences; human well-being; common good; intradisciplinarity; interdisciplinarity; transdisciplinarity

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