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Kant’s Critique of Rational Theology and His Project of Moral Religion
edited by Kezheng Li
submission deadline 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 434 | Submission Open
Keywords: Kant; rational theology; moral religion; moral argument; radical evil
Devotion Practice and Performative Expression in the Religious Art of Medieval Europe
edited by Barbara Crostini and Vlad Bedros
submission deadline 19 May 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13893 | Submission Open
Keywords: medieval art; materiality; performance; devotion; museum studies; iconoclasm; Byzantium
Light from the East: The Catholic Eastern Churches Sixty Years After Vatican II
edited by Ines Angeli Murzaku and Ana Victoria Sima
submission deadline 19 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4120 | Submission Open
Keywords: Eastern Catholic Church; latinized ecclesiology; patriarchates; synodality in Eastern Catholic Churches; Roman-Latin Church synodality; Pope Francis; Patriarch of the West; development of collegiality; Vatican II; Eastern Orthodox Churches; church unity and theological reconciliation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Inter-Religious Encounters in Architecture and Other Public Art
edited by Timothy Parker
submission deadline 25 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6262 | Submission Open
Intellectual Crossroads: Religion, Knowledge, and Science in the Early Modern World
edited by Andrew Keitt and Ismael del Olmo
submission deadline 25 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2432 | Submission Open
Keywords: knowledge; science and religion; preternatural; superstition; astrology; cosmology; physico-theology; scientific revolution
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Breath of Life: Black Spirituality in Everyday Life
edited by Brianne Painia and
submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 246 | Submission Open
Keywords: employment of Black faith practices; expansions and/or reflections; Black secular life; spiritual practices and rituals in Black life; African and Pan-African-informed spiritual traditions
On the Font: Human Nature Seen Through Baptism and the Baptismal Font
edited by Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen and Line M. Bonde
submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 223 | Submission Open
Keywords: baptism; iconography; liturgy; material culture; ontology; sacred space
How Christianity Affects Public Policy submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12757 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; economics; political science; political philosophy; public Health; government; social welfare and social work; sociology & social history; law; education
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Religion and Politics: Historical Developments and Contemporary Transformations
edited by , and Mark Brockway
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 11394 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and politics; secularism; religious identities; law and public policy; political theology; nationalism; culture wars; religious demography
New Work on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 9975 | Submission Open
Keywords: Ludwig Wittgenstein; philosophy of religion; religious belief; religious language; religious point of view; ethics; faith; form of life; cognitivism; fideism; John Henry Newman; Kierkegaard; Tolstoy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Examining Religion's Influence in Non-formal and Informal Educational Contexts: Beliefs, Practices and Narratives
edited by and Marco Guglielmi
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6303 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and education; non-formal and informal educational contexts; learning society and religion; religious education; religious literacy; education and religious change; religious and secular narratives; interreligious dialogue and education
Intersections of Religiousness/Spirituality and Forgiveness and Implications for Mental Health and Well-Being submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4370 | Submission Open
Keywords: forgiveness; mental health; well-being; self-forgiveness; personal resources; faith; religiosity; trauma
Theological Reflections on Moral Theories
edited by
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2970 | Submission Open
Keywords: moral principles; normativity; theistic ethics; moral theology; value theory; well-being; rights; divine commands
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Dolls and Idols: Critical Essays in Neo-Animism
edited by Fabio Gygi and
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1931 | Submission Open
Keywords: animism; neo-animism; dolls; idols; relationality; attachment
Advancing the Study of Religion and International Relations: Thirty Years After Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" (1993, 1996)—A Critical Evaluation and Appraisal of the Current State of Art submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1341 | Submission Open
Keywords: international Relations; religion; culture; identity; regionalism; clash of civilizations; Huntington; ambivalence of the sacred
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Casta Meretrix: The Paradox of the Christian Church Through History submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1216 | Submission Open
Keywords: christianity; ecumenical councils; apostolic succession; monasticism; constantinian shift; great schism; reformation; canon law; nicene creed; sacraments; orthodoxy; heresiology; iconoclasm; mysticism; missionary movements; church-state relations; crusades
Geopolitics and Religion(s): Neglected Topics in the Current World Crisis
edited by Vendulka Kubalkova and Renat Shaykhutdinov
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 930 | Submission Open
Keywords: beyond religion as soft power only; religion(s) and geopolitics; against west-and Euro-centrism; international political theology and geopolitics; the ‘ holy’ and ‘ mundane’ in world politics; competing and complementary narratives in religion and geopolitics; strategic narratives in international relations (IR) sharp and smart power in IR; BRICS
Contemporary Christian Worship: Origins, Theory and Practice
edited by
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 913 | Submission Open
Keywords: liturgy; worship music; theology of worship; Christian rituals; worship innovation; cultural context; liturgical history; worship practices; ecclesiology; digital worship
Soteriological and Ethical Dimensions of Forgetting in Asian Thought
edited by Youru Wang
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 612 | Submission Open
Keywords: Asian religions; Asian philosophies; forgetting; forgetfulness; memory; therapy; ethics; soteriology
Rabbinic Thought between Philosophy and Literature
edited by Sergey Dolgopolski
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 573 | Submission Open
Keywords: rabbinics; Talmud; midrash; comparative literature; continental philosophy; history of mind and mental states; word-image-concept; noetics; Jewish literature; Jewish thought; Late Antiquity and Middle Ages; history and theory of thought
Religious Transmission Across Generations: Challenges, Continuities, and Changes
edited by Christel Gärtner and
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 568 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious transmission; young peoples belief; nones; atheism; cultural religion; religious education; religious institutions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Pagan Revival Movements in Scandinavia and Baltics: A Study of Ancient Religion in Modern Times
edited by Dalia Senvaitytė
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 425 | Submission Open
Keywords: ancient religion; Baltic religion; Norse religion; neo-paganism; modern paganism; pagan revival; cultural heritage; cultural memory; religious movements; modern identity; spiritual traditions; modern spirituality; (re)constructions of historical traditions
Ancient Cult and Modern Methods: Unearthing the Religions of Ancient Israel and the Surrounding Cultures
edited by Stephanie Selover and Monique Roddy
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 364 | Submission Open
Keywords: Israel; Levant; Iron Age I; Iron Age II; religious architecture; religious practices; feasting; material culture of religion
Emerging Trends in Congregational Engagement and Leadership submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1549 | Submission Open
Keywords: congregations; religious leadership; clergy; COVID-19; climate change; immigration; demographics; globalization; race/ethnicity; religious nationalism
Studies on Medieval Liturgy and Ritual
edited by Eva-Maria Butz
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 1100 | Submission Open
Keywords: liturgy; ritual; ceremony; correctness; mediality; materiality; space; music; gender
The Politics of Digital Religiosities
edited by Anustup Basu
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 973 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital religion; digital politics; neopaganism; digital fundamentalisms; social media studies; minoritarian politics; majoritarian politics; religious nationalism; media and politics
Resilience: Orthodox Theology and Spirituality Engaging in Dialogue with Postmodern Society
edited by Ivana Noble and Zdenko Širka
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 422 | Submission Open
Keywords: Orthodox theology; Orthodox spirituality; postmodern society
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Tracing Early Monastic Culture: Books and Authority in New Textual Communities
edited by Andreas Westergren and Katarina Pålsson
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 254 | Submission Open
Keywords: monastic authority; Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; textual culture; textual communities; textual transmission; translation practices; rewriting
Religious Phenomena in Romania in the 20th and Early 21st Centuries
edited by Razvan Brudiu and Mihail K. Qaramah
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 193 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious freedom; state– church relationship; communism; mysticism; religious nationalism; religious renewal
Topography of Mind
edited by Eugene Y. Wang
submission deadline 5 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 1332 | Submission Open
Keywords: Buddhist art; landscapes of the psyche; tangible edifices; sacred space; intangible states of consciousness
Otherness-Reception and Self-Rediscovery in the Dialogue and Comparative Study of Christianity and Buddhism
edited by
submission deadline 10 Jun 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 15153 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christianity; Buddhism; comparative study; inter-faith dialogue; theologian; master; cultural difference; divinity; reality; morality; self-understanding; otherness-reception; benefit; consummate
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Theology and the Arts: Embodied Belief submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6168 | Submission Open
Keywords: theology and the arts; ritual; embodiment; performance; incarnation; liturgical studies
Fate in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Religion
edited by and Jorge Luis Gutiérrez
submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5604 | Submission Open
Keywords: fate; providence; foreknowledge; determinism; free will; divination; fortune; causality; contingent future; necessity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Race, Religion, and Ethnicity: Critical Junctures submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4103 | Submission Open
Keywords: race; religion; ethnicity; governance; human; activism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
On the Origins of Western Psychedelia: Exploring Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
edited by J. Christian Greer and Sharday C. Mosurinjohn
submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 608 | Submission Open
Keywords: psychedelia; John M. Allegro; The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Spirituality and Mental Health in Secular Societies
edited by Johnny Ramírez-Johnson and Héctor Luis Díaz
submission deadline 20 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 338 | Submission Open
Keywords: spirituality; religion; mental health; psychology; social work; marriage and family therapy; counseling; pastoral care; chaplaincy
Ethical Concerns in Early Confucianism
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 29828 | Submission Open
Keywords: early Confucianism; ethical concerns; classical text; representative; ethical argument; ethical debate
Global Catholicism
edited by Bryan Froehle and Massimo Faggioli
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13920 | Submission Open
Keywords: case study; catholicity; circle method; culture; development of doctrine; ecclesiology; hermeneutics; intercultural theology; interdisciplinarity; method; methodology; Missio Dei; missiology; political economy; practical theology; sensus fidelium; sensus fidelium fidei; synodality; world Christianity; world regions
Asceticism, Mysticism, and the Affirmation of the World in Christianity and Islam submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11530 | Submission Open
Keywords: asceticism; mysticism; comparative theology; comparative religions; Christianity; Islam; Sufism
Engaging Religious Plurality within Australian and New Zealand Catholic Schools: Particularity in Dialogue with Diversity
edited by William Sultmann, Peta Goldburg and David Hall
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10024 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious education; Catholic school curriculum; religious plurality; innovation; mission
Religion and/of the Future submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9585 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; spirituality; future; technology; artificial intelligence; virtual reality; new religious movements; neuroscience; brain; well-being
Reassessing Religion and Social Movements: From Rebellious Clergy to Counter-Hegemonic Theology and Praxis
edited by and Anh Susann Pham Thi
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6277 | Submission Open
Keywords: new religious movements; progressive religious movements; emancipatory religion; progressive priests; progressive clerics; theology of liberation; religious change; religion and politics
Conflict and Integration of Confucianism and Religions in Modern Japan
edited by Haozhi Dong and Lianxing Qin
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4812 | Submission Open
Keywords: Confucianism; Shinto; Buddhism; Christianity; emerging religions; religious ethics; religious practices; reformation; folk religion
Secularism in Social and Political Contexts: Contemporary Trends, Movements, and Ideas in the Middle East
edited by Gokhan Bacik and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2664 | Submission Open
Keywords: secularism and politics; the Middle East; islamism; secularism; secular political thought; social and political study of secularism; Arab nationalism and secular movements; left-wing politics and secular movements; transnational secular studies
Grief Care: Religion and Spiritual Support in Times of Loss
edited by Panagiotis Pentaris
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 2007 | Submission Open
Keywords: grief care; spiritual support; religious copying
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Religion, Culture and Spirituality in a Digital World
edited by , Miguel Ángel Motis Dolader and Carmen Herrando Cugota
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 879 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious mediatisation; communication and faith; religious culture; cyberphilosophy; cybertheology; digital religion; online religious practices; media influence on spirituality; virtual religious communities; theology and artificial intelligence
The Hebrew Bible: A Journey Through History and Literature
edited by Pierfrancesco Cocco
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 849 | Submission Open
Keywords: Hebrew Bible; ancient history; literary criticism; biblical theology; biblical narratives; biblical archaeology; biblical poetry; cultural studies; near eastern literature  
Ecclesiology in Context: Exploring the Historical, Cultural, and Theological Dimensions of the Church
edited by Csaba Fazekas
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 680 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecclesiology; church images; self-images of christian churches; images of others’ churches; schisms; impact of historical changes on the interpretation of the church; conflicts of church images
Folk Religion in the Ancient Levant and Mediterranean
edited by Baruch Halpern, Tyler Kelley and Amanda Walls
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 624 | Submission Open
Keywords: folk religion; domestic religion; folk theology; material culture; Bible; Levant; Judah; Israel; Greece; Anatolia; Bronze Age; Iron Age; Archaic Period
Classical Arabic Texts and the Pre-Modern Islamic Rhetorical Tradition: Rethinking the Qur’an and Early Arabic Poetry as Cultural Foundations
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 499 | Submission Open
Keywords: Qur’ an; pre-Islamic poetry; Umayyad poetry; classical Arabic poetry; Qur’ anic rhetoric; rhetoric of pre-and early Islamic poetry; Arabic cultural heritage; comparative literary analysis; classical Arabic lexicon; interrelationship between Qur’ anic and classical literary texts
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