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Shaping Sacred Knowledge: The Transmission and Legacy of the Chinese Buddhist Canon

edited by

Zhouyuan Li

Jiang Wu

and

Darui Long

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5622 | Submission Open

Keywords: Chinese Buddhist Canon; Chinese Buddhism; East Asian Buddhism; canonical studies; religious texts; manuscripts and printed canons; multidisciplinary religious research; cultural interactions; digital humanities in religious studies; Buddhist material culture

Digital Religion in the Age of the Metaverse

edited by

Vincenzo Pace

and

Alessandra Vitullo

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 396 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital religion; metaverse; internet; sociology; online communication; digital humanities

Devotion Practice and Performative Expression in the Religious Art of Medieval Europe

edited by Barbara Crostini and Vlad Bedros

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 16845 | Submission Open

Keywords: medieval art; materiality; performance; devotion; museum studies; iconoclasm; Byzantium

Old Texts, New Insights: Exploring Buddhist Manuscripts

edited by

Soon-Il Hwang

and

Jaehee Han

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9601 | Submission Open

Keywords: Buddhist manuscripts; Sanskrit manuscripts; Chinese manuscripts; Dunhuang manuscripts; philological research; codicology; paleography; iconography; manuscript preservation; digitalizing manuscripts

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

Systematic Theology and Social Ethics: On the Unity of Theory and Praxis

edited by Miguel Escobar Torres and Matyas Szalay

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8611 | Submission Open

Keywords: systematic theology; community; society; ethics; practice; theory

Situating Religious Cognition

edited by

Timothy Stanley

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7684 | Submission Open

Keywords: situated cognition; extended mind theory; 4e cognition; phenomenology of religion; media studies; pragmatist studies of religion; hermeneutics; deconstruction

‘On the Lapsed’: Comparative Ethnographic Perspectives on ‘Lapsing’ among Christians around the World

edited by

Jianbo Huang

, Christine Lee and Carsten Vala

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4414 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christianity; religion; lapsing; membership

Consciousness between Science and Religion

edited by Sibylle Trawöger

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2364 | Submission Open

Keywords: consciousness; soul; body; mind; awareness; dialogue between science and religion; theological anthropology

Pilgrimage: Diversity, Past and Present of Sacred Routes

edited by Pedro Pereira and Marina Pignatelli

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2314 | Submission Open

Keywords: pilgrimage; transits to sacred places; culture; religiosity; syncretism; gender; power relations; economy

Spirituality, Culture, and Sustainability: Integrating Cultural Sensitivity into Responsible Religious Tourism

edited by

Tomasz Duda

and

Silvia Aulet

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 575 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious tourism; pilgrimage; sustainable development; cultural sensitivity; spirituality; religious sensitivity; regenerative tourism; accessible tourism; heritage; interpretation

The Bible in Person: Physiological Interpretations

edited by Bruce A. Lowe and Luke Irwin

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 533 | Submission Open

Keywords: hermeneutics; physiology; embodiment; Bible interpretation; theology

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

Accommodating the Other: Negotiating Christianity, Indigenous Practices, and Colonialism in the Jesuit Reductions

edited by Andres Prieto

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 217 | Submission Open

Keywords: Jesuit reductions; Indigenous cultures and Christianity; religious syncretism; missionary strategies in colonial Americas; cultural encounters in colonialism; Indigenous agency and resistance; baroque art and sacred music in missions

Religion, Mobility, and Transnational History

edited by Anthony Miller

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2281 | Submission Open

Keywords: pilgrims; mobility; transnational turn; refugees; missionaries; migrants; border crossing; orthodoxy; cultural adaptation

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

Tracing Early Monastic Culture: Books and Authority in New Textual Communities

edited by Andreas Westergren and Katarina Pålsson

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 319 | Submission Open

Keywords: monastic authority; Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; textual culture; textual communities; textual transmission; translation practices; rewriting

Traditional and Civil Religions: Theory and Political Practice

edited by Lan T. Chu, Anthony Kammas and

Jeffrey Haynes

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3308 | Submission Open

Keywords: religions; politics; civil religion; ideology; sectarianism; faith communities; civil society; social movements

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

The Involvement of Religion in Modern States' Political and Government Systems

edited by

James T. Richardson

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 223 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and politics; secularism; religious freedom; government policy; international relations; multiculturalism; religious in-fluence; human rights; secular governance; identity

Theology and Disability: Inclusion in Religious Communities

edited by

Mary Jo Iozzio

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 109 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; disability; intersectionality; kinship; the natural world; participation; play/playgrounds; recreation; reverence; rest; sustainability; welcome

The Challenge of Syncretism in Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism

edited by

Marius Nel

and

Mookgo Solomon Kgatle

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 229 | Submission Open

Keywords: syncretism; contextualisation; culture; experiential faith; compromises; ancestor veneration

The Energy God and Other Alternatives to the Theistic View of God and Spirituality

edited by

Roy C. Amore

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6933 | Submission Open

Keywords: mysticism; spirituality; dao; ground of being; brahman; kabbalah; sufism; nirvana; panentheism

Church, Clergy, and Authority: An Exploration of Medieval Religious Life and Culture

edited by Jack Cunningham and Angelo M. Silvestri

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6504 | Submission Open

Keywords: church; authority; community; dissent; culture; clergy

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

Cancer and Theology: Personal and Pastoral Perspectives

edited by Brian C. Macallan and Ronald T. Michener

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3814 | Submission Open

Keywords: cancer and theology; suffering; disease; hope and cancer; healing

The Microcosm Holds Mountains and Seas: The Sinicization of Buddhism in ‘Multi-Layered Contextualization’ from Local to Global History

edited by

Jinhua Chen

and Ru Zhan

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2727 | Submission Open

Keywords: sinification of Buddhism; localization of Buddhism; globalization of Buddhism; modernization of Buddhism; overseas/diaspora Chinese Buddhism; spread of Buddhism through land and the maritime Silk Road

“Searching for a Better Life with My Community”: Migratory Trends in Religious-Based Social Net-Works

edited by

Jakub Isański

, Jarosław Kozak, Błażej Dyczewski and Malika Ouacha

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1905 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious communities; social integration; parochialism; civil society and religion; migrant diasporas; new media and AI in religion; secularization and religious polarization; religious-based social networks

Transdisciplinary Theological Study: Animals, Divinanimality, and Creaturely Theology

edited by Laura Hobgood

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1782 | Submission Open

Keywords: divinanimality; creaturely theology; the animal; human-animal; critical animal; transdisciplinary studies

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

Religious Communities and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Mónika Andok

Zoltán Szűts

and Szilvia Dornics

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1263 | 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

Exploring Free Will in Faith Traditions in Conversation with Contemporary Challenges

edited by Nazif Muhtaroglu and Safaruk Chowdhury

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 920 | 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)

The Encounter of Colonialism and Indian Religious Traditions

edited by Enrico Beltramini

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 528 | Submission Open

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

Islam and Citizenship: Intersecting Experiences among Migrants and Their Descendants in Europe

edited by

Stefano Allievi

and Andrea Calabretta

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 498 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islam; lived citizenship; migrants’ descendants; Europe; Muslim activism; citizenry; faith

Divine Creativity and Participatory Cosmologies: Theological Perspectives on Science, Technology, and the Future of Humanity

edited by Matthew Segall and Ashton Arnoldy

submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 843 | Submission Open

Keywords: participatory theory; process philosophy; integral theory; sacramental epistemology; relational ontology; pluralism; divine agency; science; technology; spirituality; metamodernism

Seeking Truth and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion and Philosophy

edited by B. Keith Putt

submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 347 | Submission Open

Keywords: truth; meaning; philosophy; religion; interdisciplinary perspectives

Saintly Voices: Sounding the Supernatural in Medieval Hagiography

edited by Catherine Saucier

submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 328 | Submission Open

Keywords: hagiography; cult of saints; devotion; supernatural and natural environments; identity; liminality; sensory perception; voice; sound; performance; religious arts

Exploring Hagiography and Monasticism

edited by

James Clark

submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 142 | Submission Open

Keywords: hagiography; monasticism; saints; relics; miracles

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

Religious Changes and Challenges in the Wake of Increasing Global Migration

edited by Anja Zalta and

Primož Krašovec

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1428 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious changes; religious challenges; religious conflicts; secularism; post-secularism; religious policies; state policies; religious plurality; migration; religious literacy; new religious movements; intrareligious and interreligious differences

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

Christian Theologies of Deification

edited by Keith Thompson, Myk Habets and

Stephen Finlan

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1088 | Submission Open

Keywords: theosis/deification; kenosis; divinization; human character ascent; Jacob’ s ladder; Peter’ s ladder; theosis as salvation; energy vs. essence; pre-Platonic Christianity; ante-Nicene teaching; metaphor; participation vs. ontological change; joint heirship

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

Bible and Liturgy in Dialogue

edited by Marco Benini

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3419 | Submission Open

Keywords: bible; liturgy; hermeneutics; old/new testament; interpretation; reception; readings; psalms; sacramentality; anamnesis

Re-Thinking Religious Traditions and Practices of Korea

edited by Kevin N. Cawley and David J. Kim

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5006 | Submission Open

Keywords: Korean religion; Confucianism; Buddhism; Shamanism; new religious movements; transculturalism; comparative studies; everyday life; magic and divination

Theological Traditions of Politics: Tracing History and Its Continuity

edited by Nikolaos Asproulis

submission deadline 22 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2639 | Submission Open

Keywords: political theology; religious traditions; state; human rights; nationalism; fundamentalism

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

Mysticism and Nature

edited by

Cristóbal Serrán-Pagán y Fuentes

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 958 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological spirituality; ecofeminism; deep ecology; indigenous rights; animal rights; land rights; holism; panentheism; pantheism; cosmic interdependence; anthropocentrism; animism; conservationism; creation spirituality; New England transcendentalism; goddess movement; nonviolence; stewardship; vegetarianism

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

New Work on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion

edited by

Sebastian Sunday Grève

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 23 articles | Viewed by 17196 | 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)

Buddhism and Medicine from an Interdisciplinary and Global Historical Perspective

edited by

Jinhua Chen

and Ru Zhan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3745 | Submission Open

Keywords: medical sciences; medical practice; Jīvaka; Buddhist medical literature; Bhaiṣajyaguru; compassionate care clinics’ 悲田養病坊; globalization of Buddhism; philanthropy

Links Between Psychology/Psychiatry and Religion

edited by

Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 3630 | 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)

Sacred Experience and Aesthetic Connections in Religious Festivals

edited by Federico Aguirre, Wilson Muñoz and Lily Jimenez

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2973 | Submission Open

Keywords: art and the sacred; religious festivals; popular/lived religion; material religion studies; visual and performance studies

Religion and Indigenous Traditions

edited by Craig Ginn and Durga Kale

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2917 | Submission Open

Keywords: Indigenous traditions; Indigenous knowledge; ways of knowing; ways of being; reconciliation; revitalization; colonial; postcolonial; decolonizing; Indigenizing; Indigenization; syncretism; assimilation; missionary impulse; animal theology; ecotheology; natural theology

Experience and Non-Objects: Towards a Phenomenology of Indiscernibility

edited by

Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

and

Michael D. Barber

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2372 | Submission Open

Keywords: God; subatomic particles; subjectivity; intuition; inwardness; religious cognition; Kant; Husserl; Merleau-Ponty; Henry

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

Psychedelics and Religion

edited by

Hans Van Eyghen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2236 | Submission Open

Keywords: psychedelics; spirituality; meditation

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

Heavens and Grottos: New Explorations in Daoist Cosmography

edited by Zhaojie Bai, Vincent Goossaert, Johan Rols and Jonathan Pettit

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2063 | Submission Open

Keywords: Daoist heavens; Grotto-heavens; Daoist cosmography

Engaged Spiritualities: Theories, Practices, and Future Directions

edited by

Stefano Sbalchiero

and

Giuseppe Giordan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1592 | Submission Open

Keywords: engaged spiritualities; spirituality and religion; spiritual experiences; everyday life

Peccata Lectionis

edited by Marton Hovanyi

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 1500 | Submission Open

Keywords: theory of reading; history of reading; interdisciplinarity; sin; Judaism; Christianity; literary and cultural criticism; biblical hermeneutics; constructive theology

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

Continental Philosophy and Catholic Theology

edited by

Glenn Morrison

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1434 | 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)

Divine Narratives: Exploring the Intersection of Poetry, Myth, and the Spiritual in Literature and Theatre

edited by Jamal Assadi

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1213 | Submission Open

Keywords: divine narratives; poetry and myth; spirituality in literature; the sacred and the profane; ritual and performance

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

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