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

edited by

Urszula Dudziak

and Piotr Guzdek

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10478 | 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)

Words and Images Serving Christianity

edited by María Jesús Soto-Bruna and

Mirela Oliva

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9235 | Submission Open

Keywords: word— verbum; meaning— sensus; processio— emanatio; creation; mirror— speculum; light; darkness; visio; colors; image— imago; soul; sacred; spirituality; Christianity

Exploring Eco-Spirituality: Intersections of Faith, Nature, and Ethics

edited by

Peter Ellard

and Ryan Patrick McLaughlin

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6027 | Submission Open

Keywords: eco-spirituality; environmental ethics; theological perspectives on nature; climate change and religion; indigenous spiritual practices; ecotheology; sustainability and faith; interfaith environmental activism; sacredness of nature; religious responses to ecological crises

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

The Eucharist as the Bread of Life: Phenomenological and Existential Explorations

edited by

James Swindal

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4684 | Submission Open

Keywords: sacramental theology; eucharist; metaphysics; existentialism; phenomenology; transubstantiation; consubstantiation

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

edited by

Andre E. Johnson

and Denise Burgher

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3671 | 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)

Transformations in Daoist Ritual Texts and Other Daoist Literature Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties—2nd Edition

edited by

Jing Li

, Bony Schachter and Jacopo Scarin

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2120 | Submission Open

Keywords: Daoist canonical texts; Daoist literature; Daoist ritual texts; religious writings; contemporary Daoist texts; transformation of texts; symbolism in writing; circulation of texts; Daoist community

The Confluence of Islam and Confucianism: A Paradigm for Civilizational Exchange and Mutual Learning

edited by Guiping Yang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2114 | Submission Open

Keywords: the confluence of Islam and Confucianism; civilizational dialogue; civilizational exchange and mutual learning; Han Kitab; comparative philosophy

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

Reimagining Jewish-Muslim Relations After October 7th

edited by

Iqbal Akhtar

and Elad Ben David

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 1225 | Submission Open

Keywords: Muslim— Jewish relations; Islamic theology; Abraham Accords; post-October 7th; Gaza War; peacebuilding; interfaith dialogue; utopian studies; Israel; Hamas; countering extremism

The Sacred and the Secular: Perspectives and Methodologies in Religious Studies

edited by

Kai Sheng

and

Yifeng Liu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1167 | Submission Open

Keywords: sacred and secular; religious methodology; religious anthropology; myth and history; hermeneutics of religion; political theology; comparative religion

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

Christian Theology Across Non-European Cultures: Local Wisdoms and Cross-Philosophical Approaches

edited by

Dariusz Klejnowski-Różycki

and

Piotr Sękowski

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1149 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christian theology; cross-cultural theology; non-European theological thought; philosophy and Christianity; inculturation; contextual theology; global Christianity; theology in Asian; African; and Latin American traditions; theological language and translation; non-Western theological perspectives

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

Evolving and Flourishing in an Age of Disruption: The Role of Spirituality in Realignment and Transformation

edited by

Heather Boynton

, Indrani Margolin and

Jo-Ann Vis

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 1006 | Submission Open

Keywords: spirituality; religion; evolving; flourishing; transformation; transdisciplinary; spiritually sensitive practice

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

edited by Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 708 | 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)

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 2026 | Viewed by 567 | 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)

Religions in Colonial Korea: Traditions, Reconfigurations, and New Beginnings

edited by

Seong Uk Kim

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 525 | Submission Open

Keywords: modernization; westernization; colonialism; modern Korean religions; Korean Buddhism; Won Buddhism; Korean new religions

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

Comparative Theology—Hindu–Christian Relations

edited by

John Cappucci

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 506 | Submission Open

Keywords: Hindu– Christian relations; comparative theology; interfaith dialogue

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

Religion and Gender in Africa: A Pan-African Exploration

edited by

Mary Nyangweso

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 172 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; gender; Pan-Africanism; Africa; theology; diaspora; Ethiopianism

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

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 Jul 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14328 | Submission Open

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

Constructive Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pauline Theology

edited by

Michael Reardon

submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4128 | Submission Open

Keywords: pauline theology; interdisciplinary theology; transhumanism; artificial intelligence; medical ethics; political theology; eco-theology; cognitive linguistics; theology and race; theology and gender

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

edited by

Catalin-Stefan Popa

submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1443 | 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)

Piety and Ethical Foundations in Islamic Moral Economy

edited by

Alija Avdukic

Fawad Khaleel

and Tareq Moqbel

submission deadline 10 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7152 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islamic moral economy; piety; ethical finance; Islamic charities; Islamic finance; developmentalism; Islamic institutional economics; zakah and awqaf; faith-based development; social justice in eco-nomics

Science and Religion: Natural Theology in the Contemporary Context

edited by Kai Man Kwan

submission deadline 10 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5926 | Submission Open

Keywords: kalam cosmological argument; the fine-tuning argument or the anthropic principle; multiverse; design arguments; cognitive science of religion; naturalistic explanations of religious experience; the existence of soul & neuroscience; why there is something rather than nothing; panpsychism or cosmopsychism; cosmic axiology or teleology; the existence of God and artificial intelligence; faith and transhumanism

Materiality and Gender Constructs in Hagiography: Saints and Sacred Space

edited by Michelle M. Sauer

submission deadline 14 Jul 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7812 | Submission Open

Keywords: materiality; gender; sexuality; hagiography; saints; sacred space

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

Religion and Creativity

edited by

Christopher Hartney

submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5886 | Submission Open

Keywords: creativity; sacred creativity; play; invention; innovation; blasphemy

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

Modern Jewish Thought and Philosophy

edited by

Ephraim Meir

and Hanoch Ben Pazi

submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2373 | Submission Open

Keywords: philosophy and Judaism; Jewish humanism; Jewish hermeneutics; Jewish universalism and particularism; Holocaust; Zionism; Jewish interreligious thought; Jews and modernity; rabbinical thought

Reformed Theology in Dialogue: Faith, Culture, and Everyday Practice

edited by David Jensen

submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1489 | Submission Open

Keywords: reformed theology; confessions; revelation; authority; christology; covenant; divine sovereignty; sin; election

Synodality, Sacramental Renewal, and Mission: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ecclesial Transformation

edited by Samuel Komlanvi Amaglo

submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 507 | Submission Open

Keywords: synodality; theology; sacramental renewal; mission; interdisciplinarity; ecclesial transformation

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

Religion and Economy in a Global Era: New Articulation After Secularization

edited by Raquel Lázaro-Cantero and

Germán Roberto Scalzo

submission deadline 17 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1672 | Submission Open

Keywords: work and transformation; modes of time and health and pathologies; social relationships and human figures; world and natural and social; worship and work; religion and capitalism; economy and Christianity; common good and different goods; human life; work; and meaning; globalization and identities

Hinduism: Belief and Practices Within the Family

edited by Mugdha Yeolekar, Vinita Chandra and

Leena Taneja

submission deadline 20 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 332 | Submission Open

Keywords: Hinduism; family rituals; domestic religion; everyday religiosity; belief and practice; India

Religious Ethics and Theology in Contemporary Human Life

edited by

SimonMary Asese A. Aihiokhai

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6547 | 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)

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

edited by

Francis-Vincent Anthony

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 784 | Submission Open

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

Sanctity in the Medieval Muslim West: Questions of Genre, Cultural and Religious Identity

edited by

Rachid El Hour

and Manuela Marín

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 422 | Submission Open

Keywords: sufism; hagiographies; male and female saints; gender; Maghreb and Al-Andalus; medieval period

Mediatisation and Religious Traditions: Tradition and Innovation Meet in the Digital Public Sphere

edited by Márta Katalin Korpics and Lajos Kovács

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 291 | Submission Open

Keywords: mediatisation; tradition; innovation; digital public sphere; religious and church communities; religious identity

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

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

edited by

G. Doug Davis

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6071 | Submission Open

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

Texts, Language, and Style in Biblical Literature, the Semitic Literatures of the Ancient Near East, and Post-Biblical Literature

edited by

Shamir Yona

and

Haim Dihi

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2480 | Submission Open

Keywords: biblical Hebrew; Aramaic; Ben Sira; Rabbinic Hebrew; wisdom literature; Ugaritic literature; stylistic patterns; myth; epic; polemical texts

Drawing a Roadmap for Research on the History of Christianity in Modern China

edited by

Yihua Xu

and Peter Tze Ming NG

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2199 | Submission Open

Keywords: history of Christianity; modern China; critical review; comparative studies; interdisciplinary studies

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

Feminist Theologies and Social Engagement: Justice, Inclusion, and Community Practice

edited by

Silvia Martínez Cano

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1321 | Submission Open

Keywords: feminist theology; postcolonial theology; womanist theology; mujerista theology; inclusion; justice; beauty; ethics; feminist community practice; feminist pastoral theology

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

Early Modern Female Mysticism: At the Crossroads of Religion, Medicine, Economics, and the Press

edited by Vittoria Feola and Erin Bell

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 1204 | Submission Open

Keywords: mysticism; women; early modern; medieval; neurology; saint; Islam; Catholicism; Quakerism

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

Change from the Ground Up: Buddhism and Other East Asian Religions at the Grassroots

edited by

Jinhua Chen

and Kai Sheng

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 840 | Submission Open

Keywords: religions; interaction between Buddhism and other East Asian religions; Orientalism; popular religions; pilgrimage

Religion and Media Cultures in the Digital Public Sphere

edited by

Dilyana Mincheva

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 755 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and media; digital public sphere; representation; religious authority; activism; identity and politics; digital culture; postsecularism; popular culture; algorithmic media

(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 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 734 | Submission Open

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

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

Embodiment, Sport and Spiritual Traditions

edited by Patrick Kelly, SJ

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 520 | Submission Open

Keywords: lived religion; embodiment; play; sport; spirituality

Religious Converso Phenomenon

edited by Claude B. Stuczynski

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 343 | Submission Open

Keywords: Converso religiosities; Converso theologies; Crypto-Judaisms; Converso religious heterodoxy; Judaeo-Christian acculturation; syncretism; early-modern Iberian Catholicism; religious resistance and oral and written “ Marrano” traditions

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

Messianicities in Literature and Messianicity of Literature

edited by

Agata Bielik-Robson

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 208 | Submission Open

Keywords: messianism; literature; redemption; fantasy; fiction; apocalypse

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

Intersections of Religion and Law: Freedom, Social Change, and Human Rights

edited by Nadirsyah Hosen

submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2416 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious freedom; legal pluralism; human rights; secularism; constitutional law; social change; religion and gender; religious minorities; law and theology; health and religion; religious activism

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

African Religious Thought: A Dynamic Web of Traditions Impacting the Globe

edited by Ullrich Relebogilwe Kleinhempel and John Ayotunde (Tunde) Isola Bewaji

submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1475 | Submission Open

Keywords: African philosophy; African religion; African theology; divination; ritualistics; experience; syncretism; religion and culture

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

Wisdom Traditions, Religion, and the Global Era

edited by

Lavonna Lovern

submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 589 | Submission Open

Keywords: wisdom traditions; religion; spirituality; health; culture; community

Christian Movements, Media and Society in Modern America

edited by

Christina Littlefield

and Jason Guthrie

submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 553 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christian movements; media; society; politics; history

(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 2026 | Viewed by 431 | 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)

Science and Christian Theology: Past, Present, and Future

edited by Joseph R. Laracy and Jamie Boulding

submission deadline 10 Aug 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8895 | Submission Open

Keywords: science; theology; creation; cosmology; evolution; artificial intelligence; epistemology; metaphysics; Stanley Jaki; Ian Barbour

Yijing's Cosmology–Divination–Ethics Continuum: The Sacred Intercourse of Yin-Yang and the Manifestation of Tian-Di

edited by Solsar Kong, Zhenyu Zeng, Qiuli Li and Lili Zhang

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4706 | Submission Open

Keywords: Yijing; tian-di; yin-yang; divination; ethics

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

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