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Sacred Space and Contemporary Art
edited by
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 308 | Submission Open
Keywords: sacred space; hierophany; sacred art; contemporary sacred art
Thomas Aquinas and the Philosophy of Religion
edited by
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 186 | Submission Open
Keywords: Aquinas; philosophy; theism; atheism; religion; evil; hiddenness; epistemology; divine attributes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion, Gender and Social Development
edited by
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1550 | Submission Open
Keywords: gender; social construction; religion; development; women; theory
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Chinese Religious Cultures: Historical Traditions and Modern Interpretations
edited by , Chuanhui Zeng, and Xuedan Li
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 16 articles | Viewed by 27710 | Submission Open
Keywords: modern interpretations; Chinese religious cultures; Buddhist culture; Daoist culture; Islamic culture; Christian culture; Chinese folk religion; Confucian religious thoughts
The Diversity and Harmony of Taoism: Ideas, Behaviors and Influences
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 14977 | Submission Open
Keywords: Taoism; diversity; harmony; ideas; behaviors; contemporary value
The Multiple Images and Forms of Classical Confucian and Daoist Ethics for Living
edited by and Hongxing Lin
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 14 articles | Viewed by 14667 | Submission Open
Keywords: Confucianism; Daoism; ethics for living
Divine Encounters: Exploring Religious Themes in Literature
edited by Enrique Santos Marinas and Svetlana Maliavina
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9677 | Submission Open
Keywords: sciences of religions; theology; epiphanies; theophanies; literature; mythology; myth criticism
Disseminating Christian Beliefs Through Word and Image in Medieval and Renaissance Times submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7888 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christianity; Christian doctrine; patrology; theology; Christian iconography; church history; medieval culture; Christian society; popular devotion; religious experience; liturgical hymns; interdisciplinary studies; middle ages; renaissance
“Searching for a Better Life with My Community”: Migratory Trends in Religious-Based Social Net-Works
edited by , Jarosław Kozak, Błażej Dyczewski and Malika Ouacha
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4596 | 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
Experience and Non-Objects: The Limits of Intuition submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3902 | 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)
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 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3749 | 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)
Christian Monasticism Today: A Search for Identity
edited by Bernard Łukasz Sawicki and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3724 | Submission Open
Keywords: monasticism; culture; history; spirituality; anthropology; philosophy; sociology; archeology
Viktor Frankl and the Future of Religion
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2890 | Submission Open
Keywords: logotherapy; Viktor Frankl; phenomenology; self-transcendence; meaning of life; future of religion; religious studies; psychotherapy
Peccata Lectionis
edited by Marton Hovanyi
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1861 | 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)
Mysticism and Nature submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1675 | 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)
Explorations into Yan Zun’s Edition and Commentary to the Daodejing: Laozi Zhigui
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1577 | Submission Open
Keywords: Yan Zun; Laozi zhigui; Laozi Daodejing; Daoist religion and philosophy
Breath of Life: Black Spirituality in Everyday Life
edited by Brianne Painia and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1505 | 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
Multilingualism, Translation, and Religion in the Premodern Islamic World(s): Texts, Contexts, and Crossroads
edited by Hany Rashwan and Ross Brann
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1431 | Submission Open
Keywords: premodern Islamic multilingualism; multiculturism; translation; Islamic lingua franca
Kant’s Critique of Rational Theology and His Project of Moral Religion
edited by Kezheng Li
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1336 | Submission Open
Keywords: Kant; rational theology; moral religion; moral argument; radical evil
Europe, Religion and Secularization: Trends, Paradoxes and Dilemmas submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1302 | Submission Open
Keywords: Europe; modernity; secularization; religion and politics
Folk Religion in the Ancient Levant and Mediterranean
edited by Baruch Halpern, Tyler Kelley and Amanda Walls
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 854 | Submission Open
Keywords: folk religion; domestic religion; folk theology; material culture; Bible; Levant; Judah; Israel; Greece; Anatolia; Bronze Age; Iron Age; Archaic Period
The Eucharist as the Bread of Life: Phenomenological and Existential Explorations
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 846 | Submission Open
Keywords: sacramental theology; eucharist; metaphysics; existentialism; phenomenology; transubstantiation; consubstantiation
Indigenous Conversion(s) to Islam: Causes, Processes, and Consequences
edited by Ayca Arkilic
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 793 | Submission Open
Keywords: Islam; indigenous; conversion; intersectionality; colonialism; discrimination; interaction
Theology and Anthropology: A Critical Discussion
edited by Peter Versteeg and Petruschka Schaafsma
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 519 | Submission Open
Keywords: anthropology; theology; dialogue; transformation; reception; methodology
Science and Religion: Natural Theology in the Contemporary Context
edited by Kai Man Kwan
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 468 | 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
Theoretical and Behavioral Approaches to the Growth of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 449 | Submission Open
Keywords: Soka Gakkai International; Buddhist lay movement; Buddhist social engagement; Buddhist citizenship; Buddhist growth; Buddhist humanitarianism; Buddhist global community
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
On the Font: Human Nature Seen Through Baptism and the Baptismal Font
edited by Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen and Line M. Bonde
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 386 | Submission Open
Keywords: baptism; iconography; liturgy; material culture; ontology; sacred space
The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious Traditions in Dialogue
edited by Lóránd Ujházi and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 370 | Submission Open
Keywords: just war theory; ethical dimensions of war; religious ethics; religion and violence; peacebuilding; interreligious dialogue; reconciliation; nonviolence; theology and conflict; comparative theology; religion and international relations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion in 20th- and 21st-Century Fictional Narratives
edited by Thomas Jerome Sienkewicz
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 369 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and literature; modern religious narrative; religion in fictional narrative
Nationalisms and Religious Identities—2nd Edition
edited by Slavica Jakelić
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 309 | Submission Open
Keywords: nationalisms and religious identities; gender; race; and class; citizenship; transnational politics; postcolonial and decolonial critiques
Reimagining Protestant Theology: The Asian Experience and Christian Tradition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 208 | Submission Open
Keywords: Asian theology; Asian christianity; contextualization; theology of Korea; theology of India; theology of China; theology of Philippines; comparative studies; comparative ethics; theological imagination
Religion and Craft Production in Iron Age Cis- and Transjordan
edited by Angelika Berlejung and Omer Sergi
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 189 | Submission Open
Keywords: archaeology of religion; religious handicrafts; religious symbolism; craftsmen; craft production
The Intangible into the Perceptible: Ethereal Aspects of Religious Spaces and Their Theological Foundations
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 171 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious architecture; sacred buildings; space and form; philosophical concepts; theological concepts
Language and Religion: Multilingual Perspectives on Contemporary Theolinguistics
edited by Jonathan M. Watt
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 158 | Submission Open
Keywords: linguistics; language; dialect; register; style; religion; spirituality
Diasporic Hybridity: How It Impacts Religious Identity and Practice in Today’s Pluralistic World
edited by Julius-Kei Kato and Peniel Rajkumar
submission deadline 5 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2473 | Submission Open
Keywords: diasporic hybridity (in the context of “ diasporic hybridity; ” all of the key expressions below); religion and diaspora; religion and hybridity; religious pluralism; religious diversity; religious identities; religious practices; interreligious dialogue; religious communities; yheology and pluralism; postcolonial thought
Christian Theologies of Deification
edited by Myk Habets and
submission deadline 10 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3043 | 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)
Religion and Politics: Ritual, Performativity, and (Political) Theatre in Comparative-Historical and International Perspective
edited by Patricia J. Sohn
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3522 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; ritual; political; theatre; performativity; politics
Divine Creativity and Participatory Cosmologies: Theological Perspectives on Science, Technology, and the Future of Humanity
edited by Matthew Segall and Ashton Arnoldy
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2835 | Submission Open
Keywords: participatory theory; process philosophy; integral theory; sacramental epistemology; relational ontology; pluralism; divine agency; science; technology; spirituality; metamodernism
Mysticism and Ethics: Bridging Transcendence and Action in Religious Experience
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1071 | Submission Open
Keywords: mysticism; ethics; action; love; virtues; god; religious experience; justice; transcendence; moral
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Sacred Landscapes and Social Reform in Medieval Europe
edited by Kathryn Jasper
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 367 | Submission Open
Keywords: christianity; religion; sacred spaces/places; hagiography; popular devotions; monasticism; landscape; environment; church reform; gender; labor; class
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Communication in Abrahamic Religions
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 177 | Submission Open
Keywords: Abrahamic religion; inter-religious communication; spiritual meaning; communicative action; interfaith unity; textual comparisons
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Piety and Ethical Foundations in Islamic Moral Economy
edited by , and Tareq Moqbel
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 1396 | 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 Christian Theology: Past, Present, and Future
edited by Joseph R. Laracy and Jamie Boulding
submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1016 | Submission Open
Keywords: science; theology; creation; cosmology; evolution; artificial intelligence; epistemology; metaphysics; Stanley Jaki; Ian Barbour
Religious Symbols and Fashion: Identification, Representation and Regulation in Dress submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7062 | Submission Open
Keywords: fashion and religions; symbolism of clothing; philosophy and theology of clothing and fashion; art; clothing; fashion; and theology; modern adaptations and fashion; mystical practices and rituals; gender roles and distinctions; personal and spiritual connection; spiritual practice and devotion; interreligious and interspiritual dialogue; spirituality and contemporary culture
Religion, Mobility, and Transnational History
edited by Anthony Miller
submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6608 | 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)
Buddhist Art Along the Silk Road and Its Cross-Cultural Interaction
edited by and Yinggang Sun
submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3485 | Submission Open
Keywords: Buddhist art; Asian civilizations; the Silk Road; mutual learning through exchange; Sinicization of Buddhism; Gandhara
The Politics of Digital Religiosities
edited by Anustup Basu
submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2072 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital religion; digital politics; neopaganism; digital fundamentalisms; social media studies; minoritarian politics; majoritarian politics; religious nationalism; media and politics
Spirituality, Culture, and Sustainability: Integrating Cultural Sensitivity into Responsible Religious Tourism
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1474 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious tourism; pilgrimage; sustainable development; cultural sensitivity; spirituality; religious sensitivity; regenerative tourism; accessible tourism; heritage; interpretation
Words and Images Serving Christianity
edited by María Jesús Soto-Bruna and
submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1396 | Submission Open
Keywords: word— verbum; meaning— sensus; processio— emanatio; creation; mirror— speculum; light; darkness; visio; colors; image— imago; soul; sacred; spirituality; Christianity
Seeking Truth and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion and Philosophy
edited by B. Keith Putt
submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1229 | Submission Open
Keywords: truth; meaning; philosophy; religion; interdisciplinary perspectives
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