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Religious Institutions in the Mediterranean: A Comparative Perspective

edited by

Daniela Tarantino

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 124 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious institutions; law; society; Mediterranean; New World

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

Sacred Music: Creation, Interpretation, Experience

edited by Róisín Blunnie and

Bradford A. Anderson

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1219 | Submission Open

Keywords: sacred music; religious studies; musicology; performance; classical music; vocal music; choral music; religious litera-ture

Computational Approaches to Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts

edited by Jacob P.B. Mortensen

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1192 | Submission Open

Keywords: New Testament; scriptures of Israel; early Christian texts; computational and algorithmic approaches; distant reading; macro analysis; text analysis

Experimental Theological Aesthetics

edited by Julio Bermudez and Matthew Niermann

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 951 | 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)

The Roles of Religion and Spirituality in Healthcare

edited by Anne Klee, Arielle Rubenstein and Glen Milstein

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 321 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; spirituality; and healthcare; religious faith and medical considerations; health and spirituality

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

edited by Paul Brusanowski and

Cristian-Sebastian Sonea

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2940 | Submission Open

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

No God, No Science? Reassessing the Relationship Between Theology and Modern Science

edited by George M. Coghill and Ximian Xu

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 618 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and science; apologetics; artificial intelligence and religion; history of science; theology

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 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 139 | 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)

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

edited by Vittoria Feola and Erin Bell

submission deadline 17 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 500 | Submission Open

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

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

Religion, Theology, and Bioethical Discourses on Marriage and Family

edited by Mirosław Brzezinski

submission deadline 24 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4940 | Submission Open

Keywords: marriage; family; faith; religion; God's design for marriage; sacrament of marriage; sexuality; sexuality; ethics of married life; morality of married life; pastoral care of families.

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

Innovative Approaches to Religious Pluralism: Integrating Law, Policies and Practice

edited by Eugenia Relaño Pastor and

Kyriaki Topidi

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 694 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious pluralism; governance of diversity; secularism and state neutrality; legal recognition of religious minorities; equality; freedom of religion or belief (FoRB)

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

Clashing Civilizations and Civilizational Identities in Populist Discourses

edited by

Ihsan Yilmaz

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 52117 | Submission Open

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

Casta Meretrix: The Paradox of the Christian Church Through History

edited by

Jonathan Farrugia

and

Nicholas Doublet

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3556 | 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

Religion, Culture and Spirituality in a Digital World

edited by

Víctor Manuel Pérez Martínez

, Miguel Ángel Motis Dolader and Carmen Herrando Cugota

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3114 | 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 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2997 | Submission Open

Keywords: Hebrew Bible; ancient history; literary criticism; biblical theology; biblical narratives; biblical archaeology; biblical poetry; cultural studies; near eastern literature

Daoist Inner Alchemy Atlas: Practice and Related Medicine, Thunder Rites and Iconology

edited by Wenhua Shen,

Yuhao Wu

and

Lu Zhang

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

Keywords: inner alchemy; daoist medicine; thunder rites; iconology

Faith and Education: Contemporary and Global Issues in Historical Perspective

edited by

Stephen G. Parker

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2426 | Submission Open

Keywords: faith schools; religious education; theology of education; history of education; church and state; collective worship

Functions of Religion Among Young People: Diverse Religious, Spiritual and Non-Religious Worldviews

edited by Eduardo Duque,

José Francisco Durán Vázquez

and Francis Davis

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1270 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; youth; belief; unbelief; spirituality; plurality; generations

Pilgrimages of Repair: Journeys to Return, Rebuild and Restore

edited by Heather Warfield

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1224 | Submission Open

Keywords: repair; pilgrimages; multidisciplinary; sacred sites

Revisiting Islamic Ethics: Shifting Epistemologies and Boundaries

edited by

Etin Anwar

and Syed A. H. Zaidi

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 804 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islamic ethics; epistemological shifts; innovative Islamic ethical thoughts; Islam and AI ethics; Global citizenship; social justice; and plurality; co-existence; human dignity; renewal in Islamic ethics; ethics of modesty; identity; body politics; applied Islamic ethics; decolonizing Islamic ethics

Faith in Action: Exploring the Intersection of Religion and Social Justice

edited by Nicole Johnson and Dean Johnson

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 586 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; faith; social action; social justice; peace; social change; nonviolence; faith-based activism; inter-faith; vocation/calling/purpose

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

Temple Art, Architecture and Theatre

edited by

Xiaohuan Zhao

, Duanfang Lu and Qing Chang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 512 | Submission Open

Keywords: temple; art; architecture; theatre

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

Religion and the Book in Medieval Europe: Between Manuscripts and Print

edited by

Lucie Doležalová

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 338 | Submission Open

Keywords: manuscripts; scribes; early print; bible; sermons; devotional literature; catechism; religious reform; polemic; media transformation

Humans, Science, and Faith

edited by

John A. Bloom

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 291 | Submission Open

Keywords: science; religion; Christianity; artificial intelligence; human dignity; human flourishing; Darwinism; abortion; euthanasia; anthropic principle

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

Transformations in East Asia Religious Diversity: Technology, Hybridity, Equality

edited by

Francis Khek Gee Lim

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 262 | Submission Open

Keywords: pluralism; social inequalities; technology

New Images of God in Contemporary Physics, Quantum Metaphysics, and Theism: Quantum God, Emptiness, Consciousness, and Energy

edited by

Paolo Di Sia

and Pierfrancesco Stagi

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 259 | Submission Open

Keywords: (quantum) God; (quantum) vacuum; modern/contemporary physics; (quantum) metaphysics; theism; mind and matter; mindfulness and consciousness; synchronicity; holism; eastern religions

Through the Lens of a Realist Metaphysics: Gender and the Catholic Church

edited by Deborah Savage and Paul Gondreau

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 133 | Submission Open

Keywords: metaphysics; philosophical realism; gender; man and woman; Catholic church; human sexuality; complementarity; ordination

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

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

edited by

Jacek Wojtysiak

and

Miłosz Hołda

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

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

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

edited by

Peter Ellard

and Ryan Patrick McLaughlin

submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 619 | 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)

Dreaming a Better World: Aristotelians, Marxists, & Christians in Dialogue & Action for Social Equilibrium and Peace

edited by Jeffery Nicholas

submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 112 | Submission Open

Keywords: change (the world); dialogue; marx; Marxists; Aristotle; Aristotelians; common good; justice

Catholic Propaganda on the Frontiers: Evangelizing Pagans, Protestants, and Non-Believers in the 16th and 17th Centuries

edited by Manuel Mendez Alonzo and Gregor Pobežin

submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 98 | Submission Open

Keywords: Catholic mission; comparative missionary endeavors; global religion; paganism and heresies; cultural adaptation

Forced Migration and the Bible: Displacement, Statelessness, and Resiliency in Sacred Texts

edited by Roberto Mata

submission deadline 14 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 876 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate migration; trauma; borderlands; statelessness; neocolonialism

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

Renewal, Innovation, and Transformation: The Changing Face of Judaism in Modern Times

edited by

Yaakov Ariel

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 11667 | Submission Open

Catholic Social Thought in the Era of the Un-Common Good

edited by James P. O’Sullivan

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1008 | Submission Open

Keywords: Catholic social teaching; solidarity; subsidiarity; human rights; common good; preferential options for the poor and marginalized; integral human development; sustainability; nuclear disarmament; nationalism

The Interplay Between Narrative, Ritual, and Religiosity in East Asian Literary and Cultural Traditions

edited by

Efraín Villamor Herrero

Irene Minerva Muñoz-Fernández

and David Sevillano López

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 738 | Submission Open

Keywords: Asian literature; Buddhism; religions; India; China; Korea; Japan

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

Digital Religion in the Age of the Metaverse

edited by

Vincenzo Pace

and

Alessandra Vitullo

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 491 | Submission Open

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

Thresholds of Reality: Exploring the In-Between in Indian Thought

edited by Gergana Ruseva and Milena Bratoeva

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 257 | Submission Open

Keywords: myth; ritual; Brahmanism; Hinduism; Buddhism; liminal spaces and level of existence; transformation; dream; death; rebirth

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

Religion and Creativity

edited by

Christopher Hartney

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 251 | Submission Open

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

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

Sacred Space and Contemporary Art

edited by

Karen Shelby

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 204 | Submission Open

Keywords: sacred space; hierophany; sacred art; contemporary sacred art

Thomas Aquinas and the Philosophy of Religion

edited by

Brian Huffling

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: Aquinas; philosophy; theism; atheism; religion; evil; hiddenness; epistemology; divine attributes

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

Chinese Religious Cultures: Historical Traditions and Modern Interpretations

edited by

Yuehua Chen

, Chuanhui Zeng,

Zhejia Tang

and Xuedan Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 15 articles | Viewed by 21195 | 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

Wu Guo

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10037 | Submission Open

Keywords: Taoism; diversity; harmony; ideas; behaviors; contemporary value

Divine Encounters: Exploring Religious Themes in Literature

edited by Enrique Santos Marinas and Svetlana Maliavina

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8472 | Submission Open

Keywords: sciences of religions; theology; epiphanies; theophanies; literature; mythology; myth criticism

The Multiple Images and Forms of Classical Confucian and Daoist Ethics for Living

edited by

Zhongjiang Wang

and Hongxing Lin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 8447 | Submission Open

Keywords: Confucianism; Daoism; ethics for living

Disseminating Christian Beliefs Through Word and Image in Medieval and Renaissance Times

edited by

José María Salvador-González

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5723 | 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

Christian Monasticism Today: A Search for Identity

edited by Bernard Łukasz Sawicki and

Greg Peters

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2881 | Submission Open

Keywords: monasticism; culture; history; spirituality; anthropology; philosophy; sociology; archeology

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

edited by

Joanna Kulska

and

Anna M. Solarz

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2560 | 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)

Experience and Non-Objects: Towards a Phenomenology of Indiscernibility

edited by

Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

and

Michael D. Barber

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2494 | 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)

Viktor Frankl and the Future of Religion

edited by

Keisuke Noda

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1975 | Submission Open

Keywords: logotherapy; Viktor Frankl; phenomenology; self-transcendence; meaning of life; future of religion; religious studies; psychotherapy

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 1231 | Submission Open

Keywords: premodern Islamic multilingualism; multiculturism; translation; Islamic lingua franca

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