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Performance in Pre-Modern Japanese Religions
edited by Mikael Bauer and Abigail MacBain
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 1134 | Submission Open
Keywords: Onmyōdō; kami; Buddhism; material culture; visual arts; performing arts; music; hymns; Bonmyō; poetry; rongi; gagaku; dance; sculpture
Religion and the Public Sphere: Revisiting the Boundaries of Theory and Practice in a Postsecular Age
edited by Christopher Baker and Justin Beaumont
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 547 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; spirituality; belief; postsecular; urbanisation; decolonial; intersectionality; activism; solidarity; politics
Voices from the 'Periphery of Islam': Discourses of Authenticity, Rooting and Community-Building
edited by
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 489 | Submission Open
Keywords: Islam in Asia; Islam in Africa; Islam in Europe and USA; authenticity; contestive heterogenization; local rooting; Islam from the soil
Exploring the Origins of Religious Beliefs
edited by Peter Bedford
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 433 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion-theory and method; religion-origins
Soteriological and Ethical Dimensions of Forgetting in Asian Thought
edited by Youru Wang
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 426 | 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 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 420 | 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
Explorations into Yan Zun’s Edition and Commentary to the Daodejing: Laozi Zhigui
edited by and
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 180 | Submission Open
Keywords: Yan Zun; Laozi zhigui; Laozi Daodejing; Daoist religion and philosophy
Religious Phenomena in Romania in the 20th and Early 21st Centuries
edited by Razvan Brudiu and Mihail K. Qaramah
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 80 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious freedom; state– church relationship; communism; mysticism; religious nationalism; religious renewal
Engaged Buddhism for an Engulfed World: New Perspectives on Humanistic Buddhism
edited by and Jakub Zamorski
submission deadline 10 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3761 | Submission Open
Keywords: engaged or humanistic Buddhism (Renjian Fojiao; 人間佛教); modernization; globalization; Taixu; school-building on monastic properties (廟產興學); multiculturalism
Renewal, Innovation, and Transformation: The Changing Face of Judaism in Modern Times
edited by
submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4567 | Submission Open
Between Philosophy and Theology: Liminal and Contested Issues
edited by Lenart Škof and Alberto Parisi
submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 872 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophical theology; magic and indigenous thought; ontology of miracles; paranormal phenomena; angelic beings; quantum theology; cross-species theology; psychoanalysis and synchronicity; paranormal phenomena; liminality; cross-cultural studies; omniscience between philosophy and theology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Comparative Study of the Concepts of Self-Transcendence, Value and Power in the Works of Emerson and Zhuang Zi
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 702 | Submission Open
Keywords: self-transcendence; value and power; Emerson and Zhuang Zi
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion and Indigenous Traditions
edited by Craig Ginn and Durga Kale
submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 600 | 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
Post-Holocaust Theologies of Jews and Judaism
edited by
submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3192 | Submission Open
Keywords: anti-Judaism; antisemitism; church history; Vatican II; inter-religious dialogue; Jewish– Christian relations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Latin American Theology of Liberation in the 21st Century submission deadline 30 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5483 | Submission Open
Keywords: Latin American Theology; Theology of Liberation; Theology of the People; Latin American Church; Pope Francis and Latin American Theology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Religion, Ritual, and Healing
edited by and Gerald Murray
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 25792 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; ritual practices; symbol; healing; wellbeing; healthcare; religious communities; globalization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Promising Images of Love: Religion, Norms, and the Mediatisation of Weddings
edited by Marie-Therese Mäder and Anna-Katharina Höpflinger
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13606 | Submission Open
Keywords: weddings; religions; values; norms; mediatisation; tradition; transformation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Chinese Christianity: From Society to Culture
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9983 | Submission Open
Keywords: jesuits; protestant missionaries’ activities; christian communities; nativization; contextualization of theology; rite; architecture; arts; customs
Divine Encounters: Exploring Religious Themes in Literature
edited by Enrique Santos Marinas and Svetlana Maliavina
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3215 | Submission Open
Keywords: sciences of religions; theology; epiphanies; theophanies; literature; mythology; myth criticism
Old Texts, New Insights: Exploring Buddhist Manuscripts
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2821 | 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)
Light from the East: The Catholic Eastern Churches Sixty Years After Vatican II
edited by Ines Angeli Murzaku and Ana Victoria Sima
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 1636 | 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)
Roots, Religion and Resistance: Unpacking the Spectrum of Black Nationalist Movements
edited by Kevin Burrell
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1589 | Submission Open
Keywords: Pan-Africanism; diaspora; black religions; black nationalism; Garvey; Rastafarianism; black identity; Black Hebrew Israelites; black resistance movements
The Interaction of Early Christianity with Classical Literature
edited by Alessandro Capone
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 1475 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christianity; pagan tradition; literature; religion; theology; philosophy; controversy; philology; lexicon; holy scripture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
The Bible and Ancient Mesopotamia
edited by Robin Baker
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1153 | Submission Open
Keywords: Sumer; Babylon; Assyria; Hebrew Bible; New Testament; Apocrypha; Pseudepigrapha; Dead Sea Scrolls; comparative religion; religious transmission in the ancient Near East
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Adolescent Religious Development submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 996 | Submission Open
Keywords: adolescent religiosity; religion; education; values; spirituality; adolescence; sociology of religion; religious beliefs and practices
Heavens and Grottos: New Explorations in Daoist Cosmography
edited by Zhaojie Bai, Vincent Goossaert, Johan Rols and Jonathan Pettit
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 655 | Submission Open
Keywords: Daoist heavens; Grotto-heavens; Daoist cosmography
Biblical and Theological Perspectives on Economic Justice
edited by Paul Hertig and Clinton E. Stockwell
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 417 | Submission Open
Keywords: economics; justice; economic justice; biblical theology; economy; injustice; poor; rich; marginalized; wealth; poverty; oppressed sustainability; globalization; liberation; practical theology; mission theology
Islam and Citizenship: Intersecting Experiences among Migrants and Their Descendants in Europe
edited by and Andrea Calabretta
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 260 | Submission Open
Keywords: Islam; lived citizenship; migrants’ descendants; Europe; Muslim activism; citizenry; faith
Christian Monasticism Today: A Search for Identity
edited by Bernard Łukasz Sawicki and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open
Keywords: monasticism; culture; history; spirituality; anthropology; philosophy; sociology; archeology
Viktor Frankl and the Future of Religion
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 142 | Submission Open
Keywords: logotherapy; Viktor Frankl; phenomenology; self-transcendence; meaning of life; future of religion; religious studies; psychotherapy
Christian Life and Thought and Their Interaction
edited by Michael Quisinsky
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 68 | Submission Open
Keywords: practices of faith; faith and reason; Christianity and culture; rationability; contextuality; theological method; inculturation/exculturation; transculturality
The Bahā’ī Faith: Doctrinal and Historical Explorations—Second Edition
edited by and Robert H. Stockman
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 64 | Submission Open
Keywords: Baha’ i; Baha’ i history; Baha’ i textual studies; Baha'i doctrinal studies; Babi movement
Sinister Surrealism
edited by Jeremy Biles
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 48 | Submission Open
Keywords: sacred; surrealist thought; surrealism
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 1 Apr 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6314 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious education; Catholic school curriculum; religious plurality; innovation; mission
Emerging Trends in Congregational Engagement and Leadership submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 501 | Submission Open
Keywords: congregations; religious leadership; clergy; COVID-19; climate change; immigration; demographics; globalization; race/ethnicity; religious nationalism
Transgressing Boundaries: Biblical and Social Scientific Studies of Migration
edited by Alexiana Fry, Ida Hartmann and Frederik Poulsen
submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 453 | Submission Open
Keywords: Bible; anthropology; interdisciplinary; migration; religion; mobility; social science
Revisiting the First Ecumenical Councils: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Relevance
edited by
submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 137 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecumenical councils; Nicene creed; Christology; trinity; iconoclasm; arianism; nestorianism; monophysitism; church unity; historical theology
Ancient Cult and Modern Methods: Unearthing the Religions of Ancient Israel and the Surrounding Cultures
edited by Stephanie Selover and Monique Roddy
submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 112 | Submission Open
Keywords: Israel; Levant; Iron Age I; Iron Age II; religious architecture; religious practices; feasting; material culture of religion
Existential Health, Religion and Youth in a Global Perspectives
edited by Katarina Westerlund
submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 98 | Submission Open
Keywords: existential health; religion; youth; spirituality; contextual perspectives
Mystical Theology and Muslim-Christian Dialogue—2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 5 Apr 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 16379 | Submission Open
Keywords: mysticism; Sufism; Islam; Christianity; Christology; hermeneutics; religious experience; interreligious dialogue; Muslim– Christian dialogue; mystical theology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Religion and Politics: Interactions and Boundaries
edited by Daniele Santarelli, Lorenza Gianfrancesco and Domizia Weber
submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7825 | Submission Open
Keywords: political– religious conflict; tolerance; freedom; Heresy; persecutions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion and Politics: Ritual, Performativity, and (Political) Theatre in Comparative-Historical and International Perspective
edited by Patricia J. Sohn
submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 1000 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; ritual; political; theatre; performativity; politics
Interpreting the Bible: Re-reading Texts, Characters, and Images from Scripture
edited by Ianire Angulo Ordorika and Ignacio Rojas Gálvez
submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 261 | Submission Open
Keywords: inner-biblical interpretation; exegesis; old testament; new testament; early Judaism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Spirituality and Mental Health in Secular Societies
edited by Johnny Ramírez-Johnson and Héctor Luis Díaz
submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open
Keywords: spirituality; religion; mental health; psychology; social work; marriage and family therapy; counseling; pastoral care; chaplaincy
Theology and Science: Loving Science, Discovering the Divine submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 23363 | Submission Open
Keywords: science; artificial intelligence; technology; ethics; spirituality; religion; theology
Problems in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy of Religion
edited by Imran Aijaz
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11940 | Submission Open
Keywords: Islamic philosophy of religion; Islam and philosophy; philosophical issues in Islam; philosophical debates in Islam; contemporary philosophical problems in Islam
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Sikhi, Sikhs and Caste: Lived Experiences in a Global Context
edited by Opinderjit Kaur Takhar
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10267 | Submission Open
Keywords: activism; /bani/; caste; egalitarianism; endogamy; equality; legislation; Panjabi culture; pollution; purity; Sikhi; /zat/
Chinese Religious Cultures: Historical Traditions and Modern Interpretations
edited by , Chuanhui Zeng, Zhejia Tang and Xuedan Li
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5246 | Submission Open
Keywords: modern interpretations; Chinese religious cultures; Buddhist culture; Daoist culture; Islamic culture; Christian culture; Chinese folk religion; Confucian religious thoughts
Church, Clergy, and Authority: An Exploration of Medieval Religious Life and Culture
edited by Jack Cunningham and Angelo M. Silvestri
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3392 | Submission Open
Keywords: church; authority; community; dissent; culture; clergy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
University of Konstanz, International Conference (25 October, 31 October, 8 November 2024): Emerging Historical Perspectives on Christian-Muslim Interactions in and Around the Mediterranean (c. 630–1614)
edited by James Wilson, Eric Böhme, Alejandro Peláez Martín and
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2658 | Submission Open
Keywords: Umayyad Christianity; “ Convivencia” -al-Andalus; Christian “ Conciliarism” and Islam; approaches to translation; Islamic law and Christian otherness; trade activities; knights and literature; early European oriental studies; communication at times of crisis or hardship; medieval soundscapes; urban environments
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