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Saintly Voices: Sounding the Supernatural in Medieval Hagiography
edited by Catherine Saucier
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 266 | Submission Open
Keywords: hagiography; cult of saints; devotion; supernatural and natural environments; identity; liminality; sensory perception; voice; sound; performance; religious arts
Sacred Music: Creation, Interpretation, Experience
edited by Róisín Blunnie and
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open
Keywords: sacred music; religious studies; musicology; performance; classical music; vocal music; choral music; religious litera-ture
Exploring Hagiography and Monasticism
edited by
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open
Keywords: haigography; monasticism; saints; relics; miracles
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Christian Theologies of Deification
edited by Keith Thompson, Myk Habets and
submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 85 | 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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1778 | 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 3780 | 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 2156 | 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 submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 274 | 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)
Links Between Psychology/Psychiatry and Religion submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 2344 | 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)
Experience and Non-Objects: Towards a Phenomenology of Indiscernibility submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2052 | 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)
Sacred Experience and Aesthetic Connections in Religious Festivals
edited by Federico Aguirre, Wilson Muñoz and Lily Jimenez
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1982 | Submission Open
Keywords: art and the sacred; religious festivals; popular/lived religion; material religion studies; visual and performance studies
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 1546 | Submission Open
Keywords: Daoist heavens; Grotto-heavens; Daoist cosmography
Religion and Indigenous Traditions
edited by Craig Ginn and Durga Kale
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1389 | 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
Buddhism and Medicine from an Interdisciplinary and Global Historical Perspective
edited by and Ru Zhan
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1087 | Submission Open
Keywords: medical sciences; medical practice; Jīvaka; Buddhist medical literature; Bhaiṣajyaguru; compassionate care clinics’ 悲田養病坊; globalization of Buddhism; philanthropy
Continental Philosophy and Catholic Theology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1024 | 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)
Peccata Lectionis
edited by Marton Hovanyi
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 965 | 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)
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 932 | 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)
Engaged Spiritualities: Theories, Practices, and Future Directions submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 754 | Submission Open
Keywords: engaged spiritualities; spirituality and religion; spiritual experiences; everyday life
Psychedelics and Religion
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 683 | Submission Open
Keywords: psychedelics; spirituality; meditation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Reconciling Religion and Remains—Faith and Biblical Archaeology
edited by Mark D. Janzen, Kyle H. Keimer and Chris McKinny
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 196 | Submission Open
Keywords: biblical archaeology; biblical criticism; fundamentalism; positivism; worldview; apologetics; funding sources; history of research; nomenclature
Women and Religion in the Medieval and Early Modern World
edited by Antónia Fialho Conde
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 155 | Submission Open
Keywords: property; heritage management and luxury in a cloistered environment; monasticism and gender; building monastic historical landscapes; prosopography and social identity; women's monastic literacy; nuns' mobility(s); the monastic populations and its mechanisms of pressure and attraction; patronage and artistic commissions in a cloistered environment; expressions of cloistered devotions; implementing justice: times and manners
Europe, Religion and Secularization: Trends, Paradoxes and Dilemmas submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 752 | Submission Open
Keywords: Europe; modernity; secularization; religion and politics
Existential Health, Religion and Youth in a Global Perspectives
edited by Katarina Westerlund
submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 190 | Submission Open
Keywords: existential health; religion; youth; spirituality; contextual perspectives
The Qur’an and Ethics: Methodology of Studying Qur’anic Morality
edited by Nuha Alshaar and Yasmin Amin
submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 161 | Submission Open
Keywords: Qurʾān; ethics; tafsīr; taqwā; iḥsān; psycho-spiritual analysis of the Qurʾān; ‘ adl; ḥikma; raḥma
Interreligious Dialogue: Validity and Sustainability
edited by and
submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open
Keywords: interreligious/interfaith dialogue; interreligious relations and interactions; comparative religions; religious pluralism and diversity
The Modern Reception and Interpretation of Daoism in East Asia and the West: A Comparative Perspective (19th–21st Centuries)
edited by and
submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open
Keywords: daoism; philosophy; existentialism; dialectics; alchemy; modernization; science; spirituality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Systematic Theology as a Catalyst for Renewal in Catholic Education
edited by
submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 567 | Submission Open
Keywords: Catholic education; systematic theology; trinitarian and relational ontologies; Catholic faith and culture; ecclesiology; religious education; catechesis
Interpreting the Bible: Re-reading Texts, Characters, and Images from Scripture
edited by and Ignacio Rojas Gálvez
submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2112 | Submission Open
Keywords: inner-biblical interpretation; exegesis; old testament; new testament; early Judaism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Embellishing Belief: Sacred Objects and Spaces in Premodern East Asia and Southeast Asia
edited by Cynthea J. Bogel and Daniel Borengasser
submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 631 | Submission Open
Keywords: premodern East Asia; premodern Southeast Asia; religious visual and material culture; methodologies of sacred materiality and space; embellishment; religious symbolism; authenticity; precious materials; iconography and symbology; ritual praxis; sacred object contextualization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Bible Translation and Biblical Hermeneutics: Exploring the Nexus of Language and Interpretation
edited by
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 419 | Submission Open
Monastic Lives and Buddhist Textual Traditions in China and Beyond
edited by Limei Chi, and Dewei Zhang
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 249 | Submission Open
Keywords: monastic lives; Buddhist textual traditions; transmission and transformation of Buddhist texts; Buddhist manuscript culture; Buddhist biography and hagiography; Buddhist miracle tales
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
God, Logic and Language
edited by
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open
Keywords: concept of God; divine attributes; omnipotence; omniscience; eternity; language and theology; theism; existence of God
Echoes of the Divine: The Historical, Literary, and Theological Dimensions of Prophetism submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 75 | Submission Open
Keywords: prophecy and the ancient Near East; prophecy as a religious phenomenon; prophetic hermeneutics; major and minor prophets; former or historical prophetic books; prophecy and Second Temple extrabiblical literature
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Himalayan Ecospiritual Knowledges and Ethics of Sustainability in the Anthropocene
edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters, and Mary Evelyn Tucker
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6264 | Submission Open
Keywords: Himalayan– Tibetan highlands; religious ecology; spiritual environmentalisms; commoning; ethics; the Anthro-pocene
Transitions of Islam and Democracy: Thinking Political Theology
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2579 | Submission Open
Keywords: political Islam; political thought; Islam and democracy; Islamic philosophy; religion and state; Muslim state; Islamic constitution; political rights; political liberty; anocracy
Arts, Spirituality, and Religion
edited by and Emília Simão
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1100 | Submission Open
Keywords: spirituality and religion; arts as a spiritual practice; spirituality and technology; spirituality and education; pilgrimage and celebrations; spirituality; health; and well-being
The Question of “Theodicy” in Contemporary Society: The Imagery of (after) Death in Religion and New Forms of Spirituality
edited by Antonio Camorrino
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 438 | Submission Open
Keywords: theodicy; religion; new forms of spirituality; ultimate meanings; suffering; death; after-life; imagery
Chinese Christianity and Knowledge Development
edited by Mingyu Lu and Qinghe Xiao
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 224 | Submission Open
Keywords: missionaries; knowledge development; publications; transition of knowledge; Chinese Christianity; Chinese culture; interdisciplinary studies; Chinese– Western cultural exchange; architecture; arts; customs
Practice of Religious Media in the Twenty-First Century Century
edited by Thomas Jerome Sienkewicz
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 91 | Submission Open
Keywords: broadcasting media; social media; Facebook; Twitter; YouTube; Instagram; religious media; religious television; religious radio
Religious Institutions in the Mediterranean: A Comparative Perspective
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 46 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious institutions; law; society; Mediterranean; New World
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Philosophical Theology, Doctrine, and the Theological Virtues
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 27 | Submission Open
Keywords: theological theological virtues; faith; hope; love; cardinal virtues; theological anthropology; dispositions; virtue ethics; infused grace; merit
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Experimental Theological Aesthetics
edited by Julio Bermudez and Matthew Niermann
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 557 | 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)
Computational Approaches to Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts
edited by Jacob P.B. Mortensen
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 422 | Submission Open
Keywords: New Testament; scriptures of Israel; early Christian texts; computational and algorithmic approaches; distant reading; macro analysis; text analysis
The Roles of Religion and Spirituality in Healthcare
edited by Anne Klee, Arielle Rubenstein and Glen Milstein
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; spirituality; and healthcare; religious faith and medical considerations; health and spirituality
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 429 | 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 25 | 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 278 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3396 | 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)
Clashing Civilizations and Civilizational Identities in Populist Discourses
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 45335 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Faith and Education: Contemporary and Global Issues in Historical Perspective
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2037 | Submission Open
Keywords: faith schools; religious education; theology of education; history of education; church and state; collective worship
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