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Religiosity and Psychopathology

edited by

Spyros Tsitsigkos

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2329 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious depression; demon possession; demon obsession; religious hysteria; magic

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

Faiths for Earth, Geo-Commoning, and New Ethics in the Himalayas

edited by

Dan Smyer Yü

, Jelle J.P. Wouters and Mary Evelyn Tucker

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 800 | Submission Open

Keywords: Himalayan– Tibetan highlands; religious ecology; spiritual environmentalisms; commoning; ethics; the Anthro-pocene

Canon Law and Secularization: Societal Trends and the Changing Role of Religious Law

edited by Maria D’Arienzo

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 223 | Submission Open

Keywords: secularization; canon law and secularization; religious laws and secularization

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

Transitions of Islam and Democracy: Thinking Political Theology

edited by

Ronen A. Cohen

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 203 | Submission Open

Keywords: political Islam; political thought; Islam and democracy; Islamic philosophy; religion and state; Muslim state; Islamic constitution; political rights; political liberty; anocracy

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 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 187 | Submission Open

Keywords: theodicy; religion; new forms of spirituality; ultimate meanings; suffering; death; after-life; imagery

Hindu Sacred Texts and Rituals in Sanskrit Literature

edited by Jon Skarpeid

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 110 | Submission Open

Keywords: Sanskrit; rituals; music; materiality; Hinduism; history; India; South-Asia; Indian languages

Performance in Pre-Modern Japanese Religions

edited by Mikael Bauer and Abigail MacBain

submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 1040 | Submission Open

Keywords: Onmyōdō; kami; Buddhism; material culture; visual arts; performing arts; music; hymns; Bonmyō; poetry; rongi; gagaku; dance; sculpture

Fate in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Religion

edited by

David Torrijos-Castrillejo

and Jorge Luis Gutiérrez

submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 824 | Submission Open

Keywords: fate; providence; foreknowledge; determinism; free will; divination; fortune; causality; contingent future; necessity

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

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 394 | 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

Thijl Sunier

submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 352 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islam in Asia; Islam in Africa; Islam in Europe and USA; authenticity; contestive heterogenization; local rooting; Islam from the soil

Rabbinic Thought between Philosophy and Literature

edited by Sergey Dolgopolski

submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 326 | 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

Exploring the Origins of Religious Beliefs

edited by Peter Bedford

submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 307 | 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 306 | Submission Open

Keywords: Asian religions; Asian philosophies; forgetting; forgetfulness; memory; therapy; ethics; soteriology

Explorations into Yan Zun’s Edition and Commentary to the Daodejing: Laozi Zhigui

edited by

Thomas Michael

and

Misha Tadd

submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 64 | 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 22 | 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

Jinhua Chen

and Jakub Zamorski

submission deadline 10 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1320 | 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

Yaakov Ariel

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3504 | Submission Open

Comparative Study of the Concepts of Self-Transcendence, Value and Power in the Works of Emerson and Zhuang Zi

edited by

Shan Gao

and

Benjamin Coles

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

Keywords: self-transcendence; value and power; Emerson and Zhuang Zi

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

Between Philosophy and Theology: Liminal and Contested Issues

edited by Lenart Škof and Alberto Parisi

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 99 | 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)

Religion, Ritual, and Healing

edited by

Haiyan Xing

and Gerald Murray

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 19031 | 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)

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 1458 | 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 | Viewed by 532 | Submission Open

Keywords: Pan-Africanism; diaspora; black religions; black nationalism; Garvey; Rastafarianism; black identity; Black Hebrew Israelites; black resistance movements

Biblical and Theological Perspectives on Economic Justice

edited by Paul Hertig and Clinton E. Stockwell

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 349 | Submission Open

Keywords: economics; justice; economic justice; biblical theology; economy; injustice; poor; rich; marginalized; wealth; poverty; oppressed sustainability; globalization; liberation; practical theology; mission theology

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 298 | Submission Open

Keywords: Daoist heavens; Grotto-heavens; Daoist cosmography

Adolescent Religious Development

edited by

Rafael López-Cordero

and

María del Carmen Olmos-Gómez

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 273 | Submission Open

Keywords: adolescent religiosity; religion; education; values; spirituality; adolescence; sociology of religion; religious beliefs and practices

Islam and Citizenship: Intersecting Experiences among Migrants and Their Descendants in Europe

edited by

Stefano Allievi

and Andrea Calabretta

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 147 | 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

Greg Peters

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 47 | Submission Open

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

Viktor Frankl and the Future of Religion

edited by

Keisuke Noda

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 40 | 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 13 | Submission Open

Keywords: practices of faith; faith and reason; Christianity and culture; rationability; contextuality; theological method; inculturation/exculturation; transculturality

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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2997 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious education; Catholic school curriculum; religious plurality; innovation; mission

Emerging Trends in Congregational Engagement and Leadership

edited by

Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi

submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 398 | Submission Open

Keywords: congregations; religious leadership; clergy; COVID-19; climate change; immigration; demographics; globalization; race/ethnicity; religious nationalism

Revisiting the First Ecumenical Councils: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Relevance

edited by

Michal Valčo

submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 85 | 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 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: Israel; Levant; Iron Age I; Iron Age II; religious architecture; religious practices; feasting; material culture of religion

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 888 | 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 155 | Submission Open

Keywords: inner-biblical interpretation; exegesis; old testament; new testament; early Judaism

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

Theology and Science: Loving Science, Discovering the Divine

edited by

Tracy J. Trothen

and

Calvin Mercer

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 16995 | Submission Open

Keywords: science; artificial intelligence; technology; ethics; spirituality; religion; theology

Sikhi, Sikhs and Caste: Lived Experiences in a Global Context

edited by Opinderjit Kaur Takhar

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3234 | 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

Yuehua Chen

, Chuanhui Zeng, Zhejia Tang and Xuedan Li

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2279 | Submission Open

Keywords: modern interpretations; Chinese religious cultures; Buddhist culture; Daoist culture; Islamic culture; Christian culture; Chinese folk religion; Confucian religious thoughts

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

Marco Demichelis

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1884 | 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

"What Does Theology Do, Actually?” Dialogue between Differing Theological Approaches

edited by

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

and Matthew Ryan Robinson

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 372 | Submission Open

Keywords: theological method; global; intercultural; semantics; ecumenical; comparative; praxis; politics; postcoloniality

Under the Rising Crescent: How and When Became the Middle East an Islamic Region?

edited by Michael Ehrlich and Amichay Schwartz

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 294 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islamization; Islamication; conversion; migration; Arabization; Syria; Palestine

Spirituality in Action: Perspectives on New Evangelization

edited by Marek Chmielewski

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 177 | Submission Open

Keywords: spirituality; spiritual theology; new evangelization; Gospel preaching; spiritual experience; acts of mercy; witness; inculturation

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

Bible and Liturgy in Dialogue

edited by Marco Benini

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open

Keywords: bible; liturgy; hermeneutics; old/new testament; interpretation; reception; readings; psalms; sacramentality; anamnesis

Urban Governance of Interreligious Dialogue and Freedom of/from Religion

edited by

Giuseppe Giordan

and

Olga Breskaya

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 129 | Submission Open

Keywords: interreligious dialogue; urban governance; religious diversity; freedom of/from religion

Religious Symbols and Fashion: Identification, Representation and Regulation in Dress

edited by

Alberto Fabio Ambrosio

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 85 | 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

Shaping Sacred Knowledge: The Transmission and Legacy of the Chinese Buddhist Canon

edited by

Zhouyuan Li

Jiang Wu

and

Darui Long

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open

Keywords: Chinese Buddhist Canon; Chinese Buddhism; East Asian Buddhism; canonical studies; religious texts; manuscripts and printed canons; multidisciplinary religious research; cultural interactions; digital humanities in religious studies; Buddhist material culture

On the Origins of Western Psychedelia: Exploring Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

edited by J. Christian Greer and Sharday C. Mosurinjohn

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 49 | Submission Open

Keywords: psychedelia; John M. Allegro; The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

Exploring the Historiography of Muslim Communities in Central Asia

edited by Eren Tasar

submission deadline 1 May 2025 | Viewed by 170 | Submission Open

Keywords: Muslim; historiographical tradition; Islam; Central Asia

Modern Jewish Identities

edited by Daniel Bessner and David Weinfeld

submission deadline 1 May 2025 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open

Keywords: Judaism/Jews/Jewish; Zionism; diaspora; assimilation; denominationalism

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

Pilgrimages of Repair: Journeys to Return, Rebuild and Restore

edited by Heather Warfield

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 54 | Submission Open

Keywords: repair; pilgrimages; multidisciplinary; sacred sites

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