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Monastic Lives and Buddhist Textual Traditions in China and Beyond

edited by Limei Chi,

Zhiyuan Chen

and Dewei Zhang

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 160 | 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

Brian Huffling

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 84 | 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

edited by

Marta García Fernández

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 63 | 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

Dan Smyer Yü

, Jelle J.P. Wouters and Mary Evelyn Tucker

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5192 | 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

Ronen A. Cohen

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2000 | 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

Fátima Matos Silva

and Emília Simão

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 880 | 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 425 | 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 201 | 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 83 | 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

Daniela Tarantino

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 29 | 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

Lee C. Barrett

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 11 | 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 479 | 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 97 | 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 379 | Submission Open

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

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 252 | Submission Open

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

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

Clashing Civilizations and Civilizational Identities in Populist Discourses

edited by

Ihsan Yilmaz

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 44075 | 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

Stephen G. Parker

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1961 | Submission Open

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

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 | Viewed by 352 | Submission Open

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

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

edited by

Lucie Doležalová

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 235 | 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 131 | 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)

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 112 | 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 66 | 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)

Magic, Religion, and Mysticism: Occult Traditions in Europe from Late Antiquity Through the Early Modern Period

edited by Martha Rampton

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open

Keywords: magic; magical mysticism; occultism; late antique magic; early medieval magic; high medieval magic; late medieval magic; early modern magic; Renassaince magic

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 39 | Submission Open

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

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 75 | Submission Open

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

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

edited by

Peter Ellard

and Ryan Patrick McLaughlin

submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 2 | 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)

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 7209 | Submission Open

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

edited by Gergana Ruseva and Milena Bratoeva

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 188 | 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)

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

edited by James P. O’Sullivan

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 135 | 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

Sacred Space and Contemporary Art

edited by

Karen Shelby

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open

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

Religion and Creativity

edited by

Christopher Hartney

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 19 | Submission Open

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

(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 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11020 | Submission Open

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

Divine Encounters: Exploring Religious Themes in Literature

edited by Enrique Santos Marinas and Svetlana Maliavina

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4553 | 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

edited by

José María Salvador-González

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2617 | 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

Viktor Frankl and the Future of Religion

edited by

Keisuke Noda

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 624 | Submission Open

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

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

edited by

Thomas Michael

and

Misha Tadd

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 406 | Submission Open

Keywords: Yan Zun; Laozi zhigui; Laozi Daodejing; Daoist religion and philosophy

Theology and Anthropology: A Critical Discussion

edited by Peter Versteeg and Petruschka Schaafsma

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 337 | Submission Open

Keywords: anthropology; theology; dialogue; transformation; reception; methodology

Christian Monasticism Today: A Search for Identity

edited by Bernard Łukasz Sawicki and

Greg Peters

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 305 | Submission Open

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

Indigenous Conversion(s) to Islam: Causes, Processes, and Consequences

edited by Ayca Arkilic

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 297 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islam; indigenous; conversion; intersectionality; colonialism; discrimination; interaction

Science and Religion: Natural Theology in the Contemporary Context

edited by Kai Man Kwan

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 166 | 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

The Eucharist as the Bread of Life: Phenomenological and Existential Explorations

edited by

James Swindal

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open

Keywords: sacramental theology; eucharist; metaphysics; existentialism; phenomenology; transubstantiation; consubstantiation

Religion in 20th- and 21st-Century Fictional Narratives

edited by Thomas Jerome Sienkewicz

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and literature; modern religious narrative; religion in fictional narrative

Christian Theology Across Non-European Cultures: Local Wisdoms and Cross-Philosophical Approaches

edited by

Dariusz Klejnowski-Różycki

and

Piotr Sękowski

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 96 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christian theology; cross-cultural theology; non-European theological thought; philosophy and Christianity; inculturation; contextual theology; global Christianity; theology in Asian; African; and Latin American traditions; theological language and translation; non-Western theological perspectives

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

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 61 | Submission Open

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

Nationalisms and Religious Identities—2nd Edition

edited by Slavica Jakelić

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 27 | Submission Open

Keywords: nationalisms and religious identities; gender; race; and class; citizenship; transnational politics; postcolonial and decolonial critiques

Religion and Craft Production in Iron Age Cis- and Transjordan

edited by Angelika Berlejung and Omer Sergi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 25 | Submission Open

Keywords: archaeology of religion; religious handicrafts; religious symbolism; craftsmen; craft production

Religion and Politics: Ritual, Performativity, and (Political) Theatre in Comparative-Historical and International Perspective

edited by Patricia J. Sohn

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 1180 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; ritual; political; theatre; performativity; politics

Mysticism and Ethics: Bridging Transcendence and Action in Religious Experience

edited by

Silvia Bara Bancel

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 19 | 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)

Science and Christian Theology: Past, Present, and Future

edited by Joseph R. Laracy and Jamie Boulding

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 359 | 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

edited by

Alberto Fabio Ambrosio

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 1833 | 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

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