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Locating Catholicity amid the Complexities of Church and World

edited by

Richard Schaefer

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 444 | Submission Open

Keywords: catholicity; christianity; church; universal church; global christianity; ecumenical dialogue

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

Buddhist Theories of Mind and Their Contemporary Ethical Implications

edited by Chien-Te Lin and

Taesoo Kim

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 436 | Submission Open

Keywords: Buddhist psychology; Buddhist ethics; moral psychology; consciousness; interdisciplinary dialogue; mindfulness; well-being; comparative studies; Engaged Buddhism; Humanistic Buddhism

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

Between Faith and Algorithms: Religion and Religiosity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Małgorzata Gruchoła

and

Małgorzata Tatala

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 407 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; religion; theology; dogmatics; ethics of technology; identity; community; algorithms; digital spirituality; religiosity; religious community; transhumanism

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

The Movement of the Great Dao: Daoism and Its Exchange with Foreign Cultures

edited by

Wu Guo

, Jishao Han and Zuguo Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 400 | Submission Open

Keywords: Daoism; the spread of Daoism; cultural exchange

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

Religion, Marriage, and Family: Elements of Human Flourishing

edited by Joseph C. Atkinson

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 359 | Submission Open

Keywords: marriage and family; human flourishing; individualism and freedom; theology and sociology; gender identity and social change

“Favour Is Deceitful, and Beauty Is Vain (Proverbs 31:30)”: Writing the Sacred and the Lure of Aestheticism

edited by

Cyril Aslanov

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 292 | Submission Open

Keywords: sacred languages; canonical texts of religious literature; rhetoric and poetics; comparative religion; devotional writing

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

Nationalism and Anti-Nationalism Within African Political Theology

edited by Daniel Pratt Morris-Chapman

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 234 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious nationalism; religion; nationalism; liberation theology; theology of reconstruction; theology of restitution; Stanley Hauerwas; African theology; political theology; public theology

Negotiating Law and Ethics in the Rabbinic Tradition

edited by Matthew Goldstone

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 201 | Submission Open

Keywords: Rabbinic literature; Jewish law; ethics and morality; jurisprudence; late antiquity; legal theory; hermeneutics; normativity

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

Climate Resiliency and Lived Religion in the Capitalocene

edited by Joerg Rieger,

Aaron K. Stauffer

and George Schmidt

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 169 | Submission Open

Keywords: capitalocene; climate resiliency; climate adaptation; climate change; lived religion; political economy; political ecology

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

Alevism: History, Religion, and Transformation

edited by Rıza Yildirim

submission deadline 15 Jan 2027 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2274 | Submission Open

Keywords: Alevism; Bektashism; Qizilbash; Islamic sectarianism; nation-building; religious minority; migration

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

Media in Religious Education

edited by Øyvind Økland

submission deadline 15 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 320 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious education; media; digital religion; wellbeing; mental health; psychology; social sciences; health; youth; inter-cultural learning

New Testament Exegesis and “Deconstruction of Faith”

edited by

Ksenija Magda

and Elizabeth W. Mburu

submission deadline 15 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 188 | Submission Open

Keywords: deconstruction of faith/tradition; exegesis; hermeneutics; contextual; decolonize; ideological; New Testament; Biblical; doctrine

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

Theological Anthropology and Technological Mediation: AI, Formation, and Human Agency

edited by Åke Elden

submission deadline 15 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open

Keywords: theological anthropology; artificial intelligence; technological mediation; human agency; formation; discernment; embodiment; digital religion; epistemology; moral agency

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

Faith, Resilience and Flourishing Communities: Islamic Perspectives on Human Wellbeing, Ethical Communities and Responses to Adversity

edited by

Hakan Coruh

and

Derya Iner

submission deadline 15 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 111 | Submission Open

Keywords: faith; resilience and flourishing communities; the Qur'an/Sunnah and Islamic scholarly traditions on human wellbeing

Hinduism: Belief and Practices Within the Family

edited by Mugdha Yeolekar, Vinita Chandra and

Leena Taneja

submission deadline 20 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 369 | Submission Open

Keywords: Hinduism; family rituals; domestic religion; everyday religiosity; belief and practice; India

After the Arab Spring: Reassessing the Religious Landscape in Tunisia’s Democratic Journey and Societal Debates

edited by

Zouhir Gabsi

submission deadline 30 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 458 | Submission Open

Keywords: Tunisia; Arab Spring; Ennahda; Islam; democracy; cultural hybridity; Tunisian youth; globalization; glocality; cultural hybridity; religiosity

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

Studies on Religious Rituals and Practices

edited by

Anna Prashizky

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3328 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; religious rituals; ritual practices; rites of passage; ritualization; symbolism; migration and refugees; war and violent conflicts; everyday and holiday rituals; postmodern religious experience

Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, Scientific, and Beyond—Second Edition

edited by

Jeffery D. Long

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1645 | Submission Open

Keywords: afterlife; metempsychosis; past life memory; past lives; paranormal; rebirth; reincarnation

Reimagining Jewish-Muslim Relations After October 7th

edited by

Iqbal Akhtar

and Elad Ben David

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 1313 | Submission Open

Keywords: Muslim—Jewish relations; Islamic theology; Abraham Accords; post-October 7th; Gaza War; peacebuilding; interfaith dialogue; utopian studies; Israel; Hamas; countering extremism

Silk Road, Buddhism and Cultural Memory in East Asia

edited by

Jiade Shao

Dongbo Liu

Zhouyuan Li

and Futong Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1013 | Submission Open

Keywords: silk road Buddhism; cultural memory and memory studies; transregional cultural circulation; Buddhist culture in East Asia; Dunhuang texts and literature of the Western regions; Buddhist material culture and religious space; Buddhist language and translation studies; narrative and cultural representation; digital humanities and cultural heritage; folk belief and everyday practices

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

New Perspectives on East Asian Buddhist Architecture

edited by Puay Peng Ho

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 899 | Submission Open

Keywords: Buddhist architecture; East Asia; places of worship; Buddhist monuments; religious and cultural functions

Historical Erasure in the Context of Religion

edited by Karen McCluskey and Karen Pack

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 788 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious history; queer history; LGBTQIA+ experience; gender; marginalization; Indigenous history; history of disability

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

Heresies, Heterodoxies, and Process–Relational Theologies

edited by Donna Bowman

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 663 | Submission Open

Keywords: process theology; heresy and heterodoxy; theological dissent; church discipline; religious institutions; open and relational theology

Perspectives in Contemporary Catholic Philosophy: Ethics, Epistemology, and Metaphysics

edited by Marco Stango, Erik van Versendaal and

Michael Taylor

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 302 | Submission Open

Keywords: Catholic philosophy; ethics; epistemology; metaphysics; philosophical methodology; analytic–continental divide; philosophy and revelation

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

The Qur'an in Late Antiquity

edited by Valentina Grasso

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 288 | Submission Open

Keywords: Qur’an; late antiquity; pre-Islamic Arabia; first millennium Afro-Eurasia

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

Philosophical Interpretation of Biblical Narratives

edited by

Christian Ramsey

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 280 | Submission Open

Keywords: philosophical theology; biblical hermeneutics; natural law; divine pedagogy; canonical interpretation; exegesis; moral epistemology; analytic philosophy of religion; general revelation; narrative theology

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

Parochial Schools and Religious Education: Educational, Psychological, and Social Perspectives

edited by

Chang-Ho Ji

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 222 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious education; parochial schools; faith-based schooling; educational psychology; moral development; sociology of education; school climate; comparative education; religion and education policy; character education

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

Religious Architecture and Social Dynamics: Adaptive Reuse, Heritage, Visibility, and Digital Transformation of Sacred Space

edited by

Marcin Jewdokimow

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious architecture; sacred space; adaptive reuse; desacralization; heritage conflicts; religious visibility; multicultural urbanism; post-secular urbanism; digital religion; hybrid sacred environments; sociology of space; material religion; spatial politics; cultural geography; urban religion

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

Religion and National Security; Religion and Social Security: Institutional Relations for the Common Good of Nations

edited by Sławomir Bylina, Amantius Akimjak and Peter Majda

submission deadline 1 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and national security; religion and social security; social assistance; religious institutions; social work; education for safety; safety culture; humanitarian aid; armed conflicts; relations between the state and churches and religious associations

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

Words, Worlds, and Theology: Explorations in Biblical Interpretation

edited by Stefano Salemi

submission deadline 1 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 62 | Submission Open

Keywords: biblical interpretation; theology; hermeneutics; intertextuality; biblical languages; reception history; theological anthropology; human flourishing; digital humanities; biblical theology

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

Creating a Robust Spirituality in Family and Relational Life in a Challenging World

edited by Suzanne Coyle

submission deadline 15 Feb 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1501 | Submission Open

Keywords: family; relationship; spirituality

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

Moral Sources and Political Limits: Religious Ethics, Humanitarianism, and National Interest

edited by John A. Rees and Marianne Rozario

submission deadline 15 Feb 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1366 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious ethics; humanitarianism; national interest; foreign policy; moral sources; state sovereignty; international norms

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

Adolescent Flourishing: Theological and Educational Approaches to Supporting Catholic Youth

edited by Cynthia L. Cameron

submission deadline 15 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 372 | Submission Open

Keywords: adolescence; flourishing; Catholic church; Catholic schools; Catholic theology

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

East Asia Religion and Social Transformation in Contemporary Digital Age

edited by Antonio J. Domenech and Dongkyu Kim

submission deadline 26 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 130 | Submission Open

Keywords: East Asia religions; social changes; technology; AI; religious ethics-moral; interdisciplinary studies

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 28 Feb 2027 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8946 | Submission Open

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

(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 28 Feb 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1833 | Submission Open

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

Literature and Religion in Dialogue: Continuity and Contestation

edited by Eugene McNulty,

Bradford A. Anderson

and Freya Dasgupta

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1561 | Submission Open

Keywords: literature; religion; theology; sacred texts; literary theory; genre; literary criticism

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

Jewish Thought in Light of Deleuze and Guattari Studies

edited by

Iddo Dickmann

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 790 | Submission Open

Keywords: continental philosophy; Deleuze; Guattari; Bible; Talmud; Kabbalah; Jewish philosophy

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

Contemporary Black Theology

edited by

Kurt Buhring

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 677 | Submission Open

Keywords: black theology; womanist theology; African American religion

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

Theology and Society: Faith, Social Sciences, and the Unity of Knowledge

edited by

Claudio Tagliapietra

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 663 | Submission Open

Keywords: fundamental theology; faith and reason; theology and society; sociology of religion; public theology; revelation and tradition; psychology of religion; religion and urban life; economics; artificial intelligence and theology

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

Religious and Philosophical Conceptions of Death

edited by

Achim Oberst

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 470 | Submission Open

Keywords: anguish/anxiety/despair/fear; bliss/blessedness/salvation/redemption; body; a/temporality/eternity; death/dying; faith; im/mortality; life/survival; nothing/ness; resurrection/afterlife; suicide

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

Religion and Artificial Intelligence: Authority, Personhood, and the Future of the Human

edited by Owen Anderson and Rajeev Kumar Singh

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 271 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI and religion; theological anthropology; epistemic authority

The Glocality of Korean Buddhism: Philological and Cultural–Historical Reinterpretations

edited by

Cheonghwan Park

and

Jaehee Han

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 183 | Submission Open

Keywords: Korean Buddhism; glocality; East Asian Buddhism; transnational religion; colonial Buddhism; Koryŏ; Chosŏn

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

Words of Wisdom, Words of Faith

edited by

Cristina Pennarola

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 96 | Submission Open

Keywords: culture; discourse; God; knowledge; language; religion; wisdom

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

Religion in the Clash Between the Modern State World Order and the Postmodern Stateless Global Order

edited by

Roberto Scalon

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open

Keywords: elite; globalism; identity; nation; neoliberalism; peoples; religion(s); religiosity; religious freedom; sovereignty

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

Divine Warfare, Heresy and Witchcraft: Connecting Witch Trials and Religious Persecutions in the Premodern World (to 1900)

edited by Gayle Brunelle

submission deadline 1 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 1142 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious wars; divine warfare; witchcraft; witch trials; heresy; sorcery; state formation; confessionalization; traditional magic; traditional medicine; patriarchy; ethnic identity and magic; religious mysticism

Faith, Law, and Public Life: Transboundary Legal Responses to Both Secular and Religious Fundamentalism

edited by

Antonio Quirós-Fons

and Francisca Perez Madrid

submission deadline 1 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 197 | Submission Open

Keywords: freedom of religion or belief (FoRB); international public order; secular fundamentalism; religious fundamentalism; transboundary legal response; human rights; comparative law; transnational regulation; public policy; platform governance

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

New Work on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion—Part 2

edited by

Sebastian Sunday Grève

submission deadline 15 Mar 2027 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2474 | Submission Open

Keywords: Ludwig Wittgenstein; philosophy of religion; religious belief; religious language; religious point of view; ethics; faith; form of life; cognitivism; fideism; John Henry Newman; Kierkegaard; Tolstoy

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

Constructive Theology in the Contemporary World

edited by

Verna Marina Ehret

submission deadline 15 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 140 | Submission Open

Keywords: constructive theology; contemporary practice; culture; ethics; society

Between Judaism and Hellenism: The Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire and Its Development in Late Antiquity

edited by

Arnaldo Marcone

and Patrizia Arena

submission deadline 15 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 134 | Submission Open

Keywords: Hellenism; Christianity; Paul; Judaism; Mithraism; Early Roman Empire; Late Antiquity

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

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