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Engaging Buddhism in Modern Societies: The Diaspora of Religious Values and Ethics

edited by Daniel Rhodes and

Jeremy A. Rinker

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 181 | Submission Open

Keywords: Buddhism; Buddhist practice; Buddhist ethics and values; mindfulness; immigrant and refugee populations; religious diaspora; Buddhism with mental health and health sciences

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

Buddhist Meditation: Culture, Mindfulness, and Rationality

edited by

Heather Kempton

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7251 | Submission Open

Keywords: Buddhism; meditation; mindfulness; culture; psychology; philosophy; rationality; introspection; secularization; in-terdisciplinarity

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

An Enduring Legacy: The Theology of Thomas Aquinas in Dialogue with the Contemporary Age

edited by

Piotr Roszak

and

Kenny Ang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6360 | Submission Open

Keywords: Thomas Aquinas; Thomism; systematic theology; metaphysics; grace; natural law; virtue ethics; faith and reason; sacramental theology; contemporary theology

Contemporary Johannine Scholarship: Texts, Contexts, and Trajectories

edited by

Martin Micallef

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2005 | Submission Open

Keywords: theological interpretation; narrative theology; christological analysis; pneumatological approach; symbolic interpretation; trinitarian reading; historical– contextual analysis; literary– critical method; reception history; intertextual reading

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

Jewish Ethics: Foundations, Developments, and Contemporary Challenges

edited by

Tsuriel Rashi

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 1744 | Submission Open

Keywords: Jewish ethics; halakha; moral philosophy; rabbinic thought; applied ethics; theology; Jewish law; responsibility; tradition and modernity; religious pluralism

Theological and Ethical Reflections on Artificial Intelligence

edited by Rafael Amo Usanos and

Andrea Ciucci

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1368 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; theology; ethics; religious traditions; human singularity; concept of God; moral evaluation; technological culture; interreligious dialogue; responsible innovation

Phenomenology and Theology: Methods, Limits and Transformations

edited by

Martin Koci

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 1082 | Submission Open

Keywords: phenomenological theology; continental philosophy; finitude; embodiment; religious experience; transformation; theological method; critical phenomenology; systematic theology

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

Comparative Thinking on Islam in a Global Age

edited by

Aldona Piwko

and

Andrzej Adamski

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 989 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islam; globalization; Middle East; new media and social communication; religious diplomacy; interreligious dialogue; policy; intercultural communication; Islamic studies; digital religion; mediatization; religious authority; cultural security; Islamic media; online communities; digital transformation; media ethics; digital diplomacy; decentralized networks; multi-platform communication

God, Logic and Language

edited by

Brian Huffling

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 880 | Submission Open

Keywords: concept of God; divine attributes; omnipotence; omniscience; eternity; language and theology; theism; existence of God

New Images of God in Contemporary Physics, Quantum Metaphysics, and Theism: Quantum God, Emptiness, Consciousness, and Energy

edited by

Paolo Di Sia

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 879 | Submission Open

Keywords: (quantum) God; (quantum) vacuum; modern/contemporary physics; (quantum) metaphysics; theism; mind and matter; mindfulness and consciousness; synchronicity; holism; eastern religions

Religion and the State: Secularism, Identity, and the Politics of Exclusion

edited by Alberto Spektorowski

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 743 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and state; secularism and exclusion; religious nationalism; post-secular critiques

Language and Religion: Multilingual Perspectives on Contemporary Theolinguistics

edited by Jonathan M. Watt

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 574 | Submission Open

Keywords: linguistics; language; dialect; register; style; religion; spirituality

Religious Art of the Renaissance

edited by Bonnie Noble

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 468 | Submission Open

Keywords: Counter-Reformation; Religious identity; Devotional image; Iconoclasm; Ritual

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

Myth and Religion: Research Paths and Perspectives

edited by Maria Teresa Moscato and

Andrea Porcarelli

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 428 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious myth; narrative thinking; religious education; philosophy of religion; religious prejudice

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

Theology and Public Life: Contemporary Perspectives on Public Theology

edited by Teresa L. Smallwood

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 424 | Submission Open

Keywords: public; theology; voice; prophetic; power; witness; political; sphere; truth; false

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

The Theological Legacy of Pope Francis

edited by Gerard Kevin Whelan

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 418 | Submission Open

Keywords: theological legacy; Synodality; integral ecology; graduality; Laudato Si’ ; Fratelli Tutti; Amoris Laetitia; Global Compact on Education; Vatican II Reception; Ecumenical Dialogue; interreligious collaboration

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

Texts, Translations, and Gendered Discourses: Historical and Theological Dialogues Across the Hebrew Bible

edited by

Kornélia Koltai

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 392 | Submission Open

Keywords: Hebrew Bible; post-biblical literature; gender; gendered discourses; feminist hermeneutics; reception history; translations of Hebrew Bible; rabbinic literature; post-critical approaches; historical and theological processes of reception

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

Out of Religion: Leaving Faith as a Form of Migration

edited by Aviad Moreno and Mordy Miller

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 354 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious disaffiliation; Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy (Haredi); migration theory; push– pull factors; acculturation; liminality; identity reconstruction; social integration; health and well-being; support networks

Textual Embodiment: Ritual Praxis and Scriptural Hermeneutics in Hindu Traditions

edited by

Ferdinando Sardella

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 276 | Submission Open

Keywords: bhakti; yoga; Vaiṣṇavism; Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism; Hinduism; lived religion; ritual studies; embodiment; hermeneutics; text and practice; pilgrimage; Kīrtana; performance; theology; Indian philosophy; transnational Hinduism

Religion, Law and Territory Past and Present: Challenges and Transformations in Comparative Perspective

edited by

Daniela Tarantino

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 263 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; law and territory; governance of religious pluralism; religion in urban and spatial contexts; comparative regulation of religion; religion and public governance

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

Everyday Theology: Lay Vocation, Work, and Family as Sacred Practice

edited by Adam Zadroga and

Katarzyna Zielińska-Król

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 152 | Submission Open

Keywords: everyday theology; lay vocation; work; family; sacred practice; lived theology; spirituality; domestic church; Catholic social teaching; practical theology

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

Governance and Management of Religious Diversity in the Face of the Challenges of European Pluralism

edited by Rafael Valencia Candalija

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open

Keywords: governance; religious diversity; religious freedom; european pluralism; conflicts; challenges; public order

Beyond Traditional Politics in Post(modern) Crisis: Intercultural Theology as Critical Approach

edited by Ulrike Sallandt and

Nicolás Panotto

submission deadline 1 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 469 | Submission Open

Keywords: intercultural theologies; critical theories (post-/decolonial; feminist; queer; etc.); interdisciplinarity; intersectionality; globalization; crisis of civilization; cultural turn

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

The Transfer of Jewish Thought from Prewar Germany to Postwar France

edited by

Elad Lapidot

and

Bat Chen Laila Seri

submission deadline 1 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 94 | Submission Open

Keywords: German-Jewish thought; French Jewish thought; Franz Rosenzweig; Walter Benjamin; Emmanuel Levinas; Jacques Derrida; European universalism; decolonization; translation

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

From World Catholicism to the Emergence of Global Catholicism, 1800–2025: Encounters and Transformations

edited by Raffaella Perin

submission deadline 10 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 248 | Submission Open

Keywords: global Catholicism; Catholic internationalism; missionary networks; transnational circulation; inculturation; ecclesiological transformation; media and religion; interreligious relations; center-perophery relations; Vatican II

Chinese Christianity and Knowledge Development—2nd Edition

edited by Mingyu Lu and

Qinghe Xiao

submission deadline 12 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 361 | Submission Open

Keywords: missionaries; knowledge development; publications; transition of knowledge; Chinese Christianity; Chinese culture; interdisciplinary studies; Chinese– Western cultural exchange; architecture; arts and customs

Blessed and Bounded: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Rise of Nationalism

edited by Zoran Grozdanov and Nebojša Zelič

submission deadline 14 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 261 | Submission Open

Keywords: nationalism; religion; ethnic belonging; secularism; secular state; culture; identity; populism

The Teaching of Pope Francis on Marriage

edited by Grzegorz Pyźlak

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 503 | Submission Open

Keywords: pope Francis; pastoral care of marriages; preparation for marriage; pastoral accompaniment; building the bonds; building the relation; psychological counselling; cultural and social background in the formation of marital love; education on values

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

Bible Translation and Biblical Hermeneutics

edited by

Carla Canullo

and

Stefano Santasilia

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 195 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bible; Bible translation; hermeneutics; biblical hermeneutics; translation; re-translation exegesis

Religion, Law, and Human Rights: Towards Equality and Inclusion

edited by

Maria Bhatti

and Jeremy Kingsley

submission deadline 23 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 509 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; law; human rights; equality; inclusion; pluralism; gender justice; secularism; freedom of belief; social justice

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

New Testament Studies—Current Trends and Criticisms—2nd Edition

edited by Susanne Luther, Clarissa Breu and Birke Siggelkow-Berner

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8278 | Submission Open

Keywords: theories; methods; hermeneutics; New Testament

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

edited by Ayca Arkilic

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5388 | Submission Open

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

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

edited by Thomas Jerome Sienkewicz

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5084 | Submission Open

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

Interfaith Dialogue and Transformation

edited by

Peter Admirand

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4630 | Submission Open

Keywords: interfaith dialogue; transformation; comparative theology; peacebuilding; interreligious engagement; atheist– theist dialogue

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

Exploring Anthropology in the History of the Church

edited by Jeremiah Mutie

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 1561 | Submission Open

Keywords: humanity; humankind; anthropology; soul; nature of humankind; composition of humankind; early church; medieval church; reformation; modernity

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

Social Dimensions of Religion in the Age of De-Globalization

edited by

Myengkyo Seo

Amelia Burhan

and

Pradeep K. Das

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1484 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious majorities and minorities; migration; nationalism; gender; media; religious identity and identification

Fate and Providence in Ancient Greek Philosophy as a Way of Life and a Religious Quest

edited by

David Torrijos-Castrillejo

and

Miguel Martí

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1435 | Submission Open

Keywords: fate; providence; divine foreknowledge; determinism; free will; divination; fortune; causality; contingent future; necessity; ethics; divinity; worship

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

Religionizing Confucianism: Ritual, Transcendence, and Social Formations in East Asia

edited by Qiyong Guo and

Vincent Goossaert

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1150 | Submission Open

Keywords: Confucianism as religion; rujia and rujiao; inner transcendence; sanjiao heyi (unity of three teachings); ritual and social organization; local cults and popular religion; art; materiality; and sacred space

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

Early Modern Encounters: Religious and Knowledge Exchange in the Global Mission

edited by Daniel Canaris and Caroline Paganussi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 827 | Submission Open

Keywords: mission studies; global intellectual exchange; translation studies; art history; early modern studies; liturgy; scientific exchange

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

Chinese Religious Cultures: Historical Traditions and Modern Interpretations—2nd Edition

edited by

Yuehua Chen

, Chuanhui Zeng,

Zhejia Tang

and

Yue Sun

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 596 | Submission Open

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

Religious Nationalism in Contemporary Europe

edited by Reka Szilardi and

Tamás Szilágyi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 576 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and nationalism European politics; society Religion and identity

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

Self-Organized Religious Life: The Jiangnan Region as a Case Study

edited by

Yun Wang

, Peter Trawny and

Zhejia Tang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 556 | Submission Open

Keywords: self-organized religion; lived religion; folk religion; religious texts and translation; religions imagination; ritual practice; sacred space; religious pluralism

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

Buddhist Theories of Mind and Their Contemporary Ethical Implications

edited by Chien-Te Lin and

Taesoo Kim

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 326 | 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)

Thomas Aquinas, Disciple of Saint Augustine

edited by María Rosario Neuman Lorenzini

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 298 | Submission Open

Keywords: Saint Thomas; Saint Augustine; metaphysics; theology; theory of knowledge

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

Religion, Marriage, and Family: Elements of Human Flourishing

edited by Joseph C. Atkinson

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 297 | Submission Open

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

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 238 | Submission Open

Keywords: Daoism; the spread of Daoism; cultural exchange

(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 209 | 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)

Nationalism and Anti-Nationalism Within African Political Theology

edited by Daniel Pratt Morris-Chapman

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 156 | Submission Open

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

Arts, Spirituality, and Religion—2nd Edition

edited by

Fátima Matos Silva

, Emília Simão and

Isabel Borges

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 154 | Submission Open

Keywords: pilgrimage; art and spirituality; sacred spaces; religious experience; contemporary artistic practices; collective ritual experiences; digital art and spirituality; universal accessibility and inclusion; interreligious dialogue; devotion and transcendence; cultural and/or religious routes

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

“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 148 | 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)

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