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Monastic Lives and Buddhist Textual Traditions in China and Beyond
edited by Limei Chi, 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
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 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 , 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
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 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
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
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
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
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, and
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
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
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 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 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 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
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
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open
Keywords: sacred space; hierophany; sacred art; contemporary sacred art
Religion and Creativity 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 , Chuanhui Zeng, 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 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
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 and
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
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
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 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
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 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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