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

edited by

Chang-Ho Ji

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 177 | 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 133 | 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 89 | 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)

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 1393 | Submission Open

Keywords: family; relationship; spirituality

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

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 61 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7877 | 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 | Viewed by 1132 | 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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 909 | 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 716 | 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 | Viewed by 620 | Submission Open

Keywords: black theology; womanist theology; African American religion

(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 370 | 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)

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

edited by

Claudio Tagliapietra

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 308 | 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)

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 140 | 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 92 | 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 52 | 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 30 | 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 1039 | 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 149 | 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 1966 | 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)

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 93 | Submission Open

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

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

Spirituality, Mental Health and Education in the Spanish-Speaking World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

edited by

Rafael López-Cordero

and

María del Carmen Olmos-Gómez

submission deadline 15 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 50 | Submission Open

Keywords: faith; psychology; religiosity; spirituality; mental health; education; well-being; beliefs

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

Violence, Sacrifice, and the Sacred: Religious Origins and Modern Reflections

edited by Giuseppe Fornari, Marco Stucchi and Andrea Basso

submission deadline 15 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; sacrifice; death of God; humanity; mythology; symbolic order

(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 37 | Submission Open

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

Religious Ethics and Theology in Contemporary Human Life

edited by

SimonMary Asese A. Aihiokhai

submission deadline 30 Mar 2027 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6688 | Submission Open

Keywords: culture and religious ethics; diversity, ethics, and theology; gender and sexuality; humanism and human flourishing; migration ethics and theology; politics, identity, and the human person; religious ethics; sociology and theology; technology, theology, and the common good; theological anthropology

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

Religious Epistemology Across Traditions: Pluralism, Pragmatism and Beyond

edited by Walter Scott Stepanenko

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 405 | Submission Open

Keywords: epistemology of religion; philosophy of religion; comparative theology; interreligious theology; religious pluralism; multiple religious belonging; rationality; knowledge; justification

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

Oral Narrative Traditions and Performances in Islamicate Societies

edited by Hande Birkalan-Gedik and Erdoğan Gedik

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 357 | Submission Open

Keywords: oral tradition; narratives and performances; Islamicate societies; folklore; Sufism; Alevism; gender; digital media

Ancient Greek Religion and Philosophy in the Context of Mutual Learning Between Eastern and Western Civilizations

edited by Zhimeng Lin and

Wei Hua

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open

Keywords: ancient Greek religion; ancient Greek philosophy; mediterranean civilizations; east-west civilizational exchange; ancient near east; ancient Egypt; Greek mythology; cosmology; soul and afterlife; Christian thought

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

Religiosity and Human Flourishing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Well-Being, Mental Health, and Meaning

edited by Benjamin R. Doolittle

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 72 | Submission Open

Keywords: religiosity; human flourishing; well-being; meaning in life; psychology of religion; spirituality; moral formation

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

Religion and Secularization: Perspectives from Political Science and Social Thought

edited by

Janusz Węgrzecki

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 67 | Submission Open

Keywords: contemporary world; multicultural contexts; relations between religion and secularization; religion; Christianity; Islam; Judaism; secularization; thought of religion

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

Desecularization of Society and Politics

edited by

Piotr Musiewicz

and

Ignacio Sepúlveda

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 27 | Submission Open

Keywords: secularization; sociology of religion; politology of religion; religion and politics; post-secularity; public sphere; deprivatization of religion; religious nationalism

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

Negotiating Virtue: Prudent Women in the Bible and Beyond

edited by Tobias Nicklas,

Stephanie Hallinger

and

Osnat Emily Rance

submission deadline 1 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 124 | Submission Open

Keywords: biblical women; prudence (phronesis); gender and virtue ethics; agency in religious texts; post-biblical traditions; apocrypha and reception history; visual and material religion

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

Religious Communication in Times of Crisis, Conflict, and Transformation

edited by Brian Muzás and Matthew Emile Vaughan

submission deadline 1 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious communication; crisis; conflict; interfaith dialogue; pastoral care; spiritual care; public health; peacebuilding; faith-based organizations; transformation

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

Religion, Industrial Design, and Public Space

edited by

Alba Arboix-Alió

, Anna Majó-Rossell and

Oriol Ventura Rodà

submission deadline 15 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 148 | Submission Open

Keywords: public space; material culture; urban design; industrial design; urban elements; parish environments; contemporary uses, agency; relationality; visuality

Religious Communities and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Mónika Andok

Zoltán Szűts

and

Szilvia Dornics

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | 4 articles | Viewed by 23493 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious communities; artificial intelligence; AI and religious content creating; AI and religious ceremonies; AI and religious education; religious social shaping of technology; cultured technology

Experimental Theological Aesthetics

edited by Julio Bermudez and Matthew Niermann

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7262 | 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)

Ritual Healing in Early East Asia

edited by

Eléonore Caro

and Constance Cook

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 207 | Submission Open

Keywords: ritual healing; ancient Asian medicine; transmission of local knowledge; artifacts

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

Body, Healing, and Religion in a Secular Age

edited by

Carmen Massé García

José María Pardo

and

Roberto Noriega Fernandez

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 180 | Submission Open

Keywords: body; healing; salvation; religion; corporeality; autonomy; hope; transhumanism; holistic care

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

Religious Education of Children and Youth: Between Faith Formation and Personal Identity Development

edited by

Paola Dal Toso

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious education; faith formation; personal identity; childhood; adolescence; educational practices

Buddhist Art Along the Silk Road and Its Cross-Cultural Interaction

edited by

Liming Zhang

and Yinggang Sun

submission deadline 1 May 2027 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12824 | Submission Open

Keywords: Buddhist art; Asian civilizations; the Silk Road; mutual learning through exchange; Sinicization of Buddhism; Gandhara

Religion, Gender, and Health: Lived Experiences in Contemporary Communities

edited by

Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar

and Fany Yuval

submission deadline 15 May 2027 | Viewed by 84 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; gender; health; lived experiences; caregiving; communication; environmental responsibility; community well-being

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

Chatbots, LLMs, and Religion: Human Flourishing in an AI Age

edited by

Calvin Mercer

Randall Reed

and

Tracy J. Trothen

submission deadline 31 May 2027 | Viewed by 249 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; large language models; chatbots; religion; spirituality; human flourishing; digital afterlife; AI ethics; spiritual care; transhumanism

Heritage, Memory, and Reconfiguration: Religious Cultural Heritage of the Western Regions and the South China Sea

edited by

Zhongyue Guan

, Shubin Zhang and

Yun Ji

submission deadline 31 May 2027 | Viewed by 93 | Submission Open

Keywords: western regions; South China sea; religious cultural heritage; silk roads; Buddhist heritage; Nestorian and Islamic heritage; digital humanities

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

Revisiting Paul’s Hymn to Christ (Phil 2:5-11)

edited by Isaac Blois and Simon Walter Dürr

submission deadline 1 Jun 2027 | Viewed by 248 | Submission Open

Keywords: Philippians; New Testament; Christ Hymn; Christology; rhetorical criticism; New Testament theology; Kenosis; ethics; worship; New Testament use of the Old Testament

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

Women in Islam: Spirituality, Mysticism and the Occult

edited by

Amina Inloes

and Maryam Abbasi

submission deadline 1 Jun 2027 | Viewed by 142 | Submission Open

Keywords: women in Islam; Islamic spirituality; Sufism; Shi'ism; Islamic mysticism; Islamic esotericism; occult practices; gender and religion; spiritual authority; ritual and devotion

The Evolution of Chinese Buddhist Knowledge Systems

edited by

Wenli Fan

and

Kai Sheng

submission deadline 30 Jun 2027 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2936 | Submission Open

Keywords: Chinese Buddshit knowledge system; classified knowledge; knowledge of Buddha dharma; knowledge about the Buddhist monastic system; knowledge about the Buddhist faith; knowledge about monastic–lay relations; Confucian and Daoist knowledge systems

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

Faith in Motion: Christian Education and Faith Formation in Contexts of Migration and Displacement

edited by

Heesung Hwang

and

Sunghyun Lee

submission deadline 30 Jun 2027 | Viewed by 681 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christian education; faith formation; developmental theories; migration and displacement; intercultural theology; trauma-informed formation; postcolonial theology; border and belonging; diaspora churches; hospitality; resilience; theological pedagogy

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

Symbolism in the Post-Human Age: Between Tradition and Innovation

edited by

Vinicio Busacchi

and Annie Kunnath

submission deadline 30 Jun 2027 | Viewed by 261 | Submission Open

Keywords: symbols; hermeneutics; sacred texts; body art; tattoos; Ricoeur; Lyotard; Tillich; post-humanism

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

Theology and Interpretation of the Gospel of Mark: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Perspectives

edited by C. Clifton Black

submission deadline 30 Sep 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1780 | Submission Open

Keywords: the Bible; New Testament; the Gospel of Mark; Biblical theology; early church; history of biblical interpretation; history of Christian thought; literary and sociological interpretations of the Bible; reception of biblical literature in the arts; lived religion

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

The Multidimensional Development of Daoism During the Wei-Jin Dynasties

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Oct 2027 | Viewed by 249 | Submission Open

Keywords: Wei-Jin Dynasties; Xuanxue; religious Daoism; three teachings; chinese intellectual history; Daoist commentaries; Waidan (external alchemy); comparative philosophy; Daoist scriptures; state–religion relations

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

Theology in Dialogue with Modern Science

edited by

John A. Bloom

submission deadline 1 Nov 2027 | Viewed by 97 | Submission Open

Keywords: science; religion; Christianity; natural theology; evolution; naturalism; cosmology

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

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