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Christian Movements, Media and Society in Modern America
edited by and Jason Guthrie
submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christian movements; media; society; politics; history
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Migration and Religion: Exploring the Impacts and Challenges of Cross-Cultural Integration
edited by , and Salam Al Rabadi
submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 30 | Submission Open
Keywords: migration; religion; cross-cultural integration; religious diversity; identity; social cohesion; intercultural dialogue; transnationalism; social inclusion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Science and Christian Theology: Past, Present, and Future
edited by Joseph R. Laracy and Jamie Boulding
submission deadline 10 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3210 | Submission Open
Keywords: science; theology; creation; cosmology; evolution; artificial intelligence; epistemology; metaphysics; Stanley Jaki; Ian Barbour
Adolescent Flourishing: Theological and Educational Approaches to Supporting Catholic Youth
edited by Cynthia L. Cameron
submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 30 | Submission Open
Keywords: adolescence; flourishing; Catholic church; Catholic schools; Catholic theology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Yijing's Cosmology–Divination–Ethics Continuum: The Sacred Intercourse of Yin-Yang and the Manifestation of Tian-Di
edited by Solsar Kong, Zhenyu Zeng, Qiuli Li and Lili Zhang
submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 18 | Submission Open
Keywords: Yijing; tian-di; yin-yang; divination; ethics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Creative Eco-Theology: Responding to the Ecological Crisis of Creation
edited by
submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 138 | Submission Open
Keywords: eco-theology; ecological crisis; creation care; environmental ethics; ecological hermeneutics; sustainability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Explorations into Yan Zun’s Edition and Commentary to the Daodejing: Laozi Zhigui
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3372 | Submission Open
Keywords: Yan Zun; Laozi zhigui; Laozi Daodejing; Daoist religion and philosophy
Divine Warfare, Heresy and Witchcraft: Connecting Witch Trials and Religious Persecutions in the Premodern World (to 1900)
edited by Gayle Brunelle
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 659 | 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
Catholic Propaganda on the Frontiers: Evangelizing Pagans, Protestants, and Non-Believers in the 16th and 17th Centuries
edited by Manuel Mendez Alonzo and Gregor Pobežin
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 651 | Submission Open
Keywords: Catholic mission; comparative missionary endeavors; global religion; paganism and heresies; cultural adaptation
Youth Ministry, Youth Work, and the Role Religion Plays in the Lives of Today’s Youth
edited by , Fahimah Ulfat and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 627 | Submission Open
Keywords: youth ministry; youth work; religious development; faith; youth; Christian; Jewish; Muslim
Divine Algorithms: Religion and Faith in the Era of Artificial Intelligence submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 262 | Submission Open
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence (AI); generative AI; AI ethics; AI and religion; AI and spirituality; digital religion; algorithmic; theology faith and the posthuman faith; transformation religious practice; AI in religious education
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Christian Spirituality: Ancient Foundations, Modern Expressions
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 201 | Submission Open
Keywords: spirituality; spiritual formation; discipleship; spiritual disciplines; new testament; Christianity; prayer; scripture; restoration; renewal
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Christian–Muslim Encounters and Dialogues over the Centuries: The Christian–Muslim Relationship for Bringing Peace and Harmony
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 186 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christian– Muslim interactions; Tawhid; dialogues; conflicts; peaceful coexistence; Qur’ anic perspectives on Christians; Christian perspectives on Muslims
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Textual Embodiment: Ritual Praxis and Scriptural Hermeneutics in Hindu Traditions submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 94 | 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
Dialogues on Mysticism and Grace in the Christian Traditions
edited by and Adam Rybicki
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 41 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christian mysticism; grace; mystical experience; spiritual theology; mistology; typology of mysticism; mystical phenomena; Marian mysticism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Digitalizing Religious Education in Global Perspectives
edited by Britta Baumert and Christine Wenona Hoffmann
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 35 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital religious education; digitality and religion; digital transformation of religious education
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
The Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ: Tradition and Postmodern Approaches
edited by Radu Petre Muresan
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 10 | Submission Open
Keywords: death and resurrection of Jesus Christ; postmodernism; history of Christianity; Christian faith; theological debates; biblical and patristic studies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Music as a Ritual Practice in Religious Contexts
edited by and Hanna Rijken
submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 1299 | Submission Open
Keywords: music; ritual; religion; liturgy; worship; embodiment; sound; sacrality; participation; tradition; innovation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
The Nature of Religion in Ancient Egypt submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 366 | Submission Open
Keywords: anthropology of religion; phenomenology; landscape archaeology; pyramid texts; ontological turn; kingship; Egyptian religion; funerary ritual; religious art; architecture of religion
Orthodox Spirituality: Fundaments and Contemporary Perspectives
edited by and Gabriel Noje
submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 226 | Submission Open
Keywords: Orthodox spirituality; theosis; desert fathers; church fathers; Philokalia; spiritual healing; Christian asceticism; spiritual discernment; spiritual schools; contemporary Orthodox; spiritual figures
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts
edited by Maria Luisa Jacquinet
submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 155 | Submission Open
Keywords: women’ s religious life; early modern Western world; council of Trent; papal enclosure; contemplative life; apostolic life; religious vows; education; charitable work; monasteries; houses of retreat; beaterio; third orders; ecclesiastical authority; women’ s religious life in European colonial territories
Symbolic Hermeneutics: Interpretations, Imaginaries, and Surpluses of Meaning
edited by Joaquín Esteban Ortega
submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 114 | Submission Open
Keywords: symbolic hermeneutics; religion and culture; myth and meaning; sacred and symbolic; philosophical anthropology; hermeneutics of the body; symbolic imagination; transdisciplinarity; reason and mystery; spiritual interpretation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion and Violence in South Asia
edited by Leah M. Renold
submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; violence; communalism; myth; nationalism; Hindutva; dehumanization
Climate and Creation: Theological Responses to the Anthropocene
edited by Clive Pearson
submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 28 | Submission Open
Keywords: Anthropocene; creation; providence; theodicy; eschatology; Zalasiewicz; multidisciplinary; intersectionality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Engaged Spiritualities: Theories, Practices, and Future Directions submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5870 | Submission Open
Keywords: engaged spiritualities; spirituality and religion; spiritual experiences; everyday life
Theology and Interpretation of the Gospel of Mark: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Perspectives
edited by C. Clifton Black
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 265 | 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)
Modernity and Its Discontents: Religion, Social Life, and the Politics of Diversity Culture Wars in a Global Perspective
edited by , and Pablo Echeverría-Esparza
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 222 | Submission Open
Keywords: culture wars; multiple modernities; multiple secularisms; religion and diversity; global governance; identity politics; secularism; pluralism; intersectionality; conflict
Walking, Wandering, and Journeying: Approaches from Chinese and Greek Thought submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 177 | Submission Open
Keywords: Chinese philosophy; Greek philosophy; comparative philosophy; way or path (Dao; odos); walking; wandering; journey; self-cultivation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Reinterpreting the Bible: Intercultural Approaches to Biblical Hermeneutics
edited by Larry W. Caldwell
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 148 | Submission Open
Keywords: intercultural Bible interpretation; cultural exegesis; ethnohermeneutics; contextual hermeneutics; intercultural hermeneutics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Faith, Doubt, and the Rationality of Theistic Belief: Analytic and Continental Perspectives
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 118 | Submission Open
Keywords: theistic belief; epistemic justification; reformed epistemology; evidentialism; faith and doubt; phenomenology of religion; continental philosophy; analytic philosophy; rationality; metaphilosophy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Mendicant Networks and Mobility in the Global Medieval and Early Modern Worlds submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 23 | Submission Open
Keywords: mendicant orders; Franciscans; Dominicans; missionary activity; mobility networks; medieval history; early modern history; material culture; knowledge circulation; cross-cultural interaction; religious exchange
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Christian and Muslim Communities and Interactions in the Balkans and Eastern Europe
edited by and Mila Maeva
submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 1345 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christianity; Islam; local and transnational communities; interactions; Balkans; coexistences; conflicts
Spiritual Care and Bioethics: Exploring Theological Perspectives and Practical Applications
edited by and Matyas Szalay
submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 381 | Submission Open
Keywords: bioethics; religion; spirituality; medical ethics; ecological ethics; principlism; clinical chaplaincy; beginning-of-life questions; end-of-life questions; neuroethics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Ecclesiological Legacy of the Second Vatican Council in Light of Contemporary Challenges
edited by Alenka Arko
submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 182 | Submission Open
Keywords: Second Vatican Council; mystery-based ecclesiology; communion; hierarchical structure of the Church; synodality; accountability; contextual reception of the Council; missionary conversion; dialogue
The Interplay of Religion, Media, and Politics in the Digital Age
edited by Stefan Bratosin and Mihaela-Alexandra Tudor
submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 111 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious and political mediatization; artificial intelligence and symbolic power; media visibility and legitimacy; religion– politics– media entanglement; critical methodologies in communication
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Jewish Women Thinkers in the Face of Shoah and Its Aftermath
edited by Orietta Ombrosi
submission deadline 5 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 116 | Submission Open
Keywords: Jewish thought; gender difference; Jewish feminism; Shoah; antisemitism; violence; history & Judaism; 20th- and 21st-century philosophy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Faith, Communication, and Culture: Ecumenism in Religion and Theology
edited by Nicu Dumitrascu
submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 24 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christian unity; the “ little way” of ecumenism; contemporary secularism; countercultural revolution; theological communication; faith and reason; transmission of faith; public discourse; confessional language; reconciliation; interconfessional marriage
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Hebrew Bible in the Ancient Near Eastern Context submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open
Keywords: the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near-East; comparative studies; extra-canonical parallels; ANE comparative literature; intertextuality; Ancient Near-Eastern Literature
Practice of Religious Media in the Twenty-First Century
edited by Thomas Jerome Sienkewicz
submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 446 | Submission Open
Keywords: broadcasting media; social media; Facebook; Twitter; YouTube; Instagram; religious media; religious television; religious radio
Reimagining Protestant Theology: The Asian Experience and Christian Tradition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 325 | Submission Open
Keywords: Asian theology; Asian christianity; contextualization; theology of Korea; theology of India; theology of China; theology of Philippines; comparative studies; comparative ethics; theological imagination
The Intangible into the Perceptible: Ethereal Aspects of Religious Spaces and Their Theological Foundations
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 290 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious architecture; sacred buildings; space and form; philosophical concepts; theological concepts
Creating a Robust Spirituality in Family and Relational Life in a Challenging World
edited by Suzanne Coyle
submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 272 | Submission Open
Keywords: family; relationship; spirituality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Polemics and Conversion: Setting and Crossing Boundaries in Medieval Jewish–Christian Relations
edited by Eveline Brugger
submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open
Keywords: Middle Ages; Jewish history; conversion; polemics; Jewish– Christian relations
(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
submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 592 | Submission Open
Keywords: (quantum) God; (quantum) vacuum; modern/contemporary physics; (quantum) metaphysics; theism; mind and matter; mindfulness and consciousness; synchronicity; holism; eastern religions
Language and Religion: Multilingual Perspectives on Contemporary Theolinguistics
edited by Jonathan M. Watt
submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 259 | Submission Open
Keywords: linguistics; language; dialect; register; style; religion; spirituality
Out of Religion: Leaving Faith as a Form of Migration
edited by Aviad Moreno and Mordy Miller
submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 98 | 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
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 59 | Submission Open
Keywords: global Catholicism; Catholic internationalism; missionary networks; transnational circulation; inculturation; ecclesiological transformation; media and religion; interreligious relations; center-perophery relations; Vatican II
Religion in 20th- and 21st-Century Fictional Narratives
edited by Thomas Jerome Sienkewicz
submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1588 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and literature; modern religious narrative; religion in fictional narrative
Indigenous Conversion(s) to Islam: Causes, Processes, and Consequences
edited by Ayca Arkilic
submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 1164 | Submission Open
Keywords: Islam; indigenous; conversion; intersectionality; colonialism; discrimination; interaction
Religion, Marriage, and Family: Elements of Human Flourishing
edited by Joseph C. Atkinson
submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open
Keywords: marriage and family; human flourishing; individualism and freedom; theology and sociology; gender identity and social change
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