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Breath of Life: Black Spirituality in Everyday Life
edited by Brianne Painia and
submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open
Keywords: employment of Black faith practices; expansions and/or reflections; Black secular life; spiritual practices and rituals in Black life; African and Pan-African-informed spiritual traditions
On the Font: Human Nature Seen Through Baptism and the Baptismal Font
edited by Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen and Line M. Bonde
submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 13 | Submission Open
Keywords: baptism; iconography; liturgy; material culture; ontology; sacred space
How Christianity Affects Public Policy submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6776 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; economics; political science; political philosophy; public Health; government; social welfare and social work; sociology & social history; law; education
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Contemporary Christian Worship: Origins, Theory and Practice
edited by
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 287 | Submission Open
Keywords: liturgy; worship music; theology of worship; Christian rituals; worship innovation; cultural context; liturgical history; worship practices; ecclesiology; digital worship
Religious Transmission Across Generations: Challenges, Continuities, and Changes
edited by Christel Gärtner and
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious transmission; young peoples belief; nones; atheism; cultural religion; religious education; religious institutions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Interruption: World-Ecology and Religious Imaginations
edited by Daniel Castillo
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open
Keywords: political ecology; dangerous memory/counter memory; religious environmental ethics; political theology; world-ecology; capitalism; environmental racism; colonial matrix of power
Advancing the Study of Religion and International Relations: Thirty Years After Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" (1993, 1996)—A Critical Evaluation and Appraisal of the Current State of Art submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 10 | Submission Open
Keywords: international Relations; religion; culture; identity; regionalism; clash of civilizations; Huntington; ambivalence of the sacred
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Studies on Medieval Liturgy and Ritual
edited by Eva-Maria Butz
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 326 | Submission Open
Keywords: liturgy; ritual; ceremony; correctness; mediality; materiality; space; music; gender
Resilience: Orthodox Theology and Spirituality Engaging in Dialogue with Postmodern Society
edited by Ivana Noble and Zdenko Širka
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 231 | Submission Open
Keywords: Orthodox theology; Orthodox spirituality; postmodern society
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Forced Migration and the Bible: Displacement, Statelessness, and Resiliency in Sacred Texts
edited by Roberto Mata
submission deadline 5 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate migration; trauma; borderlands; statelessness; neocolonialism  
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Otherness-Reception and Self-Rediscovery in the Dialogue and Comparative Study of Christianity and Buddhism
edited by
submission deadline 10 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7323 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christianity; Buddhism; comparative study; inter-faith dialogue; theologian; master; cultural difference; divinity; reality; morality; self-understanding; otherness-reception; benefit; consummate
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Ethical Concerns in Early Confucianism
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 15941 | Submission Open
Keywords: early Confucianism; ethical concerns; classical text; representative; ethical argument; ethical debate
Religion and/of the Future submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4186 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; spirituality; future; technology; artificial intelligence; virtual reality; new religious movements; neuroscience; brain; well-being
Secularism in Social and Political Contexts: Contemporary Trends, Movements, and Ideas in the Middle East
edited by Gokhan Bacik and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 836 | Submission Open
Keywords: secularism and politics; the Middle East; islamism; secularism; secular political thought; social and political study of secularism; Arab nationalism and secular movements; left-wing politics and secular movements; transnational secular studies
Functions of Religion among Young People: Diverse Religious, Spiritual and Non-religious Worldviews
edited by Eduardo Duque, José Francisco Durán Vázquez and Francis Davis
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 203 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; youth; belief; unbelief; spirituality; plurality; generations
Islamic Practical Theology
edited by Tuba Işik
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 63 | Submission Open
Keywords: practical theology; religious practice; character forming
Religious Engagement and Education: Exploring Belief, Practice and Pedagogy Across Cultures
edited by Heather Marshall and Francis Farrell
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 19 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious education; pedagogy; curriculum development; teacher training; interfaith dialog; digital learning; educational strategies
Is an Ethics without God Possible?
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 442 | Submission Open
Keywords: God’ s commands; God’ s nature; objective ethics; theism; atheism; Darwinian evolution
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
A Sociological Approach to the Study of the Sanskrit Purānas
edited by Joël Dubois and Deven M. Patel
submission deadline 1 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 79 | Submission Open
Keywords: Sanskrit; Purānas; sociological analysis; historical analysis; storytelling lineages
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Witness of the Orthodox Church in the Political Context of the Secularized Modern State
edited by Paul Brusanowski and
submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 44 | Submission Open
Keywords: Church and state; missiology; Christian witness; Secularization; religious beliefs and practices; ecumenism; nationalisms; identities
The Bible in Person: Physiological Interpretations
edited by Bruce A. Lowe and Luke Irwin
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 230 | Submission Open
Keywords: hermeneutics; physiology; embodiment; Bible interpretation; theology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
The Multiple Images and Forms of Classical Confucian and Daoist Ethics for Living
edited by and Hongxing Lin
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open
Keywords: Confucianism; Daoism; ethics for living
Women’s Voices in Muslim–Christian Dialogue
edited by Fatimah Husein and Marianne Farina
submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open
Keywords: dialogue; comparative studies; feminist perspectives; social justice; interreligious learning; women’ s history
The Energy God and Other Alternatives to the Theistic View of God and Spirituality
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2078 | Submission Open
Keywords: mysticism; spirituality; dao; ground of being; brahman; kabbalah; sufism; nirvana; panentheism
The Encounter of Colonialism and Indian Religious Traditions
edited by Enrico Beltramini
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 181 | Submission Open
Keywords: India; religion; colonialism; mission; Christianity; Islam; Hinduism; assimilation; dialogue; practice; theology
Transdisciplinary Theological Study: Animals, Divinanimality, and Creaturely Theology
edited by Laura Hobgood
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 121 | Submission Open
Keywords: divinanimality; creaturely theology; the animal; human-animal; critical animal; transdisciplinary studies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Saintly Voices: Sounding the Supernatural in Medieval Hagiography
edited by Catherine Saucier
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 88 | Submission Open
Keywords: hagiography; cult of saints; devotion; supernatural and natural environments; identity; liminality; sensory perception; voice; sound; performance; religious arts
Experience and Non-Objects: Towards a Phenomenology of Indiscernibility submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 579 | Submission Open
Keywords: God; subatomic particles; subjectivity; intuition; inwardness; religious cognition; Kant; Husserl; Merleau-Ponty; Henry
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Continental Philosophy and Catholic Theology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christianity; Catholic; continental philosophy; theology; metaphysics; mystery; phenomenology; synodality; truth; wisdom
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
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