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Religious Changes and Challenges in the Wake of Increasing Global Migration

edited by Anja Zalta and

Primož Krašovec

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1046 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious changes; religious challenges; religious conflicts; secularism; post-secularism; religious policies; state policies; religious plurality; migration; religious literacy; new religious movements; intrareligious and interreligious differences

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

Materiality and Gender Constructs in Hagiography: Saints and Sacred Space

edited by Michelle M. Sauer

submission deadline 14 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 669 | Submission Open

Keywords: materiality; gender; sexuality; hagiography; saints; sacred space

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

Between Philosophy and Theology: Liminal and Contested Issues

edited by Lenart Škof and Alberto Parisi

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2770 | Submission Open

Keywords: philosophical theology; magic and indigenous thought; ontology of miracles; paranormal phenomena; angelic beings; quantum theology; cross-species theology; psychoanalysis and synchronicity; paranormal phenomena; liminality; cross-cultural studies; omniscience between philosophy and theology

(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

Cristian-Sebastian Sonea

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2365 | Submission Open

Keywords: Church and state; missiology; Christian witness; Secularization; religious beliefs and practices; ecumenism; nationalisms; identities

Religion and the Modern Government: Is Neutrality Still an Option?

edited by Owen Anderson

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1683 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious neutrality; First Amendment; populism; nationalism; methodological atheism; established church; Federalist papers; religious morality; natural law; natural theology

Biblical Interpretation: Literary Cues and Thematic Developments

edited by

Wayne Brouwer

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 155 | Submission Open

Keywords: literary analysis; biblical interpretation; Bible; literature; exegesis; systematic theology; biblical theology; homiletics; Bible study; lectionary

Pilgrimages of Repair: Journeys to Return, Rebuild and Restore

edited by Heather Warfield

submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 657 | Submission Open

Keywords: repair; pilgrimages; multidisciplinary; sacred sites

Shaping Sacred Knowledge: The Transmission and Legacy of the Chinese Buddhist Canon

edited by

Zhouyuan Li

Jiang Wu

and

Darui Long

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 4829 | Submission Open

Keywords: Chinese Buddhist Canon; Chinese Buddhism; East Asian Buddhism; canonical studies; religious texts; manuscripts and printed canons; multidisciplinary religious research; cultural interactions; digital humanities in religious studies; Buddhist material culture

Digital Religion in the Age of the Metaverse

edited by

Vincenzo Pace

and

Alessandra Vitullo

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 345 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital religion; metaverse; internet; sociology; online communication; digital humanities

Devotion Practice and Performative Expression in the Religious Art of Medieval Europe

edited by Barbara Crostini and Vlad Bedros

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 16062 | Submission Open

Keywords: medieval art; materiality; performance; devotion; museum studies; iconoclasm; Byzantium

Old Texts, New Insights: Exploring Buddhist Manuscripts

edited by

Soon-Il Hwang

and

Jaehee Han

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 8818 | Submission Open

Keywords: Buddhist manuscripts; Sanskrit manuscripts; Chinese manuscripts; Dunhuang manuscripts; philological research; codicology; paleography; iconography; manuscript preservation; digitalizing manuscripts

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

Systematic Theology and Social Ethics: On the Unity of Theory and Praxis

edited by Miguel Escobar Torres and Matyas Szalay

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7971 | Submission Open

Keywords: systematic theology; community; society; ethics; practice; theory

Situating Religious Cognition

edited by

Timothy Stanley

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7029 | Submission Open

Keywords: situated cognition; extended mind theory; 4e cognition; phenomenology of religion; media studies; pragmatist studies of religion; hermeneutics; deconstruction

The Multiple Images and Forms of Classical Confucian and Daoist Ethics for Living

edited by

Zhongjiang Wang

and Hongxing Lin

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5184 | Submission Open

Keywords: Confucianism; Daoism; ethics for living

‘On the Lapsed’: Comparative Ethnographic Perspectives on ‘Lapsing’ among Christians around the World

edited by

Jianbo Huang

, Christine Lee and Carsten Vala

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4141 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christianity; religion; lapsing; membership

Consciousness between Science and Religion

edited by Sibylle Trawöger

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2057 | Submission Open

Keywords: consciousness; soul; body; mind; awareness; dialogue between science and religion; theological anthropology

Pilgrimage: Diversity, Past and Present of Sacred Routes

edited by Pedro Pereira and Marina Pignatelli

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1830 | Submission Open

Keywords: pilgrimage; transits to sacred places; culture; religiosity; syncretism; gender; power relations; economy

Spirituality, Culture, and Sustainability: Integrating Cultural Sensitivity into Responsible Religious Tourism

edited by

Tomasz Duda

and

Silvia Aulet

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 536 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious tourism; pilgrimage; sustainable development; cultural sensitivity; spirituality; religious sensitivity; regenerative tourism; accessible tourism; heritage; interpretation

The Bible in Person: Physiological Interpretations

edited by Bruce A. Lowe and Luke Irwin

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 513 | Submission Open

Keywords: hermeneutics; physiology; embodiment; Bible interpretation; theology

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

Accommodating the Other: Negotiating Christianity, Indigenous Practices, and Colonialism in the Jesuit Reductions

edited by Andres Prieto

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 201 | Submission Open

Keywords: Jesuit reductions; Indigenous cultures and Christianity; religious syncretism; missionary strategies in colonial Americas; cultural encounters in colonialism; Indigenous agency and resistance; baroque art and sacred music in missions

Religion, Mobility, and Transnational History

edited by Anthony Miller

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1999 | Submission Open

Keywords: pilgrims; mobility; transnational turn; refugees; missionaries; migrants; border crossing; orthodoxy; cultural adaptation

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

Tracing Early Monastic Culture: Books and Authority in New Textual Communities

edited by Andreas Westergren and Katarina Pålsson

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 312 | Submission Open

Keywords: monastic authority; Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; textual culture; textual communities; textual transmission; translation practices; rewriting

Traditional and Civil Religions: Theory and Political Practice

edited by Lan T. Chu, Anthony Kammas and

Jeffrey Haynes

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3007 | Submission Open

Keywords: religions; politics; civil religion; ideology; sectarianism; faith communities; civil society; social movements

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

The Involvement of Religion in Modern States' Political and Government Systems

edited by

James T. Richardson

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 200 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion and politics; secularism; religious freedom; government policy; international relations; multiculturalism; religious in-fluence; human rights; secular governance; identity

Theology and Disability: Inclusion in Religious Communities

edited by

Mary Jo Iozzio

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 84 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; disability; intersectionality; kinship; the natural world; participation; play/playgrounds; recreation; reverence; rest; sustainability; welcome

The Challenge of Syncretism in Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism

edited by

Marius Nel

and

Mookgo Solomon Kgatle

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 212 | Submission Open

Keywords: syncretism; contextualisation; culture; experiential faith; compromises; ancestor veneration

The Energy God and Other Alternatives to the Theistic View of God and Spirituality

edited by

Roy C. Amore

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6749 | Submission Open

Keywords: mysticism; spirituality; dao; ground of being; brahman; kabbalah; sufism; nirvana; panentheism

Church, Clergy, and Authority: An Exploration of Medieval Religious Life and Culture

edited by Jack Cunningham and Angelo M. Silvestri

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6065 | Submission Open

Keywords: church; authority; community; dissent; culture; clergy

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

Cancer and Theology: Personal and Pastoral Perspectives

edited by Brian C. Macallan and Ronald T. Michener

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3684 | Submission Open

Keywords: cancer and theology; suffering; disease; hope and cancer; healing

The Microcosm Holds Mountains and Seas: The Sinicization of Buddhism in ‘Multi-Layered Contextualization’ from Local to Global History

edited by

Jinhua Chen

and Ru Zhan

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2218 | Submission Open

Keywords: sinification of Buddhism; localization of Buddhism; globalization of Buddhism; modernization of Buddhism; overseas/diaspora Chinese Buddhism; spread of Buddhism through land and the maritime Silk Road

Transdisciplinary Theological Study: Animals, Divinanimality, and Creaturely Theology

edited by Laura Hobgood

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1638 | Submission Open

Keywords: divinanimality; creaturely theology; the animal; human-animal; critical animal; transdisciplinary studies

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

“Searching for a Better Life with My Community”: Migratory Trends in Religious-Based Social Net-Works

edited by

Jakub Isański

, Jarosław Kozak, Błażej Dyczewski and Malika Ouacha

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1451 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious communities; social integration; parochialism; civil society and religion; migrant diasporas; new media and AI in religion; secularization and religious polarization; religious-based social networks

Religious Communities and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Mónika Andok

Zoltán Szűts

and Szilvia Dornics

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 975 | 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

Exploring Free Will in Faith Traditions in Conversation with Contemporary Challenges

edited by Nazif Muhtaroglu and Safaruk Chowdhury

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 747 | Submission Open

Keywords: human will; human authonomy; decision-making; accountability; faith traditions; artificial intelligence; neuroscience; cognitive psychology

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

The Encounter of Colonialism and Indian Religious Traditions

edited by Enrico Beltramini

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 509 | Submission Open

Keywords: India; religion; colonialism; mission; Christianity; Islam; Hinduism; assimilation; dialogue; practice; theology

Islam and Citizenship: Intersecting Experiences among Migrants and Their Descendants in Europe

edited by

Stefano Allievi

and Andrea Calabretta

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 465 | Submission Open

Keywords: Islam; lived citizenship; migrants’ descendants; Europe; Muslim activism; citizenry; faith

Divine Creativity and Participatory Cosmologies: Theological Perspectives on Science, Technology, and the Future of Humanity

edited by Matthew Segall and Ashton Arnoldy

submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 818 | Submission Open

Keywords: participatory theory; process philosophy; integral theory; sacramental epistemology; relational ontology; pluralism; divine agency; science; technology; spirituality; metamodernism

Seeking Truth and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion and Philosophy

edited by B. Keith Putt

submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 325 | Submission Open

Keywords: truth; meaning; philosophy; religion; interdisciplinary perspectives

Saintly Voices: Sounding the Supernatural in Medieval Hagiography

edited by Catherine Saucier

submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 315 | Submission Open

Keywords: hagiography; cult of saints; devotion; supernatural and natural environments; identity; liminality; sensory perception; voice; sound; performance; religious arts

Sacred Music: Creation, Interpretation, Experience

edited by Róisín Blunnie and

Bradford A. Anderson

submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 234 | Submission Open

Keywords: sacred music; religious studies; musicology; performance; classical music; vocal music; choral music; religious litera-ture

Exploring Hagiography and Monasticism

edited by

James Clark

submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 132 | Submission Open

Keywords: hagiography; monasticism; saints; relics; miracles

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

Christian Theologies of Deification

edited by Keith Thompson, Myk Habets and

Stephen Finlan

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 675 | Submission Open

Keywords: theosis/deification; kenosis; divinization; human character ascent; Jacob’ s ladder; Peter’ s ladder; theosis as salvation; energy vs. essence; pre-Platonic Christianity; ante-Nicene teaching; metaphor; participation vs. ontological change; joint heirship

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

Bible and Liturgy in Dialogue

edited by Marco Benini

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3170 | Submission Open

Keywords: bible; liturgy; hermeneutics; old/new testament; interpretation; reception; readings; psalms; sacramentality; anamnesis

Re-Thinking Religious Traditions and Practices of Korea

edited by Kevin N. Cawley and David J. Kim

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4617 | Submission Open

Keywords: Korean religion; Confucianism; Buddhism; Shamanism; new religious movements; transculturalism; comparative studies; everyday life; magic and divination

Theological Traditions of Politics: Tracing History and Its Continuity

edited by Nikolaos Asproulis

submission deadline 22 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2519 | Submission Open

Keywords: political theology; religious traditions; state; human rights; nationalism; fundamentalism

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

Mysticism and Nature

edited by

Cristóbal Serrán-Pagán y Fuentes

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 836 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological spirituality; ecofeminism; deep ecology; indigenous rights; animal rights; land rights; holism; panentheism; pantheism; cosmic interdependence; anthropocentrism; animism; conservationism; creation spirituality; New England transcendentalism; goddess movement; nonviolence; stewardship; vegetarianism

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

New Work on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion

edited by

Sebastian Sunday Grève

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 20 articles | Viewed by 14949 | 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)

Links Between Psychology/Psychiatry and Religion

edited by

Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 3459 | Submission Open

Keywords: psychology; psychiatry; religion; cooperation; interrelationship; obstacles; similarities; differences; convergencies

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

Buddhism and Medicine from an Interdisciplinary and Global Historical Perspective

edited by

Jinhua Chen

and Ru Zhan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3010 | Submission Open

Keywords: medical sciences; medical practice; Jīvaka; Buddhist medical literature; Bhaiṣajyaguru; compassionate care clinics’ 悲田養病坊; globalization of Buddhism; philanthropy

Sacred Experience and Aesthetic Connections in Religious Festivals

edited by Federico Aguirre, Wilson Muñoz and Lily Jimenez

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2790 | Submission Open

Keywords: art and the sacred; religious festivals; popular/lived religion; material religion studies; visual and performance studies

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