Editorial Board for section 'Religions and Humanities/Philosophies'

Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Professor of Philosophy and Chief Academic Officer, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY 14624, USA
Interests: philosophy of religion; bioethics

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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Interests: Islamic history; Islamic science; Islamic law; Gulf region; Near East studies; international relations

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Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Interests: religions; contemporary philosophical theology; theology and the arts

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Institute of Asian Studies, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
Interests: ancient Chinese religion, art, and archaeology; early China which mostly includes Xia, Shang, Zhou but also Han, Tang and Song periods
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Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK
Interests: the epistemological foundations of contemporary religious education; theories of religion as social and cultural critique; education, security and intelligence studies; philosophy, literature and education
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Department of Philosophy, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Interests: European philosophy in relation to religion; political economy and religion; philosophy of religion

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Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Interests: ritual; music; death; funeral; cremation; memory culture; genocide
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School of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada
Interests: church history; Tudor history; reformation thought; Richard Hooker; Peter Martyr Vermigli; history of Christian Platonism

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Department of Religious Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Interests: sociology of religion; civil religion; cosmopolitanism; Korean religious philosophy; religious issues in Korea
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Religious Studies Department, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
Interests: Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley; Newar religion: Hinduism and Buddhism; anthropological studies of Buddhism; Himalayan religions; history of Buddhist ritual; traditional and modern accounts of the Buddha’s life; ethnographic methodology; photography and religious studies research; modern Newar literature; Buddhist amulets; gardens and world religions

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School of Arts and Humanities, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022, USA
Interests: Hinduism; Buddhism; Jainism; Vedanta; Indian philosophy; philosophy of religion; comparative theology; interfaith dialogue; science and religion
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Religious Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Interests: sacrifice; ritual studies; comparative religion

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Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, Università degli Studi di Messina, 98168 Messina, Italy
Interests: cultural history; medieval history; magic and witchcraft in medieval and renaissance culture; preaching in the late middle ages; crossdressing
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History of Religions, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: Islamic studies; Islamic fundamentalism; Salafism; minority jurisprudence
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Institute of Buddhist Studies, The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Interests: Japanese Buddhist studies; ritual studies; the cognitive study of religion; tantric studies

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School of Theology, Philosophy and Music, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Interests: secularity; political theory; democracy; concepts of the world; theories of the self; time; the philosophical nature of the body; empathy; love; happiness
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Department of Art History, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: religious studies; Christianity; Mariology; iconography; medieval studies; intellectual history; social history
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Department of Philosophy and Religion, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA
Interests: philosophy of religion; theories of religion; religous stuides as an academic field; ritual studies

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Tourism, Heritage and Culture Department, Portucalense University, Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida Street, n.º 541/619, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal
Interests: humanities and social sciences, with a focus on archaeology; cultural heritage; preventive conservation; heritage management and spatial planning and sustainable development; impacts and threats to cultural heritage; heritage interpretation and enhancement; museology; universal accessibility; accessibility of heritage; cultural tourism; religious and accessible tourism; pilgrimages
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Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Interests: Ambrose of Milan; Augustine of Hippo; Gregory of Nyssa; divine impassibility; theosis/deification; patristic exegesis of Romans; virtue theory; theological anthropology; Christology; Christian perfection
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Department of Arts, Faculty of Arts, Design, and Social Sciences, University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
Interests: Virgin Mary (doctrine, medieval literature, art and altarpieces); women's writing (medieval women, nuns, Teresa of Avila); Spain- the medieval kingdoms of Castile, Aragon, Valencia, Navarre)

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Stockholm School of Theology, Åkeshovsvägen 29, 168 39 Bromma, Sweden
Interests: surveillance and religion; sexual ethics; popular culture; secularization; Christian mysticism

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Humanities Department, ICREA/Pompeu Fabra University, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: philosophy; hermeneutics; political philosophy; aesthetics; philosophy of religion

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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia
Interests: art and archaeology; magic, myth, and ritual; Chinese musical drama; history of Chinese theatre; Chinese folk and temple theatre; Chinese folk religion and ghostlore
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