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Special Issues

Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:

• Consciousness between Science and Religion (Deadline: 15 November 2024)
• Institutional Innovation and Tradition: Understanding Changes and Continuities in Religious Leadership, Communication, and Technology Ethics (Deadline: 15 November 2024)
• Religious Ethics and Law: A Comparative Perspective (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
• Paul among Jews and Christians: Redescribing the “Jewishness” of Paul and His Receptions (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
• Sacred Experience and Aesthetic Connections in Religious Festivals (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
• Global Catholicism (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
• Contemporary Practices and Issues in Religious Education (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
• Transformations in Daoist Ritual Texts and Other Daoist Literature Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
• Post-Evangelical and Exvangelical Movements: New Religious Trends in the Americas (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
• The Sociological Study of Religion (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
• Images of the World in the Dialogue between Science and Religion (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
• Religious Perspectives on Ecological, Political, and Cultural Grief (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
• “Searching for a Better Life with My Community”: Migratory Trends in Religious-Based Social Net-Works (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
• Dolls and Idols: Critical Essays in Neo-Animism (Deadline: 1 December 2024)
• Religion, Public Space and Society (Deadline: 1 December 2024)
• Beyond the “Spice Routes”: Indic and Sinitic Religions across the Asian Maritime Realm (Deadline: 1 December 2024)
• Catholic Theologies of Culture (Deadline: 10 December 2024)
• Religion and Literature in the Spanish Renaissance (Deadline: 10 December 2024)
• Theology and the Arts: Embodied Belief (Deadline: 15 December 2024)
• Religious Conflict and Coexistence in Korea (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
• Topography of Mind (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
• Continuity and Discontinuity: From Pope John Paul II to Pope Francis and Beyond (Deadline: 29 December 2024)
• Bible Translation and Biblical Hermeneutics: Exploring the Nexus of Language and Interpretation (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
• Religions, Cultural Memory and Heritage in the City: Reassembling a Plural Scenario (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
• The Diversity and Harmony of Taoism: Ideas, Behaviors and Influences (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
• Gender, Violence and Islam (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Medieval Theology and Philosophy from a Cross-Cultural Perspective (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Travel and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Monastic Identities: Comparative and Historical Perspectives (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Pastoral Ministry, Spiritual Care and Counselling (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Contemporary Approaches to Buddhist Philosophy and Ethics (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Constructing the ‘European Muslim Crisis’: Discourse, Policy, and Everyday Realities (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Localization, Globalization and Glocalization: Paradigm Shifts in the Study of Transmission and Transformation of Buddhism in Asia and Beyond (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Faith in Action: Examining the Power and Purpose of a Public Theology in Contemporary Society (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Religion and Politics: Historical Developments and Contemporary Transformations (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Reassessing Religion and Social Movements: From Rebellious Clergy to Counter-Hegemonic Theology and Praxis (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• ‘On the Lapsed’: Comparative Ethnographic Perspectives on ‘Lapsing’ among Christians around the World (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Imagining Ultimacy: Religious and Spiritual Experience in Literature (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Christian Leadership: Exploring the Theological, Biblical, and Social–Scientific Foundations and Applications (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Conflict and Integration of Confucianism and Religions in Modern Japan (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Religion and Technology in the Digital Age (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Beyond the Book: Exploring the Cultural Histories of Biblical Masculinity (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Religion, Culture and Spirituality in a Digital World (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Exploring Lived Theology: Empirical Research on Religious Experience (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Religion as a Political Instrument (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
• Climate Crisis and Religions/Spirituality (Deadline: 10 January 2025)
• Religious Nationalism in Global Perspective (Deadline: 10 January 2025)
• The Ethics of the Body in Different Religious Traditions and Spiritual Discourses (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
• Re-Thinking Religious Traditions and Practices of Korea (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
• Religious and Theological Interactions in East Asia: Issues, Channels and Impact (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
• Sufism and Contemporary Islamic Studies (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
• Religion and Indigenous Traditions (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
• Religion and the Modern Government: Is Neutrality Still an Option? (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
• Jewish Languages: Diglossia in Judaism (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
• Critical Issues in Christian Ethics (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
• Theology ‘In Exit’ for a Better World: Consolidating the Intersecting Features of Public Theology (Deadline: 24 January 2025)
• Interreligious Dialogue and Conflict (Deadline: 30 January 2025)
• Religion and Public Agenda: Complexity and the Challenges of the Common Home (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
• The Transformation of Pilgrimage Studies (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
• Varieties of Revelation: Scripture, Theology, and Philosophy in the Perspective of Divine Disclosure (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
• Jewish-Muslim Relations in the Past and Present (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
• The Right to Freedom of Religion: Contributions (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
• When Worlds Collide: Religion, Politics, and Society in a Globalized World (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
• Pagan Revival Movements in Scandinavia and Baltics: A Study of Ancient Religion in Modern Times (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
• Ancient Philosophy in Early and Medieval Christianity (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
• The Role of Monasteries in Preserving Cultural Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
• Eastern Christian Worship in Late Modernity Challenges and Opportunities (Deadline: 1 February 2025)
• Seeking Truth and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion and Philosophy (Deadline: 1 February 2025)
• Faith and Secularization: From National Religions to Religious Nationalisms (Deadline: 10 February 2025)
• Religion and Immigrants in Western Europe (Deadline: 17 February 2025)
• Faith and Education: Contemporary and Global Issues in Historical Perspective (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
• Christian Missions and the Environment (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
• Nature, Functions and Contexts of Christian Doctrine (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
• Cancer and Theology: Personal and Pastoral Perspectives (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
• The Question of “Theodicy” in Contemporary Society: The Imagery of (after) Death in Religion and New Forms of Spirituality (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
• Transitions of Islam and Democracy: Thinking Political Theology (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
• Faiths for Earth, Geo-Commoning, and New Ethics in the Himalayas (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
• Hindu Sacred Texts and Rituals in Sanskrit Literature (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
• Religion and Popular Culture: Creative Meaning-Making and Religious Activity (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
• Casta Meretrix: The Paradox of the Christian Church Through History (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
• Exploring the Origins of Religious Beliefs (Deadline: 1 March 2025)
• Voices from the 'Periphery of Islam': Discourses of Authenticity, Rooting and Community-Building (Deadline: 1 March 2025)
• Soteriological and Ethical Dimensions of Forgetting in Asian Thought (Deadline: 1 March 2025)
• Rabbinic Thought between Philosophy and Literature (Deadline: 1 March 2025)
• Performance in Pre-Modern Japanese Religions (Deadline: 1 March 2025)
• Religion and the Public Sphere: Revisiting the Boundaries of Theory and Practice in a Postsecular Age (Deadline: 1 March 2025)
• Explorations into Yan Zun’s Edition and Commentary to the Daodejing: Laozi Zhigui (Deadline: 1 March 2025)
• Religious Phenomena in Romania in the 20th and early 21st Centuries (Deadline: 1 March 2025)
• Engaged Buddhism for an Engulfed World: New Perspectives on Humanistic Buddhism (Deadline: 10 March 2025)
• Renewal, Innovation, and Transformation: The Changing Face of Judaism in Modern Times (Deadline: 15 March 2025)
• Chinese Christianity: From Society to Culture (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
• Adolescent Religious Development (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
• Biblical and Theological Perspectives on Economic Justice (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
• Roots, Religion and Resistance: Unpacking the Spectrum of Black Nationalist Movements (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
• Divine Encounters: Exploring Religious Themes in Literature (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
• Islam and Citizenship: Intersecting Experiences among Migrants and Their Descendants in Europe (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
• Heavens and Grottos: New Explorations in Daoist Cosmography (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
• Christian Monasticism Today: A Search for Identity (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
• Viktor Frankl and the Future of Religion (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
• Christian Life and Thought and Their Interaction (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
• Sinister Surrealism (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
• The Bahā’ī Faith: Doctrinal and Historical Explorations—Second Edition (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
• Engaging Religious Plurality within Australian and New Zealand Catholic Schools: Particularity in Dialogue with Diversity (Deadline: 1 April 2025)
• Revisiting the First Ecumenical Councils: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Relevance (Deadline: 1 April 2025)
• Emerging Trends in Congregational Engagement and Leadership (Deadline: 1 April 2025)
• Ancient Cult and Modern Methods: Unearthing the Religions of Ancient Israel and the Surrounding Cultures (Deadline: 1 April 2025)
• Transgressing Boundaries: Biblical and Social Scientific Studies of Migration (Deadline: 1 April 2025)
• Existential Health, Religion and Youth in a Global Perspectives (Deadline: 1 April 2025)
• Religion and Politics: Ritual, Performativity, and (Political) Theatre in Comparative-Historical and International Perspective (Deadline: 15 April 2025)
• Theology and Science: Loving Science, Discovering the Divine (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
• University of Konstanz, International Conference (25 October, 31 October, 8 November 2024): Emerging Historical Perspectives on Christian-Muslim Interactions in and around the Mediterranean (c. 630–1614) (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
• Sikhi, Sikhs and Caste: Lived Experiences in a Global Context (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
• Under the Rising Crescent: How and When Became the Middle East an Islamic Region? (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
• "What Does Theology Do, Actually?” Dialogue between Differing Theological Approaches (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
• Chinese Religious Cultures: Historical Traditions and Modern Interpretations (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
• Urban Governance of Interreligious Dialogue and Freedom of/from Religion (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
• Minorities and Religion in Post-Communist Eastern Europe (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
• Bible and Liturgy in Dialogue (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
• On the Origins of Western Psychedelia: Exploring Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
• Religious Symbols and Fashion: Identification, Representation and Regulation in Dress (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
• Shaping Sacred Knowledge: The Transmission and Legacy of the Chinese Buddhist Canon (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
• Exploring the Historiography of Muslim Communities in Central Asia (Deadline: 1 May 2025)
• Kant’s Critique of Rational Theology and His Project of Moral Religion (Deadline: 15 May 2025)
• Devotion Practice and Performative Expression in the Religious Art of Medieval Europe (Deadline: 19 May 2025)
• Breath of Life: Black Spirituality in Everyday Life (Deadline: 30 May 2025)
• Pilgrimages of Repair: Journeys to Return, Rebuild and Restore (Deadline: 30 May 2025)
• On the Font: Human Nature Seen Through Baptism and the Baptismal Font (Deadline: 30 May 2025)
• Examining Religion's Influence in Non-formal and Informal Educational Contexts: Beliefs, Practices and Narratives (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
• Intersections of Religiousness/Spirituality and Forgiveness and Implications for Mental Health and Well-Being (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
• Contemporary Christian Worship: Origins, Theory and Practice (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
• Interruption: World-Ecology and Religious Imaginations (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
• Studies on Medieval Liturgy and Ritual (Deadline: 1 June 2025)
• Tracing Early Monastic Culture: Books and Authority in New Textual Communities (Deadline: 1 June 2025)
• Computational Approaches to Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts (Deadline: 1 June 2025)
• The Politics of Digital Religiosities (Deadline: 1 June 2025)
• Religion and/of the Future (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
• Ethical Concerns in Early Confucianism (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
• Theology and Anthropology: A Critical Discussion (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
• Functions of Religion among Young People: Diverse Religious, Spiritual and Non-religious Worldviews (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
• Secularism in Social and Political Contexts: Contemporary Trends, Movements, and Ideas in the Middle East (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
• Islamic Practical Theology (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
• Religious Engagement and Education: Exploring Belief, Practice and Pedagogy Across Cultures (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
• The Hebrew Bible: A Journey Through History and Literature (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
• Diasporic Hybridity: How It Impacts Religious Identity and Practice in Today’s Pluralistic World (Deadline: 1 July 2025)
• Witness of the Orthodox Church in the Political Context of the Secularized Modern State (Deadline: 15 July 2025)
• Situating Religious Cognition (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• Systematic Theology and Social Ethics: On the Unity of Theory and Praxis (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• The Multiple Images and Forms of Classical Confucian and Daoist Ethics for Living (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• Pilgrimage: Diversity, Past and Present of Sacred Routes (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• Spirituality, Culture, and Sustainability: Integrating Cultural Sensitivity into Responsible Religious Tourism (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
• The Energy God and Other Alternatives to the Theistic View of God and Spirituality (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
• The Encounter of Colonialism and Indian Religious Traditions (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
• Saintly Voices: Sounding the Supernatural in Medieval Hagiography (Deadline: 1 September 2025)
• Reconciling Religion and Remains—Faith and Biblical Archaeology (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Engaged Spiritualities: Theories, Practices, and Future Directions (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
• Europe, Religion and Secularization: Trends, Paradoxes and Dilemmas (Deadline: 1 October 2025)
• Disseminating Christian Beliefs Through Word and Image in Medieval and Renaissance Times (Deadline: 31 December 2025)