Special Issues

Religions publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic and all Special Issue submissions follow MDPI's standard editorial process. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated Editorial Board Member will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. Further information on MDPI's Special Issue policies and Guest Editor responsibilities can be found here. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

Section
Search by Title/Keyword
 
Order results
Display
Results per page
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 6779 | 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 3183 | 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 submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1455 | 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 submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 30 articles | Viewed by 26203 | 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)
Buddhism and Medicine from an Interdisciplinary and Global Historical Perspective
edited by and Ru Zhan
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6048 | Submission Open
Keywords: medical sciences; medical practice; Jīvaka; Buddhist medical literature; Bhaiṣajyaguru; compassionate care clinics’ 悲田養病坊; globalization of Buddhism; philanthropy
Psychedelics and Religion
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5260 | Submission Open
Keywords: psychedelics; spirituality; meditation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Links Between Psychology/Psychiatry and Religion submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 4136 | 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)
Religion and Indigenous Traditions
edited by Craig Ginn and Durga Kale
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3654 | Submission Open
Keywords: Indigenous traditions; Indigenous knowledge; ways of knowing; ways of being; reconciliation; revitalization; colonial; postcolonial; decolonizing; Indigenizing; Indigenization; syncretism; assimilation; missionary impulse; animal theology; ecotheology; natural theology
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 3648 | Submission Open
Keywords: art and the sacred; religious festivals; popular/lived religion; material religion studies; visual and performance studies
Heavens and Grottos: New Explorations in Daoist Cosmography
edited by Zhaojie Bai, Vincent Goossaert, Johan Rols and Jonathan Pettit
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3525 | Submission Open
Keywords: Daoist heavens; Grotto-heavens; Daoist cosmography
Engaged Spiritualities: Theories, Practices, and Future Directions submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2326 | Submission Open
Keywords: engaged spiritualities; spirituality and religion; spiritual experiences; everyday life
Divine Narratives: Exploring the Intersection of Poetry, Myth, and the Spiritual in Literature and Theatre
edited by Jamal Assadi
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1878 | Submission Open
Keywords: divine narratives; poetry and myth; spirituality in literature; the sacred and the profane; ritual and performance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Peccata Lectionis
edited by Marton Hovanyi
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 1714 | Submission Open
Keywords: theory of reading; history of reading; interdisciplinarity; sin; Judaism; Christianity; literary and cultural criticism; biblical hermeneutics; constructive theology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Women and Religion in the Medieval and Early Modern World
edited by Antónia Fialho Conde
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 313 | Submission Open
Keywords: property; heritage management and luxury in a cloistered environment; monasticism and gender; building monastic historical landscapes; prosopography and social identity; women's monastic literacy; nuns' mobility(s); the monastic populations and its mechanisms of pressure and attraction; patronage and artistic commissions in a cloistered environment; expressions of cloistered devotions; implementing justice: times and manners
Reconciling Religion and Remains—Faith and Biblical Archaeology
edited by Mark D. Janzen, Kyle H. Keimer and Chris McKinny
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 299 | Submission Open
Keywords: biblical archaeology; biblical criticism; fundamentalism; positivism; worldview; apologetics; funding sources; history of research; nomenclature
Ecclesiology in Context: Exploring the Historical, Cultural, and Theological Dimensions of the Church
edited by Csaba Fazekas
submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 7091 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecclesiology; church images; self-images of christian churches; images of others’ churches; schisms; impact of historical changes on the interpretation of the church; conflicts of church images
The Modern Reception and Interpretation of Daoism in East Asia and the West: A Comparative Perspective (19th–21st Centuries)
edited by and
submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1356 | Submission Open
Keywords: daoism; philosophy; existentialism; dialectics; alchemy; modernization; science; spirituality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Saintly Voices: Sounding the Supernatural in Medieval Hagiography
edited by Catherine Saucier
submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1153 | Submission Open
Keywords: hagiography; cult of saints; devotion; supernatural and natural environments; identity; liminality; sensory perception; voice; sound; performance; religious arts
Europe, Religion and Secularization: Trends, Paradoxes and Dilemmas submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 1135 | Submission Open
Keywords: Europe; modernity; secularization; religion and politics
The Qur’an and Ethics: Methodology of Studying Qur’anic Morality
edited by Nuha Alshaar and Yasmin Amin
submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 440 | Submission Open
Keywords: Qurʾān; ethics; tafsīr; taqwā; iḥsān; psycho-spiritual analysis of the Qurʾān; ‘ adl; ḥikma; raḥma
Existential Health, Religion and Youth in a Global Perspectives
edited by Katarina Westerlund
submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 376 | Submission Open
Keywords: existential health; religion; youth; spirituality; contextual perspectives
Systematic Theology as a Catalyst for Renewal in Catholic Education
edited by
submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3609 | Submission Open
Keywords: Catholic education; systematic theology; trinitarian and relational ontologies; Catholic faith and culture; ecclesiology; religious education; catechesis
Interpreting the Bible: Re-Reading Texts, Characters, and Images from Scripture
edited by and Ignacio Rojas Gálvez
submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8471 | Submission Open
Keywords: inner-biblical interpretation; exegesis; old testament; new testament; early Judaism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Embellishing Belief: Sacred Objects and Spaces in Premodern East Asia and Southeast Asia
edited by Cynthea J. Bogel and Daniel Borengasser
submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 895 | Submission Open
Keywords: premodern East Asia; premodern Southeast Asia; religious visual and material culture; methodologies of sacred materiality and space; embellishment; religious symbolism; authenticity; precious materials; iconography and symbology; ritual praxis; sacred object contextualization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Monastic Lives and Buddhist Textual Traditions in China and Beyond
edited by Limei Chi, and Dewei Zhang
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3268 | Submission Open
Keywords: monastic lives; Buddhist textual traditions; transmission and transformation of Buddhist texts; Buddhist manuscript culture; Buddhist biography and hagiography; Buddhist miracle tales
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Bible Translation and Biblical Hermeneutics: Exploring the Nexus of Language and Interpretation
edited by
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1390 | Submission Open
Echoes of the Divine: The Historical, Literary, and Theological Dimensions of Prophetism submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 579 | Submission Open
Keywords: prophecy and the ancient Near East; prophecy as a religious phenomenon; prophetic hermeneutics; major and minor prophets; former or historical prophetic books; prophecy and Second Temple extrabiblical literature
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Himalayan Ecospiritual Knowledges and Ethics of Sustainability in the Anthropocene
edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters, and Mary Evelyn Tucker
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 19397 | Submission Open
Keywords: Himalayan– Tibetan highlands; religious ecology; spiritual environmentalisms; commoning; ethics; the Anthro-pocene
Transitions of Islam and Democracy: Thinking Political Theology
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6069 | Submission Open
Keywords: political Islam; political thought; Islam and democracy; Islamic philosophy; religion and state; Muslim state; Islamic constitution; political rights; political liberty; anocracy
Arts, Spirituality, and Religion
edited by and Emília Simão
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4894 | Submission Open
Keywords: spirituality and religion; arts as a spiritual practice; spirituality and technology; spirituality and education; pilgrimage and celebrations; spirituality; health; and well-being
Chinese Christianity and Knowledge Development
edited by Mingyu Lu and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4783 | Submission Open
Keywords: missionaries; knowledge development; publications; transition of knowledge; Chinese Christianity; Chinese culture; interdisciplinary studies; Chinese– Western cultural exchange; architecture; arts; customs
Religious Transmission Across Generations: Challenges, Continuities, and Changes
edited by Christel Gärtner and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1476 | 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)
The Question of “Theodicy” in Contemporary Society: The Imagery of (after) Death in Religion and New Forms of Spirituality
edited by Antonio Camorrino
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1043 | Submission Open
Keywords: theodicy; religion; new forms of spirituality; ultimate meanings; suffering; death; after-life; imagery
Interreligious Dialogue: Validity and Sustainability
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 298 | Submission Open
Keywords: interreligious/interfaith dialogue; interreligious relations and interactions; comparative religions; religious pluralism and diversity
Practice of Religious Media in the Twenty-First Century Century
edited by Thomas Jerome Sienkewicz
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 258 | Submission Open
Keywords: broadcasting media; social media; Facebook; Twitter; YouTube; Instagram; religious media; religious television; religious radio
Exploring Hagiography and Monasticism
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 212 | Submission Open
Keywords: hagiography; monasticism; saints; relics; miracles
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Religious Institutions in the Mediterranean: A Comparative Perspective
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 181 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious institutions; law; society; Mediterranean; New World
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Computational Approaches to Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts
edited by Jacob P.B. Mortensen
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1534 | Submission Open
Keywords: New Testament; scriptures of Israel; early Christian texts; computational and algorithmic approaches; distant reading; macro analysis; text analysis
Sacred Music: Creation, Interpretation, Experience
edited by Róisín Blunnie and
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1486 | Submission Open
Keywords: sacred music; religious studies; musicology; performance; classical music; vocal music; choral music; religious litera-ture
The Roles of Religion and Spirituality in Healthcare
edited by Anne Klee, Arielle Rubenstein and Glen Milstein
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 428 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; spirituality; and healthcare; religious faith and medical considerations; health and spirituality
Witness of the Orthodox Church in the Political Context of the Secularized Modern State
edited by Paul Brusanowski and
submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3215 | Submission Open
Keywords: Church and state; missiology; Christian witness; Secularization; religious beliefs and practices; ecumenism; nationalisms; identities
No God, No Science? Reassessing the Relationship Between Theology and Modern Science
edited by George M. Coghill and Ximian Xu
submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 706 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and science; apologetics; artificial intelligence and religion; history of science; theology
Early Modern Female Mysticism: At the Crossroads of Religion, Medicine, Economics, and the Press
edited by Vittoria Feola and Erin Bell
submission deadline 17 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 568 | Submission Open
Keywords: mysticism; women; early modern; medieval; neurology; saint; Islam; Catholicism; Quakerism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion, Theology, and Bioethical Discourses on Marriage and Family
edited by Mirosław Brzezinski
submission deadline 24 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5398 | Submission Open
Keywords: marriage; family; faith; religion; God's design for marriage; sacrament of marriage; sexuality; sexuality; ethics of married life; morality of married life; pastoral care of families.
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Innovative Approaches to Religious Pluralism: Integrating Law, Policies and Practice
edited by Eugenia Relaño Pastor and
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1680 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious pluralism; governance of diversity; secularism and state neutrality; legal recognition of religious minorities; equality; freedom of religion or belief (FoRB)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Clashing Civilizations and Civilizational Identities in Populist Discourses
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 54657 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
The Hebrew Bible: A Journey Through History and Literature
edited by Pierfrancesco Cocco
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4328 | Submission Open
Keywords: Hebrew Bible; ancient history; literary criticism; biblical theology; biblical narratives; biblical archaeology; biblical poetry; cultural studies; near eastern literature  
Religion, Culture and Spirituality in a Digital World
edited by , Miguel Ángel Motis Dolader and Carmen Herrando Cugota
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4317 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious mediatisation; communication and faith; religious culture; cyberphilosophy; cybertheology; digital religion; online religious practices; media influence on spirituality; virtual religious communities; theology and artificial intelligence
Casta Meretrix: The Paradox of the Christian Church Through History submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4260 | Submission Open
Keywords: christianity; ecumenical councils; apostolic succession; monasticism; constantinian shift; great schism; reformation; canon law; nicene creed; sacraments; orthodoxy; heresiology; iconoclasm; mysticism; missionary movements; church-state relations; crusades
Daoist Inner Alchemy Atlas: Practice and Related Medicine, Thunder Rites and Iconology
edited by Wenhua Shen, and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4022 | Submission Open
Keywords: inner alchemy; daoist medicine; thunder rites; iconology
Back to TopTop