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The Legacy of the Nation of Islam: African American Muslim Identity and Religious Community Formation
edited by Francesco Tamburini
submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 331 | Submission Open
Keywords: nation of Islam; African American Muslims; black religious movements; Islam in America; African American history; transnational Islam; black Islam
History of Evangelization: Encounters and Disencounters During the Modern Age (16th–19th Centuries) submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 411 | Submission Open
Keywords: evangelization; Christianization; Papacy; Protestant reformation; Anglicanism; cultural adaptation; inculturation; cultural hybridization
The Theological Underpinnings of Ignatian Spirituality: From Historical Context to Contemporary Relevance submission deadline 25 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3520 | Submission Open
Keywords: Jesuit tradition; mystical theology; Society of Jesus; spiritual renewal; ecclesiastical reform; meditative practices; doctrinal development; faith and reason; ethical implications; cultural integration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Himalayan Ecospiritual Knowledges and Ethics of Sustainability in the Anthropocene
edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters, and Mary Evelyn Tucker
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 29296 | Submission Open
Keywords: Himalayan– Tibetan highlands; religious ecology; spiritual environmentalisms; commoning; ethics; the Anthro-pocene
Religiosity and Psychopathology
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 19618 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious depression; demon possession; demon obsession; religious hysteria; magic
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Pilgrimage: Diversity, Past and Present of Sacred Routes
edited by Pedro Pereira and Marina Pignatelli
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11487 | Submission Open
Keywords: pilgrimage; transits to sacred places; culture; religiosity; syncretism; gender; power relations; economy
New Testament Studies—Current Trends and Criticisms—2nd Edition
edited by Susanne Luther, Clarissa Breu and Birke Siggelkow-Berner
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3679 | Submission Open
Keywords: theories; methods; hermeneutics; New Testament
Philosophical Theology, Doctrine, and the Theological Virtues
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 262 | Submission Open
Keywords: theological theological virtues; faith; hope; love; cardinal virtues; theological anthropology; dispositions; virtue ethics; infused grace; merit
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
The Teaching of Pope Francis on Marriage
edited by Grzegorz Pyźlak
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 140 | Submission Open
Keywords: pope  Francis; pastoral care of marriages; preparation for marriage; pastoral accompaniment; building the bonds; building the relation; psychological counselling; cultural and social background in the formation of marital love; education on values
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion and Culture: Post-Christianity, Culture, Democracy, and Great Power Relations
edited by
submission deadline 1 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 524 | Submission Open
Keywords: post-christianity; democracy; culture; great-power relations
Forced Migration and the Bible: Displacement, Statelessness, and Resiliency in Sacred Texts
edited by Roberto Mata
submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3239 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate migration; trauma; borderlands; statelessness; neocolonialism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Advances and Challenges in Pastoral Psychology submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 639 | Submission Open
Keywords: pastoral psychology; digital pastoral care/tele-chaplaincy; trauma-informed ministry; positive psychology constructs; practical theology; clergy burnout; eco-psychology/creation care
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Reframing Vodun: Imagery, Practice, and Performance
edited by Timothy R. Landry and
submission deadline 13 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 185 | Submission Open
Keywords: Vodú n; Vodou; Benin; Togo; Ghana; Haiti
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Mysticism and Ethics: Bridging Transcendence and Action in Religious Experience
edited by
submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4411 | Submission Open
Keywords: mysticism; ethics; action; love; virtues; god; religious experience; justice; transcendence; moral
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion, Spirituality, Well-Being and Positive Psychology
edited by Adam Anczyk, Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska and Anna M. Maćkowiak
submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2493 | Submission Open
Keywords: psychology of religion; spirituality; well-being; positive psychology; humanistic psychology; mindfulness; happiness and religion/spirituality; spirituality and mental health; religion and migration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Religion and Film in the 21st Century: Perspectives and Challenges
edited by Irena Sever Globan
submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2240 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and film; transcendental style; theology and cinema; sacred and screen; religious aesthetics; spiritual expe-rience; media and religion; representation of religion; film and meaning; visual theology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Muslim Cultures of Care and the Fracture of Civil Society
edited by Kathleen M. Moore
submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 243 | Submission Open
Keywords: Islamic ethics; moral economy; civil society; faith-based organizations; Muslims in diaspora; religion and governance; ethics of care; affective labor; spiritual care; pastoral care; intergenerational care; caring subjectivity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion and Restorative Justice
edited by Harold Dean Trulear
submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 152 | Submission Open
Keywords: restorative justic; harmed party; responsible party; criminal justice reform; theological anthropology; redemption; punishment; accountability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Healing the Earth: Spirituality and Planetary Health
edited by and
submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1199 | Submission Open
Keywords: planetary health; existential concern; ecocentric worldview; ecological imagination; ecological distress; spiritual health; spiritual transformation
Latin American Theology of Liberation in the 21st Century—2nd Edition submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1772 | Submission Open
Keywords: Latin American theology; theology of liberation; theology of the people; contextual theology; Pope Francis and Latin America; ecological theology; gender and theology; intercultural theology; social movements and religion
Critical Issues in Christian Ethics
edited by , Richard Rose and Sandra Morgan
submission deadline 23 Mar 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9246 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christian; conversion; discipleship; ethics; evil; faith; forgiveness; fruit of the spirit; God; gospel; good and bad; Heaven; Hell; holiness; justification; Jesus; judgment; justice; law; light; love; Paul; rebirth; religion; salvation; repentance; righteousness; right and wrong; Romans 12; sanctification; sin; the Ten Commandments; truth and lie; the Sermon on the Mount; works of the flesh
Family Health and Its Threats in the Physical, Mental, Religious–Moral, and Social Dimensions
edited by and Piotr Guzdek
submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5315 | Submission Open
Keywords: religions; marriage; family; moral norms; health; raising; Christianity; Judaism; Islam; Hinduism; Buddhism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Religions and Society: Between Navigating Secularism and Lived Religion
edited by and Urszula Soler
submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2297 | Submission Open
Keywords: spirituality; religions institutions and community; belief and technology; religions and IA; secularism and religion belonging
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Body-Mind Relations and Ethical Living in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 420 | Submission Open
Keywords: body– mind relations; mind– nature theory; embodied cognition; history of Buddhist ideas and social life; morality and belief
(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 31 Mar 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12559 | 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)
Experience and Non-Objects: The Limits of Intuition submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5681 | 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)
Peccata Lectionis
edited by Marton Hovanyi
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5213 | 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)
The Encounter of Colonialism and Indian Religious Traditions
edited by Enrico Beltramini
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4375 | Submission Open
Keywords: India; religion; colonialism; mission; Christianity; Islam; Hinduism; assimilation; dialogue; practice; theology
Exploring Free Will in Faith Traditions in Conversation with Contemporary Challenges
edited by Nazif Muhtaroglu and Safaruk Chowdhury
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2600 | 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)
Buddhist Meditation: Culture, Mindfulness, and Rationality
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2038 | Submission Open
Keywords: Buddhism; meditation; mindfulness; culture; psychology; philosophy; rationality; introspection; secularization; in-terdisciplinarity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Meeting at the Crossroads: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
edited by and Denise Burgher
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 1886 | Submission Open
Keywords: rhetoric; race; religion; theology; rhetorical criticism; media; gender; religious communication; performance; social justice; social movements; political rhetoric
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Sacred Algorithms: Religion in the Digital Age submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1747 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital religion; algorithms; artificial intelligence; faith and technology; spiritual mediation; online ritual; religious authority; cybertheology; digital culture; contemporary spirituality
Origins and Development of the Pure Land Tradition Through the Lens of Sacred Site Transference
edited by and Kai Sheng
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 1665 | Submission Open
Keywords: Pure Land; Huiyuan; Mount Lu; Mount Wutai; Shandao; Fazhao
Social Factors in Religions Converting: Focusing on the Social Group Disparities
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1475 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; apostasy; conversion; social disparities; inclusion; social exclusion; identity; intersectionality
Religion and Craft Production in Iron Age Cis- and Transjordan
edited by Angelika Berlejung and Omer Sergi
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1163 | Submission Open
Keywords: archaeology of religion; religious handicrafts; religious symbolism; craftsmen; craft production
The History of the Arabian Peninsula in the Early Islamic Centuries
edited by Ida Zilio-Grandi
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 1066 | Submission Open
Keywords: Arabian Peninsula; early Islam; Rashidun Caliphate; Umayyad dynasty; Abbasid dynasty; Islamic conquests; Islamic society; political history; religious transformation; Arab empire; early Islamic thought; historical roots of Islam
Treasures of Khotan: Multidisciplinary Studies on Khotan as a Hub for Religious and Cultural Exchanges
edited by Ru Zhan and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 926 | Submission Open
Keywords: Khotan; Yutian; Silk Road; Buddhism; multidisciplinary studies
Religion and Conflict, Religion and Peace: Demystifying the Role of Religion in Conflict Dynamics
edited by and Daniel Rhodes
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 922 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and conflict; religion and peacemaking; interfaith dialogue; interreligious contract; religious miltants; Countering Violent Extremism (CVE); conflict dynamics; values conflicts; belief/faith; peacebuilding
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Landscape (山水) as Transcendent Existence
edited by Jingdong Qu and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 373 | Submission Open
Keywords: Shanshui; ritual sacrifice; sacred Grotto-Heavens; hermitism; folk religion; transcendence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Revealing the Hidden: Apocryphal Texts and the Shaping of Religious Thought submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 365 | Submission Open
Keywords: apocrypha and pseudepigrapha; parabiblical tradition; biblical exegesis; devotional literature and culture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Classical and Alternative Conceptions of the Divine in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 327 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophy of religion; classical and non-classical [alternative] concepts of God; classical theism; pantehism; panenthiesm; polytheism; religious naturalism
Faith in Motion: Religious Perspectives on Immigration
edited by and Sam George
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 201 | Submission Open
Keywords: migration; forced displacement; transnational faith; Christian nationalism; missiology; multifaith partnership; hospitality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Psychedelics and Religion
edited by
submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13703 | 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 1 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 7581 | 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)
Between Soul and Algorithm: Religion and the Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
edited by Nuha Alshaar and
submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 882 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; ethics; post- and transhumanism; religion; philosophy; theology; cultural relevance theory; peace studies; education; media; critical literacy; AI; smart government
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Fasting, Renunciation, and Moderation in Early Christian Thought, Greco-Roman Culture, and the Abrahamic Traditions submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 392 | Submission Open
Keywords: fasting; moderation; renunciation; Early Christianity; classical culture; Abrahamic traditions; antiquity; asceticism; abstinence; simplicity; modesty
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Forgiveness, Mercy & Reconciliation: Theological Insights from Pope Francis to Pope Leo XIV
edited by
submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 304 | Submission Open
Keywords: Pope Francis; Pope Leo XIV; forgiveness; justice; mercy; reconciliation; nonviolent; peacebuilding; polarization; just war; tradition and nonviolence
Religious Nationalism in Contemporary Europe
edited by Reka Szilardi and
submission deadline 1 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 147 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and nationalism European politics; society Religion and identity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Systematic Theology as a Catalyst for Renewal in Catholic Education
edited by
submission deadline 10 Apr 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7873 | Submission Open
Keywords: Catholic education; systematic theology; trinitarian and relational ontologies; Catholic faith and culture; ecclesiology; religious education; catechesis
Modern Myths and National Narratives: Exploring the Role of Religions in Shaping Cultural Memory
edited by István Povedák and László-Attila Hubbes
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 413 | Submission Open
Keywords: memory culture; religious nationalism; ethno-paganism; vernacular religion; alternative spiritualities; modern mythologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
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