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Religious and Theological Interactions in East Asia: Issues, Channels and Impact submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 352 | Submission Open
Keywords: Asian theologies; East-Asian wisdoms; global challenges; humaneness; interreligious dialogue
Religion and the Modern Government: Is Neutrality Still an Option?
edited by Owen Anderson
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 223 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious neutrality; First Amendment; populism; nationalism; methodological atheism; established church; Federalist papers; religious morality; natural law; natural theology
African Voices in Contemporary and Historical Theology
edited by Fergus King and Alfred Sebahene
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 209 | Submission Open
Keywords: African theology; contextual theology; hermeneutics; missiology; biblical interpretation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Critical Issues in Christian Ethics
edited by , Richard Rose and Sandra Morgan
submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1352 | 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
Theology ‘In Exit’ for a Better World: Consolidating the Intersecting Features of Public Theology
edited by and Gnana Patrick
submission deadline 24 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1235 | Submission Open
Keywords: public theology; historical theology; philosophical theology; practical theology; empirical method; intradisciplinarity; interdisciplinarity; transdiscipinarity; common good; human rights; environmental development
Traditional and Civil Religions: Theory and Political Practice
edited by Lan T. Chu, Anthony Kammas and
submission deadline 25 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 276 | 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)
Interreligious Dialogue and Conflict
edited by Georgios Trantas
submission deadline 30 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 606 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; war; conflict; reconciliation; religioscapes; soft power; Europe; Middle East; Balkans; Russia
Religion and Public Agenda: Complexity and the Challenges of the Common Home submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11998 | Submission Open
Keywords: common home; complexity; public theology; religious studies; interculturality; 2030 agenda; Laudato si’ ; sustainable development goals; Pope Francis; transdisciplinarity
The Transformation of Pilgrimage Studies
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10784 | Submission Open
Religion, Spirituality and Medicine: Insights into Contemporary Perspectives
edited by Stefania Palmisano and
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10361 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; spirituality; medicine; health and salvation; sociology; sociology of religion; boundaries
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
From Dogmatism to a Public Theology: An Archeology of Theological Knowledge and Religious Studies submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9759 | Submission Open
Keywords: archaeology of theological knowledge; Michel de Certeau; public theology; public rationality; Michel Foucault; Giorgio Agamben; religion and public agenda; public ethics; heterologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Varieties of Revelation: Scripture, Theology, and Philosophy in the Perspective of Divine Disclosure
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9503 | Submission Open
Keywords: revelation; divine disclosure; theology; philosophy; hermeneutics; Scripture; inspiration; eschatology; mysticism; interfaith dialogue
Natural Sciences as a Contemporary Locus Theologicus
edited by Jacek Rodzeń and Paweł Polak
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4427 | Submission Open
Keywords: science and religion; natural sciences; theology; scientific rationality; science as a value; aim(s) of science; scientific worldview; theology of science
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Jewish-Muslim Relations in the Past and Present
edited by and Asher J. Mattern
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2181 | Submission Open
Keywords: Jewish– Muslim relations; concepts of God and man; theology; philosophy; jurisprudence; pedagogy; sociology; hermeneutics; ethics
The Right to Freedom of Religion: Contributions submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1569 | Submission Open
Keywords: freedom of conscience; human rights; religious freedom; legal protection of religious freedom; sacred texts; legal texts; monotheistic religions; ancient edicts on religious freedom; international law and European Union law on religious freedom
The Interaction of Early Christianity with Classical Literature
edited by Alessandro Capone
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 1352 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christianity; pagan tradition; literature; religion; theology; philosophy; controversy; philology; lexicon; holy scripture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
When Worlds Collide: Religion, Politics, and Society in a Globalized World
edited by Boris Havel
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 323 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; theology; civilization; politics; society; history; globalization; identity; political science
Pagan Revival Movements in Scandinavia and Baltics: A Study of Ancient Religion in Modern Times
edited by Dalia Senvaitytė
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 201 | Submission Open
Keywords: ancient religion; Baltic religion; Norse religion; neo-paganism; modern paganism; pagan revival; cultural heritage; cultural memory; religious movements; modern identity; spiritual traditions; modern spirituality; (re)constructions of historical traditions
The Role of Monasteries in Preserving Cultural Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 110 | Submission Open
Keywords: monasteries; cultural heritage; central and eastern europe; historical preservation; religious institutions; educational contributions; architectural heritage; linguistic preservation; cultural identity; social history
Ancient Philosophy in Early and Medieval Christianity
edited by George Karamanolis
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 96 | Submission Open
Keywords: ancient philosophy; early Christianity; medieval Christianity; theological development; Church Fathers; Platonic influence; Aristotelian influence; Neoplatonism; ethical theories; doctrinal development
Seeking Truth and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion and Philosophy
edited by B. Keith Putt
submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 147 | Submission Open
Keywords: truth; meaning; philosophy; religion; interdisciplinary perspectives
Eastern Christian Worship in Late Modernity Challenges and Opportunities
edited by Grant White
submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 94 | Submission Open
Keywords: eastern Christian liturgy; liturgy; worship; interpretation; late modernity; mission; liturgical change; diaspora; liturgical language; spirituality; seekers
Interreligious Peacebuilding in a Global Context
edited by Mohammed Abu-Nimer
submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2255 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion and peace; interreligious peacebuilding; peace and justice; interfaith and intrafaith dialogue; religion; diplomacy; religion and development; globalization and interreligious peace; freedom of religion and beliefs
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Faith and Secularization: From National Religions to Religious Nationalisms
edited by
submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1106 | Submission Open
Keywords: nationalism; religious nationalism; politics and religion; populism; Hindutva; Christian nationalism
Shakespeare and Religion
edited by Kenneth Jackson
submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 140 | Submission Open
Keywords: religions; secularism; continental philosophy; historicism; reformation; recusant
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Theological Studies on Youth: Family, Education and Religion
edited by
submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open
Keywords: youth theology; youth; the family; and faith; theology of education and youth; youth and religion/belief; youth ministry; youth studies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Religion and Immigrants in Western Europe
edited by Ednan Aslan and Kamil Öktem
submission deadline 17 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 218 | Submission Open
Keywords: immigration; religious thought; identity; interfaith dialogue; integration; religious institutions
Islam and the West
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 16883 | Submission Open
Keywords: the latin church; the eastern church; jewish– muslim relations; orientalism (western perceptions of Islam)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religiosity and Psychopathology
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3234 | 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)
Nature, Functions and Contexts of Christian Doctrine
edited by and Dianne Rayson
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1977 | Submission Open
Keywords: doctrine; truth; context; doctrinal change; bible; imagination; sexuality; climate; race
Faith and Education: Contemporary and Global Issues in Historical Perspective
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 870 | Submission Open
Keywords: faith schools; religious education; theology of education; history of education; church and state; collective worship
Faiths for Earth, Geo-Commoning, and New Ethics in the Himalayas
edited by , Jelle J.P. Wouters and Mary Evelyn Tucker
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 846 | Submission Open
Keywords: Himalayan– Tibetan highlands; religious ecology; spiritual environmentalisms; commoning; ethics; the Anthro-pocene
Canon Law and Secularization: Societal Trends and the Changing Role of Religious Law
edited by Maria D’Arienzo
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 807 | Submission Open
Keywords: secularization; canon law and secularization; religious laws and secularization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Transitions of Islam and Democracy: Thinking Political Theology
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 220 | Submission Open
Keywords: political Islam; political thought; Islam and democracy; Islamic philosophy; religion and state; Muslim state; Islamic constitution; political rights; political liberty; anocracy
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 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 218 | Submission Open
Keywords: theodicy; religion; new forms of spirituality; ultimate meanings; suffering; death; after-life; imagery
Hindu Sacred Texts and Rituals in Sanskrit Literature
edited by Jon Skarpeid
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 142 | Submission Open
Keywords: Sanskrit; rituals; music; materiality; Hinduism; history; India; South-Asia; Indian languages
Religion and Popular Culture: Creative Meaning-Making and Religious Activity
edited by Courtney Wilder
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; popular culture; music; art; literature; dance; theater; film; television; ritual
Performance in Pre-Modern Japanese Religions
edited by Mikael Bauer and Abigail MacBain
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 1084 | Submission Open
Keywords: Onmyōdō; kami; Buddhism; material culture; visual arts; performing arts; music; hymns; Bonmyō; poetry; rongi; gagaku; dance; sculpture
Fate in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Religion
edited by and Jorge Luis Gutiérrez
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 886 | Submission Open
Keywords: fate; providence; foreknowledge; determinism; free will; divination; fortune; causality; contingent future; necessity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Religion and the Public Sphere: Revisiting the Boundaries of Theory and Practice in a Postsecular Age
edited by Christopher Baker and Justin Beaumont
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 485 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; spirituality; belief; postsecular; urbanisation; decolonial; intersectionality; activism; solidarity; politics
Voices from the 'Periphery of Islam': Discourses of Authenticity, Rooting and Community-Building
edited by
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 416 | Submission Open
Keywords: Islam in Asia; Islam in Africa; Islam in Europe and USA; authenticity; contestive heterogenization; local rooting; Islam from the soil
Rabbinic Thought between Philosophy and Literature
edited by Sergey Dolgopolski
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 366 | Submission Open
Keywords: rabbinics; Talmud; midrash; comparative literature; continental philosophy; history of mind and mental states; word-image-concept; noetics; Jewish literature; Jewish thought; Late Antiquity and Middle Ages; history and theory of thought
Exploring the Origins of Religious Beliefs
edited by Peter Bedford
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 352 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion-theory and method; religion-origins
Soteriological and Ethical Dimensions of Forgetting in Asian Thought
edited by Youru Wang
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 345 | Submission Open
Keywords: Asian religions; Asian philosophies; forgetting; forgetfulness; memory; therapy; ethics; soteriology
Explorations into Yan Zun’s Edition and Commentary to the Daodejing: Laozi Zhigui
edited by and
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open
Keywords: Yan Zun; Laozi zhigui; Laozi Daodejing; Daoist religion and philosophy
Religious Phenomena in Romania in the 20th and early 21st Centuries
edited by Razvan Brudiu and Mihail K. Qaramah
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 48 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious freedom; state– church relationship; communism; mysticism; religious nationalism; religious renewal
Engaged Buddhism for an Engulfed World: New Perspectives on Humanistic Buddhism
edited by and Jakub Zamorski
submission deadline 10 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1485 | Submission Open
Keywords: engaged or humanistic Buddhism (Renjian Fojiao; 人間佛教); modernization; globalization; Taixu; school-building on monastic properties (廟產興學); multiculturalism
Renewal, Innovation, and Transformation: The Changing Face of Judaism in Modern Times
edited by
submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3984 | Submission Open
Comparative Study of the Concepts of Self-Transcendence, Value and Power in the Works of Emerson and Zhuang Zi
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 594 | Submission Open
Keywords: self-transcendence; value and power; Emerson and Zhuang Zi
(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 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 511 | 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)
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