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Computational Approaches to Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts
edited by Jacob P.B. Mortensen
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 47 | Submission Open
Keywords: New Testament; scriptures of Israel; early Christian texts; computational and algorithmic approaches; distant reading; macro analysis; text analysis
Faith in Action: Exploring the Intersection of Religion and Social Justice
edited by Nicole Johnson and Dean Johnson
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 10 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; faith; social action; social justice; peace; social change; nonviolence; faith-based activism; inter-faith; vocation/calling/purpose
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
Otherness-Reception and Self-Rediscovery in the Dialogue and Comparative Study of Christianity and Buddhism
edited by
submission deadline 10 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7999 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christianity; Buddhism; comparative study; inter-faith dialogue; theologian; master; cultural difference; divinity; reality; morality; self-understanding; otherness-reception; benefit; consummate
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Ethical Concerns in Early Confucianism
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 18031 | Submission Open
Keywords: early Confucianism; ethical concerns; classical text; representative; ethical argument; ethical debate
Religion and/of the Future submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4723 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; spirituality; future; technology; artificial intelligence; virtual reality; new religious movements; neuroscience; brain; well-being
Secularism in Social and Political Contexts: Contemporary Trends, Movements, and Ideas in the Middle East
edited by Gokhan Bacik and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 930 | Submission Open
Keywords: secularism and politics; the Middle East; islamism; secularism; secular political thought; social and political study of secularism; Arab nationalism and secular movements; left-wing politics and secular movements; transnational secular studies
Functions of Religion among Young People: Diverse Religious, Spiritual and Non-religious Worldviews
edited by Eduardo Duque, José Francisco Durán Vázquez and Francis Davis
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 221 | Submission Open
Keywords: religion; youth; belief; unbelief; spirituality; plurality; generations
Islamic Practical Theology
edited by Tuba Işik
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 109 | Submission Open
Keywords: practical theology; religious practice; character forming
Religious Engagement and Education: Exploring Belief, Practice and Pedagogy Across Cultures
edited by Heather Marshall and Francis Farrell
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 54 | Submission Open
Keywords: religious education; pedagogy; curriculum development; teacher training; interfaith dialog; digital learning; educational strategies
Is an Ethics without God Possible?
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 482 | Submission Open
Keywords: God’ s commands; God’ s nature; objective ethics; theism; atheism; Darwinian evolution
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
A Sociological Approach to the Study of the Sanskrit Purānas
edited by Joël Dubois and Deven M. Patel
submission deadline 1 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 116 | Submission Open
Keywords: Sanskrit; Purānas; sociological analysis; historical analysis; storytelling lineages
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Forced Migration and the Bible: Displacement, Statelessness, and Resiliency in Sacred Texts
edited by Roberto Mata
submission deadline 5 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 129 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate migration; trauma; borderlands; statelessness; neocolonialism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Witness of the Orthodox Church in the Political Context of the Secularized Modern State
edited by Paul Brusanowski and
submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open
Keywords: Church and state; missiology; Christian witness; Secularization; religious beliefs and practices; ecumenism; nationalisms; identities
Situating Religious Cognition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1945 | Submission Open
Keywords: situated cognition; extended mind theory; 4e cognition; phenomenology of religion; media studies; pragmatist studies of religion; hermeneutics; deconstruction
Systematic Theology and Social Ethics: On the Unity of Theory and Praxis
edited by Miguel Escobar Torres and Matyas Szalay
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 488 | Submission Open
Keywords: systematic theology; community; society; ethics; practice; theory
The Bible in Person: Physiological Interpretations
edited by Bruce A. Lowe and Luke Irwin
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 249 | Submission Open
Keywords: hermeneutics; physiology; embodiment; Bible interpretation; theology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
The Multiple Images and Forms of Classical Confucian and Daoist Ethics for Living
edited by and Hongxing Lin
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 192 | Submission Open
Keywords: Confucianism; Daoism; ethics for living
Pilgrimage: Diversity, Past and Present of Sacred Routes
edited by Pedro Pereira and Marina Pignatelli
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open
Keywords: pilgrimage; transits to sacred places; culture; religiosity; syncretism; gender; power relations; economy
Women’s Voices in Muslim–Christian Dialogue
edited by Fatimah Husein and Marianne Farina
submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open
Keywords: dialogue; comparative studies; feminist perspectives; social justice; interreligious learning; women’ s history
The Energy God and Other Alternatives to the Theistic View of God and Spirituality
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2790 | Submission Open
Keywords: mysticism; spirituality; dao; ground of being; brahman; kabbalah; sufism; nirvana; panentheism
The Encounter of Colonialism and Indian Religious Traditions
edited by Enrico Beltramini
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open
Keywords: India; religion; colonialism; mission; Christianity; Islam; Hinduism; assimilation; dialogue; practice; theology
Transdisciplinary Theological Study: Animals, Divinanimality, and Creaturely Theology
edited by Laura Hobgood
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 154 | Submission Open
Keywords: divinanimality; creaturely theology; the animal; human-animal; critical animal; transdisciplinary studies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
Saintly Voices: Sounding the Supernatural in Medieval Hagiography
edited by Catherine Saucier
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open
Keywords: hagiography; cult of saints; devotion; supernatural and natural environments; identity; liminality; sensory perception; voice; sound; performance; religious arts
Experience and Non-Objects: Towards a Phenomenology of Indiscernibility submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 677 | 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)
Continental Philosophy and Catholic Theology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 111 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christianity; Catholic; continental philosophy; theology; metaphysics; mystery; phenomenology; synodality; truth; wisdom
(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)
Europe, Religion and Secularization: Trends, Paradoxes and Dilemmas submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open
Keywords: Europe; modernity; secularization; religion and politics
Disseminating Christian Beliefs Through Word and Image in Medieval and Renaissance Times submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 49 | Submission Open
Keywords: Christianity; Christian doctrine; patrology; theology; Christian iconography; church history; medieval culture; Christian society; popular devotion; religious experience; liturgical hymns; interdisciplinary studies; middle ages; renaissance
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