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Old Texts, New Insights: Exploring Buddhist Manuscripts

edited by

Soon-Il Hwang

and

Jaehee Han

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1279 | Submission Open

Keywords: Buddhist manuscripts; Sanskrit manuscripts; Chinese manuscripts; Dunhuang manuscripts; philological research; codicology; paleography; iconography; manuscript preservation; digitalizing manuscripts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Gender, Violence and Islam

edited by

Alessandra Persichetti

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 925 | Submission Open

Religion, Theology, and Bioethical Discourses on Marriage and Family

edited by Mirosław Brzezinski

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 918 | 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)

Exploring Lived Theology: Empirical Research on Religious Experience

edited by Sabrina Müller and Knut Tveitereid

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 858 | Submission Open

Keywords: empirical theology; religious experience; empirical research in religion and theology; live theology; lived religion; contextual theology/theologies; postcolonial theology; feminist theology; theological anthropology

Nature, Functions and Contexts of Christian Doctrine

edited by

Geoff Thompson

and Dianne Rayson

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 850 | Submission Open

Keywords: doctrine; truth; context; doctrinal change; bible; imagination; sexuality; climate; race

Christian Leadership: Exploring the Theological, Biblical, and Social–Scientific Foundations and Applications

edited by Joshua D. Henson

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 586 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christian leadership; biblical leadership; theological studies; biblical studies; religious studies; ecclesiology; leadership; character; values; leader behavior; leadership styles

Theological Traditions of Politics: Tracing History and Its Continuity

edited by Nikolaos Asproulis

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 438 | Submission Open

Keywords: political theology; religious traditions; state; human rights; nationalism; fundamentalism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)

The Medieval Crusades History

edited by Luigi Russo

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 366 | Submission Open

Keywords: crusades; Jerusalem; Holy Land; pilgrimage; military orders; Byzantium; Muslims

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

‘On the Lapsed’: Comparative Ethnographic Perspectives on ‘Lapsing’ among Christians around the World

edited by

Jianbo Huang

, Christine Lee and Carsten Vala

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 327 | Submission Open

Keywords: Christianity; religion; lapsing; membership

Religion, Culture and Spirituality in a Digital World

edited by

Víctor Manuel Pérez Martínez

, Miguel Ángel Motis Dolader and Carmen Herrando Cugota

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 320 | 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

Modeling Lifeworlds on the Rhythms of Nature: Perspectives on Daoism and Ecology in East Asia

edited by Jihyun Kim and Daniel Burton-Rose

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 307 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental humanities; Daoism; East Asian science and technology; ecology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Religion as a Political Instrument

edited by

Martin Solík

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 281 | Submission Open

Keywords: political elites; political instrument; religious organisations; churches; relationship

Deviance and Religiousness: Exploring the Interplay between Religion and Criminality

edited by Chris Allen and

Christina Verousi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 250 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; hate; extremism; crime; criminality; deviance; prisons; criminal justice system; extremism; terrorism; violence; equality; diversity; human rights; prosecution; communities; radicalization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Faith in Action: Examining the Power and Purpose of a Public Theology in Contemporary Society

edited by Clive Pearson

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 239 | Submission Open

Keywords: public theology; common good; signs of the time; justice; truth; compassion; freedom; local; global

Imagining Ultimacy: Religious and Spiritual Experience in Literature

edited by

Matthew Wickman

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 219 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious experience; spiritual experience; spirituality; religion and literature; literary criticism; literary theory

Conflict and Integration of Confucianism and Religions in Modern Japan

edited by Haozhi Dong and Lianxing Qin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 189 | Submission Open

Keywords: Confucianism; Shinto; Buddhism; Christianity; emerging religions; religious ethics; religious practices; reformation; folk religion

Religion and Technology in the Digital Age

edited by Melissa Conroy

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 184 | Submission Open

Keywords: technology; dystopia; artificial intelligence; robot; cyborg; religion and film; religion and television; religious documentaries

Beyond the Book: Exploring the Cultural Histories of Biblical Masculinity

edited by Eric Thurman and Susan Haddox

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 111 | Submission Open

Keywords: masculinity; bible; reception theory; cultural history

Divine and Secular Sovereignty: Interpretations

edited by Zoltán Balázs and György Laszlo Geréby

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open

Keywords: divine sovereignty; secular sovereignty; political theology; Carl Schmitt; Erik Peterson; Giorgio Agamben

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Religious Nationalism in Global Perspective

edited by

Jeffrey Haynes

submission deadline 10 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4673 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious nationalism; religion; nationalism; political impact; Islamic nationalism; Christian nationalism; Hindu nationalism

Climate Crisis and Religions/Spirituality

edited by Takeshi Kimura

submission deadline 10 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2320 | Submission Open

Keywords: religion; spirituality; climate crisis; environment; sustainability; intergenerational ethics

The Role of Religion in the World of Technologically Transformed Human Consciousness

edited by

Šimo Šokčević

submission deadline 10 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 331 | Submission Open

Keywords: transhumanism; religions; technology; social networks; AI; virtual reality; freedom; cyberspace; consciousness

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Humanities/Philosophies)

Re-Thinking Religious Traditions and Practices of Korea

edited by Kevin N. Cawley and David J. Kim

submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1185 | Submission Open

Keywords: Korean religion; Confucianism; Buddhism; Shamanism; new religious movements; transculturalism; comparative studies; everyday life; magic and divination

The Ethics of the Body in Different Religious Traditions and Spiritual Discourses

edited by Gabriel Noje and Daniel Lemeni

submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 1158 | Submission Open

Keywords: human corporeality; the ethics of the body; embodiment; desire; repentance; sin; emotions; asceticism; moral responsibility; spirituality of the heart; illness of body; sexuality; mind-body practices; relaxation techniques; transfigured body

Jewish Languages: Diglossia in Judaism

edited by Lily Kahn and Sonya Yampolskaya

submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 844 | Submission Open

Keywords: Judaism; Jewish languages; diglossia; codeswitching; multilingualism; Hebrew; Ladino; Judeo– Arabic; Aramaic; Yiddish

Religion and Indigenous Traditions

edited by Craig Ginn and Durga Kale

submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 371 | 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

Sufism and Contemporary Islamic Studies

edited by

Hussam S. Timani

submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 326 | Submission Open

Keywords: Sufism; Sufi thought; Islam; religion; Islamic mysticism; spiritualism

New Work on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion

edited by

Sebastian Sunday Grève

submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 318 | 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)

Religious and Theological Interactions in East Asia: Issues, Channels and Impact

edited by

Benoit Vermander

and

Chae Young Kim

submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 298 | Submission Open

Keywords: Asian theologies; East-Asian wisdoms; global challenges; humaneness; interreligious dialogue

African Voices in Contemporary and Historical Theology

edited by Fergus King and Alfred Sebahene

submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 189 | Submission Open

Keywords: African theology; contextual theology; hermeneutics; missiology; biblical interpretation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)

Religion and the Modern Government: Is Neutrality Still an Option?

edited by Owen Anderson

submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 135 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious neutrality; First Amendment; populism; nationalism; methodological atheism; established church; Federalist papers; religious morality; natural law; natural theology

Critical Issues in Christian Ethics

edited by

Kenneth L. Waters

, Richard Rose and Sandra Morgan

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1164 | 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

Francis-Vincent Anthony

and Gnana Patrick

submission deadline 24 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1078 | 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

Jeffrey Haynes

submission deadline 25 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 237 | 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 544 | 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

edited by

Alex Villas Boas

Alexandre Palma

and

Alfredo Teixeira

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10574 | 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

Mario Katić

and

John Eade

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10071 | Submission Open

Religion, Spirituality and Medicine: Insights into Contemporary Perspectives

edited by Stefania Palmisano and

Matteo Di Placido

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9341 | 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

edited by

Alex Villas Boas

João Duque

and

Isidro Lamelas

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9297 | 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

Balázs M. Mezei

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8210 | Submission Open

Keywords: revelation; divine disclosure; theology; philosophy; hermeneutics; Scripture; inspiration; eschatology; mysticism; interfaith dialogue

Jewish-Muslim Relations in the Past and Present

edited by

Fahimah Ulfat

and Asher J. Mattern

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1841 | 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

edited by

Dură V. Nicolae

and

Cătălina Mititelu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1406 | 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 1258 | 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 279 | 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 179 | 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

Minorities and Religion in Post-Communist Eastern Europe

edited by Gavril Flora

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 115 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious pluralism; ethnic diversity; religious minorities; ethnic minorities; national identity; national political legitimacy; Eastern Europe

The Role of Monasteries in Preserving Cultural Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe

edited by

Marcin Jewdokimow

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 82 | 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 80 | 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 114 | 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 79 | Submission Open

Keywords: eastern Christian liturgy; liturgy; worship; interpretation; late modernity; mission; liturgical change; diaspora; liturgical language; spirituality; seekers

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