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Open Theology/ Tourism, Religion, and Politics: The Influence of Political Environments on Religious Tourism

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:33pm
"Open Theology"/ De Gruyter Brill
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: TOURISM, RELIGION, AND POLITICS 

“Open Theology” (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/opth)  invites submissions for the special issue “Tourism, Religion, and Politics: The Influence of Political Environments on Religious Tourism,” edited by Dr. Caglar Ezikoglu.

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Call for Chapters: Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:23pm
Gabrie'l Atchison/ Bloomsbury Press
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Call for Chapter Contributions
An Edited Volume: Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Editor: Dr. Gabrie’l J. Atchison
Proposed Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.

As the series editor for Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives for Bloomsbury Publishing, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North America (MENA). 

Elvis Presley and Theology

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:50pm
Integrite: A Journal of Faith and Learning
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 16, 2026

Intégrité is a scholarly journal published biannually by the Faith and Learning Committee and the Humanities Division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri. Published both online (https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/integrite/) and in print, it welcomes essays for a special issue (Fall 2027) on “Elvis Presley and Theology.”

2027 marks the 50th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on August 16, 1977.

Call for Papers for Edited Volume on Religion, Transhumanism, and Posthumanism

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:42pm
Gods and men? Post- and Transhumanism in Interfaith Perspective
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Call for Papers

Edited Volume on Religion, Transhumanism, and Posthumanism

Working Title:
Gods and men? Post- and Transhumanism in Interfaith Perspective

Overview
We invite contributions to an edited academic volume offering a critical theological reflection on transhumanism and posthumanism from an interfaith perspective. While these developments have already generated a growing body of religious and theological responses, this volume seeks to move beyond initial engagements by critically assessing their assumptions, methods, and conclusions.

Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence

updated: 
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 - 1:00am
5th World Congress on Logic and Religion
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence

 

Session Organizer: Dr. Houman Mehrabian (University Canada West)

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Alfred Hermida (University of British Columbia) & Dr. Kathryn Huether (University of California, Los Angeles)

 

Voices from the Margins

updated: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 9:35am
British Nonconformity in the Long 18th cen Group
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

Voices from the Margins

British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century Day Conference

The John Rylands Library

Manchester

June 22, 2026

 

Call for Papers

 

[Updated Submission Deadline] Our North Stars: African-Rooted Spiritual Practices of Joy, Community and Collective Renewal

updated: 
Monday, April 20, 2026 - 3:45pm
Editors: Sakina M Hughes, Karl W. Lampley, Basile Ouedraogo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 15, 2026

Our Vision:  This anthology will be a celebration of shared African and African Diasporic Spirituality in all its vibrant, beautiful, and powerful iterations. We are inspired by the life-giving guidance of Harriet Tubman, Howard Thurman, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Octavia Butler, Cheikh Anta Diop, Lama Rod Owens, Malidoma Patrice Somé, Sobonfu Somé, Tricia Hersey, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Cole Arthur Riley, Alice Walker, bell hooks, Thomas Sankara, Rev. William J. Barber, Jawanza Eric Clark, Flora Wilson Bridges, Dwight N. Hopkins, Peter J. Paris, Audre Lorde, and many, many others.

 

Call for Chapters for an edited volume: The Witch and Activism

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pm
Editors: Dr Zoë Enstone (York St. John University) and Dr Sharon Jagger (York St. John University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 22, 2026

The figure of the witch (both real and imagined) is inherently political and potentially contentious. Each wave of feminism has reflected on shifting considerations of the witch as evocative of issues around gender, power and, more recently, intersectional aspects of identity. More recent critical engagement with witches and witchcraft reflects a transition, transcending disciplinary boundaries and positioning the witch in line with shifting contemporary debates. This shift moves the witch beyond the symbolic or the individual to consider both the interconnected and disparate nature of the witch. We can, instead, see the witch as a key component in movements of political change, as activist alongside the spiritual expl

Call for Stories for New Creative Nonfiction Anthology: "Queer and Trembling: Stories of LGBTQ+ Religious Trauma"

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:06pm
Lucas F. W. Wilson
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 15, 2026

CALLING ALL 2SLGBTQ+ WRITERS WHO EXPERIENCED RELIGIOUS TRAUMA. I am excited to announce this Call for Submissions for my new anthology of creative nonfiction narratives! Entitled Queer and Trembling: Stories of LGBTQ+ Religious Trauma, this anthology will bring together a collection of stories about 2SLGBTQ+ religious trauma from Christian contexts, whether they be evangelical, fundamentalist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Orthodox, etc. The collection is under contract with Jessica Kingsley Publishers (an imprint of Hachette UK) and will likely be released in 2028. 

Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at all-online Virtual Summer Salon of Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, June 25-27, 2026

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:05pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 27, 2026

Call for Papers

ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2026 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 25-27, 2026

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 30, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026

T. S. Eliot Studies Annual Volume 9

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:04pm
T. S. Eliot Studies Annual
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 20, 2026

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Call for Papers for Volume 9

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the 2015 edition of his complete poems, and the forthcoming critical edition of his plays.

All critical approaches are welcome, as are essays pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work as a poet, critic, playwright, editor, foremost exemplar of modernism, or his influence on twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture.

Atla Annual 2026: Religion, Theology, & Librarianship

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 3:04pm
Atla
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Have you marked your calendar for Atla Annual 2026? As announced in November, Atla signed a three-year agreement to co-locate the annual conference with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings. This year, Atla Annual will take place November 20 through 23, 2026, in Denver, Colorado. 

Like the previous four iterations of the conference, Atla Annual 2026 will be a hybrid event. Regardless of your plan to join us in person or online, we hope you will consider submitting a conference proposal.

PLUR1BUS: A PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATION

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:53pm
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 1, 2027

Edited by Giannis Stamatellos and Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

 

Pluribus (stylized as PLUR1BUS) is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction television series created by Vince Gilligan. It premiered on in November 2025, and a second season has been ordered. 

Humanity is infected by an extraterrestrial virus and has muted into a peaceful and happy “Hive Mind.” The Hive is the shared consciousness of the infected people. However, 12 people are immune and not affected by the virus and react in various ways to the new reality.

 

Transformative Language: Literacies of Mind, Body, and Soul

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:50pm
Southeastern Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Transformative Language: Literacies of Mind, Body, and Soul

Southeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature

Samford University

Birmingham, AL

October 22-24, 2026

Submission Deadline:  July 1, 2026

Registration Deadline: September 1, 2026

 

Keynote Speaker: Jason Baxter (Director for the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine University) 

Biblical and Middle Eastern Literatures

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:49pm
PAMLA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

We invite submissions for a special session at the 2026 PAMLA meeting (Seattle, WA; November 12-15, 2026) on “Biblical and Middle Eastern Literatures.” All papers will be allotted about 20 minutes. Papers must be presented in person.

Journal for the Study of Radicalism Call for Articles

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:43pm
JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism—an academic journal published by Michigan State University Press—announces a call for articles and book reviews.JSR seeks articles on political and religious forms of radicalism across the political spectrum. "Radicalism" here refers not to social reform, but to those who seek through violent or non-violent means to bring about sudden political transformation. In particular, we are interested in articles that consider such topics as both historical or contemporary anarchist figures or groups, ecological radicalism, antifa, communism, and radical violence.

MMLA Religion and Literature Permanent Section

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:40pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 25, 2026

This year’s convention theme, “After the Archive,” lends itself well to the study of Religion and Literature. The cultural importance of folklore and sacred stories means that keeping an archive of them for posterity through written and oral storytelling is imperative. However, the nature of that archive is unique in that these stories are ever-changing as they are retold and adapted over the generations.

 

MLA '27: "I don't know what Christmas is, but Christmas time is here": Santa Claus, Christmas, and Implicit Religion in SFF

updated: 
Monday, March 16, 2026 - 11:03am
Maura Ives and Claire Carly-Miles
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

"I don't know what Christmas is, but Christmas time is here": Santa Claus, Christmas, and Implicit Religion in SFF 

Abstracts (250 words) are invited for papers exploring Santa Claus and/or the Christmas holiday in science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and graphic novels.  Considerations of the interrelation of secular and religious themes in SFF Christmas, implicit religion, and contemporary ritual welcome. 

MLA '27 held in LA in January; for more information on the conference see https://www.mla.org/Events/2027-MLA-Convention  

Deadline:  March 25, 2026

What Does It Mean to Be Human? Faith, Human Dignity, and Artificial Intelligence

La Roche University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 25, 2026

La Roche University in Pittsburgh, PA, is pleased to announce its conference on Artificial Intelligence and Faith, to be held on campus November 6, 2026. The conference will feature keynote speaker Dr. Noreen Herzfeld, Professor Emerita and Director of the Program in Benedictine Spirituality and the Environment at Saint John's School of Theology and Seminary, and Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies (ZRS) in Koper, Slovenia. Dr.

American Academy of Religion, Western Region, Philosophy of Religion Unit "Moving Beyond Boundaries and Silos Toward Interconnection and Collaboration"

Mitchel E Hickman, Philosophy of Religion Unit, AAR WR
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 15, 2026

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the Philosophy of Religion unit at the 2027 American Academy of Religion, Western Region conference, which will be held at The Graduate Theological Union & Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California, March 19-21. We welcome all papers engaging this year’s conference theme, “Moving Beyond Boundaries and Silos Toward Interconnection and Collaboration,” as well as topics of general interest in the Philosophy of Religion.

The CFP is attached, so is the requisite proposal form. For further information see the American Academy of Religion Western Regional’s website.

 

What About Wonder? at ACLA 2027

Anne Marie Thompson and Helena Tomko, organizers
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

This seminar is about wonder. Specifically, we want to explore how wonder might enliven and invigorate our profession in a time of many pressures, if not crises, in higher education. Why wonder? From the ancients, who claimed that philosophy begins in wonder, to contemporary philosophers like William Desmond, who articulates wonder as a primal experience of “astonishment at the too-muchness of being,” wonder has been identified as a starting point from which to think, and therefore—as we might more closely consider—read, write, and teach. 

Spaces of Difference and Contact Religion, Popular Culture, and Identity Formations in Colonial and Post-Colonial Bengal

Edited by Debashish Banerji, PhD Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco Subham Dutta, PhD Assistant Professor of English, Gokhale Memorial Girls' College, Kolkata, West Beng
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

Concept Note

Bengal as a cultural, social, and analytical territorial space carries a series of nuances that bear, directly and indirectly, on the processes of identity formation. While these processes may be read as organic phenomena in pre-colonial and undivided Bengal, they became a prominent aspect of colonial and national identity politics in post-Partition Bengal. This volume explores the spectrum of such processes as they unfold across the transition from the pre-colonial to the post-colonial cultural and political history of Bengal, from the eighteenth century to the present.

The Marilynne Robinson Society at ALA

American Literature Association Conference (ALA); May 26-29, 2027
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 1, 2026

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting a panel at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 26-29, 2027; Boston, MA).  The panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by December 1, 2026.

Empathy and Storytelling Conference November 20-21, 2026

St. Bonaventure University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 1, 2026

Educators, researchers, writers, and content creators are invited to submit proposals for presentations. Graduate student participation is welcome. Presentation types might include:

• traditional oral readings of papers (15 minutes)
• timed slide presentations
• roundtable presentations
• pre-constituted panels

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