Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will focus on the intersection between religion, ecological conservation, and public health in our contemporary context. While the relationships between religion and ecology and religion and public health have been thoroughly explored in recent academic scholarship, it has become increasingly recognized that religion, ecological conservation, and public health are integrally related concerning many important issues related to human and environmental health. This Special Edition will explore the interdisciplinary relationships between these areas in an effort to examine the ways in which they connect with each other and demonstrate the significance of religion for the valuation and protection of human and nonhuman life.

The forthcoming Special Edition endeavors to provide a deeper exploration of the relationships among religion, ecological conservation, and public health by examining the interrelatedness of these three diverse fields. This will potentially include a wide range of issues including but not limited to in-patient healthcare, vaccines, climate change, species and habitat protection, environmental and public health ethics, and the spread of infectious disease. The goal will be to provide a scholarly assessment of the role and influence of religious belief and practice for efforts to adequately address the conditions necessary to protect the flourishing of human and nonhuman life on Earth.

By examining the interconnectedness of religion, ecological conservation, and public health, this edition will add an important layer of depth to existing scholarship focusing on the relationship between either religion and ecology or religion and public health. While papers will be considered on any topic that examines the interrelatedness of these three areas, papers are encouraged on the ways in which issues of religion, ecological conservation, and public health have coalesced in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Dr. David C. McDuffie
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Religions is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• religion and science
• religion and ecology
• religion and public health
• religion and public policy