Volume 17, Number 1, January-June 2027
Submission deadline for manuscripts: December 30, 2026
Sílex, the journal of Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Peru, invites the intellectual and academic community to submit articles for the dossier “Religion, Spiritualities, and Society in the 21st Century.” The dossier welcomes contributions that critically engage with contemporary dynamics of religion and spirituality, including secularization, as well as the persistence and revitalization of religious and spiritual traditions in the public sphere, including Indigenous cosmologies and ecological religiosities.
This issue seeks to advance interdisciplinary dialogue by situating contemporary religious and spiritual phenomena within debates on plural ontologies and ecological and social justice. It is grounded in the recognition that religion and spirituality in the 21st century cannot be understood solely through the lens of decline or persistence. Rather, they must be analyzed as dynamic fields of contestation and creativity, where secularization coexists with revival, privatization of faith with public resurgence, and hybrid reconfigurations.
This issue also seeks to highlight how ontologies of the Global South—particularly Indigenous epistemologies—offer critical alternatives to Eurocentric categories, reframing ecology, justice, and spirituality as relational, communal, and cosmological practices. The debate situates dominant trends in the Global North—such as the privatization of faith and the weakening of established institutions that organize and regulate religion and spirituality—in dialogue with diverse Global South dynamics of hybridity. It also examines the reconfiguration of religious and spiritual practices, including ecological forms of spirituality, without reducing these fields (North/South) to opposing poles, instead attending to their interconnections, circulations, and shared tensions. Contributions are invited—whether theoretical, empirical, comparative, or essayistic—that rigorously and originally address some of the following themes through approaches grounded in the humanities and social sciences:
- Secularization, Post-Secular Transformations, and Ecological Religiosities: analyses of the emergence of “post-traditional” spiritualities such as mindfulness and New Age practices. Contributions may interrogate the redefinition of faith in secularized contexts, including the ways these transformations intersect with ecological thought and environmental ethics.
- Religion, Spirituality, and Justice: explorations of secular ethics grounded in radical commitments to Afro-descendant, Indigenous, and other pluricultural communities’ self-determination, justice, and communal uplift. We invite works that articulate new value systems rooted not only in divine intervention but also in human agency and Nature’s own agency, in dialogue with Indigenous ontological traditions.
- Plural Ontologies and Hybrid Forms: studies of Christianity, Islam, and local traditions that coexist with new spiritualities, producing hybrid forms. Healing through reconnection and re-enchantment with ancestral lands, traditions, and communities is understood as a strategic site of ontological contestation in the present, grounded in justice, empathy, and cosmic relationality.
- Global South Perspectives: Latin American Indigenous cosmologies (e.g., Andean spirituality, Amazonian shamanism) that challenge Western categories of religion and secularism and offer alternative frameworks for understanding ecology, justice, and spirituality. The spiritual journey of self-decolonization and the retrieval of identity are central to these practices. Post-development discourses offer ethical alternatives to the spiritual crises of the Global North.
- Religion, Humanism, and Global Dialogues: interconnections between religion, spiritualities, and secular humanisms—rationalism, naturalism, and human rights—and the transformations these entail. Theological and ecological renewal in continuity with Catholic encyclicals such as Laudato Si and Magnifica Humanitas, as well as broader interreligious dialogues.
SUBMITTING YOUR MANUSCRIPTS
To ensure proper submission, authors are advised to consult the Author guidelines and Editorial guidelines stated on Sílex Journal website before submitting their manuscripts.
Sílex uses the OJS platform for online submission and peer review process under the double-blind scheme. All manuscripts must be submitted exclusively through this platform by registering in the following link: https://revistas.uarm.edu.pe/index.php/silex/about/submissions. Any other means will not be accepted.
Queries can be directed to the following email: revista.silex@uarm.pe
IMPORTANT DATES
- Opening date for manuscript submissions: July20th, 2026
- Closing date for manuscript submissions: December30th, 2026