Religious Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Religious Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
RES volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter21
On astrotheology as natural theology17
AI-mediated mystical experiences16
Self-annihilation in Marguerite Porete9
Hans Van Eyghen, The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (London: Routledge, 2023). Pp. 168. £96.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032249988.7
Author's Note for Symposium on A Hidden Wisdom7
Divine Contradiction: replies to critics6
Even more happiness in hell5
Non-belief as self-deception?5
‘Block’ing evil’s defeat5
Murphy's Anselmian theism and the problem of evil4
Evil and responsibility in the Quran4
The privation theory of evil and the evil-God challenge4
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Front matter4
The restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion4
Sceptical theism, divine commands, and love4
How reincarnations can resolve moral issues for non-sufferer-focused theodicies3
RES volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
Why philosophers should read Paradise Lost3
Non-personal immortality3
How to believe in immortality3
An existentialist response to the problem of evil a la Jorge Portilla3
‘Only God, my dear’: being loved for oneself and creation from nothing3
RES volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer3
Mysticism and scholasticism3
The opposition of omnibenevolence towards evil3
Alan L. Berger Elie Wiesel: Humanist Messenger for Peace (New York: Routledge, 2021). Pp. xiv + 164. £130.00 (Hbk), £35.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9780415738231.2
The 2024 Big Question Short Essay Competition2
The problem with the problem of mourning2
Divine and mortal loves2
An interview with Richard Swinburne2
Salih Sayilgan. God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. xvii + 224 (Hbk). ISBN 9781009377317.2
Artificial intelligence and the alienness of God2
Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erick Baldwin Classical Theism and Buddhism: Connecting Metaphysical and Ethical Systems (London: Bloomsbury, 2022). Pp. x + 161. £85.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 9781350189133.2
RES volume 61 issue S2 Cover and Back matter2
José Eduardo Porcher. Afro-Brazilian Religions, Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). Pp 82. $ 22. ISBN97810094690122
Is religious experience epistemologically reliable? An embodied-philosophical inquiry2
In defence of natural religion2
The characteristic damage of analytic theology: a response to William Wood2
Selfhood, persistence, and immortality in Jaina philosophy2
Pointless atheism2
Theology meets philosophy of science2
The wisdom of ghosts2
Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers, Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025). Pp. 528. £25.02
The problem of unconceived alternatives in science and religion2
RES volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
The semantics of Afro-Brazilian spirits: Applying Davidson on prior and passing theories1
Exemplars in ‘science and religion’: a theological dialogue with Thomas Kuhn1
RES volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Can panpsychism solve thorny theological problems?1
Shifting Perspectives in African Philosophy of Religion1
Is the desire for life rational?1
Engaging and developing Ada Agada's philosophy: moral responsibility, creation, and the problem of evil1
Free will and the moral vice explanation of hell's finality1
An interview with John Leslie1
African Traditional Religion and moral philosophy1
Unpacking conceptual idolatry1
On Orthodox panentheism1
Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch1
Falsity and untruth1
Divine psychology and cosmic fine-tuning1
Omnisubjectivity, counteractuals, and relating perfectly to subjectivity1
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Back matter1
You could be immaterial (or not)1
RES volume 61 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Communal sin, atonement, and group non-agential moral responsibility1
Atheistic modal realism1
Analytic atheism and analytic apostasy across cultures1
Philosophy and the contemplative way of life1
The apple of God's eye: a biblical account of holiness1
Helen De Cruz (1978–2025): an academic and personal tribute1
Byung-Chul Han The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (Cambridge: Polity, 2022). Pp. vii + 120. £12.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781509545100.1
Newman on emotion and cognition in the Grammar of Assent1
Modal-epistemic arguments for the existence of God based on the possibility of the omniscience and/or refutation of the strong agnosticism1
R. T. Mullins, From Divine Timemaker to Divine Watchmaker: An Exploration of God’s Temporality Routledge Studies in Analytic and Systematic Theology (Routledge: New York, 2025). Pp. 318. $144.00 (Hbk)1
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
No new problem for the Trinity: A reply to Mooney1
Prospects and possibilities for interfaith environmentalism1
Conversational implicatures cannot save divine command theory from the counterpossible terrible commands objection1
The problem of unconceived alternatives in science and religion - ERRATUM1
A metaphysics of spiritual experience1
The doing/allowing distinction in the divine context1
God as an asset and some paradoxical implications1
An interview with Keith Ward1
Divine domination1
Two challenges for ‘no-norms’ theism1
Roberto Di Ceglie God, the Good, and the Spiritual Turn in Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 350. £64.95 (Hbk). ISBN 9781009203531.1
The God of falsehoods (or nonsense). Against Lebens’ apophatic theology1
Joseph C. Schmid and Daniel J. Linford, Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs (Cham: Springer, 2023). Pp. xvi + 378. £104.25. (Hbk). ISBN 9783031193125.1
Grounding panentheism1
Evil and evidence: a reply to Bass1
My religion preaches ‘p’, but I don't believe that p: Moore's Paradox in religious assertions1
The universe as aṁśa of Brahman: towards a Viśiṣṭādvaita existence-cosmopsychism1
RES volume 61 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Schelling and the problem of evil1
The ‘Diderot Objection’ to Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology1
RES volume 58 issue S1 Cover and Front matter1
Is theism compatible with pointless non-resistant non-belief?1
Women-focused Special Issue1
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Aquinas's science-engaged theology1
Evil is still evidence: comment on Almeida1
True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud1
Experimental philosophy and the problem of evil1
The perspectival account of faith1
Psychic immunity and uncomprehended pain: what Maimonides can tell us about the problem of suffering0
The problem of misfortunes0
An interview with Graham Oppy0
In defence of qua-Christology0
What if God was all of us? Why the definition of ‘God’ matters in analytic discussions of meaning in life0
Jerry L. Martin: Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age (Doylestown, PA: Caladium Publishing, 2025). Pp. [14]+363. $14.99 (Pbk). ISBN0
Divine domination - ERRATUM0
Clifford Williams, Religion and the Meaning of Life: An Existential Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. vi + 189. £22.99 (Pbk). I0
Beth Singler Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2025). pp. 1–217. £35.99 (Pbk). ISBN 97810321876480
Why there is no obligation to love God0
Consubstantial dualism: a Zoroastrian perspective on the soul0
How much like us?0
Engaging Jeffrey Koperski’s decretalism: is occasionalism really avoidable?0
‘…Or what’s a heaven for?’: the problem of unconceived alternatives in science and theology0
RES volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
When to give weight to weighty religious disagreement0
Is the cosmological argument intuitive?0
RES volume 60 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Lucifer’s disordered love and the first-person perspective: an Augustinian account of primal sin0
RES volume 61 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
RES volume 59 issue S1 Cover and Back matter0
Theology as social knowledge0
Reversing Pascal: scepticism about religious belief and its value0
Panpsychism’s problem of evil?0
Gereon Kopf, Purushottama Bilimoria and Nathan Loewen, Engaging Philosophies of Religion: Thinking Across Boundaries (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025).0
The functional mind and the trinitarian God0
Wittgensteinian blasphemy: what it's like to be a heretic0
Yujin Nagasawa, The Problem of Evil for Atheists(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). pp. xiii + 252. £ 76.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198901884.0
Would integration with religious studies improve analytic theology?0
Worship and the problems of human evil and suffering0
In defence of God’s rational creativity: A reply to Gould0
Embodied constructivism: the imagination as a vehicle for mental time travel0
RES volume 60 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Intellectual humility and Christian faith0
In defence of partial faith0
God, love, and analytic philosophy of religion: a feminist proposal0
The curious case of the marginalized mystics0
The promise of unconceived alternatives: metaphysical explanation in Indian philosophy0
Paul Draper. Atheism and the Problem of Evil (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025). Pp. 1+182. $100.00 (Hbk) ISBN 97801928471640
Kirk Lougheed, Motsamai Molefe, Thaddeus Metz, African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. 78. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 97810095248960
Elizabeth Pérez, The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 84. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781009031530.0
RES volume 61 issue S1 Cover and Front matter0
Do religious fictionalists face a problem of evil?0
Deontological sceptical theism proved0
The modal argument and Bailey's contingent physicalism: a rejoinder0
On defining ‘fundamentalism’0
OP David Goodill Nature as Guide: Wittgenstein and the Renewal of Moral Theology (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2022). Pp. xiii + 319. £70.50 (Hbk). ISBN 97808132344580
Conceptualizing divine trust0
Scientism and the value of scientific evidence for religious belief0
Nagasawa's Maximal God and the Ontological Argument0
Should panpsychists be supernaturalists?0
The deal at the dawn of time0
Consciousness and Śakti-based Vedānta cosmopsychism: A philosophical reconstruction of Jīva’s Bhedābheda Vedānta0
The good watchmaker0
RES volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
In defence of Mary's consent: a response to Hereth0
Robert C. Roberts, Virtue Ethics in Christian Perspective (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2024). Pp. ix+178. £20 (pbk). ISBN 9781498207980.0
Counting hiddenness: cognitive science and the distribution of belief in God0
The regeneration of the cosmic mind: cosmopsychism, mental chaos, and the new creation0
John Hick and Candomblé: The concept of religion and the experience of evil0
A guide to the AfterDeath: Maimonides on olam ha-ba’0
Editorial introduction: special issue on panpsychism and pan(en)theism0
In defence of God making stuff up: a reply to Ward0
Death, deathless states, and time-consciousness in Sikh philosophy0
Life after life: Mullā Ṣadrā on death and immortality0
Saṅghabhadra's arguments for the existence of an intermediate state (antarābhava) between biological death and rebirth as translated by Xuanzang (602?–664 ce)0
Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive0
Sceptical theism and fine-tuning: relocating rather than resolving the tension0
‘Orthodox panentheism’ is neither orthodox nor coherent0
Is ‘orthodox panentheism’ unorthodox? A response to James Dominic Rooney0
Roberto di Ceglie Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022). Pp. x + 196. £120.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032191805.0
Naturalism is an unexpected ally of theism in tackling the problem of religious diversity0
A new problem of evil?0
The hard problem of ‘pure’ consciousness: Sāṃkhya dualist ontology0
Andrea Aguti, Il miracolo. Saggio di filosofia della religione (Morcelliana, 2025). Pp. 224. € 20.00. ISBN 8837240082.0
Modal panentheism: Developed and defended0
Does panpsychism entail anti-realism? The worm in the panpsychist apple0
Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution0
The old gods as a live possibility: on the rational feasibility of non-doxastic paganism0
An evaluative ontological argument0
Shared intentionality and divine persons: explorations in empirical psychology and ramified natural theology0
Does God know our future sins?0
RES volume 60 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Shifting the spotlight: What do we mean by ‘religious language’?0
‘Not so much thought out as danced out’: expanding philosophy of religion in the light of Candomblé0
Analytic theology and the academic study of religion: an overview0
Between horror and utopia: fiction and Nagasawa’s existential problem of evil0
Francis Fallon and Gavin Hyman (eds.). Agnosticism: Explorations in Philosophy and Religious Thought (Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press 2020). P0
Analytic theology and science-engaged theology0
Evil and suffering in the world0
RES volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Adam C. Pelser and W. Scott Cleveland (eds), Faith and Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy in Aid of Becoming Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). £75.00. ISBN 978-0-1928-9534-9.0
Sceptical theists can endorse the fine-tuning argument0
A cross-cultural perspective on God's personhood0
Truth without truths: Grim's Cantorian paradox and the ontology of the objects of omniscience0
The presumption of compatibilism0
Hidden grounds of religious hinge commitments0
RES volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
RES volume 60 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
What could it mean to say that sex is eternal?0
Joshua Sijuwade. Analytic Theism: A Philosophical Investigation (New York: Routledge Press, 2024). Pp. 1–647. £135.00 (Hbk ISBN 978-1-032-26359-20
Prospects and pitfalls of science-engaged theology0
Ramon Harvey. Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp xv + 280. $33.90 (Pbk). ISBN 9781470
Glutty and simple?0
God, the laws of nature, and occasionalism0
Embodied world construction: a phenomenology of ritual0
Abraham, Isaac, and the toxin: a Kavkan reading of the binding of Isaac0
How much horrific suffering is enough?0
By what measure? A signpost theory of the truth of doctrine0
God's creativity and religious diversity: a theistic argument for a transformative pluralism0
The Direct Argument, Rule B, and divine determinism0
In defence of Rebel Angel Theodicy0
Paul K. Moser, Understanding Religious Experience: From Conviction to Life's Meaning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. xi + 352. £29.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781108558785.0
Should panpsychists be Christians?0
Mulder’s hail Mary0
‘Hell? Yes!’ Moorean reasons to reject three objections to the possibility of damnation0
Engaging philosophically with Afro-Brazilian religions0
Can pantheism explain the existence of the universe?0
Subject combination and the initiatory experience in Śrīvidyā0
Love, suffering, and the problem of valorisation in Eleonore Stump’s The Image of God0
Non-ideal theory in the philosophy of religion: Exploring implications of non-ideal theorising for the problem of evil0
Fluctuating maximal God, the problem of inconsistent evil, and spacetime changes0
Experimenting with philosophy of religion: Lessons from two decades of experimental philosophy0
Anselm on THAT, THIS, and panpsychism0
The Existence and Nature of Deities0
A model of worldview formation0
Divine authority as divine parenthood0
The unreality of traditional Islamic theism's views on belief, providence, and eschatology: a rejoinder to Tabur0
Earthly life is not pointless for universalists0
RES volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
What are we? Collective neuroscience, metaphysics, and theology0
The existence and nature of God: contributions from Latin America0
Robyn Horner and Claude Romano (eds), The Experience of Atheism: Phenomenology, Metaphysics and Religion (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). Pp. x + 206. £70.00. ISBN 1350167630.0
Experimental philosophy of religion0
Trinity, simplicity, and contradictory theology: a theologian's reflections0
Minding Creation: response to critics0
The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer: ERRATUM0
Daniel A. Dombrowski, Process Mysticism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2023). Pp. x + 248. £19.95 (Pbk.). ISBN 97814384913560
‘There can be only one’: A response to Joseph C. Schmid0
A Christian ethics of blame: or, God says, ‘vengeance is mine’0
Two ‘logic’ problems for religious expressivists0
Conceivability and perfect being theology0
RES volume 61 issue S1 Cover and Back matter0
Timothy Knepper Philosophies of Religion: A Global and Critical Introduction (London: Bloomsbury, 2023). Pp. xvi + 476. £24.99/US$34.95 (Pbk). ISBN 9781350262966.0
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