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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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Judaeo-Christian faith as trust and loyalty	11
Theorizing about faith and faithfulness with Jonathan Kvanvig	8
Worldview studies	8
The aloneness argument against classical theism	8
Did natural selection select for true religious beliefs?	7
Building the monarchy of the Father	6
Theorizing about faith with Lara Buchak	6
Oppy on Thomistic cosmological arguments	6
Ibn Taymiyya on theistic signs and knowledge of God	4
Examining the logical argument of the problem of evil from an African perspective	4
Death and meaning(lessness): re-examining the African view	4
Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity	4
Is God a person? Maimonides, Crescas, and beyond	3
African Traditional Religion and moral philosophy	3
Anxiety, alienation, and estrangement in the context of social media	3
On the incompatibility of God's knowledge of particulars and the doctrine of divine immutability: towards a reform in Islamic theology	3
On defining ‘fundamentalism’	3
Can a worship-worthy agent command others to worship it?	2
A Buddhist reconfiguration of John Hick's pluralistic hypothesis: a Madhyamaka perspective	2
How African conceptions of God bear on life's meaning	2
The Trinity is still unconstitutional	2
The perspectival account of faith	2
Reasonable faith and reasonable fideism	2
Amen to daat: on the foundations of Jewish epistemology	2
The Trinity as social and constitutional: a rejoinder to Brian Leftow	2

Shifting Perspectives in African Philosophy of Religion	2
Why does God exist?	2
Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought	2
A new epistemological case for theism	2
Why God allows undeserved horrendous evil	2
The nature and significance of the Hindu Divine Mother in embodied thealogical perspective	2
Naturalism, classical theism, and first causes	2
On the prudence of adopting a ‘Sin now; repent later’ policy	2
Evil is not evidence	2
The primacy of liturgy in Christianity	1
Can the constitution be saved?	1
Reversing Pascal: scepticism about religious belief and its value	1
Does analytic theology belong in the public university?	1
Intentionality, evil, God, and necessity	1
Conversational implicatures cannot save divine command theory from the counterpossible terrible commands objection	1
The old gods as a live possibility: on the rational feasibility of non-doxastic paganism	1
Doing, Allowing, and Occasionalism	1
Semantic compositionality and Berkeley's divine language argument	1
Theorizing about Christian faith in God with John Bishop	1
A philosophical account of repentance	1
David Efird Postgraduate Essay Prize	1
Logos, logic and maximal infinity	1
Evil is still evidence: comment on Almeida	1
Optimism without theism? Nagasawa on atheism, evolution, and evil	1
The muʿtazila's arguments against divine command theory	1
Omnisubjectivity and the problem of creepy divine emotions	1
Theistic modal realism and causal modal collapse	1
Why the Good is supremely good: a defence of the Monologion proof	1
On sin-based responses to divine hiddenness	1
Towards a Buddhist theism	1
Doing all things for God's glory, acting so that it is God who acts: Kierkegaard, Edwards, and the problem of total devotion	1
Original sin, control, and divine blame: some critical reflections on the moderate doctrine of original sin	1
Varieties of Avicennian arguments for the existence of God	1
On Orthodox panentheism	1
Conceptualizing divine trust	1
The proper basicality of belief in God and the evil-god challenge	1
The transformative power of accepting God's love	1
How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer	1
Created goodness and the goodness of God: divine ideas and the possibility of creaturely value	1
Is the desire for life rational?	1
Two challenges for ‘no-norms’ theism	1
The Aloneness Argument fails	1
Are there de jure objections to Mādhvic belief?	1
Monism in Indian philosophy: the coherence, complexity, and connectivity of reality in Śaṃkara's arguments for Brahman	1
A modified Meditation: exploring a grounding modal ontological argument	1
Mary, did you consent?	1
The hard problem of ‘pure’ consciousness: Sāṃkhya dualist ontology	0
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An Integral Advaitic theodicy of spiritual evolution:karma, rebirth, universal salvation, and mystical panentheism	0
Exemplars in ‘science and religion’: a theological dialogue with Thomas Kuhn	0

Are we free to work miracles? On Peter van Inwagen's concept of the miraculous	0
Scientism and the value of scientific evidence for religious belief	0
William Lane Craig, Erik J. Wielenberg, Adam Lloyd Johnson (eds) A Debate on God and Morality: What is the Best Account of Objective Moral Values and Duties? (New York and London: Routledge, 2020). Pp	0
Panentheism as cosmopolitanism: Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's conception of a global human league	0
Trinity, simplicity, and contradictory theology: a theologian's reflections	0
William L. Vanderburgh David Hume on Miracles, Evidence, and Probability. (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019). Pp. ix + 195. £60.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781498596930.	0
Prospects and possibilities for interfaith environmentalism	0
In defence of qua-Christology	0
Paul K. Moser, Understanding Religious Experience: From Conviction to Life's Meaning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. xi + 352. £29.99 (Pbk). ISBN 978110845.	0
Non-belief as self-deception?	0
Communal sin, atonement, and group non-agential moral responsibility	0
Should panpsychists be supernaturalists?	0
John M. DePoe and Tyler Dalton McNabb (eds) Debating Christian Religious Epistemology: An Introduction to Five Views on the Knowledge of God. (London: Bloomsbury, 2020). Pp. x + 254. £19.99 (Pbk). ISB	0
Counting hiddenness: cognitive science and the distribution of belief in God	0
Kirk Lougheed (ed.), Four Views on the Axiology of Theism: What Difference Does God Make? (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020). Pp. ix + 177. £85.00 (Hbk). ISBN 781350083530.	0
Sceptical theism, the parent analogy, and many goods	0
A guide to the AfterDeath: Maimonides onolam ha-ba’	0
Deontological sceptical theism proved	0
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David McPherson Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Approach. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. x + 221. £75.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781108477888.	0
Pretending to be a believer: on understanding religious fictionalism as a role-playing game	0
Schelling and the problem of evil	0
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Philosophy and the contemplative way of life	0
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Joseph C. Schmid and Daniel J. Linford, Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs (Cham: Springer, 2023). Pp. xvi + 378. £104.25. (Hbk). ISBN 9783031193125.	0
Conceptual plausibility and the rationality of theistic belief	0
The modal argument and Bailey's contingent physicalism: a rejoinder	0
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
Truthmaking, resemblance, and divine simplicity	0
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David Patterson, Portraits: The Hasidic Legacy of Elie Wiesel (New York: SUNY Press, 2021). Pp. 308. $95.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781438483979.	0
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Jordan Wessling Love Divine: A Systematic Account of God's Love for Humanity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Pp. 288. £70.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 9780198852483.	0
Is God's prescription of eternal hell for kâfirūn (infidels) in the Quran evil? Contesting Aijaz's understanding of kufr (infidelity) and an analysis of eternal punishment in the Quran	0
Compositionalism, Nestorianism, and the principle of no co-member parts	0
Newman on emotion and cognition in theGrammar of Assent	0
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Medha Bhattacharyya, Rabindranath Tagore's Śāntiniketan Essays: Religion, Spirituality and Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group). Pp. 170. £120.00 (Hbk), £34.99 (Pbk)	0
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Shades of faith: the phenomenon of doubt in early Christianity	0
God's creativity and religious diversity: a theistic argument for a transformative pluralism	0
Rita D. Sherma (ed.), Swami Vivekananda: His Life, Legacy, and Liberative Ethics (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021). Pp. xxx + 261. £73.00/US$95.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781498586047.	0
Divine authority as divine parenthood	0
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Constitution, identity, and the Trinity: rebuttal to Leftow	0
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Analytic theology and science-engaged theology	0
Religion, hypocrisy, and betting on secularity: reversing Smilansky's wager	0
Abraham, Isaac, and the toxin: a Kavkan reading of the binding of Isaac	0
Alan L. Berger Elie Wiesel: Humanist Messenger for Peace (New York: Routledge, 2021). Pp. xiv + 164. £130.00 (Hbk), £35.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9780415738231.	0
Do we need an account of prayer to address the problem for praying without ceasing?	0
The doing/allowing distinction in the divine context	0
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Faith without hope is dead: moral arguments and the theological virtues	0
Why might God create?	0
‘The metaphysical objection’ and concurrentist co-operation	0
Contractualism, exclusionary reasons and the moral argument for theism	0
RES volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Glutty and simple?	0
Theistic expansive naturalism: which God?	0
Fully divine and fully human: a bi-modal outline towards consistency	0
Byung-Chul Han The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (Cambridge: Polity, 2022). Pp. vii + 120. £12.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781509545100.	0
Modal-epistemic arguments for the existence of God based on the possibility of the omniscience and/or refutation of the strong agnosticism	0
Existence exists, and it is God	0
Non-personal immortality	0
Is Catholic faith worth having?	0
How to believe in immortality	0
Normative appraisals of faith in God	0
Minding Creation: an overview	0
Faith as skill: an essay on faith in the Abrahamic tradition	0
Divine subjectivity and intersubjectivity	0
Jerry L. Martin (ed.), Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative (London and New York: Routledge, 2020). Pp. xiii + 268. $160 (Hbk) ISBN 9780367028718.	0
The logical problem of the incarnation: a new solution	0
Evil and evidence: a reply to Bass	0
What if God was all of us? Why the definition of ‘God’ matters in analytic discussions of meaning in life	0
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
A metaphysics of spiritual experience	0

Powers, possibility, and the essential cosmological argument	0
Mikel Burley A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary. (London: Bloomsbury, 2020). Pp. 245. £17.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781350098329.	0
Absolute identity and the Trinity	0
Psychic immunity and uncomprehended pain: what Maimonides can tell us about the problem of suffering	0
The characteristic damage of analytic theology: a response to William Wood	0
Samuel Lebens, The Principles of Judaism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Pp. xviii + 352. £75.00/$100.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198843252.	0
Can panpsychism solve thorny theological problems?	0
The persons of the Trinity are themselves triune: a reply to Mooney	0
Probing the mind of God: divine beliefs and credences	0
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T. M. Luhrmann, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020). Pp. xv + 235. £25.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780691164465.	0
Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck's Theological Epistemology (London: T&T Clark, 2020). Pp. x + 197. £28.99 (Pbk). ISBN 978-0-5676-9898-8.	0
Why are we here?	0
Gorazd Andrejč and Daniel H. Weiss (eds) Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein (Leiden: Brill, 2019). Pp. xiv + 243. £100.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9789004397927.	0
RES volume 56 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
A. Goshen-Gottstein (ed.) Religious Truth: Towards a Jewish Theology of Religions (London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, 2020a). Pp. 205. £	0
Matthew Levering Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Historical and Theological Reflections. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). Pp. 1 + 272. £29.99 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198838968.	0
Laura Rediehs Quaker Epistemology. (Leiden: Brill, 2019). Pp. vi + 92. €70.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9789004419001.	0
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour Necessary Existence and Monotheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 1 + 75. £15.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781108940054.	0
You could be immaterial (or not)	0
J. P. F. Wynne Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Pp. 308. £75.00 (Hbk). ISBN 978 1 107 07048 6.	0
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When to give weight to weighty religious disagreement	0
The functions of natural theology in Thomas Aquinas: A presumption of atheism?	0
Human rights and divine holiness	0
Annihilation or salvation? A philosophical case for preferring universalism to annihilationism	0
My religion preaches ‘p’, but I don't believe thatp: Moore's Paradox in religious assertions	0
Evil and responsibility in the Quran	0
CFP: Women-only Special Issue of Religious Studies	0
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In defence of partial faith	0
Locke and Hume on competing miracles	0
Is there non-resistant non-belief?	0
Evil and embodiment: towards a Latter-day Saint non-identity theodicy	0
Anabaptist two kingdom dualism: metaphysical grounding for non-violence	0
A Christian ethics of blame: or, God says, ‘vengeance is mine’	0
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Mapping the epistemic arguments for religious toleration	0
Thomas A. Tweed Religion: A Very Short Introduction Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xx + 140. $11.95 (Pbk or ebook). ISBN 9780190064679.	0
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Calum Miller's attempted refutation of Michael Tooley's evidential argument from evil	0
Michael C. Rea Essays in Analytic Theology 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). Pp. 576. $150.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198866794.	0
Conceivability and perfect being theology	0
Evil and suffering in the world	0
Self-annihilation in Marguerite Porete	0
Embodied world construction: a phenomenology of ritual	0
Engaging and developing Ada Agada's philosophy: moral responsibility, creation, and the problem of evil	0
On the virtues of neutrality	0
A cross-cultural perspective on God's personhood	0
The wisdom of ghosts	0
Atheistic modal realism	0
Epistemic phariseeism	0
Hans Van Eyghen, The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (London: Routledge, 2023). Pp. 168. £96.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032249988.	0
Aquinas's science-engaged theology	0
Necessary existent theology	0
Murphy's Anselmian theism and the problem of evil	0
Özgür Koca Islam, Causality, and Freedom: From the Medieval to the Modern Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 287. £75.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781108496346.	0
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A Harrean perspective of theology	0
Mysticism and scholasticism	0
Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt, and Eric Schwitzgebel, Philosophy Through Science Fiction: Exploring the Boundaries of the Possible (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). Pp. 251. £26.95 (Pbk). ISBN 9781	0
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Questions on the Book of Job	0
Nagasawa's Maximal God and the Ontological Argument	0
‘There can be only one’: A response to Joseph C. Schmid	0
Divine and mortal loves	0
Engaging with Joanna Leidenhag's Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation	0
Why does God command?	0
Two ‘logic’ problems for religious expressivists	0
Truth without truths: Grim's Cantorian paradox and the ontology of the objects of omniscience	0
The Sceptical Muslim	0
The alchemy of suffering in the laboratory of the world: Vedāntic Hindu engagements with the affliction of animals	0
Private evidence for atheism	0
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If naturalism is true, then scientific explanation is impossible	0
Julian Perlmutter Sacred Music, Religious Desire and Knowledge of God: The Music of Our Human Longing London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. ix+191. £85.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781350114968	0
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Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices (New York: New York University Press). Pp. 255. £23.00. ISBN 1479804347.	0
God as an asset and some paradoxical implications	0
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
Worship: bowing down in the service of God	0
Consubstantial dualism: a Zoroastrian perspective on the soul	0
Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution	0
Do religious fictionalists face a problem of evil?	0
Would integration with religious studies improve analytic theology?	0
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.	0
Saṅghabhadra's arguments for the existence of an intermediate state (antarābhava) between biological death and rebirth as translated by Xuanzang (602?–664 ce)	0
On the rationality of semi-secular simultaneity: a non-doxastic interpretation of the seemingly inconsistent worldviews of some Swedish ‘nones’	0
Announcement	0
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Considering escaping hell	0
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Life after life: Mullā Ṣadrā on death and immortality	0