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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
RES volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter33
Divine Contradiction: replies to critics28
On astrotheology as natural theology19
AI-mediated mystical experiences17
Compositionalism, Nestorianism, and the principle of no co-member parts14
Self-annihilation in Marguerite Porete9
Author's Note for Symposium on A Hidden Wisdom8
Hans Van Eyghen, The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (London: Routledge, 2023). Pp. 168. £96.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032249988.7
Non-belief as self-deception?7
Even more happiness in hell6
‘Block’ing evil’s defeat5
An existentialist response to the problem of evil a la Jorge Portilla5
Murphy's Anselmian theism and the problem of evil4
Evil and responsibility in the Quran4
The restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion4
RES volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Front matter4
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Front matter4
Sceptical theism, divine commands, and love4
How to believe in immortality3
Mysticism and scholasticism3
RES volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer3
Non-personal immortality3
How reincarnations can resolve moral issues for non-sufferer-focused theodicies3
The privation theory of evil and the evil-God challenge3
‘Only God, my dear’: being loved for oneself and creation from nothing3
The opposition of omnibenevolence towards evil2
The problem of unconceived alternatives in science and religion2
RES volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter2
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
The problem with the problem of mourning2
In defence of natural religion2
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
Selfhood, persistence, and immortality in Jaina philosophy2
Pointless atheism2
RES volume 61 issue S2 Cover and Back matter2
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
Why philosophers should read Paradise Lost2
The characteristic damage of analytic theology: a response to William Wood2
RES volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
Is there non-resistant non-belief?2
The 2024 Big Question Short Essay Competition2
Theology meets philosophy of science2
José Eduardo Porcher. Afro-Brazilian Religions, Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). Pp 82. $ 22. ISBN97810094690121
The ‘Diderot Objection’ to Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology1
RES volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
The problem of unconceived alternatives in science and religion - ERRATUM1
Women-focused Special Issue1
Unpacking conceptual idolatry1
Prospects and possibilities for interfaith environmentalism1
You could be immaterial (or not)1
RES volume 58 issue S1 Cover and Front matter1
Free will and the moral vice explanation of hell's finality1
Is theism compatible with pointless non-resistant non-belief?1
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Divine psychology and cosmic fine-tuning1
Exemplars in ‘science and religion’: a theological dialogue with Thomas Kuhn1
Is religious experience epistemologically reliable? An embodied-philosophical inquiry1
Atheistic modal realism1
Is the desire for life rational?1
Philosophy and the contemplative way of life1
RES volume 61 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Divine domination1
Omnisubjectivity, counteractuals, and relating perfectly to subjectivity1
African Traditional Religion and moral philosophy1
The perspectival account of faith1
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
Aquinas's science-engaged theology1
Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch1
Newman on emotion and cognition in the Grammar of Assent1
The doing/allowing distinction in the divine context1
Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers, Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025). Pp. 528. £25.01
God as an asset and some paradoxical implications1
Helen De Cruz (1978–2025): an academic and personal tribute1
A metaphysics of spiritual experience1
Byung-Chul Han The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (Cambridge: Polity, 2022). Pp. vii + 120. £12.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781509545100.1
The Sceptical Muslim1
Can panpsychism solve thorny theological problems?1
The wisdom of ghosts1
Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity1
Evil is still evidence: comment on Almeida1
Schelling and the problem of evil1
True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud1
Experimental philosophy and the problem of evil1
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Back matter1
Evil and evidence: a reply to Bass1
An interview with John Leslie1
Conversational implicatures cannot save divine command theory from the counterpossible terrible commands objection1
No new problem for the Trinity: A reply to Mooney1
Falsity and untruth1
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Roberto Di Ceglie God, the Good, and the Spiritual Turn in Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 350. £64.95 (Hbk). ISBN 9781009203531.1
An interview with Richard Swinburne1
An interview with Keith Ward1
Divine and mortal loves1
Communal sin, atonement, and group non-agential moral responsibility1
The Existence and Nature of Deities0
God, the laws of nature, and occasionalism0
In defence of God’s rational creativity: A reply to Gould0
Theology as social knowledge0
The curious case of the marginalized mystics0
‘Not so much thought out as danced out’: expanding philosophy of religion in the light of Candomblé0
The existence and nature of God: contributions from Latin America0
Divine domination - ERRATUM0
God, love, and analytic philosophy of religion: a feminist proposal0
RES volume 60 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
By what measure? A signpost theory of the truth of doctrine0
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
A philosophical account of repentance0
Panentheism as cosmopolitanism: Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's conception of a global human league0
Life after life: Mullā Ṣadrā on death and immortality0
RES volume 60 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Should atheists be worried about modal Calvinist epistemology?0
Travis Dumsday, Alternative Conceptions of the Spiritual: Polytheism, Animism, and More in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). Pp 240. £59.50. ISBN 978135030
Experimental philosophy of religion0
How much like us?0
Kelly James Clark and Justin Winslett A Spiritual Geography of Early Chinese Thought: Gods, Ancestors, and Afterlife (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2023). Pp. 1–225. £85.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781350262170
RES volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
What if God was all of us? Why the definition of ‘God’ matters in analytic discussions of meaning in life0
Our lives go better in a world created by God0
In defence of Mary's consent: a response to Hereth0
Abraham, Isaac, and the toxin: a Kavkan reading of the binding of Isaac0
Shared intentionality and divine persons: explorations in empirical psychology and ramified natural theology0
The problem of misfortunes0
Minding Creation: an overview0
Why might God create?0
Two ‘logic’ problems for religious expressivists0
RES volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Examining the logical argument of the problem of evil from an African perspective0
Sceptical theists can endorse the fine-tuning argument0
In defence of Rebel Angel Theodicy0
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
A guide to the AfterDeath: Maimonides on olam ha-ba’0
RES volume 61 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
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
Why there is no obligation to love God0
Shifting the spotlight: What do we mean by ‘religious language’?0
Beth Singler Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction(New York: Routledge, 2025). pp. 1–217. £35.99 (Pbk). ISBN 97810321876480
Lucifer’s disordered love and the first-person perspective: an Augustinian account of primal sin0
Is the cosmological argument intuitive?0
Should panpsychists be Christians?0
Engaging Jeffrey Koperski’s decretalism: is occasionalism really avoidable?0
Anselm on THAT, THIS, and panpsychism0
Reasonable faith and reasonable fideism0
Wittgensteinian blasphemy: what it's like to be a heretic0
Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive0
Non-ideal theory in the philosophy of religion: Exploring implications of non-ideal theorising for the problem of evil0
RES volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
The old gods as a live possibility: on the rational feasibility of non-doxastic paganism0
Paul Draper. Atheism and the Problem of Evil (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025). Pp. 1+182. $100.00 (Hbk) ISBN 97801928471640
Francis Fallon and Gavin Hyman (eds.). Agnosticism: Explorations in Philosophy and Religious Thought (Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press 2020). P0
An evaluative ontological argument0
Engaging philosophically with Afro-Brazilian religions0
Minding Creation: response to critics0
If naturalism is true, then scientific explanation is impossible0
What could it mean to say that sex is eternal?0
Prospects and pitfalls of science-engaged theology0
Analytic theology and the academic study of religion: an overview0
Truth without truths: Grim's Cantorian paradox and the ontology of the objects of omniscience0
RES volume 61 issue S2 Cover and Front matter0
Psychic immunity and uncomprehended pain: what Maimonides can tell us about the problem of suffering0
Jerry L. Martin (ed.), Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative (London and New York: Routledge, 2020). Pp. xiii + 268. $160 (Hbk) ISBN 9780367028718.0
In defence of partial faith0
The good watchmaker0
Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964–2023)0
Elizabeth Pérez, The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 84. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781009031530.0
Rāmānuja’s cosmopsychist-panentheistic solution to the hard problem of consciousness0
The deal at the dawn of time0
Counting hiddenness: cognitive science and the distribution of belief in God0
Why the Jesus as mother tradition undermines the symbolic argument against women's ordination0
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
Daniel A. Dombrowski, Process Mysticism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2023). Pp. x + 248. £19.95 (Pbk.). ISBN 97814384913560
On the virtues of neutrality0
Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution0
Clifford Williams, Religion and the Meaning of Life: An Existential Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. vi + 189. £22.99 (Pbk). ISBN: 978-1-108-43298-60
Editorial introduction: special issue on panpsychism and pan(en)theism0
Conceivability and perfect being theology0
Death and meaning(lessness): re-examining the African view0
Experimenting with philosophy of religion: Lessons from two decades of experimental philosophy0
Do religious fictionalists face a problem of evil?0
Divine authority as divine parenthood0
Wisdom and methodological diversity in philosophy of religion0
A model of worldview formation0
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
Roberto di Ceglie Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022). Pp. x + 196. £120.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032191805.0
Evil and suffering in the world0
Conceptualizing divine trust0
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
Intellectual humility and Christian faith0
Saṅghabhadra's arguments for the existence of an intermediate state (antarābhava) between biological death and rebirth as translated by Xuanzang (602?–664 ce)0
Can pantheism explain the existence of the universe?0
The regeneration of the cosmic mind: cosmopsychism, mental chaos, and the new creation0
Would integration with religious studies improve analytic theology?0
‘Orthodox panentheism’ is neither orthodox nor coherent0
‘Hell? Yes!’ Moorean reasons to reject three objections to the possibility of damnation0
Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought0
The Direct Argument, Rule B, and divine determinism0
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
RES volume 59 issue S1 Cover and Back matter0
On defining ‘fundamentalism’0
Naturalism is an unexpected ally of theism in tackling the problem of religious diversity0
Jc Beall, The Contradictory Christ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 185. £45.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780199952360.0
The unreality of traditional Islamic theism's views on belief, providence, and eschatology: a rejoinder to Tabur0
Analytic theology and science-engaged theology0
The African perfect God and limited God views and making a better world0
Earthly life is not pointless for universalists0
Modal panentheism: Developed and defended0
Does panpsychism entail anti-realism? The worm in the panpsychist apple0
Trinity, simplicity, and contradictory theology: a theologian's reflections0
Should panpsychists be supernaturalists?0
Engaging with Joanna Leidenhag's Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation0
RES volume 61 issue S1 Cover and Front matter0
Nagasawa's Maximal God and the Ontological Argument0
An argument for the perspectival account of faith0
RES volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
RES volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
In defence of qua-Christology0
Death, deathless states, and time-consciousness in Sikh philosophy0
Worship and the problems of human evil and suffering0
Is ‘orthodox panentheism’ unorthodox? A response to James Dominic Rooney0
Is God’s creation a fictional world?0
A Christian ethics of blame: or, God says, ‘vengeance is mine’0
Ramon Harvey. Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp xv + 280. $33.90 (Pbk). ISBN 97814744516590
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
Hidden grounds of religious hinge commitments0
RES volume 61 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Yujin Nagasawa, The Problem of Evil for Atheists(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). pp. xiii + 252. £ 76.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198901884.0
God's creativity and religious diversity: a theistic argument for a transformative pluralism0
Pretending to be a believer: on understanding religious fictionalism as a role-playing game0
A defence of merit transfer: Aquinas's interpretation and desert theory0
Panpsychism’s problem of evil?0
The presumption of compatibilism0
Andrea Aguti, Il miracolo. Saggio di filosofia della religione (Morcelliana, 2025). Pp. 224. € 20.00. ISBN 8837240082.0
‘There can be only one’: A response to Joseph C. Schmid0
The hard problem of ‘pure’ consciousness: Sāṃkhya dualist ontology0
Joshua Sijuwade. Analytic Theism: A Philosophical Investigation (New York: Routledge Press, 2024). Pp. 1–647. £135.00 (Hbk ISBN 978-1-032-26359-20
How much horrific suffering is enough?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
Mulder’s hail Mary0
The algorithm and the almighty: rethinking omniscience, suffering, and salvation0
RES volume 60 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
When to give weight to weighty religious disagreement0
A new problem of evil?0
Glutty and simple?0
The modal argument and Bailey's contingent physicalism: a rejoinder0
Reversing Pascal: scepticism about religious belief and its value0
In defence of God making stuff up: a reply to Ward0
The functional mind and the trinitarian God0
Embodied constructivism: the imagination as a vehicle for mental time travel0
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