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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Theorizing about faith and faithfulness with Jonathan Kvanvig8
The aloneness argument against classical theism8
Worldview studies7
Examining the logical argument of the problem of evil from an African perspective7
Ibn Taymiyya on theistic signs and knowledge of God6
Oppy on Thomistic cosmological arguments6
Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity5
Building the monarchy of the Father5
Monism in Indian philosophy: the coherence, complexity, and connectivity of reality in Śaṃkara's arguments for Brahman4
African Traditional Religion and moral philosophy4
Amen to daat: on the foundations of Jewish epistemology4
Death and meaning(lessness): re-examining the African view4
Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought3
Is God a person? Maimonides, Crescas, and beyond3
On defining ‘fundamentalism’3
A new epistemological case for theism2
Why God allows undeserved horrendous evil2
The nature and significance of the Hindu Divine Mother in embodied thealogical perspective2
Shifting Perspectives in African Philosophy of Religion2
How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer2
Conversational implicatures cannot save divine command theory from the counterpossible terrible commands objection2
The old gods as a live possibility: on the rational feasibility of non-doxastic paganism2
Naturalism, classical theism, and first causes2
On the prudence of adopting a ‘Sin now; repent later’ policy2
Reasonable faith and reasonable fideism2
Anxiety, alienation, and estrangement in the context of social media2
The Trinity as social and constitutional: a rejoinder to Brian Leftow2
How African conceptions of God bear on life's meaning2
The perspectival account of faith2
The muʿtazila's arguments against divine command theory1
The proper basicality of belief in God and the evil-god challenge1
On sin-based responses to divine hiddenness1
The transformative power of accepting God's love1
Is the desire for life rational?1
Semantic compositionality and Berkeley's divine language argument1
Theistic expansive naturalism: which God?1
Theorizing about Christian faith in God with John Bishop1
Should panpsychists be supernaturalists?1
Original sin, control, and divine blame: some critical reflections on the moderate doctrine of original sin1
A modified Meditation: exploring a grounding modal ontological argument1
Created goodness and the goodness of God: divine ideas and the possibility of creaturely value1
Logos, logic and maximal infinity1
Causal and non-causal explanations in theology: the case of Aquinas's primary–secondary causation distinction1
Conceptualizing divine trust1
Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive1
Can the constitution be saved?1
Two challenges for ‘no-norms’ theism1
Does analytic theology belong in the public university?1
The logical problem of the incarnation: a new solution1
The Aloneness Argument fails1
Varieties of Avicennian arguments for the existence of God1
Evil is not evidence1
Aquinas's science-engaged theology1
On Orthodox panentheism1
Reversing Pascal: scepticism about religious belief and its value1
David Efird Postgraduate Essay Prize1
Fluctuating maximal God, the problem of inconsistent evil, and spacetime changes1
Can panpsychism solve thorny theological problems?1
Why the Good is supremely good: a defence of the Monologion proof1
Evil is still evidence: comment on Almeida1
If naturalism is true, then scientific explanation is impossible1
Optimism without theism? Nagasawa on atheism, evolution, and evil1
Doing, Allowing, and Occasionalism1
Pretending to be a believer: on understanding religious fictionalism as a role-playing game1
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 Quran1
Towards a Buddhist theism1
Mary, did you consent?1
Falsity and untruth1
Analytic theology and science-engaged theology1
A philosophical account of repentance1
The ‘Diderot Objection’ to Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology1
Are there de jure objections to Mādhvic belief?1
Should panpsychists be Christians?1
Engaging with Joanna Leidenhag's Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation1
Non-personal immortality0
Constitution, identity, and the Trinity: rebuttal to Leftow0
Sceptical theism, divine commands, and love0
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour Necessary Existence and Monotheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 1 + 75. £15.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781108940054.0
Worship: bowing down in the service of God0
Truth without truths: Grim's Cantorian paradox and the ontology of the objects of omniscience0
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
Murphy's Anselmian theism and the problem of evil0
The functions of natural theology in Thomas Aquinas: A presumption of atheism?0
Knowing what you want–why disembodied repentance is impossible0
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Religion, hypocrisy, and betting on secularity: reversing Smilansky's wager0
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Faith as skill: an essay on faith in the Abrahamic tradition0
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Self-annihilation in Marguerite Porete0
The apple of God's eye: a biblical account of holiness0
Schelling and the problem of evil0
Evil and responsibility in the Quran0
On the virtues of neutrality0
Contractualism, exclusionary reasons and the moral argument for theism0
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True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud0
Conceivability and perfect being theology0
Locke and Hume on competing miracles0
God's creativity and religious diversity: a theistic argument for a transformative pluralism0
Modal-epistemic arguments for the existence of God based on the possibility of the omniscience and/or refutation of the strong agnosticism0
The hard problem of ‘pure’ consciousness: Sāṃkhya dualist ontology0
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Communal sin, atonement, and group non-agential moral responsibility0
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). ISB0
Life after life: Mullā Ṣadrā on death and immortality0
Probing the mind of God: divine beliefs and credences0
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Nagasawa's Maximal God and the Ontological Argument0
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Normative appraisals of faith in God0
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). Pp0
Embodied world construction: a phenomenology of ritual0
Evil and suffering in the world0
In defence of qua-Christology0
Divine and mortal loves0
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
Two ‘logic’ problems for religious expressivists0
How to believe in immortality0
Divine subjectivity and intersubjectivity0
Absolute identity and the Trinity0
The Sceptical Muslim0
‘There can be only one’: A response to Joseph C. Schmid0
The persons of the Trinity are themselves triune: a reply to Mooney0
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Evil and evidence: a reply to Bass0
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
Deontological sceptical theism proved0
The alchemy of suffering in the laboratory of the world: Vedāntic Hindu engagements with the affliction of animals0
Philosophy and the contemplative way of life0
Private evidence for atheism0
Necessary existent theology0
CFP: Women-only Special Issue of Religious Studies0
The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer0
Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices (New York: New York University Press). Pp. 255. £23.00. ISBN 1479804347.0
The regeneration of the cosmic mind: cosmopsychism, mental chaos, and the new creation0
Is there non-resistant non-belief?0
Michael C. Rea Essays in Analytic Theology 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). Pp. 576. $150.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198866794.0
Hans Van Eyghen, The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (London: Routledge, 2023). Pp. 168. £96.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032249988.0
Why does God command?0
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Divine authority as divine parenthood0
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
Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution0
My religion preaches ‘p’, but I don't believe thatp: Moore's Paradox in religious assertions0
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Shifting the spotlight: What do we mean by ‘religious language’?0
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Author's Note for Symposium on A Hidden Wisdom0
A Christian ethics of blame: or, God says, ‘vengeance is mine’0
Psychic immunity and uncomprehended pain: what Maimonides can tell us about the problem of suffering0
Atheistic modal realism0
Newman on emotion and cognition in theGrammar of Assent0
Calum Miller's attempted refutation of Michael Tooley's evidential argument from evil0
Do we need an account of prayer to address the problem for praying without ceasing?0
Scientism and the value of scientific evidence for religious belief0
Prospects and possibilities for interfaith environmentalism0
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Human rights and divine holiness0
Engaging and developing Ada Agada's philosophy: moral responsibility, creation, and the problem of evil0
Afro-Brazilian religions and religious diversity: contributions to pluralism0
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A cross-cultural perspective on God's personhood0
Mark R. Wynn Spiritual Traditions and the Virtues: Living Between Heaven and Earth. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Pp. 272. £65.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 9780198862949.0
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
Why might God create?0
‘The metaphysical objection’ and concurrentist co-operation0
Conceptual plausibility and the rationality of theistic belief0
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Samuel Lebens, The Principles of Judaism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Pp. xviii + 352. £75.00/$100.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198843252.0
Epistemic phariseeism0
God as an asset and some paradoxical implications0
Panentheism as cosmopolitanism: Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's conception of a global human league0
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
Existence exists, and it is God0
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
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Saṅghabhadra's arguments for the existence of an intermediate state (antarābhava) between biological death and rebirth as translated by Xuanzang (602?–664 ce)0
Mysticism and scholasticism0
Questions on the Book of Job0
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
The modal argument and Bailey's contingent physicalism: a rejoinder0
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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
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
Considering escaping hell0
Divine command theory and the (supposed) incoherence of self-commanding0
Compositionalism, Nestorianism, and the principle of no co-member parts0
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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
On the rationality of semi-secular simultaneity: a non-doxastic interpretation of the seemingly inconsistent worldviews of some Swedish ‘nones’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
Shades of faith: the phenomenon of doubt in early Christianity0
Intellectual humility and Christian faith0
Are we free to work miracles? On Peter van Inwagen's concept of the miraculous0
Counting hiddenness: cognitive science and the distribution of belief in God0
Sceptical theism, the parent analogy, and many goods0
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
A guide to the AfterDeath: Maimonides on olam ha-ba’0
Trinity, simplicity, and contradictory theology: a theologian's reflections0
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 97813501149680
Minding Creation: an overview0
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A Harrean perspective of theology0
From modal collapse to moral collapse0
Powers, possibility, and the essential cosmological argument0
Non-belief as self-deception?0
An Integral Advaitic theodicy of spiritual evolution:karma, rebirth, universal salvation, and mystical panentheism0
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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
Abraham, Isaac, and the toxin: a Kavkan reading of the binding of Isaac0
You could be immaterial (or not)0
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Global perspectives on death and immortality0
Would integration with religious studies improve analytic theology?0
Glutty and simple?0
Are atheist worlds really the best?0
Selfhood, persistence, and immortality in Jaina philosophy0
Evil and embodiment: towards a Latter-day Saint non-identity theodicy0
Anabaptist two kingdom dualism: metaphysical grounding for non-violence0
What if God was all of us? Why the definition of ‘God’ matters in analytic discussions of meaning in life0
Exemplars in ‘science and religion’: a theological dialogue with Thomas Kuhn0
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 97810
In defence of partial faith0
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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Byung-Chul Han The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (Cambridge: Polity, 2022). Pp. vii + 120. £12.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781509545100.0
Death, deathless states, and time-consciousness in Sikh philosophy0
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
Do religious fictionalists face a problem of evil?0
Truthmaking, resemblance, and divine simplicity0
Women-focused Special Issue0
Divine Contradiction: replies to critics0
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
The characteristic damage of analytic theology: a response to William Wood0
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Consubstantial dualism: a Zoroastrian perspective on the soul0
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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
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
The doing/allowing distinction in the divine context0
Why are we here?0
When to give weight to weighty religious disagreement0
Gorazd Andrejč and Daniel H. Weiss (eds) Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein (Leiden: Brill, 2019). Pp. xiv + 243. £100.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9789004397927.0
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