Religious Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Compositionalism, Nestorianism, and the principle of no co-member parts13
Private evidence for atheism12
Even more happiness in hell12
Divine Contradiction: replies to critics9
RES volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter8
Author's Note for Symposium on A Hidden Wisdom7
Self-annihilation in Marguerite Porete7
Non-belief as self-deception?6
Murphy's Anselmian theism and the problem of evil6
Hans Van Eyghen, The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (London: Routledge, 2023). Pp. 168. £96.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032249988.6
Evil and responsibility in the Quran6
Sceptical theism, divine commands, and love4
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Front matter4
The transformative power of accepting God's love4
The privation theory of evil and the evil-God challenge4
The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer3
The restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion3
‘Block’ing evil’s defeat3
How to believe in immortality3
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
Evil is not evidence2
The characteristic damage of analytic theology: a response to William Wood2
RES volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front 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
RES volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
Artificial intelligence and the alienness of God2
Mysticism and scholasticism2
In defence of natural religion2
Is there non-resistant non-belief?2
RES volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Non-personal immortality2
Selfhood, persistence, and immortality in Jaina philosophy2
An Integral Advaitic theodicy of spiritual evolution:karma, rebirth, universal salvation, and mystical panentheism2
The doing/allowing distinction in the divine context1
Women-focused Special Issue1
Experimental philosophy and the problem of evil1
Free will and the moral vice explanation of hell's finality1
Philosophy and the contemplative way of life1
Conversational implicatures cannot save divine command theory from the counterpossible terrible commands objection1
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Back matter1
Human dominion and wild animal suffering1
The proper basicality of belief in God and the evil-god challenge1
Evil and evidence: a reply to Bass1
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. £1
Is the desire for life rational?1
Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity1
Newman on emotion and cognition in the Grammar of Assent1
‘The metaphysical objection’ and concurrentist co-operation1
Communal sin, atonement, and group non-agential moral responsibility1
On Orthodox panentheism1
An interview with Richard Swinburne1
Exemplars in ‘science and religion’: a theological dialogue with Thomas Kuhn1
No new problem for the Trinity: A reply to Mooney1
Prospects and possibilities for interfaith environmentalism1
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Byung-Chul Han The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (Cambridge: Polity, 2022). Pp. vii + 120. £12.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781509545100.1
The ‘Diderot Objection’ to Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology1
Atheistic modal realism1
Can panpsychism solve thorny theological problems?1
The Sceptical Muslim1
Ibn Taymiyya on theistic signs and knowledge of God1
The problem with the problem of mourning1
Divine psychology and cosmic fine-tuning1
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
Falsity and untruth1
Anabaptist two kingdom dualism: metaphysical grounding for non-violence1
José Eduardo Porcher. Afro-Brazilian Religions, Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). Pp 82. $ 22. ISBN97810094690121
An interview with Keith Ward1
Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch1
Evil is still evidence: comment on Almeida1
A metaphysics of spiritual experience1
RES volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
God as an asset and some paradoxical implications1
The wisdom of ghosts1
Divine and mortal loves1
Naturalism, classical theism, and first causes1
Pointless atheism1
You could be immaterial (or not)1
Values and facts and fancies0
RES volume 60 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Non-ideal theory in the philosophy of religion: Exploring implications of non-ideal theorising for the problem of evil0
Psychic immunity and uncomprehended pain: what Maimonides can tell us about the problem of suffering0
Worship and the problems of human evil and suffering0
Shared intentionality and divine persons: explorations in empirical psychology and ramified natural theology0
God, the laws of nature, and occasionalism0
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
What if God was all of us? Why the definition of ‘God’ matters in analytic discussions of meaning in life0
The Trinity as social and constitutional: a rejoinder to Brian Leftow0
Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964–2023)0
Consubstantial dualism: a Zoroastrian perspective on the soul0
The modal argument and Bailey's contingent physicalism: a rejoinder0
Conceivability and perfect being theology0
Theorizing about faith and faithfulness with Jonathan Kvanvig0
Death, deathless states, and time-consciousness in Sikh philosophy0
Powers, possibility, and the essential cosmological argument0
Is ‘orthodox panentheism’ unorthodox? A response to James Dominic Rooney0
A guide to the AfterDeath: Maimonides on olam ha-ba’0
RES volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
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
Does the Orthodox tradition have anything to contribute to analytic theology?0
A modified Meditation: exploring a grounding modal ontological argument0
David E. Cooper Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge (Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda, 2024). pp. xiv + 168. £18.99 (Pbk. ISBN 9781788217705)0
RES volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour Necessary Existence and Monotheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 1 + 75. £15.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781108940054.0
If naturalism is true, then scientific explanation is impossible0
Divine Contradiction: some snippets0
RES volume 60 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Optimism without theism? Nagasawa on atheism, evolution, and evil0
How much horrific suffering is enough?0
Beth Singler Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction(New York: Routledge, 2025). pp. 1–217. £35.99 (Pbk). ISBN 97810321876480
Minding Creation: an overview0
A new problem of evil?0
The presumption of compatibilism0
Yujin Nagasawa, The Problem of Evil for Atheists(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). pp. xiii + 252. £ 76.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198901884.0
African Traditional Religion and moral philosophy0
Why are we here?0
Evil and embodiment: towards a Latter-day Saint non-identity theodicy0
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
God's creativity and religious diversity: a theistic argument for a transformative pluralism0
David Patterson, Portraits: The Hasidic Legacy of Elie Wiesel (New York: SUNY Press, 2021). Pp. 308. $95.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781438483979.0
Mary, did you consent?0
Intellectual humility and Christian faith0
The functions of natural theology in Thomas Aquinas: A presumption of atheism?0
The Existence and Nature of Deities0
In defence of Mary's consent: a response to Hereth0
RES volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Contractualism, exclusionary reasons and the moral argument for theism0
Robert Vinten (ed.) Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion: Interpreting Human Nature and the Mind (London: Bloomsbury, 2023). Pp. xii + 238. £28.99/US$39.95 (Pbk). ISBN 978135032930
‘Not so much thought out as danced out’: expanding philosophy of religion in the light of Candomblé0
Ramon Harvey. Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp xv + 280. $33.90 (Pbk). ISBN 97814744516590
Do we need an account of prayer to address the problem for praying without ceasing?0
Embodied world construction: a phenomenology of ritual0
The regeneration of the cosmic mind: cosmopsychism, mental chaos, and the new creation0
Shifting the spotlight: What do we mean by ‘religious language’?0
A philosophical account of repentance0
The old gods as a live possibility: on the rational feasibility of non-doxastic paganism0
The Aloneness Argument fails0
Jc Beall, The Contradictory Christ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 185. £45.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780199952360.0
Roberto di Ceglie Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022). Pp. x + 196. £120.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032191805.0
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
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RES volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Conceptualizing divine trust0
Engaging with Joanna Leidenhag's Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation0
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
Nagasawa's Maximal God and the Ontological Argument0
Should panpsychists be supernaturalists?0
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
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
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
‘There can be only one’: A response to Joseph C. Schmid0
Analytic theology and the academic study of religion: an overview0
Wisdom and methodological diversity in philosophy of religion0
Jerry L. Martin (ed.), Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative (London and New York: Routledge, 2020). Pp. xiii + 268. $160 (Hbk) ISBN 9780367028718.0
RES volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought0
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
Muslim philosophers on the privation theory of evil0
Our lives go better in a world created by God0
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
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
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
On the virtues of neutrality0
Is the cosmological argument intuitive?0
In defence of God making stuff up: a reply to Ward0
RES volume 61 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
In defence of qua-Christology0
The hard problem of ‘pure’ consciousness: Sāṃkhya dualist ontology0
Pretending to be a believer: on understanding religious fictionalism as a role-playing game0
Joseph Rivera and Joseph S. O’Leary (eds) Theological Fringes of Phenomenology (London: Routledge, 2024). Pp. xii + 248. £108.00 (Hbk.) ISBN: 97810324721190
Can pantheism explain the existence of the universe?0
Do religious fictionalists face a problem of evil?0
Probing the mind of God: divine beliefs and credences0
RES volume 58 issue S1 Cover and Front matter0
RES volume 59 issue S1 Cover and Back matter0
Is God a person? Maimonides, Crescas, and beyond0
Being a ‘not-quite-Buddhist theist’0
The deal at the dawn of time0
The mythic narratives of Candomblé Nagô and what they imply about its Supreme Being0
The existence and nature of God: contributions from Latin America0
RES volume 61 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Reversing Pascal: scepticism about religious belief and its value0
In defence of Rebel Angel Theodicy0
Absolute identity and the Trinity0
RES volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
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
Knowing what you want–why disembodied repentance is impossible0
The unreality of traditional Islamic theism's views on belief, providence, and eschatology: a rejoinder to Tabur0
Engaging Jeffrey Koperski’s decretalism: is occasionalism really avoidable?0
Why might God create?0
Panentheism as cosmopolitanism: Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's conception of a global human league0
‘Hell? Yes!’ Moorean reasons to reject three objections to the possibility of damnation0
Would integration with religious studies improve analytic theology?0
Divine authority as divine parenthood0
In defence of partial faith0
The curious case of the marginalized mystics0
Why God allows undeserved horrendous evil0
Truth without truths: Grim's Cantorian paradox and the ontology of the objects of omniscience0
Glutty and simple?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
A defence of merit transfer: Aquinas's interpretation and desert theory0
Francis Fallon and Gavin Hyman (eds.). Agnosticism: Explorations in Philosophy and Religious Thought (Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press 2020). Pp. x + 218. £78.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 978019880
Why there is no obligation to love God0
Evil and suffering in the world0
Analytic theology and science-engaged theology0
Samuel Lebens, The Principles of Judaism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Pp. xviii + 352. £75.00/$100.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198843252.0
A Buddhist's guide to self-destruction: Jñānaśrīmitra on the structure of yogic perception0
RES volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
RES volume 60 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
On defining ‘fundamentalism’0
Minding Creation: response to critics0
Death and meaning(lessness): re-examining the African view0
Saṅghabhadra's arguments for the existence of an intermediate state (antarābhava) between biological death and rebirth as translated by Xuanzang (602?–664 ce)0
Engaging philosophically with Afro-Brazilian religions0
A Christian ethics of blame: or, God says, ‘vengeance is mine’0
Why the Jesus as mother tradition undermines the symbolic argument against women's ordination0
Shades of faith: the phenomenon of doubt in early Christianity0
Counting hiddenness: cognitive science and the distribution of belief in God0
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By what measure? A signpost theory of the truth of doctrine0
Human rights and divine holiness0
Trinity, simplicity, and contradictory theology: a theologian's reflections0
An argument for the perspectival account of faith0
Does analytic theology belong in the public university?0
Lucifer’s disordered love and the first-person perspective: an Augustinian account of primal sin0
Abraham, Isaac, and the toxin: a Kavkan reading of the binding of Isaac0
Experimenting with philosophy of religion: Lessons from two decades of experimental philosophy0
When to give weight to weighty religious disagreement0
How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer0
Should panpsychists be Christians?0
Two ‘logic’ problems for religious expressivists0
Gorazd Andrejč and Daniel H. Weiss (eds) Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein (Leiden: Brill, 2019). Pp. xiv + 243. £100.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9789004397927.0
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
The alchemy of suffering in the laboratory of the world: Vedāntic Hindu engagements with the affliction of animals0
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Fluctuating maximal God, the problem of inconsistent evil, and spacetime changes0
Joshua Sijuwade. Analytic Theism: A Philosophical Investigation (New York: Routledge Press, 2024). Pp. 1–647. £135.00 (Hbk ISBN 978-1-032-26359-20
Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices (New York: New York University Press). Pp. 255. £23.00. ISBN 1479804347.0
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Religion, hypocrisy, and betting on secularity: reversing Smilansky's wager0
Wittgensteinian blasphemy: what it's like to be a heretic0
Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive0
Reasonable faith and reasonable fideism0
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
RES volume 61 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Anselm on THAT, THIS, and panpsychism0
Mulder’s hail Mary0
Elizabeth Pérez, The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 84. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781009031530.0
Life after life: Mullā Ṣadrā on death and immortality0
Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution0
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