OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Literature and Theology 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward A Second Theology: Avant-Garde Art and Theopolitics	1
Cain Furens: Imitations Of Virgil and Ovid in Canto Six of Lucy Hutchinson’s Order And Disorder	1
Intersections of Forgiveness And ‘Queer Use’ In T.S. Eliot’s ‘Marina’	1
The Yijing Principles in the Japanese Creation Myth: A Study of the Jindai-No-Maki (‘Chapters on the Age of the Gods’) in the Nihon Shoki (‘The Chronicles Of Japan’)	1
Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Excitement and the Muslim Sacred, By Masood Ashraf Raja	1
Good Deaths in Wendell Berry’s Short Stories	0
Wild Mind, Wild Earth:Our Place In the Sixth Extinction. By David Hinton	0
Religion, secularism, and postsecularism in global south literatures: introduction to the special forum	0
The Works of Lucy Hutchinson Volume II Theological Writings and Translations	0
‘Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty’: A Novel Account of Beauty, Bildung, and Truth in Hegel and Thomas Mann	0
Correction to an affiliation in two papers	0
Unparalleled Poetry: A Cognitive Approach to the Free-Rhythm Verse of the Hebrew Bible, By Emmylou Grosser	0
Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature, By Louis Groarke	0
Bridging the Divide: The Crucifixion in Endo’s The Samurai	0
Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment: Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. By Jonathan C.P Birch	0
South Asian Ways of Seeing. Contemporary Visual Cultures, Edited by Samarth Singhal and Amrita Ajay	0
Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel. By Martyn Sampson	0
A “rhapsody of the sense of wonder”: G. K. Chesterton’s defense of mysticism in his reading of the Book of Job	0
Dropping the Albatross: Teaching Religion and Literature in a Postsecular Age	0
Phenomenal Knowledge and Martyrdom: Endō’s Silence	0
Teaching Religion and Literature. Edited by Daniel Boscaljon and Alan Levinovitz	0
‘Time Is Not All Powerful’: The Johannine Eschatological Vision in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Laurus	0
Corrections	0
Unfinished forgiveness: dynamics of Igbo cosmology and Christian theology in Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities	0
Materiality, Postcoloniality, and the Phenomenology of Mental Health	0

Breaking Down Boundaries and ‘Making it New’: Oriental Elements in Western Modernism. By Zhaoming Qian	0
Inverting the ‘Gracelorn’ Father: Augustinian Notions of Evil and Goodness in Cormac McCarthy’S Outer Dark and The Road	0
Following the signs: reading the Qur’anic epigraphs as postsecular in Sofiane Hadjadj’s So Perfect a Garden and Yamen Manai’s The Ardent Swarm	0
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe By Richard Holloway	0
Religious Experience, Storytelling, and Ethical Action in Muhammad Iqbal’s Javid Nama and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan	0
Dao Jing Ying Yi Shi (The History of the English Translation of the Daoist Scriptures), By Senlin Yu	0
Legal, Mythic, and Divine Violence: Post-secular Entanglements in Walter Benjamin’s ‘Toward the Critique of Violence’	0
Early Modern Economic Theology and Oikonomia in The Merchant of Venice	0
The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics, By Ruth Vanita	0
Spinoza’s Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics, By Clare Carlisle	0
Modernism, Nominalism, and the Hidden God in Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, and David Jones	0
THE SOLACE OF PILGRIMS: MOVEMENT, REST, AND SLEEP IN THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS	0
Precarious joy: Meena Alexander, postsecularism, and bhakti poetry	0
The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, By Roger A. Sneed	0
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality By David Edmonds	0
The Zen of Ecopoetics: Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry, By Enaiê Mairê Azambuja	0
John Rechy’s Sodomites	0
Marilynne Robinson’s Worldly Gospel. A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision, By Ryan S. Kemp and Jordan Rodgers	0
Questions We Share	0
Teaching 19th-Century Literature Beyond the Secularisation Thesis: Introduction to the Special Forum	0
Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds. By Jayna Brown	0
Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratizing Human Futures, By Shazia Sadaf and Aroosa Kanwal	0
Fears and joys of writing in the fiction of Roberto Bolaño	0
Correction to: Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel. By Martyn Sampson	0
Literature and Religion: A Dialogue between China and the West, By David Jasper and Ou Guang-an	0
Introduction: The Place of Truth	0
Hunger, Poetry and the Oxford Movement: The Tractarian Social Vision. By Lesa Scholl	0
Decay, Death, and the Return of Light: The I Ching Yin-Yang Cycle in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle	0
The Place, and Problems, of Truth	0
‘Zion, Memory and Hope of All Ages’: Nina Davis Salaman’s Romantic-Zionist Poetry	0
Unsayable word: gurbāni, Punjabi poetry, and the postsecular impulse	0
Music as preternatural in Geoffrey Hill’s poetry	0
Rethreading the Fabric of Mystery: Thinking Myth, Counter-Myth, and Christian Theology With Hortense Spillers	0
Coleridge and Newman: Four Aspects	0
Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas: A Chinese Classic, By Jiankun Sun, Siyu Chen	0
The hard, bloodless surface of a mirror: Patricia Highsmith’s Kierkegaardian anatomy of anxiety	0
Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation, By Kevin Hart	0
The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction., By Erin McGlothlin	0
The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by Elizabeth Ludlow	0
Buddhist Reception in Pulp Science Fiction	0
The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future, By Kathe Hicks Albrecht	0
Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture., By Sophia Rose Arjana	0
The modern spiritual affect of perplexed affirmation, or, the David Hume of R. S. Thomas	0
Wordsworth and the World: Teaching Postsecular Romanticism in the Humanities	0
The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature, By Deni Kasa	0
The Yijing as Inspiration in Raymond Queneau’s Morale Élémentaire III (1975): An Intermingling of the Particular and the Universal	0
Secularism and Hermeneutics. By Yael Almog	0
Correction to: The Inconspicuous God: Heidegger, French Phenomenology, & the Theological Turn, by Jason W. Alvis	0
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology, By Taylor Driggers	0
Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography, By Holly Ordway	0

The Charge of God: Laudato Si’ read through Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins	0
‘In the End, There Was No End’: Colonial Modernism and Moral Perfectionism in Patrick White’s The Tree of Man	0
Biblical Themes in Science Fiction Edited by Nicole L. Tilford and Kelly J. Murphy	0
Petrified tears: Joy Harjo’s “Exile of Memory” and the story of Lot’s Wife	0
The Everlasting People: G.K. Chesterton and the First Nations, By Matthew J. Milliner	0
Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China. By John T. P. Lai	0
Iris Murdoch and the Others: A Writer in Dialogue with Theology, By Paul S. Fiddes	0
The Logic of Secular Sense in Cendrars’ Epic Trilogy	0
Making Strange: Teaching 19th-Century Gothic and Fantastic Literature	0
Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts. By George Corbett	0
Correction to: Feminist Storytelling and the Problem of White Feminism	0
‘Free to act by your own lights’: Agency and Predestination in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead Novels	0
POSSESSION AND CONSUMPTION: CLARICE LISPECTOR AND THE ETHICS OF MYSTICISM	0
Old Forgotten Flowers: George Macdonald as Mystic	0
Religion, Reading, and Metacognition in the Victorian Literature Classroom	0
Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith. By David Newheiser	0
Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction, By Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan	0
postcolonial Racialisation of Gender and Religious Experience within the Settler Colonial Context: Ahed Tamimi’s Experience of a Racialised Practice	0
Lived Experiences and Social Transformations: Poetics, Politics and Power Relations in Practical Theology, By C.L. Wren Radford	0
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships, By Barbara Newman	0
Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living, By Menachem Fisch and Debra Band	0
An Interview with Mayra Rivera: Postcolonial Women’s Writing and Material Religion	0
LEONTES’ ORIGINAL SIN: GENESIS 3 AND THE WINTER’S TALE	0
The Cyclops Myth and the Making of Selfhood, By Paul Robertson	0
‘The Name of God Has Priority’: ‘God’ and The Apophatic Element in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire	0
‘Her body is Divided From Her Head’: Beheading and Biblical Intertextuality in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam	0
Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World, Edited by Andrew W. Hass	0
Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack	0
Sister Death. Political Theologies for Living and Dying, By Beatrice Marovich	0
Salman Rushdie and postsecularism: The Satanic Verses and the postcolonial Bildungsroman	0
Heresy and Borders in the Twentieth Century, By Karina Jakubowicz and Robert Dickins	0
A Sigh After Sleep: Poiesis and the Sacramentality of Nature in Annette von Droste-Hüshoff’s Late Lyric	0
Music as incarnated beauty in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion: a neoplatonic reading	0
Superman as the Measure of All Things: Black Gods and White Saviours in Watchmen and Doomsday Clock	0
‘A Light in Sound, A Sound-Like Power in Light’: Coleridge’s Phenomenal Invisible	0
The Politics of Ritual, By Molly Farneth	0
Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord, Edited by Ronald R. Bernier, Rachel Hostetter Smith	0
Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy’s Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment, By D. Marcel DeCoste	0
Blakean anti-wisdom in Thomas Merton’s proverbs	0
On White Theology … and other Lies: Redemptive Communal Narrative in Toni Morrison’s Beloved	0
What If God is a ‘Pagan Amalgam’: Marilynne Robinson and Historical Bible Scholarship	0
Connectivity, Grounding, and Amplification: The Base-Line in Changing and its Functions	0
After eco-theocide: the shift from ecological conservation to eco-theological conversation in Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain	0
Wollstonecraft and Religion, By Brenda Ayers	0
Judaism and Temporary Community: Moses Mendelssohn on imperfection and truth	0
The Living Spring: A Comparison of Jacob’s Well and the Well Hexagram	0
Lyric Theology: Art and the Doctrine of Creation. By Thomas Gardner	0
The Autism of Gxd: An Atheological Love Story. By Ruth Dunster	0
‘A Word of Song’: Reverberations of the Psalms in Christina Rossetti’s Roundels	0
The ethico-religiousness of Atwood’s “God’s Gardeners” vis-à-vis Kierkegaard’s thought	0
Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space. By Stephen Prickett	0
Celestial Nonsense: George Macdonald’s Apophatic Play	0
The postsecular imaginaries of Orhan Pamuk’s novels	0
“Dispossession”: the movement of hermeneutics and prayer in Paul Ricoeur and Rowan Williams	0
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas. By Robert Zaretsky	0
The I Ching and World Literature: Introduction to the Special Forum	0
The Philosophy of Change and the Metaphor of Body: From the I Ching (The Classic of Changes) to Wenxin Diaolong (Carving the Dragon With A Literary Heart)	0
Belief and Doubt in the Landscape and Holocaust Poems of David Fram (1903–88)	0
Little Dorrit and the Structure of Belief	0
Politics of Haya: Embodied Materiality of Piety as Everyday Resistance among British Muslim Women in Ayisha Malik's Fiction	0
Religions in Shakespeare’s Writings, Edited by David V. Urban	0
Introduction to Special Issue on Postcolonial Women's Writing and Material Religion: New Directions	0
Creation and Beauty in Tolkien’s Catholic Vision: A Study in the Influence of Neoplatonism in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Philosophy of Life as “Being and Gift”. By Michael John Halsall	0
Science and Religion in Western Literature: Critical and Theological Studies, Edited by Michael Fuller	0
‘Blundering Brutuses’: Michael Field, Nonconformism, and The Politics of Social Purity	0
The ‘Strange Fruit’ of Flannery O’connor: Damning Monuments in Southern Literature and Southern History	0
The Ghosts of Lilith: haunting narratives of witness and the postcolonial poetry of Shivanee Ramlochan	0
The Disappointing, Parenthetical Providence of God in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year	0
Senghor’s Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology, By David Tonghou Ngong	0
Reading the Materiality of Caste	0
Make-Belief Translation: Fictive Truths and World-Building from The Lord of the Rings to Theological Institutions	0
‘Warma Kuyay (Amor de Niño)’ By Josê María Arguedas: A Dialectic Prelude to Liberation Ecotheology	0
Marilynne Robinson and Theology. Edited by Håkan Möller and Ola Sigurdson	0
Religion, secularism, and postsecularism in Chinese internet literature	0
Sultana’s Sisters: Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women’s Fiction, Edited by Haris Qadeer and P.K. Yasser Arafath	0