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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Opposites and Unity: A Study of Chinese Taoist Thought Found in Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game	1
God Bothering Beckett	1
The Place, and Problems, of Truth	1
‘The Name of God Has Priority’: ‘God’ and The Apophatic Element in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire	1
Stephen Mitchell’s Version of the Tao Te Ching: A Spiritual Interpretation	1
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. By Zakiyyah Iman Jackson	1
Politics of Haya: Embodied Materiality of Piety as Everyday Resistance among British Muslim Women in Ayisha Malik's Fiction	1
Early Modern Economic Theology and Oikonomia in The Merchant of Venice	1
On White Theology … and other Lies: Redemptive Communal Narrative in Toni Morrison’s Beloved	1
Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts. By George Corbett	0
Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World, Edited by Andrew W. Hass	0
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology, By Taylor Driggers	0
Rethreading the Fabric of Mystery: Thinking Myth, Counter-Myth, and Christian Theology With Hortense Spillers	0
Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord, Edited by Ronald R. Bernier, Rachel Hostetter Smith	0
The modern spiritual affect of perplexed affirmation, or, the David Hume of R. S. Thomas	0
The Logic of Secular Sense in Cendrars’ Epic Trilogy	0
The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics, By Ruth Vanita	0
Questions We Share	0
Old Forgotten Flowers: George Macdonald as Mystic	0
Correction to: The Inconspicuous God: Heidegger, French Phenomenology, & the Theological Turn, by Jason W. Alvis	0
Reading the Materiality of Caste	0
Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction, By Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan	0
An Interview with Mayra Rivera: Postcolonial Women’s Writing and Material Religion	0
The Zen of Ecopoetics: Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry, By Enaiê Mairê Azambuja	0
Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith. By David Newheiser	0

Make-Belief Translation: Fictive Truths and World-Building from The Lord of the Rings to Theological Institutions	0
Hunger, Poetry and the Oxford Movement: The Tractarian Social Vision. By Lesa Scholl	0
THE SOLACE OF PILGRIMS: MOVEMENT, REST, AND SLEEP IN THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS	0
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships, By Barbara Newman	0
‘Zion, Memory and Hope of All Ages’: Nina Davis Salaman’s Romantic-Zionist Poetry	0
Coleridge and Newman: Four Aspects	0
Cain Furens: Imitations Of Virgil and Ovid in Canto Six of Lucy Hutchinson’s Order And Disorder	0
Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation, By Kevin Hart	0
Spinoza’s Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics, By Clare Carlisle	0
Blakean anti-wisdom in Thomas Merton’s proverbs	0
Predestination in Dante’s Commedia in Light of Augustine	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
Lived Experiences and Social Transformations: Poetics, Politics and Power Relations in Practical Theology, By C.L. Wren Radford	0
Literature and Religion: A Dialogue between China and the West, By David Jasper and Ou Guang-an	0
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas. By Robert Zaretsky	0
‘Time Is Not All Powerful’: The Johannine Eschatological Vision in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Laurus	0
LEONTES’ ORIGINAL SIN: GENESIS 3 AND THE WINTER’S TALE	0
‘A Light in Sound, A Sound-Like Power in Light’: Coleridge’s Phenomenal Invisible	0
The Charge of God: Laudato Si’ read through Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins	0
Marilynne Robinson’s Worldly Gospel. A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision, By Ryan S. Kemp, Jordan Rodgers	0
Good Deaths in Wendell Berry’s Short Stories	0
Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment: Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. By Jonathan C.P Birch	0
Dao Jing Ying Yi Shi (The History of the English Translation of the Daoist Scriptures), By Senlin Yu	0
Celestial Nonsense: George Macdonald’s Apophatic Play	0
‘Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty’: A Novel Account of Beauty, Bildung, and Truth in Hegel and Thomas Mann	0
The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature, By Deni Kasa	0
A Comparative Study of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche’s Tragic Vision and Aestheticism	0
The I Ching and World Literature: Introduction to the Special Forum	0
Bridging the Divide: The Crucifixion in Endo’s The Samurai	0
Religion, secularism, and postsecularism in Chinese internet literature	0
Fears and joys of writing in the fiction of Roberto Bolaño	0
‘Blundering Brutuses’: Michael Field, Nonconformism, and The Politics of Social Purity	0
‘A Word of Song’: Reverberations of the Psalms in Christina Rossetti’s Roundels	0
The Ghosts of Lilith: haunting narratives of witness and the postcolonial poetry of Shivanee Ramlochan	0
The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction., By Erin McGlothlin	0
After eco-theocide: the shift from ecological conservation to eco-theological conversation in Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain	0
Belief and Doubt in the Landscape and Holocaust Poems of David Fram (1903–88)	0
POSSESSION AND CONSUMPTION: CLARICE LISPECTOR AND THE ETHICS OF MYSTICISM	0
postcolonial Racialisation of Gender and Religious Experience within the Settler Colonial Context: Ahed Tamimi’s Experience of a Racialised Practice	0
Science and Religion in Western Literature: Critical and Theological Studies, Edited by Michael Fuller	0
The Autism of Gxd: An Atheological Love Story. By Ruth Dunster	0
Introduction to Special Issue on Postcolonial Women's Writing and Material Religion: New Directions	0
Sister Death. Political Theologies for Living and Dying, By Beatrice Marovich	0
Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature, By Louis Groarke	0
Iris Murdoch and the Others: A Writer in Dialogue with Theology, By Paul S. Fiddes	0
The ‘Strange Fruit’ of Flannery O’connor: Damning Monuments in Southern Literature and Southern History	0
Introduction: The Place of Truth	0
‘Her body is Divided From Her Head’: Beheading and Biblical Intertextuality in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam	0
Correction to: Feminist Storytelling and the Problem of White Feminism	0

Intersections of Forgiveness And ‘Queer Use’ In T.S. Eliot’s ‘Marina’	0
Religious Experience, Storytelling, and Ethical Action in Muhammad Iqbal’s Javid Nama and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan	0
Music as incarnated beauty in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion: a neoplatonic reading	0
Toward A Second Theology: Avant-Garde Art and Theopolitics	0
The Politics of Ritual, By Molly Farneth	0
Coleridge’s Contemplative Philosophy. By Peter Cheyne	0
The ethico-religiousness of Atwood’s “God’s Gardeners” vis-à-vis Kierkegaard’s thought	0
Religion, Reading, and Metacognition in the Victorian Literature Classroom	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
Senghor’s Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology, By David Tonghou Ngong	0
Wordsworth and the World: Teaching Postsecular Romanticism in the Humanities	0
The Living Spring: A Comparison of Jacob’s Well and the Well Hexagram	0
Secularism and Hermeneutics. By Yael Almog	0
Marilynne Robinson and Theology. Edited by Håkan Möller and Ola Sigurdson	0
Materiality, Postcoloniality, and the Phenomenology of Mental Health	0
‘Who Knows What We’d Make of It, if We Ever Got Our Hands on It?’: The Bible and Margaret Atwood. Edited by Rhiannon Graybill and Peter Sabo	0
Inverting the ‘Gracelorn’ Father: Augustinian Notions of Evil and Goodness in Cormac McCarthy’S Outer Dark and The Road	0
The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by Elizabeth Ludlow	0
Buddhist Reception in Pulp Science Fiction	0
The Everlasting People: G.K. Chesterton and the First Nations, By Matthew J. Milliner	0
Legal, Mythic, and Divine Violence: Post-secular Entanglements in Walter Benjamin’s ‘Toward the Critique of Violence’	0
Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas: A Chinese Classic, By Jiankun Sun, Siyu Chen	0
Judaism and Temporary Community: Moses Mendelssohn on imperfection and truth	0
Teaching Religion and Literature. Edited by Daniel Boscaljon and Alan Levinovitz	0
Modernism, Nominalism, and the Hidden God in Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, and David Jones	0
Teaching 19th-Century Literature Beyond the Secularisation Thesis: Introduction to the Special Forum	0
Unfinished forgiveness: dynamics of Igbo cosmology and Christian theology in Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities	0
Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel. By Martyn Sampson	0
Four Uses of Tao in the Chinese Translation of the Psalms and the New Testament: On John C.H. Wu’s Shengyong Yiyi Chugao and Xinjing Quanji	0
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe By Richard Holloway	0
Haunted by Christ: Modern Writers and the Struggle for Faith. By Richard Harries	0
The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, By Roger A. Sneed	0
Corrections	0
‘Free to act by your own lights’: Agency and Predestination in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead Novels	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
The Disappointing, Parenthetical Providence of God in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year	0
Taoism and Western Literature Introduction to Special Forum	0
Music as preternatural in Geoffrey Hill’s poetry	0
John Rechy’s Sodomites	0
Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living, By Menachem Fisch and Debra Band	0
‘Warma Kuyay (Amor de Niño)’ By Josê María Arguedas: A Dialectic Prelude to Liberation Ecotheology	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
Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds. By Jayna Brown	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
The Works of Lucy Hutchinson Volume II Theological Writings and Translations	0
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’)	0
Unparalleled Poetry: A Cognitive Approach to the Free-Rhythm Verse of the Hebrew Bible, By Emmylou Grosser	0
Making Strange: Teaching 19th-Century Gothic and Fantastic Literature	0
Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography, By Holly Ordway	0
Religions in Shakespeare’s Writings, Edited by David V. Urban	0
Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Excitement and the Muslim Sacred, By Masood Ashraf Raja	0
South Asian Ways of Seeing. Contemporary Visual Cultures, Edited by Samarth Singhal and Amrita Ajay	0
Little Dorrit and the Structure of Belief	0
Biblical Themes in Science Fiction Edited by Nicole L. Tilford and Kelly J. Murphy	0
Dropping the Albatross: Teaching Religion and Literature in a Postsecular Age	0
The Yijing as Inspiration in Raymond Queneau’s Morale Élémentaire III (1975): An Intermingling of the Particular and the Universal	0
Oscar Wilde’s Reading of Zhuangzi in ‘A Chinese Sage’	0
Correction to: Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel. By Martyn Sampson	0
Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack	0
Breaking Down Boundaries and ‘Making it New’: Oriental Elements in Western Modernism. By Zhaoming Qian	0
Lyric Theology: Art and the Doctrine of Creation. By Thomas Gardner	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
Wild Mind, Wild Earth:Our Place In the Sixth Extinction. By David Hinton	0
Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space. By Stephen Prickett	0
‘In the End, There Was No End’: Colonial Modernism and Moral Perfectionism in Patrick White’s The Tree of Man	0
Feminist Storytelling and the Problem of White Feminism	0
Phenomenal Knowledge and Martyrdom: Endō’s Silence	0
A Sigh After Sleep: Poiesis and the Sacramentality of Nature in Annette von Droste-Hüshoff’s Late Lyric	0
Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China. By John T. P. Lai	0
Superman as the Measure of All Things: Black Gods and White Saviours in Watchmen and Doomsday Clock	0
Heresy and Borders in the Twentieth Century, By Karina Jakubowicz and Robert Dickins	0