OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Faith & International Affairs is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Religious Freedom and Religious Equality: Research, Praxis, and Future Trajectories	10
Curating Buddhism, Fostering Diplomacy: The “Secrets of the Fallen Pagoda” Exhibition in Singapore	10
Freedom of Religion or Belief and Freedom of Expression	10
Why the Secular Academy Needs Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy	9
Drafting on the Basis of Dignity: John Peters Humphrey’s Contribution to the UDHR	9
Ideology, Clericalism, and Socialization: Some Reflections on the Sociology of the Afghan Taliban	8
Church-State Cooperation and its Impact on Freedom of Religion or Belief and on Gender Issues in Russia	8
The Hindu Right and India's Religious Diplomacy	7
In the Province of Faith: Disaggregating Pakistani Religious Parties’ Electoral Performance at the Sub-national and Denominational Levels	6
Indonesia’s Fragmented Responses to International Pressure During the 2016–2017 Blasphemy Case	6
Robot sAInts: Questioning the Evolving Boundaries Of AI-Generated Religious Images	5
Religious Diversity and Religious Governance in South Korea: From Nominal to Covenantal Pluralism	4
Salafizing Hanafiyya? Madrasa Teachers in Afghanistan, State Actors, and Salafis	4
Prospects for Covenantal Pluralism in Bulgaria	4
Religious Freedom in the Age of AI and Surveillance: Mapping the Field and Charting Future Research Directions	3
Contending Discourses on Human Rights and Dignity in the Post-World War II Era	3
The South African Charter of Religious Rights and Freedoms	3
The USAID Strategic Religious Engagement Summit: What Was Not Said	3
Freedom of Religion or Belief amid Great Power Rivalry: Geopolitics and the Future of FoRB Scholarship and Strategy	3
Intrinsic and Strategic Leverage of Religion in Development	3
Faith Leaders and Child Well-Being in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study	3
In Search of a Welcoming Environment for Religions in the “New Kazakhstan”	3
Theology and World Politics: Metaphysics, Genealogies, Political Theologies	3
Rethinking Religion and Politics in a Plural World: The Bahá’í International Community and the United Nations	3
Women Driving in Saudi Arabia: Female Perceptions Five Years after Lifting of the Ban	2

Success in Battle—Failure in War	2
The Religious Landscape of Malawi and Prospects for Covenantal Pluralism	2
From Likelihood of Success to Likely Consequences	2
Humanitarian Success Post Bellum	2
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Human Dignity, and Technology: Reflections on Benefits and Risks of AI	2
Justice After War: Jus Post Bellum in the 21st Century	2
The Loveliness Men Hide: Eleanor Roosevelt on Human Dignity	2
Counter-terrorism, Discrimination, and Freedom of Thought, Conscience, Religion, or Belief	2
A Bridge Over Troubled Water: How Worldview Helps Overcome the Religious-Secular Divide in Development Cooperation and Beyond	2
Rethinking Religious Freedom in a Fragmented and Digitalized World: An Introduction to the Special Issue	2
Introduction: Faith and the Founding Figures of Human Dignity	2
Measuring What Matters: Evolving Metrics of Religious Freedom	2
Constitutional Autonomy Meets Data Protection: European Religious Institutions’ Responses to the GDPR	2
Diplomatic Leadership Development after the “Weaponization of Everything”: Approaching Religion or Belief as a Professional Competence	2
The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana	2
Comprehensive Security and LGBTQ Rights	2
Religion and the Prevention of Election Violence: Lessons from Kenya	2
Clerics Should be Champions of Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy: And Yet …	2
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Soviet Political Religion, and Soviet Law	2
Religious Inequalities and Human Rights: Implications for International Development	2
Beauty for Ashes: Understanding the Israel-Hamas War. Volume One	1
Religious Racism and African Diaspora Religious Freedom: A Review of Recent Literature	1
P.C. Chang, Multicultural Confucian Philosopher and Human Rights Champion	1
Lives on Hyphens: Contributions of Hernán Santa Cruz from Chile and Guy Pérez Cisneros from Cuba to the UDHR	1
Theorizing Catholicism in International Relations: An English School Framework	1
Know Your Enemy: Understanding the Worldview and Motives of Osama Bin Laden and the Jihadist Movement He Inspired	1
Piecing the Puzzle—Women and Freedom of Religion or Belief	1
What Should We Hope For? In Search of Reasonable Definitions of Success	1
Albania’s “Religious Harmony” Diplomacy	1
The European Union's Human-Centric Approach to AI: Towards a Global Ethical Standard	1
Letter to the Editor	1
Revisiting Religious Freedom as a National Security Lens: The Case of China	1
Covenantal Pluralism in “Homogenous” Japan: Finding a Space for Religious Pluralism	1
Introduction: Religion and Comprehensive Security	1
AI and Human Dignity Within Health Care: A Christian Bioethical Assessment	1
An Experiential & Informal Pedagogy for Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy: Lessons from South Africa for a Troubled Muslim World	1
The Causal Impact of the Taliban’s Insurgency and Return to Power on Economic Well-being in Afghanistan	1
Being and Becoming: The Human Person and Human Dignity in Charles Malik’s Contribution to the UDHR	1
Measuring Subnational Variation in Freedom of Religion or Belief Violations: Reflections on a Path Forward	1
A Catholic Approach to Dialogue as a Tool of Diplomacy	1
Artificial Intelligence and Human Dignity: An Introduction to the Special Issue	1
Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China’s Christian Universities	1
Ukrainian Churches and the Implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Ukraine: Being Europe Without Accepting “Gender”	1
Covenantal Pluralism in Eastern Europe? A Bleak Outlook from Serbia	1
Problems and Prospects of Developing Covenantal Pluralism in Zambia, a “Christian Nation”	1
Freedom of Religion or Belief is Security: The 2019 OSCE Policy Guidance on FoRB and Security	1
The Global Politics of Jesus: A Christian Case for Church-State SeparationNilay Saiya, The Global Politics of Jesus: A Christian Case for Church-State Separation (New Yo	1
Pluralistic Islamic Religious Education: A Vision for Indonesia	1