Religions

Article	Citations
From the Imagination to the Reality: Historical Aspects of Rewriting Six Dynasties Buddhist Avadāna Stories	61
Ernesto Cardenal: A Latin American Liberation Mystic	49
Authority over Death: Two Tales Related to the Lord of Mount Tai in Konjaku Monogatarishū	34
Three Early Russian Documents about the Daodejing: An Analysis	28
Desiring the Sweet Perfume of Closeness in the Oscillating Tawajjuh of the Letter Rāʾ	26
Rediscovering the Textual Sources of the “De Dashizhi Pusa 得大勢志菩薩” in Cave 169 of Bingling Temple	24
Phenomenology of Language as Praeambula Fidei: A Study Based on Edith Stein	22
The Use and Misuse of Zakāh Funds by Religious Institutions in North America	21
Freedom, Intentionality, and Trinitarian Love in Edith Stein’s Thought—The Need for a Phenomenology–Theology Dialogue to Have a Deeper Understanding of It	20
Narrative Integration: An In-Depth Exploration of the “Buddha Story Stele” in the Maiji Mountain Grottoes	19
Wise Preaching: Furthering the Wisdom Homiletics Conversation in Both Model and Method	18
Hybrid Social Spaces and the Individualisation of Religious Experience in the Global North: Spatial Aspects of Religiosity in Postmodern Society	18
Hmong Spirituality, Nature, and Place	17
From Circle to Cycloid: The Philosophical Value of Religious Cult in Maurice Blondel’s L’Action	17
Mary of Bethany: Creation through Conversation	17
Institutions and Countercultures: Christianity’s Impact on South Korean Modernization	16
Good News for the Oppressed? Exploring the Spiritual, Political, and Intercultural Dimensions of Howard Thurman’s Philosophy	16
The Meeting: Ideas for an Architecture of Interreligious Civic Collaboration	16
Stability of the Roman Catholic Church Financing System Based on Germany	16
Finding the Context of “Han”, the Core Sentiment of Salpurichum	15
Jacob Gordin: The Religious Crisis in Jewish Thought	15
Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of Water Deities Beliefs in the Pearl River Delta Applying Historical GIS	14
The Religious and Technological History of the Tang Dynasty Spherical Incense Burner	14
Fully Ordained Nuns in Fourteenth-to-Seventeenth Tibetan Hagiographical Narratives	14
The Distinctive Mindfulness of Dzogchen: Jigme Lingpa’s Advice on Meta-Awareness and Nondual Meditation	14

The Sacrificial Ritual and Commissioners to the South Sea God in Tang China	14
Leopold Cohn and the Evolution of Messianic Judaism into the Leading Missionary Movement among American Jews	14
Interculturalizing Religious Education—Mission Completed?	14
Alternate Narratives for the Tamil Yoginis: Reconsidering the ‘Kanchi Yoginis’ Past, Present, and Future	14
“O Piteous Spectacle! O Bloody Times!”: The Faithlessness of English Identity in 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI	13
‘Not-All-There’ in the Necropolis: Afterlife and Madness in Urban Novels	13
Tiantai’s Reception and Critique of the Laozi and Zhuangzi	13
The Changes of Chinese Oroqen Shaman Culture in the Context of Social Transformation	13
Transforming Inner Alchemical Vision into Painting: Huang Gongwang’s Clearing after Sudden Snow	13
Characterizing ‘New Korean Confucianism’: Focusing on Pak Chonghong and Yi Sang-ŭn’s Life and Thought	12
‘Let Us Just Be Humans’: Reading Allard Pierson’s True Humanity through the Lens of Caputo’s Religion without Religion	12
Do Mixed Religions Make Families More Generous? An Empirical Analysis Based on a Large-Scale Survey of Chinese Families	12
Harmony or Discordance between Sacramental and Liturgical Theology?	12
Criteria for the Acceptability of Scientific Theories as Locus theologicus: A Methodological Analysis of Catholic Church’s Reactions to the Cases of Galileo and Darwin (Bellarmine—Pius XII—John Paul I	12
An Understanding of Christians’ Roles in Human Migration through the Biblical Theme of Shamar: From Genesis to the Good Samaritan	12
How Can Islamic Primary Schools Contribute to Social Integration?	11
Is There a Place for Pantheism in (Post-)Christian Ecofeminist Reconstruction of the God/Goddess–World Relationship	11
Editorial: Ethical and Epistemological Aspects of ‘Dialogue’: Exploring the Potential of the Second-Person Perspective §	11
Oἱ Ἰουδαῖοι (The Jews) in John’s Gospel: An African Reading	11
Cloaked “Pagods”: Portuguese and “Heathen” Churches in Sixteenth-Century Malabar	11
Central Hunan Lutheran Church’s Progress toward Self-Reliance (1902–1951): A Study Based on the Archives of the Norwegian Missionary Society	11
Heterogeneity in Religious Commitment and Its Predictors	11
Religion, Belonging, and Active Citizenship: A Systematic Review of Literature on Muslim Youth in Australia	11
Porous Secularity: Religious Modernity and the Vertical Religious Diversity in Cold War South Korea	11
On the Origin of “Laozi Converting the Barbarians”: A Historical Background Analysis	11
Justice at the House of Yhw(h): An Early Yahwistic Defixio in Furem	11
Polytheism Tendency in the Trend of Integration of the Three Major Religions: Worship of Silkworm Deity Art of Medieval China	11
Social Welfare and Catholic Social Teaching: Foundational Theological Principles for Case Studies	10
Changes in the Role and Status of Women in the Nigerian Baptist Convention, 1914–2021	10
Thematic Cultural Exegesis on Selected Filipino Catholic Youth’s Perception of the Saints	10
“Sharing Worldviews: Learning in Encounter for Common Values in Diversity” in School and Teacher Education—Contexts in Germany and Europe	10
The God of the Covenant: Karl Barth on Creation Care	10
Online Temptations: Divorce and Extramarital Affairs in Kazakhstan	10
Students in Higher Education Explore the Practice of Gratitude as Spirituality and Its Impact on Well-Being	10
Desire for Purity and Inevitable Contamination: Derrida and Prayer	9
Screening Out Their Own: Muslim Gatekeepers of Jewish Spaces in Morocco	9
The Pope of the Rain: The Extraordinary Solitude in the Media	9
The Call and Response in the French Phenomenology of Religion	9
Confucianism as the Foundation for a “Secular State”: François Bernier’s Interpretation of the Confucian Classics	9
Religious Diversity of Corporate Board and Firm Value: Evidence from South Korea	9
Attitudes of Jewish and Muslim Religious Leaders Towards the Declaration of Principles as a Test Case for Judaism and Islam between Peace and Conflict	9
Intercultural and Interreligious Competences of Youth: A Case Study in a Secondary School in Barcelona	9
Pro-Violence Sermons of a Secular State: Turkey’s Diyanet on Islamist Militarism, Jihadism and Glorification of Martyrdom	9
Sanctuary Yoga	9
The Spirituality of Deconstruction in United States Theological Schools	9
Preferences and Consensus in the Philosophy of Xunzi	9
African Jewish Communities in the Diaspora and the Homeland: The Case of South Africa	9
The Tripods in Daoist Alchemy: Uncovering a Material Source of Immortality	9
A Neurocognitive Approach Reveals Paul’s Embodied Emotional Strategies	9
Using Social Media to Assess Expressions of Gratitude to God: Issues for Consideration	9

The Gender of God’s Gifts—Dividual Personhood, Spirits and the Statue of Mother Mary in a Sepik Society, Papua New Guinea	8
Colonial Counterfactuals, the American Separationist Mindset, and Open-Minded Discourse on the Establishment Clause	8
Bioethics, Suffering, and the Culture Wars	8
Kierkegaard at the Intersections: The Single Individual and Identity Politics	8
Grounding Intelligibility, Safeguarding Mystery: A Neoclassical Reading of Ernan McMullin’s Legacy	8
“Being So Caught up”: Exploring Religious Projection and Ethical Appeal in Leda and the Swan	8
Theology of Greek-Byzantine Church Fathers as a Specific Way of Philosophical Thinking in an Epistemological Context	8
The 1977 Chicago Call: Debating Evangelical Identity	8
The Trend to Discriminate Christians: Shifting from the ‘Post-Christian’ West to the Global South	8
Does Religious Community Participation Matter for Shaking off Poverty?	8
Material Heritage of the Sāgaramatiparipṛcchā: Manuscripts and Inscribed Tablets	8
The Maternité Anglaise: A Lasting Legacy of the Friends’ War Victims’ Relief Committee to the People of France during the First World War (1914–1918)	8
Politics and Religion in Montenegro—From “Theocracy” to a Civic State	8
Nationalism, Post-Secular and Sufism: The Making of Neo-Bektashism by Moikom Zeqo in Post-Socialist Albania	8
Explaining Religious Revival in the Context of Long-Term Secularization	8
Digital Animism: Towards a New Materialism	8
An Ante Litteram Critique of Orientalism: The Case of Abu’l-Faḍā’il-i-Gulpāyigānī and E.G. Browne	8
The Mandorla Symbol in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Iconography of the Dormition: Function and Meaning	8
The Transcendental Status of Beauty: Evaluating the Debate among Neo-Thomistic Philosophers	8
Confucian Order and Religious Doctrines: Rhetorical Characterizations of Illustrations in the Fiction “Quanxiang Pinghua” in the Yuan Dynasty	8
Ontology in Neolithic Britain and Ireland: Beyond Animism	8
Jerusalem as the Central Place for Paul and Acts	8
Yi Ik on Compassion and Grief	8
Forgiving Others: Pastoral Care of Forgiveness in Post-Secular Societies	8
God’s Moral Perfection as His Beneficent Love. Comment on Craig (2023). Is God’s Moral Perfection Reducible to His Love? Religions 14: 140	8
Master Nian念法師 as the “Westerner”: Re-Establishing Orthodoxy in Chinese Abhidharma	8
Realizing the “Outwardly Regal” Vision in the Midst of Political Inactivity: A Study of the Epistolary Networks of Li Gang 李綱 (1083–1140) and Sun Di 孫覿 (1081–1169)	8
Psychedelics, the Bible, and the Divine	8
Mapping Neo-Modern and Postmodern Qur’ānic Reformist Discourse in the Intellectual Legacy of Fazlur Rahman and Mohammed Arkoun	8
The Poor as Symptom: A Lacanian Reading of the Option for the Poor	8
“Building Community through Death”: Freed African Religiosity and Faith-Based Social Networks in Nineteenth-Century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil	8
The Problem of Pentecostal and Charismatic Hermeneutics: Prophetic Reenactment as a Way Forward	7
The Spiritual Prodigy, the Reluctant Guru, and the Saint: Mirabai and Collaborative Leadership at Hari Krishna Mandir	7
Aisthesis–Perception–Anaesthetics: Inspirations from Wolfgang Welsch’s Aesthetics for a Perception-Sensitive Theology	7
‘Loca Deserta’, ‘Silvae Condensae’ and ‘Abrupta Montium’: How Crusaders Viewed Nature in the Balkans	7
“Since I’ve Been Ill, I Live Better”: The Emergence of Latent Spirituality in the Biographical Pathways of Illness	7
Scepticism against Intolerance? Moses Mendelssohn and Pierre Bayle’s “Dialogue” on Spinoza in Mendelssohn’s Philosophische Gespräche (1755)	7
“Once upon a Time”—So What? The Importance of Place in Buddhist Narratives	7
The Effect of Folk Belief on Social Trust: The Mediating Role of Social Support and the Sense of Identity	7
Compulsory Heterosexuality in Indonesia: A Literary Exploration of the Work of Ayu Utami	7
Fire, Beards, and Bread: Exploring Christian East–West Relations à Propos of Edward Siecienski’s (Latest) Work	7
A Case for a Polyphonic Anthropology: Giving Voice to Experiences of Women of Color	7
Intercultural Theology Competence for an Intercultural Faith Education	7
Buddhist Civilisational Populism in Sri Lanka: Colonial Identity Formation, Post-War Othering, and Present Crises	7
The Hegemonic Character of Techno-Functional Neo-Immanentism and Its Relationship with Culture Wars	7
How to Worship in the Metaverse: Religious Experience and the Affordances of a New Medium	7
K.E. Løgstrup: Phenomenology of the Social World and Systematic Theology	7
The Medium Is the Definer: Daily Journalism as a Tool for Forming Community: A Case Study—The Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel	7
Religious Diversity Predicts Religions’ Population Growth in Tighter (vs. Looser) Cultures: A Study of Personality & Self-Reported Religion across 111 Countries	7
Animals in Saami Shamanism: Power Animals, Symbols of Art, and Offerings	7
Overcoming the Violence of “Virtuous” Womanhood: Liberating Women from the Proverbs 31 Paradigm	7
Towards a Pentecostal Homiletic: A Re-Enchanted Methodology	7
A Spiritual Theology of Integral Human Development: To “Grow in Holiness”	7
Cur Homo Deus? A Catholic Response to a Posthumanist Narrative	7
How Can Phenomenology Address Classic Objections to Liturgy?	7
Is God’s Moral Perfection Reducible to His Love?	7
The Tripartite Dimensions of “Ren 人” (Human Beings) in Pre-Qin Confucianism in Terms of “Li 礼” (Ritual)	7
Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue Competences in Adolescents in Barcelona and Melilla (Spain)	7
Encountering the Divine, Resisting Patriarchy: Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Prophetic Catholicism	7
From Daʿwah to Shahādah: A Move beyond Vatican II and the Common Word	7
Unsettling Man in Europe: Wynter and the Race–Religion Constellation	7
Love Speaking Understanding: Possible Steps toward Greater Church Unity Regarding Tongues through Biblical Theology	7
God or Self? The Re-Emergence of God in the Unconscious	7
Generations and Life Worlds: The Case of Braga in Portugal	7
Religious Diversity and Migration: Exploring Research Trends in an Increasingly Secular Spain	7
Zen Philosophy of Mindfulness: Nen 念 according to Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō	7
Biblical versus Greek Narratives for Suicide Prevention and Life Promotion: Releasing Hope from Pandora’s Urn	7
The Emergence of Islamist Official and Unofficial Laws in the Erdoganist Turkey: The Case of Child Marriages	6
Investigating Attitudes toward Those Who Leave Religion among Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Believers	6
Emerging Hindu Rashtra and Its Impact on Indian Muslims	6
Between the Boundaries of Asceticism and Activism: Understanding the Authority of the Sadhvis within the Hindu Right in India	6
Franny’s Jesus Prayer: J.D. Salinger and Orthodox Christian Spirituality	6
Precarious Hues: On Chromophobia, Chromophilia, and Transitions between Chromatic and Achromatic Colours in the Hebrew Bible	6
Does Darwall’s Morality of Accountability Require Moral Realism? (And Would It Be Strengthened by Adding God to the Story?)	6
Gogol’s “The Nose”: Between Linguistic Indecency and Religious Blasphemy	6
Neoliberalism, Postsecularism, and the End of Religion	6
Mysticism and Practical Rationality Exploring Evelyn Underhill through the Lens of Phronesis	6
The Biblical Image of the Providential Ruler in the Protestant Propaganda on the Eve of the French Wars of Religion	6
Apocalyptic Apologetics and the Witness of the Church	6
Racism as Delusion: A Buddhist Perspective	6

An Inquiry into the Nature of the Female Mystic and the Divine Feminine in Sufi Experience	6
Tolerance of Ambiguity: Negotiating Religion and Sustaining the Lingsar Festival and Its Performing Arts in Lombok, Indonesia	6
Renewing the Narrative of the Age to Come: The Kingdom of God in NT Wright and John Zizioulas	6
Radical Democracy’s Religion: Hobbes on Language, Domination, and Self-Creation	6
Interfaith Marriage in Islam: Classical Islamic Resources and Contemporary Debates on Muslim Women’s Interfaith Marriages	6
The Individual and the Collective: From the Confucian Perspective	6
Conscience: An Investigation in Stenian Philosophy in Relation to Bioethics	6
“Buddhism for Chinese Readers”: Zhi Qian’s Literary Refinements in the Foshuo pusa benye jing	6
Politics of the Blessed Lady: Catholic Art in the Contemporary Hungarian Culture Industry	6
Beyond the Phenomenology of the Inconspicuous	6
Egoism as a Problem for Robust Moral Realism	6
The State, Religion, and Violence in Colonial and Postcolonial Malawi	6
Self-Purification and Social Dramatization; from Simone Weil to Martin Luther King Jr.	6
The Role of Catholicism in Shaping a Culture of Sustainable Consumption	6
The Mission of the Catholic Church for the State in the Discourse of “Gosc Niedzielny” during Poland’s Interwar Period	6
Posthumous Release for Lay Women in Tang China: Two Cases from the Longmen Grottoes	6
Globalization and Missionary Ambition in West African Islam. The Fayda after Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse	6
Wearing the Good: A Kierkegaardian Exploration of “Messaged” Apparel	6
Animal Suffering, God and Lessons from the Book of Job	6
Mindfulness in the Context of Engaged Buddhism: A Case for Engaged Mindfulness	6
The Diaconate of All Believers: Theology, Formation, Practice	6
The Glories of Scripturally Informed Natural Law in Secular Education	6
Pre-Christian Eschatological Motifs in the Ukrainian Dumas and Spiritual Verses and Their Germanic Parallels	6
The Cosmopolitan World of the Quran and Late Antique Humanism	6
Medieval Monasticism in Iceland and Norse Greenland	6
Traversing a Tightrope between Ecumenism and Exclusivism: The Intertwined History of South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church and the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian in Nyasaland (Malawi)	6
The Art of Neighboring beyond the Nation: Ethnic and Religious Pluralism in Southwest China	6
Concepts and Methods in the Study of the Qur’ān	6
The Titles of the High Priest of Jerusalem in the Pre-Hasmonean Period	6
“The Human Was Created Out of Haste.” On Prophecy and the Problem of Human Nature in the Qur’an	6
Research on a Buddha Mountain in Colonial-Period Korea: A Preliminary Discussion	6
The River God Cult and the Reshaping of Political Authority—Reading Inscriptions from the Hezhong Area in Tang China	6
Catholic Ecological Organizations in Poland and Italy: History, Actions, and Organizational Challenges	5
Desiring the Secular: Capital, Cohesion, and the Fantasy of Secularization	5
Changes in Sacrifice by Burning and the Transfer of the Space Inhabited by Ghosts in China: Philological and Linguistic Perspectives	5
Cutting the Knot of the World Problem: Sri Aurobindo’s Experiential and Philosophical Critique of Advaita Vedānta	5
Understanding Moral Disagreement: A Christian Perspectivalist Approach	5
From Nuṣayrīs to ʿAlawīs: The Religiography of Muḥammad Kurd ʿAlī	5
Biblical Perspectives as a Guide to Research on Life’s Origin and History	5
Ayatollah Yusuf Sanei’s Contribution to the Discourse of Women’s Rights	5
New Directions in Youth and Young Adult Ministry Leadership: Where Have We Been and More Importantly Where Are We Headed?	5
Defending Victims, Practicing Restraint: God-Consciousness and the Use of Force in the Qur’an	5
Between Scriptura et Pictura: Meditation on the Domus Dei and the Devotion of the Holy House of Mary	5
Religiosity and Sexual Satisfaction in Middle Age: The Moderating Role of Nonconformity	5
Evangelical and Catholic Timespace in Work: An Argument against a Homeless Eschatology	5
Way-Making: Portability and Practice amid Protestantization in American Confucianism	5
Spiritual Leadership in the Upheaval of Settler Colonialism	5
Development and Validation of a Faith Scale for Young Children	5
What Is the “Similarity” of Humankind? A Difference between Confucian and Mohist Religious Ethics	5
Remnant and the New Dark Age	5
Religion, Animals, and Racialization: Articulating Islamophobia through Animal Ethics in The Netherlands	5
Sexuality as Unity in Life: An Approach from Michel Henry’s Phenomenology of Incarnation	5
The Decline of Religious Life in the Twentieth Century	5
Religious Devotion to Political Secularism	5
Music and Spirituality in Africa: Gospel Music, Spirituality, and Everyday Meaning-Making in Nigeria	5
Logos’ Centrality and Expression in Martyria as a Superior Form of Dialogue	5
Maimon’s Enlightened Skepticism and the Problem of Natural Sciences	5
A “Sloppy Wet Kiss”? Intralingual Translation and Meaning-Making in Contemporary Congregational Songs	5
Formation of the Traditional Chinese State Ritual System of Sacrifice to Mountain and Water Spirits	5
Aesthetics as a Philosophical and Theological Space in the St. Francis of St. Bonaventure’s Major Legend	5
Sword and Lotus: The Life of a Confucian Buddhist Woman Warrior in Seventeenth Century China	5
A Caged Bird in a Communist Pavilion: Chao Tzu-chen and the Remolding of Yenching University’s School of Religion, 1949–1951	5
Evaluating Warfare Myths about Science and Christianity and How These Myths Promote Scientism	5
Writing and Worship in Deng Zhimo’s Saints Trilogy	5
Civil Religion or Nationalism? The National Day Celebrations in Norway	5
Religiosity and Individual Agency: Denominational Affiliation, Religious Action, and Sense of Control (SOC) in Life	5
Will Superintelligence Lead to Spiritual Enhancement?	5
The Theological Sense of the Polish Antiphons: The Song and the Hymn from the Mass of the Lord’s Supper	5
Impact of October 7 Attack and 2024 War in Gaza on Catholic–Jewish Relations	5
Black Holes as Evidence of God’s Care	5
Birth and Death: Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and Spirituality at the Start and End of Life	5
Urban Devis: Fashioning Lay Women’s Holiness in Krishna Bhakti Networks	5
The Nature of Religious and Spiritual Needs in Palliative Care Patients, Carers, and Families and How They Can Be Addressed from a Specialist Spiritual Care Perspective	5
Building Communities through Rituals: Glimpses into the Life of Chinese Christian Communities in the 17th Century	5
Where the Research Interests of Graduate Students in China’s Christian Universities Lie	5
Shared Religious Education through Christian–Islamic Team Teaching	5
Transformative Education, Participative Black Theology and the Challenge of Making a Difference	5
Woody Allen’s Broadway Danny Rose: Dialoguing with Jewish Tradition	5
Visualizing Faith and Futility in the Nuclear Apocalypse	5
Towards a Kenotic Identity Politics: Migration, Transformation and the Eucharist	5
Attention (to Virtuosity) Is All You Need: Religious Studies Pedagogy and Generative AI	5
The Impact of Religion and Social Support on Self-Reported Happiness in Latin American Immigrants in Spain	5
Body, Scale, and Space: Study on the Spatial Construction of Mogao Cave 254	5
God and the Problem of Evil: An Attempt at Reframing the Debate	5
Face to Face with Anti-Muslim Sentiment: A Qualitative Study into the Coping Mechanisms of Young College and University Muslim Students and Graduates in Flanders	5
Mediated Morality as a Middle Position in Understanding the Relation between God and Morality	5
Exploring Motivation and Engagement: Voices of Adolescent Non-Arab Muslim Learners of Arabic at Australian Islamic Schools	5
John Damascene’s Arguments about the Existence of God: A Logico-Philosophical and Religio-Hermeneutic Approach	5
Change and Continuity in Quaker Rhetoric after 1660	5
Mapping Muslim Moral Provinces: Framing Feminized Piety of Pakistani Diaspora	5
Ritual Lamentation in the Irish Penitentials	5
Muslimness on Demand: Critical Voices of Islam in Egypt	5
Religious and Ethical Conception of Xiao-Filiality in Pre-Imperial China	5
How Religion Contributes to the Common Good, Positive Criminology, and Justice Reform	5
Religion, Animals, and the Problem of Evil: A Decolonial Approach from Relational Ontology	5