Religions

Papers
(The TQCC of Religions 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Pope of the Rain: The Extraordinary Solitude in the Media65
Developing Christ as Consolatory Example in the Christ Encomium30
A Religious Garment for a Marksmen’s Festival? On the Theological Compatibility of Local Festival Culture30
Equal Before God but Not Equal Before His Law? Sharia Law and Women’s Right to Interpretation in the Light of the Human Rights Debate30
Divine Discomfort: A Relational Encounter with Multi-Generational and Multi-Layered Trauma28
Calling the Question: The Role of Ministries of Presence and Polity Principles in the Struggle for LGBTQIA+ Inclusion, Ordination, and Marriage in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Its Predecessor 28
Three Contemporary Russian Poets and Biblical Tradition: Sergey Zavyalov, Natalia Chernykh, Jaan Kaplinski26
Towards a Kenotic Identity Politics: Migration, Transformation and the Eucharist25
Renewing the Narrative of the Age to Come: The Kingdom of God in NT Wright and John Zizioulas24
Michael O’Brien’s Theological Aesthetics24
Portuguese Youth Religiosity in Comparative Perspective23
Gender Conflicts in Contemporary Korean Buddhism22
A Moderate Proposal: Jonathan Dickinson and Benjamin Franklin Debate Freedom, Conscience, and Consensus20
Protestant Congregational Song in the Philippines: Localization through Translation and Hybridization20
“But Angels Don’t Have Wings”: Art, Religion, and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in Gilio’s Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters20
Authority over Death: Two Tales Related to the Lord of Mount Tai in Konjaku Monogatarishū19
The Holonic Christ: Catholicity as Individuation and Integration19
Love Jihad and the Governance of Gender and Intimacy in Hindu Nationalist Statecraft19
Phantoms of Faith—Experiences of Rupture and Residue of Amputated Religiosity among Norwegian Ex-Charismatic Christians18
Franny’s Jesus Prayer: J.D. Salinger and Orthodox Christian Spirituality18
Confucian Order and Religious Doctrines: Rhetorical Characterizations of Illustrations in the Fiction “Quanxiang Pinghua” in the Yuan Dynasty17
‘Not-All-There’ in the Necropolis: Afterlife and Madness in Urban Novels17
Black and Blue: Black Women, ‘Law and Order,’ and the Church’s Silence on Police Violence17
Nationalism, Post-Secular and Sufism: The Making of Neo-Bektashism by Moikom Zeqo in Post-Socialist Albania16
Apocalypse as a Sacrifice: An Interpretation of Raimon Panikkar’s Arguments on Yajña16
Buddhist Modernism and the Piety of Female Sex Workers in Northern Thailand16
Editorial for Special Issue “The Global Urgency of Interreligious Studies”15
Between Christ and Alexander: Strands of Typological Exegesis in Pseudo-Methodius’s Apocalypse14
Characterizing ‘New Korean Confucianism’: Focusing on Pak Chonghong and Yi Sang-ŭn’s Life and Thought14
Qualifying Religious Truth and Ecclesial Unity: The Soteriological Significance of Difference14
Religiously Grounded Character and Its Association with Subjective Well-Being in Emerging Adults: A Latent Profile Analysis14
A Comparative Study of Islam and Buddhism: A Multicultural Society Perspective14
Widening the Circles of Dialogue: Paul VI and Interreligious Dialogue After 60 Years of Ecclesiam suam13
Catholic, Shia and Shakta Salvation Through Mystical Sorrow: Holy Mothers and Sacred Families13
Compulsory Heterosexuality in Indonesia: A Literary Exploration of the Work of Ayu Utami13
Aligned in Human Dignity? Parallel Anthropological Aspects of EU Tech Regulation and Pope Francis’ Teaching on AI13
Surprised by Hope: Possibilities of Spiritual Experience in Victorian Lyric Poetry13
Prehistoric Cult Sites along the Desert Roads13
On the Personhood of Sacred Objects: Agency, Materiality and Popular Devotion in the Roman Catholic Philippines13
Miroslav Volf’s Theology of Memory in Relation to Zimbabwean Social Narratives13
The Catechism through Andean Eyes: Reflections on Post-Tridentine Reform in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s Comentarios reales13
Diving Deep into the Word of God: A Sufi Approach to Religious and Trans-Religious Images12
Zen in Early Persian Painting—A Study of the 1314–1315 Jāmiʿ al-Tavārīkh Illustrations12
Orientation on ‘Visions of the Good’: A Narrative Analysis of Life Stories of Patients with Personality Disorders12
The Value of Old Age in the Teaching of Pope Francis12
The Black Mirror of the Pupil of the Eye: Around the Eye that Sees and Is Seen: Ibn al-ʿArabī, Bill Viola12
Vox populi (Dei), vox Dei: Pope Francis’ Theology of the People of God, the Priesthood of All Believers and Democracy12
Artificial Intelligence, Deep Aging Clocks, and the Advent of ‘Biological Age’: A Christian Critique of AI-Powered Longevity Medicine with Particular Reference to Fasting12
Charismatic Embeddedness: A Cultural Starting Mechanism Generating Relational Goods in an Interreligious Field. An Analysis from Algeria11
What Is the “Similarity” of Humankind? A Difference between Confucian and Mohist Religious Ethics11
The Alleged Decline of Liberation Theology: Natural Death or Attempted Assassination?11
An Ante Litteram Critique of Orientalism: The Case of Abu’l-Faḍā’il-i-Gulpāyigānī and E.G. Browne11
Philosophic and Spiritual Conversion in Late Hellenism: Case Studies from the 3rd to the 5th Centuries AD11
Historicizing Secular Subjectivities: Conceptual Erasures and Subjective Multi-Hybridizations11
Sacred and Profane in Music Therapy11
Significance of the Śrāvastī Miracles According to Buddhist Texts and Dvāravatī Artefacts11
Synchronizing Missio Dei with Process Theology and Theodicy11
Epistemic Goods, Epistemic Norms, and Evangelization11
Eco-Preservation through the Lens of Igbo Beliefs and Practices: A Re-Imagination11
“Sharing Worldviews: Learning in Encounter for Common Values in Diversity” in School and Teacher Education—Contexts in Germany and Europe11
Ecumeny at a Crossroads: Toward Unity or Community?11
When Film Mediatizes Taoism, What Does It Bring to Taoism?11
New Iconography in Court-Sponsored Buddhist Prints of the Early Joseon Dynasty—Focusing on Record of the Manifestation of Avalokitesvara10
A Shared Pulpit: Creating a Hospitable Homiletic Culture for Congregational Formation in a Metamodern Age10
With Friends Like These: Does American Soft Power Advance International Religious Freedom?10
Everyday Life from a Sacral Perspective. Individual Entries in Prayer Books of Intentions as Material for Social Research10
Harmony or Discordance between Sacramental and Liturgical Theology?10
Life Scripts, Counter Scripts and Online Videos: The Struggle of Religious-Nationalist Community Epistemic Authorities against Military Service for Women10
Three Early Russian Documents about the Daodejing: An Analysis10
Religiosity and Sexual Satisfaction in Middle Age: The Moderating Role of Nonconformity10
Mediated Morality as a Middle Position in Understanding the Relation between God and Morality10
‘Let Us Just Be Humans’: Reading Allard Pierson’s True Humanity through the Lens of Caputo’s Religion without Religion10
Did Socrates Meditate? On Some Traces of Contemplative Practices in Early Greco-Latin Philosophy10
A New Exploration of the Dharma Lineage of Fazang (法藏): The Third Patriarch of the Huayan School10
Varieties of Revelation, Varieties of Truth—A Comparative Ontological Study of Revelation through Music and Sciences10
Attributes and Activities of Religious Communities in Italy: First Results from a City Congregations Study (CCS)10
Beyond the Sacred Text: Examining the Confusion, Conflicts and Complications at the Intersection of Religion and Law in Zimbabwe10
Contesting ‘Truth’: A Late Ottoman Response to Protestant Missionary Writings10
Markan Spirituality of the Way10
Cosmology, Cosmologia, and Reality: How the Cosmological Model Challenges the Intelligibility of Reality10
Religiousness of Young People in Poland as a Challenge to Catholic Education: Analyses Based on a Survey10
The Oneiro- and the Hagio-: Teaching about Dreams from the Standpoint of Comparative Hagiology10
A Case for a Polyphonic Anthropology: Giving Voice to Experiences of Women of Color10
The Narrative Foundations of Radical and Deradicalizing Online Discursive Spaces: A Comparison of the Cases of Generation Islam and Jamal al-Khatib in Germany9
Children and Climate Anxiety: An Ecofeminist Practical Theological Perspective9
Multilingual Singing in Nigeria: Examining Roles, Meaning, and Function in Wazobia Gospel Music9
Rhetorical Approach to the Periautology of Philippians 3:2–169
Pierre Claverie: Decolonising Mission9
Inculturation at Home: The Belgian Catholic Project for Chinese Students (1920–1930s)9
The Art of Neighboring beyond the Nation: Ethnic and Religious Pluralism in Southwest China9
Freedom, Intentionality, and Trinitarian Love in Edith Stein’s Thought—The Need for a Phenomenology–Theology Dialogue to Have a Deeper Understanding of It9
The Widening, Deepening, and Lengthening of the Seven Mountains Mandate (7MM) Network: The Role of Network Apostolic Leadership9
Introduction of Spiritual Psychotherapy for Inpatient, Residential, and Intensive Treatment (SPIRIT) in The Netherlands: Translation and Adaptation of a Psychotherapy Protocol for Mental Health Care9
Revisiting Du Guangting: Theoretical Contributions and Religious Transformations Within Daoism During the Late Tang and Five Dynasties Periods9
The Evolution of a Social Movement: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Path Between Political Ambition and the Rejection of Armed Struggle9
Forthtellers Not Foretellers: The Origins of a Liberal Orthodoxy about the Prophets9
Problematising the Islamic Theology of Religions: Debates on Muslims’ Views of Others9
The Construction of Sacred Landscapes and Maritime Identities in the Post-Medieval Cyclades Islands: The Case of Paros9
A Critical Analysis of Cremation Burials Within Some of the South African Tribes: A Contextual Practical Theological View9
“We Take Hold of the White Man’s Worship with One Hand, but with the Other Hand We Hold Fast Our Fathers’ Worship”: The Beginning of Indigenous Methodist Christianity and Its Expression in the Christi9
Environmental Ethics and the Cambridge Platonist Henry More9
The Role of Catholic Life Formation in Fostering Sustainable Environmental Attitudes among Selected Filipino SHS Students9
“But Now I Consydre Thy Necesse”: Augustine’s Doctrine of Jewish Witness and the Restoration of Racial Hierarchies in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament9
Foregrounding African Ontology/Epistemology: A Reading of Deuteronomy 23:3 and Ruth 4:18–22 Considering the Nature of God9
In Altum—“Put Out into the Deep”: A Formation Program for Missionary Discipleship for Students at the University of Notre Dame Australia9
The Common Good According to Great Men of Prayer and Economists: Comparisons, Connections, and Inspirations for Economics9
Fish, Fetishization, and Faith in the Arctic Ocean9
Ancient Travellers, Intercultural Contact, and the Fear of Gods9
(De)constructing a Dar-ul-Uloom Aalim’s Identity in Contemporary Britain: Overcoming Barriers of Access8
Introduction to Syncretism and Pentecostalism in the Global South8
Precarious Hues: On Chromophobia, Chromophilia, and Transitions between Chromatic and Achromatic Colours in the Hebrew Bible8
The Spiritual Prodigy, the Reluctant Guru, and the Saint: Mirabai and Collaborative Leadership at Hari Krishna Mandir8
Faith, Bioethics, and Sustainable Development: A Christian Perspective on Bioethics of Care and the Challenges of Sustainability Transitions8
Carnival in Rome: The Tension of Pope Paul III’s Dual Role Revisited8
Pro-Violence Sermons of a Secular State: Turkey’s Diyanet on Islamist Militarism, Jihadism and Glorification of Martyrdom8
Human (Relational) Dignity: Perspectives of Followers of Indigenous Religions of Indonesia8
Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Ethnic Harmony in Ghana8
Medieval Monasticism in Iceland and Norse Greenland8
Muslim Women’s Religious Leadership: The Case of Australian Mosques8
Contending with Health Outcomes of Sanctioned Rituals: The Case of Puberty Rites8
Intercultural Theology Competence for an Intercultural Faith Education8
Religious Diversity Predicts Religions’ Population Growth in Tighter (vs. Looser) Cultures: A Study of Personality & Self-Reported Religion across 111 Countries8
From Circle to Cycloid: The Philosophical Value of Religious Cult in Maurice Blondel’s L’Action8
Institutional Religious Freedom in Full: What the Liberty of Religious Organizations Really Is and Why It Is an “Essential Service” to the Common Good8
Are International Human Rights Organizations Effective in Protecting Religious Freedom?8
Learning from Experience: Liturgical Formation as a Central Component of Religious Education in Schools8
Speaking of God in the Realm of Aesthetics: Religion in Hölderlin8
A “Sloppy Wet Kiss”? Intralingual Translation and Meaning-Making in Contemporary Congregational Songs8
The Distinctive Mindfulness of Dzogchen: Jigme Lingpa’s Advice on Meta-Awareness and Nondual Meditation8
An Inquiry into the Nature of the Female Mystic and the Divine Feminine in Sufi Experience8
Using Social Media to Assess Expressions of Gratitude to God: Issues for Consideration8
Johannes Trithemius and Witches: Between Religion and Superstition8
“Decide This Doubt for Me”: William Cowper’s Olney Hymns (1779)8
The Scramble for Religion and Secularism in Pre-Colonial Africa8
Panikkar on Mysticism as a Middle Way between Contemplation and Action8
Protocols of Conversion: Indigenous Gods and Eminent Monks in East Asian Buddhism8
Is the Muslim Brotherhood a Sect?8
University Student’s Perceptions on Interfaith Marriage in Indonesia: Openness, Idealism, and Reality8
Visualizing Faith and Futility in the Nuclear Apocalypse7
Towards a Public Theology of Menopause7
How the Body Gets Healthy: An Empirical Case of Animism and Naturalism Working Together in the Treatment of Disease Among the Nuosu People of Southwest China7
Humanizing the It: Martin Buber on Technology and the Ethics of Things7
Muslim Women Travelling Alone7
Expanding Ethical Horizons: Rethinking the Ethics of De 德 and Guṇa in the Laozi 老子 and Bhagavad-Gītā7
“Struggle Is Our Way”: Assessing the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Relationship with Violence Post-20137
Testing and Disrupting Ontologies: Using the Database of Religious History as a Pedagogical Tool7
Relics as Instruments of Divine Leadership in the First Crusade7
Griby i Mukhi: A Historical Contextualization of the Esoteric Mushroom Religion of Moscow Conceptualism: Fungal Erotic Imagery of Entheogens and Insects7
How Can Islamic Primary Schools Contribute to Social Integration?7
Mystical Theology and Its Relevance for Today’s Theology: Some Historical Observations7
Ólöf the Rich and a Cloth from Svalbarð, Iceland7
An Economic Alternative from the Base: The Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) in the Diocese of Boac, Philippines7
The Emergence of Islamist Official and Unofficial Laws in the Erdoganist Turkey: The Case of Child Marriages7
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère: Believing or Learning as a Theological Virtue7
Virtue Depends on Natural Law and Divine Commands7
The Celestial Masters and the Origins of Daoist Monasticism7
Africa Independent Churches as Amabandla Omoya and Syncretism in South Africa7
From Supporting Moral Competence to Fostering Spiritual Growth: The Psycho-Didactic Potential of the Konstanz Method of Dilemma Discussion (KMDD®)7
Political Grief and the South Korean Church7
Emerging Hindu Rashtra and Its Impact on Indian Muslims7
Christian Nationalism and Politics in Ghana7
Jesus “The Way” According to Origen and Marcellus: Confronting Two Patristic Traditions7
Wittgenstein, Religion and Deep Epistemic Injustice7
Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of Water Deities Beliefs in the Pearl River Delta Applying Historical GIS7
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 I7
We Are Not One, We Are Legion—Secular State in Mexico, Local Dynamics of a Federal Issue7
Dealing with the Trustworthy Gospel in a Post-Christian Australia7
Islam, Salafism, and Peace: Facing the Challenges of Tradition and Change7
Decolonizing Qurʾanic Studies7
Linking Faith and Conservation in Sacred and Community Forests of Far Western Nepal7
Music and Spirituality in Africa: Gospel Music, Spirituality, and Everyday Meaning-Making in Nigeria7
Online Temptations: Divorce and Extramarital Affairs in Kazakhstan7
Ecology as a New Foundation for Natural Theology7
Wang Fuzhi on the Problem of Heaven and Human in the Religious Tradition of Confucianism7
Wake Up Cities! A Heritage Rebalancing Plan from the Sacred7
Rivers and Lakes: Zhuangzi’s Critique of Just War and the Zhuangzian War Ethics and Peace Strategy7
The Westward Spread of Eastern Learning: Jung’s Integration and Adaptation of Religious Daoism6
A Sociologist on the Contribution of Mystique and Theology in Interreligious Dialogue6
A Star God Is Born: Chintaku Reifujin Talismans in Japanese Religions6
Living the Kingdom of God: The Communal and Renewing Spirituality of Jesus in Mark6
A Foreign People: Towards a Holistic Identity Theory within a Christian Context6
Communicating the Turkish Military Strength and Organisation after the Crusader Defeat at Nicopolis: Comparing Philippe de Mézières’s Une Epistre lamentable, Honorat Bovet’s L’Apparicion Maistre Jehan6
The Covenant Renewal Ceremony as the Main Function of Qumran6
Flavors of Ecstasy: States of Absorption in Islamic and Jewish Contemplative Traditions6
Presence and Personhood: Investigating Christian Chaplaincy Care in Two Residential Dementia Units6
The Journey to G.R.A.C.E: Creating an International Community of Practice6
Self-Transcendence and Its Discontents: Criticisms and Defences of the Zhuangzi in Wei-Jin Thought and Their Modern Significance6
A Brief History of Medieval Monasticism in Denmark (with Schleswig, Rügen and Estonia)6
Visits to the Palace of the Sea God in Ancient and Medieval Japan6
Catholic Higher Education in the United States: Exploring the Decision to Enroll from a Student’s (or a Student Advisor’s) Point of View6
What Kind of Islamophobia? Representation of Muslims and Islam in Italian and Spanish Media6
Spiritual Well-Being of Russian Orthodox and Evangelical Christians: Denominational Features6
Artificial Intelligence’s Understanding of Religion: Investigating the Moralistic Approaches Presented by Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools6
Integration of Islamic Values for Environmental Conservation: An Analysis of School Textbooks6
Crisis, Solidarity, and Ritual in Religiously Diverse Settings: A Unitarian Universalist Case Study6
Divine ‘Pastness’ and the Creation of Hope: The Significance of the Sepultus est…6
Black or White: The Art of Rhetoric in Sunset Limited6
“Christ Is Speaking”: The Psalms as the Grammar of Augustine’s Sermons6
Shamanic Culture’s Reconnection of Earth and Heaven (Xu Ditiantong) in the New Era in China: The Dialectical Relationship between Material Civilization and Cultural Intimacy6
Sufism and Shari‘a: Contextualizing Contemporary Sufi Expressions6
General Baptist Women in Orissa, India: Initiatives in Female Education, 1860s–1880s6
Learning from Black Lives Matter: Resisting Purity Culture in US Antitrafficking6
Death, Reincarnation and Rebirth of BJDs6
“We Became Religious to Protect Our Children”: Diasporic Religiosity among Moroccan Jewish Families in France and Israel6
Until We All Attain the Mature Man: Mapping the Metaphors for Maturity in Ephesians Within Paul’s Greco-Roman Context6
Embodied Mystery, Spiritual Deepness: Paradoxes of the Heart Inside a Spirituality of Purification6
St. Thomas Aquinas on God as Ipsum Esse Subsistens6
Christian Planetary Humanism in the Age of Climate Crisis6
“Want of Zeal for It”: Pierre Bayle on Religious Radicalization6
The Prosociality of Prayer in the Literary Fiction of Felix Timmermans6
The Role of Black Christian Beliefs in the Civil Rights Movement: A Paradigm for a Better Understanding of Religious Freedom6
Tracing the Origin of Japan’s First Buddhist Temple: Japan’s Asukadera Viewed through the Lens of the Korean Paekche Kingdom Temple Site of Wanghŭng-sa6
‘We’re Islam in Their Eyes’: Using an Interpellation Framework to Understand Why Being a Woman Matters When Countering Islamophobia6
Religion: Interrelationships and Opinions in Children and Adolescents. Interaction between Age and Beliefs6
Between Religion and Politics: The Case of the Islamic Movement in Israel6
‘This Is the Greatest Thing a Man Can Do’: Vocational Journeys of Recently Ordained Catholic Priests in Australia6
Animism and Science6
Propaganda Fide and the Role of Apostolic Nuncios during the Early Modern Period: A Case Study of China6
The Role of Moscow Patriarchs in the Promotion of the Imperial Culture of Sobornost’: Thematic Analysis of Religious Leaders’ Speeches at the World Russian People’s Council 1993–20226
Pious Women Challenge Arrangements Anchored in the Dominancy of the Religious Discourse: Druze Women in Israel as a Case Study6
“The Light That Shineth in the Darkness”: Anglo-American Rural Missionaries and the Cuban Revolution6
The Impossible Spaces: A Commentary on Gen. 2:8–156
‘Messianic Fraternity’: Anticommunism in the General Conferences of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopate6
Christian Responses to Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy and Potential Religious and Spiritual Experiences6
The Christian Discourses of “Chao Zhengzhi” (Supra-Politics) in the Early PRC: A Religio-Political Reappraisal6
Musicalizing the Heart Sutra: Buddhism, Sound, and Media in Contemporary Japan6
Israel and the Individual in Matthew and Midrash: Reassessing “True Israel”6
Neighbours in the City: “Four Animal Spirits” in Beijing from the 19th Century to the Present6
In the Lap of the Buddha: Intimacy in Tibetan Ritual6
BLESSING: Exploring the Religious, Anthropological and Ethical Meaning6
Ferdinand Christian Baur on Religion: A Historicist Approach in an Idealist Context6
Hesed in Ruth: A Frail Moral Tool in an Inflexible Social Structure6
A Critical Assessment of Shafer-Landau’s Ethical Non-Naturalism6
The Christian Approach to Divine Creation in the Context of Scientific Worldview6
Εντροπη: Shame and Identity Formation in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch6
Study of the Changing Relationship between Religion and the Digital Continent—In the Context of a COVID-19 Pandemic6
Faithful Innovation: Negotiating Institutional Logics for AI Value Alignment Among Christian Churches in America6
Reconceptualizing Houses of Worship to Advance Comparisons across Religious Traditions6
Returning to Zhen: An Investigation of Zhen Highlighted by Zhuangzi and Daoist Self-Transcendence6
The Self as Source and Destination for Intuitive Interpretations of Religious or Spiritual Experiences6
Art and Influence, Presence and Navigation in Southern African Forager Landscapes6
An Analysis of the Relationship between Shenxian Daohua Ju and Daoism of the Yuan Dynasty6
Mapping the Growth of the Nones in Spain: Dynamics, Diversity, and the Porous Boundaries of Non-Religion in the Postsecular Age6
Heidegger’s Way to “The Last God”6
Introduction: A Brief History of Theism and Its Alternatives6
A Reinterpretation of Hindu Spirituality for Addressing Environmental Problems6
Surviving Persia: Esther’s Scroll, Anti-Black Racism and the Propaganda of Peace and Progress5
“Not my God”–Challenging the Usage of ‘Te Atua’ as Māori Terminology for the God of Christianity5
An Incarnational Pneumatology Based on Romans 8.18-30: The Spirit as God’s Solidarity with a Suffering Creation5
Introduction to Special Issue “Language Translation in Localizing Religious Musical Practice”5
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