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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
With Friends Like These: Does American Soft Power Advance International Religious Freedom?43
Diving Deep into the Word of God: A Sufi Approach to Religious and Trans-Religious Images43
John Allegro and the Psychedelic Mysteries Hypothesis40
The Distinctive Mindfulness of Dzogchen: Jigme Lingpa’s Advice on Meta-Awareness and Nondual Meditation35
Multilingual Singing in Nigeria: Examining Roles, Meaning, and Function in Wazobia Gospel Music33
Influence of Ecological Factors and Internal Resources on Adolescent Suicidal Ideation: An Empirical Study in Colombia32
Isaiah 53:10: A Question of Sacrifice or Also an Attempt to Legitimize Authority?29
Mystical Theology and Its Relevance for Today’s Theology: Some Historical Observations28
Muslim Women’s Religious Leadership: The Case of Australian Mosques26
An Economic Alternative from the Base: The Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) in the Diocese of Boac, Philippines26
Everyday Life from a Sacral Perspective. Individual Entries in Prayer Books of Intentions as Material for Social Research25
Contending with Health Outcomes of Sanctioned Rituals: The Case of Puberty Rites25
Wittgenstein, Religion and Deep Epistemic Injustice21
Intercultural Theology Competence for an Intercultural Faith Education20
Did Socrates Meditate? On Some Traces of Contemplative Practices in Early Greco-Latin Philosophy20
New Iconography in Court-Sponsored Buddhist Prints of the Early Joseon Dynasty—Focusing on Record of the Manifestation of Avalokitesvara20
Testing and Disrupting Ontologies: Using the Database of Religious History as a Pedagogical Tool20
Compulsory Heterosexuality in Indonesia: A Literary Exploration of the Work of Ayu Utami18
Nationalism, Post-Secular and Sufism: The Making of Neo-Bektashism by Moikom Zeqo in Post-Socialist Albania18
A Case for a Polyphonic Anthropology: Giving Voice to Experiences of Women of Color18
Music and Spirituality in Africa: Gospel Music, Spirituality, and Everyday Meaning-Making in Nigeria18
Orientation on ‘Visions of the Good’: A Narrative Analysis of Life Stories of Patients with Personality Disorders18
(De)constructing a Dar-ul-Uloom Aalim’s Identity in Contemporary Britain: Overcoming Barriers of Access17
Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of Water Deities Beliefs in the Pearl River Delta Applying Historical GIS17
Three Contemporary Russian Poets and Biblical Tradition: Sergey Zavyalov, Natalia Chernykh, Jaan Kaplinski16
Religiousness of Young People in Poland as a Challenge to Catholic Education: Analyses Based on a Survey16
The Scramble for Religion and Secularism in Pre-Colonial Africa16
Significance of the Śrāvastī Miracles According to Buddhist Texts and Dvāravatī Artefacts16
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 16
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 I15
Using Social Media to Assess Expressions of Gratitude to God: Issues for Consideration15
Miroslav Volf’s Theology of Memory in Relation to Zimbabwean Social Narratives15
The Alleged Decline of Liberation Theology: Natural Death or Attempted Assassination?15
Decolonizing Qurʾanic Studies15
Eco-Preservation through the Lens of Igbo Beliefs and Practices: A Re-Imagination15
Religiously Grounded Character and Its Association with Subjective Well-Being in Emerging Adults: A Latent Profile Analysis14
Forthtellers Not Foretellers: The Origins of a Liberal Orthodoxy about the Prophets14
Prehistoric Cult Sites along the Desert Roads14
Rivers and Lakes: Zhuangzi’s Critique of Just War and the Zhuangzian War Ethics and Peace Strategy14
Artificial Intelligence, Deep Aging Clocks, and the Advent of ‘Biological Age’: A Christian Critique of AI-Powered Longevity Medicine with Particular Reference to Fasting14
Africa Independent Churches as Amabandla Omoya and Syncretism in South Africa14
Children and Climate Anxiety: An Ecofeminist Practical Theological Perspective14
Speaking of God in the Realm of Aesthetics: Religion in Hölderlin14
Learning from Experience: Liturgical Formation as a Central Component of Religious Education in Schools14
“But Angels Don’t Have Wings”: Art, Religion, and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in Gilio’s Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters13
Panikkar on Mysticism as a Middle Way between Contemplation and Action13
Phantoms of Faith—Experiences of Rupture and Residue of Amputated Religiosity among Norwegian Ex-Charismatic Christians13
Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Ethnic Harmony in Ghana13
Buddhist Modernism and the Piety of Female Sex Workers in Northern Thailand13
Problematising the Islamic Theology of Religions: Debates on Muslims’ Views of Others12
The Black Mirror of the Pupil of the Eye: Around the Eye that Sees and Is Seen: Ibn al-ʿArabī, Bill Viola12
The Common Good According to Great Men of Prayer and Economists: Comparisons, Connections, and Inspirations for Economics12
Mediated Morality as a Middle Position in Understanding the Relation between God and Morality12
Beyond the Sacred Text: Examining the Confusion, Conflicts and Complications at the Intersection of Religion and Law in Zimbabwe12
“Struggle Is Our Way”: Assessing the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Relationship with Violence Post-201312
Sacred and Profane in Music Therapy12
Religious Diversity Predicts Religions’ Population Growth in Tighter (vs. Looser) Cultures: A Study of Personality & Self-Reported Religion across 111 Countries12
Visualizing Faith and Futility in the Nuclear Apocalypse12
A New Exploration of the Dharma Lineage of Fazang (法藏): The Third Patriarch of the Huayan School12
Pierre Claverie: Decolonising Mission12
Divine Discomfort: A Relational Encounter with Multi-Generational and Multi-Layered Trauma12
Authority over Death: Two Tales Related to the Lord of Mount Tai in Konjaku Monogatarishū12
The Catechism through Andean Eyes: Reflections on Post-Tridentine Reform in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s Comentarios reales12
Christian Nationalism and Politics in Ghana12
How Can Islamic Primary Schools Contribute to Social Integration?12
The Construction of Sacred Landscapes and Maritime Identities in the Post-Medieval Cyclades Islands: The Case of Paros12
Characterizing ‘New Korean Confucianism’: Focusing on Pak Chonghong and Yi Sang-ŭn’s Life and Thought11
‘Not-All-There’ in the Necropolis: Afterlife and Madness in Urban Novels11
Human (Relational) Dignity: Perspectives of Followers of Indigenous Religions of Indonesia11
Attributes and Activities of Religious Communities in Italy: First Results from a City Congregations Study (CCS)11
Protocols of Conversion: Indigenous Gods and Eminent Monks in East Asian Buddhism11
Portuguese Youth Religiosity in Comparative Perspective11
Markan Spirituality of the Way11
An Ante Litteram Critique of Orientalism: The Case of Abu’l-Faḍā’il-i-Gulpāyigānī and E.G. Browne11
Confucian Order and Religious Doctrines: Rhetorical Characterizations of Illustrations in the Fiction “Quanxiang Pinghua” in the Yuan Dynasty11
A Comparative Study of Islam and Buddhism: A Multicultural Society Perspective11
“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 Christi11
A Shared Pulpit: Creating a Hospitable Homiletic Culture for Congregational Formation in a Metamodern Age11
Three Early Russian Documents about the Daodejing: An Analysis11
Cosmology, Cosmologia, and Reality: How the Cosmological Model Challenges the Intelligibility of Reality11
The Gnostic Politics of World Loss11
An Ambitious Itinerary: Journey Across the Medieval Buddhist World in a Book, CUL Add.1643 (1015 CE)10
Pojo Chinul’s Contributions to the Philosophy of Forgetting in East Asian Sŏn Buddhism: The Ten Paths to No-Mind10
What’s in a Name?: Mutanchi Clan Narratives and Indigenous Ecospirituality10
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Christology10
Religious Literacy in Contemporary South Korea: Challenges and Educational Approaches10
Development of the Dutch Chaplaincy Outcome Measure10
The Social Network of the Holy Land10
Artificial Intelligence: A New Challenge for Human Understanding, Christian Education, and the Pastoral Activity of the Churches10
Worship of Tian, Transgressive Rites, and Judged Ghosts: The Religious Transformation of Hamlet in Peking Opera10
The Greek Philosophical Sources in Cicero’s De Fato10
Measuring Spiritual Wellbeing—Seeking a Valid, Reliable, and Usable Measure10
Exploring the Role of Self-Forgiveness to Explain the Relationship Between Religiosity and Wellbeing in Individuals with Serious Mental Illness10
Artificial Intelligence in Religious Education: Ethical, Pedagogical, and Theological Perspectives10
A Religious Garment for a Marksmen’s Festival? On the Theological Compatibility of Local Festival Culture9
Surprised by Hope: Possibilities of Spiritual Experience in Victorian Lyric Poetry9
Sevā as a Postcapitalist Model for Environmental and Collective Well-Being in the Postsecular Age9
Analysis of Youth Pastoral Care in Croatia Through the Lens of the Synod on Youth9
“That Part of Us That Is Mystical”: The Paradoxical Pieties of Huey P. Newton9
Editorial for Special Issue “The Global Urgency of Interreligious Studies”9
Relics as Instruments of Divine Leadership in the First Crusade9
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 China9
“Decide This Doubt for Me”: William Cowper’s Olney Hymns (1779)9
Aligned in Human Dignity? Parallel Anthropological Aspects of EU Tech Regulation and Pope Francis’ Teaching on AI9
Equal Before God but Not Equal Before His Law? Sharia Law and Women’s Right to Interpretation in the Light of the Human Rights Debate9
Christian Beliefs About Salvation: Measurement and Associations with Mental Health and Well-Being9
Catholic, Shia and Shakta Salvation Through Mystical Sorrow: Holy Mothers and Sacred Families9
Wang Fuzhi on the Problem of Heaven and Human in the Religious Tradition of Confucianism9
Political Grief and the South Korean Church9
Faith, Bioethics, and Sustainable Development: A Christian Perspective on Bioethics of Care and the Challenges of Sustainability Transitions9
We Are Not One, We Are Legion—Secular State in Mexico, Local Dynamics of a Federal Issue9
Wake Up Cities! A Heritage Rebalancing Plan from the Sacred9
Widening the Circles of Dialogue: Paul VI and Interreligious Dialogue After 60 Years of Ecclesiam suam9
Linking Faith and Conservation in Sacred and Community Forests of Far Western Nepal9
The Scopes Trial and Its Long Shadow9
Securitization, Humanitarianism, and the Religious Dimension of European Migration Policy9
Towards a Public Theology of Menopause9
Contesting ‘Truth’: A Late Ottoman Response to Protestant Missionary Writings8
Fish, Fetishization, and Faith in the Arctic Ocean8
Freedom, Intentionality, and Trinitarian Love in Edith Stein’s Thought—The Need for a Phenomenology–Theology Dialogue to Have a Deeper Understanding of It8
Carnival in Rome: The Tension of Pope Paul III’s Dual Role Revisited8
A Moderate Proposal: Jonathan Dickinson and Benjamin Franklin Debate Freedom, Conscience, and Consensus8
Introduction of Spiritual Psychotherapy for Inpatient, Residential, and Intensive Treatment (SPIRIT) in The Netherlands: Translation and Adaptation of a Psychotherapy Protocol for Mental Health Care8
The Oneiro- and the Hagio-: Teaching about Dreams from the Standpoint of Comparative Hagiology8
Gender Conflicts in Contemporary Korean Buddhism8
The Narrative Foundations of Radical and Deradicalizing Online Discursive Spaces: A Comparison of the Cases of Generation Islam and Jamal al-Khatib in Germany8
The Widening, Deepening, and Lengthening of the Seven Mountains Mandate (7MM) Network: The Role of Network Apostolic Leadership8
Varieties of Revelation, Varieties of Truth—A Comparative Ontological Study of Revelation through Music and Sciences8
The Evolution of a Social Movement: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Path Between Political Ambition and the Rejection of Armed Struggle8
Vox populi (Dei), vox Dei: Pope Francis’ Theology of the People of God, the Priesthood of All Believers and Democracy8
“But Now I Consydre Thy Necesse”: Augustine’s Doctrine of Jewish Witness and the Restoration of Racial Hierarchies in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament8
Charismatic Embeddedness: A Cultural Starting Mechanism Generating Relational Goods in an Interreligious Field. An Analysis from Algeria8
Environmental Ethics and the Cambridge Platonist Henry More8
Harmony or Discordance between Sacramental and Liturgical Theology?8
Ólöf the Rich and a Cloth from Svalbarð, Iceland8
‘Let Us Just Be Humans’: Reading Allard Pierson’s True Humanity through the Lens of Caputo’s Religion without Religion8
A Critical Analysis of Cremation Burials Within Some of the South African Tribes: A Contextual Practical Theological View8
Revisiting Du Guangting: Theoretical Contributions and Religious Transformations Within Daoism During the Late Tang and Five Dynasties Periods8
Johannes Trithemius and Witches: Between Religion and Superstition8
Between Christ and Alexander: Strands of Typological Exegesis in Pseudo-Methodius’s Apocalypse8
Religiosity and Sexual Satisfaction in Middle Age: The Moderating Role of Nonconformity8
Zen in Early Persian Painting—A Study of the 1314–1315 Jāmiʿ al-Tavārīkh Illustrations8
The Art of Neighboring beyond the Nation: Ethnic and Religious Pluralism in Southwest China8
Inculturation at Home: The Belgian Catholic Project for Chinese Students (1920–1930s)8
In Altum—“Put Out into the Deep”: A Formation Program for Missionary Discipleship for Students at the University of Notre Dame Australia8
The Value of Old Age in the Teaching of Pope Francis8
“Sharing Worldviews: Learning in Encounter for Common Values in Diversity” in School and Teacher Education—Contexts in Germany and Europe8
Apocalypse as a Sacrifice: An Interpretation of Raimon Panikkar’s Arguments on Yajña7
Idealist Individualism or Indigenous Cosmology; Finding Entanglement across Species and Strata7
Is Sanctification Real? Empirical Evidence for and against Christian Moral Transformation7
The Puzzle of Revenge7
Religious Views of Suffering Profile Groups during COVID-197
Ecumeny at a Crossroads: Toward Unity or Community?7
Ancient Travellers, Intercultural Contact, and the Fear of Gods7
Flavors of Ecstasy: States of Absorption in Islamic and Jewish Contemplative Traditions7
Developing Christ as Consolatory Example in the Christ Encomium7
Time, Memoria, Creation: Receptions of Augustinism in the Philosophical Theology7
Is the Muslim Brotherhood a Sect?7
A Star God Is Born: Chintaku Reifujin Talismans in Japanese Religions7
The Pope of the Rain: The Extraordinary Solitude in the Media7
Theorizing Myth to Facilitate Comparison and Re-Description in Biblical Studies7
What Is the “Similarity” of Humankind? A Difference between Confucian and Mohist Religious Ethics7
An Analysis of the Relationship between Shenxian Daohua Ju and Daoism of the Yuan Dynasty7
When Film Mediatizes Taoism, What Does It Bring to Taoism?7
The Self as Source and Destination for Intuitive Interpretations of Religious or Spiritual Experiences7
Art and Influence, Presence and Navigation in Southern African Forager Landscapes7
Chiara Lubich and the Intercultural Dialogue—Educational Relevance in a Time of New Conflicts7
Sufism and Shari‘a: Contextualizing Contemporary Sufi Expressions7
Qualifying Religious Truth and Ecclesial Unity: The Soteriological Significance of Difference7
Mapping the Growth of the Nones in Spain: Dynamics, Diversity, and the Porous Boundaries of Non-Religion in the Postsecular Age7
The Spiritual Prodigy, the Reluctant Guru, and the Saint: Mirabai and Collaborative Leadership at Hari Krishna Mandir7
Love Jihad and the Governance of Gender and Intimacy in Hindu Nationalist Statecraft7
“The Light That Shineth in the Darkness”: Anglo-American Rural Missionaries and the Cuban Revolution7
Hesed in Ruth: A Frail Moral Tool in an Inflexible Social Structure7
Iconic Reconciliations in a Secular Setting: Recent Bohemian Examples7
The Role of Catholic Life Formation in Fostering Sustainable Environmental Attitudes among Selected Filipino SHS Students7
The Journey to G.R.A.C.E: Creating an International Community of Practice7
Epistemic Goods, Epistemic Norms, and Evangelization7
Crucified with the Brother from Galilee: Symbol of the Cross in Modernist Yiddish Imagination7
From Circle to Cycloid: The Philosophical Value of Religious Cult in Maurice Blondel’s L’Action7
Heidegger’s Way to “The Last God”7
Introduction to Syncretism and Pentecostalism in the Global South7
Logical Argument from Evil and Theism7
Saving Nation, Faith and Family. Yoram Hazony’s National Conservativism and Its Theo-Political Mission7
Insularity and Religious Life: The Case of Hellenistic Ikaros/Failaka Island7
Surviving Persia: Esther’s Scroll, Anti-Black Racism and the Propaganda of Peace and Progress7
Synchronizing Missio Dei with Process Theology and Theodicy7
Griby i Mukhi: A Historical Contextualization of the Esoteric Mushroom Religion of Moscow Conceptualism: Fungal Erotic Imagery of Entheogens and Insects7
Rhetorical Approach to the Periautology of Philippians 3:2–167
A Particular Kind of Love: On Faith and Understanding7
Expanding Ethical Horizons: Rethinking the Ethics of De 德 and Guṇa in the Laozi 老子 and Bhagavad-Gītā7
Foregrounding African Ontology/Epistemology: A Reading of Deuteronomy 23:3 and Ruth 4:18–22 Considering the Nature of God7
Catholic Higher Education in the United States: Exploring the Decision to Enroll from a Student’s (or a Student Advisor’s) Point of View7
University Student’s Perceptions on Interfaith Marriage in Indonesia: Openness, Idealism, and Reality7
The Epistemic Status of Mystical Experience in Ibn ʻArabī’s Legal Reasoning7
Historicizing Secular Subjectivities: Conceptual Erasures and Subjective Multi-Hybridizations7
Introduction to Special Issue “Language Translation in Localizing Religious Musical Practice”7
Precarious Hues: On Chromophobia, Chromophilia, and Transitions between Chromatic and Achromatic Colours in the Hebrew Bible7
50 Years of Criticizing Religion: A Historical Overview of Norwegian Religious Education7
What about Abraham? Abraham as Ingroup Exemplar and “Children of Abraham” as Superordinate Identity in Romans 46
Propaganda Fide and the Role of Apostolic Nuncios during the Early Modern Period: A Case Study of China6
‘This Is the Greatest Thing a Man Can Do’: Vocational Journeys of Recently Ordained Catholic Priests in Australia6
The Cultic Reformation Chiastic Structure in the Book of Kings6
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère: Believing or Learning as a Theological Virtue6
Christian Planetary Humanism in the Age of Climate Crisis6
An Incarnational Pneumatology Based on Romans 8.18-30: The Spirit as God’s Solidarity with a Suffering Creation6
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
Value Architecture and Salvation Technology—The Sacred in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra6
Religion, Animals, and Black Theology: The Spiritual Praxis of Sparing6
Researching Artificial Intelligence Applications in Evangelical and Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches: Purity, Bible, and Mission as Driving Forces6
Introduction: A Brief History of Theism and Its Alternatives6
Charisma in the Middle Ages: Theories, Practices, and Representations6
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
The Pursuit for Cosmic Wisdom and ‘Promethean’ Leadership in the Pythagorean and Al-Fārābīan Political Philosophy6
Churches in Europe and the Challenge of Cultural Witness6
The Healing Heuristic of the Medicine Buddha in Bhutan6
Giving, Showing, Saying: Jean-Luc Marion and Hans-Georg Gadamer on Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Revelation6
“Not my God”–Challenging the Usage of ‘Te Atua’ as Māori Terminology for the God of Christianity6
Pious Women Challenge Arrangements Anchored in the Dominancy of the Religious Discourse: Druze Women in Israel as a Case Study6
Learning from Black Lives Matter: Resisting Purity Culture in US Antitrafficking6
Young Educators’ Voices on Interfaith Dialogue and Religious Diversity in Leisure Time Education: Towards an Effective Policy Framework and Training6
The Neo-Positive Value of Symbolic Representations and Ritual Politics: Reconsidering the South Korean Allegory in Popular Film, Asura: The City of Madness6
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
Islam, Salafism, and Peace: Facing the Challenges of Tradition and Change6
Ferdinand Christian Baur on Religion: A Historicist Approach in an Idealist Context6
ESG Capitalism from a Law and Religion Perspective6
Assessing the Mode of Biblical Interpretation in the Light of African Biblical Hermeneutics: The Case of the Mother-Tongue Biblical Interpretation in Ghana6
Examining the Influence of Meaning in Life and Religion/Spirituality on Student Engagement and Learning Satisfaction: A Comprehensive Analysis6
‘Messianic Fraternity’: Anticommunism in the General Conferences of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopate6
BLESSING: Exploring the Religious, Anthropological and Ethical Meaning6
Reconceptualizing Houses of Worship to Advance Comparisons across Religious Traditions6
‘We’re Islam in Their Eyes’: Using an Interpellation Framework to Understand Why Being a Woman Matters When Countering Islamophobia6
Exploring Literature in Islam Beyond (Secularized) Christian Normativity in Western Academia6
Gender Discourse in the Gurucaritra: A Close-Reading of Three Women’s Narratives6
Animism and Science6
General Baptist Women in Orissa, India: Initiatives in Female Education, 1860s–1880s6
Black or White: The Art of Rhetoric in Sunset Limited6
“Cross Is Fix”: Christianity and Christian Community as Vehicles for Overcoming Settlement Crises of Chinese Immigrant Families6
A Foreign People: Towards a Holistic Identity Theory within a Christian Context6
Neighbours in the City: “Four Animal Spirits” in Beijing from the 19th Century to the Present6
Religious Buildings in Early al-Andalus: Origins, Consolidation and Prevalence in Urban Contexts6
Muslim Women Travelling Alone6
The Indigenization Strategies of Catholic Painting in Early 20th Century China6
Humanizing the It: Martin Buber on Technology and the Ethics of Things6
Presence and Personhood: Investigating Christian Chaplaincy Care in Two Residential Dementia Units6
Human Rights and Religions: An Overview on a Controversial Relationship6
St. Thomas Aquinas on God as Ipsum Esse Subsistens6
Belief in Drama: A Study of the Religious Factors in Ancient Chinese Puppet Dramas6
Introduction to the Special Issue “The Role of Religion in Marriage and Family Life”6
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