Religious Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Religious Studies 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The presumption of compatibilism13
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Experimental philosophy and the problem of evil12
Private evidence for atheism8
Gorazd Andrejč and Daniel H. Weiss (eds) Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein (Leiden: Brill, 2019). Pp. xiv + 243. £100.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9789004397927.7
David Patterson, Portraits: The Hasidic Legacy of Elie Wiesel (New York: SUNY Press, 2021). Pp. 308. $95.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781438483979.7
Two ‘logic’ problems for religious expressivists6
God as an asset and some paradoxical implications6
How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer6
Do religious fictionalists face a problem of evil?6
Why might God create?4
Do we need an account of prayer to address the problem for praying without ceasing?4
Questions on the Book of Job4
Is God a person? Maimonides, Crescas, and beyond4
Minding Creation: an overview3
Probing the mind of God: divine beliefs and credences3
Reasonable faith and reasonable fideism2
The hard problem of ‘pure’ consciousness: Sāṃkhya dualist ontology2
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Evil and embodiment: towards a Latter-day Saint non-identity theodicy2
Absolute identity and the Trinity2
Author's Note for Symposium on A Hidden Wisdom2
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour Necessary Existence and Monotheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 1 + 75. £15.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781108940054.2
Even more happiness in hell2
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Self-annihilation in Marguerite Porete2
Shades of faith: the phenomenon of doubt in early Christianity2
Compositionalism, Nestorianism, and the principle of no co-member parts2
Does analytic theology belong in the public university?2
Pretending to be a believer: on understanding religious fictionalism as a role-playing game1
Global perspectives on death and immortality1
Yujin Nagasawa, The Problem of Evil for Atheists(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). pp. xiii + 252. £ 76.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198901884.1
You could be immaterial (or not)1
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Evil is still evidence: comment on Almeida1
Panentheism as cosmopolitanism: Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's conception of a global human league1
Divine Contradiction: replies to critics1
Abraham, Isaac, and the toxin: a Kavkan reading of the binding of Isaac1
Hans Van Eyghen, The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (London: Routledge, 2023). Pp. 168. £96.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032249988.1
Exemplars in ‘science and religion’: a theological dialogue with Thomas Kuhn1
Byung-Chul Han The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (Cambridge: Polity, 2022). Pp. vii + 120. £12.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781509545100.1
Non-belief as self-deception?1
Existence exists, and it is God1
Joseph C. Schmid and Daniel J. Linford, Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs (Cham: Springer, 2023). Pp. xvi + 378. £104.25. (Hbk). ISBN 9783031193125.1
Sceptical theism undermines the fine-tuning argument. Mostly1
Evil and evidence: a reply to Bass1
Human rights and divine holiness1
Atheistic modal realism1
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The restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion1
Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution1
Ramon Harvey. Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp xv + 280. $33.90 (Pbk). ISBN 97814744516591
God's creativity and religious diversity: a theistic argument for a transformative pluralism1
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In defence of qua-Christology1
Newman on emotion and cognition in the Grammar of Assent1
Locke and Hume on competing miracles1
Joseph Rivera and Joseph S. O’Leary (eds) Theological Fringes of Phenomenology (London: Routledge, 2024). Pp. xii + 248. £108.00 (Hbk.) ISBN: 97810324721191
Afro-Brazilian religions and religious diversity: contributions to pluralism1
Our lives go better in a world created by God1
Perceiving God like an angel1
On the virtues of neutrality1
Powers, possibility, and the essential cosmological argument1
Embodied world construction: a phenomenology of ritual1
Sceptical theism, the parent analogy, and many goods1
The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer1
Andrew M. Davis, Metaphysics of Exo-Life: Toward a Constructive Whiteheadian Cosmotheology (Grasmere: SacraSage Press, 2023). Pp. 195 + xvii. $24.99 (Pbk). ISBN 978-1-958670-04-0.1
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The functions of natural theology in Thomas Aquinas: A presumption of atheism?1
Travis Dumsday, Alternative Conceptions of the Spiritual: Polytheism, Animism, and More in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). Pp 240. £59.50. ISBN 978135031
Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices (New York: New York University Press). Pp. 255. £23.00. ISBN 1479804347.1
Ibn Taymiyya on theistic signs and knowledge of God0
Death and meaning(lessness): re-examining the African view0
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How much horrific suffering is enough?0
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Optimism without theism? Nagasawa on atheism, evolution, and evil0
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Wisdom and methodological diversity in philosophy of religion0
A defence of merit transfer: Aquinas's interpretation and desert theory0
‘Orthodox panentheism’ is neither orthodox nor coherent0
Kirk Lougheed (ed.), Four Views on the Axiology of Theism: What Difference Does God Make? (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020). Pp. ix + 177. £85.00 (Hbk). ISBN 781350083530.0
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Trinity, simplicity, and contradictory theology: a theologian's reflections0
Two challenges for ‘no-norms’ theism0
‘Not so much thought out as danced out’: expanding philosophy of religion in the light of Candomblé0
Engaging and developing Ada Agada's philosophy: moral responsibility, creation, and the problem of evil0
The nature and significance of the Hindu Divine Mother in embodied thealogical perspective0
Robin Le Poidevin And Was Made Man: Mind, Metaphysics, and Incarnation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023). Pp. xv + 229. £65.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780199676576.0
Human dominion and wild animal suffering0
Medha Bhattacharyya, Rabindranath Tagore's Śāntiniketan Essays: Religion, Spirituality and Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group). Pp. 170. £120.00 (Hbk), £34.99 (Pbk)0
The Existence and Nature of Deities0
Theorizing about faith and faithfulness with Jonathan Kvanvig0
On Orthodox panentheism0
The muʿtazila's arguments against divine command theory0
One goodness, many goodnesses, and the Divine Ideas Imitation Theory0
The Sceptical Muslim0
On the rationality of semi-secular simultaneity: a non-doxastic interpretation of the seemingly inconsistent worldviews of some Swedish ‘nones’0
Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964–2023)0
Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought0
The old gods as a live possibility: on the rational feasibility of non-doxastic paganism0
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A. Goshen-Gottstein (ed.) Religious Truth: Towards a Jewish Theology of Religions (London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, 2020a). Pp. 205. £0
The problem with the problem of mourning0
Axé as the cornerstone of Candomblé philosophy and its significance for an understanding of well-being (bem estar)0
Original sin, control, and divine blame: some critical reflections on the moderate doctrine of original sin0
Elizabeth Pérez, The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 84. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781009031530.0
Examining the logical argument of the problem of evil from an African perspective0
Samuel Lebens, The Principles of Judaism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Pp. xviii + 352. £75.00/$100.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198843252.0
Life after life: Mullā Ṣadrā on death and immortality0
Worship: bowing down in the service of God0
Robyn Horner and Claude Romano (eds), The Experience of Atheism: Phenomenology, Metaphysics and Religion (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). Pp. x + 206. £70.00. ISBN 1350167630.0
The apple of God's eye: a biblical account of holiness0
Engaging Jeffrey Koperski’s decretalism: is occasionalism really avoidable?0
T. M. Luhrmann, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020). Pp. xv + 235. £25.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780691164465.0
‘Hell? Yes!’ Moorean reasons to reject three objections to the possibility of damnation0
Fluctuating maximal God, the problem of inconsistent evil, and spacetime changes0
Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erick Baldwin Classical Theism and Buddhism: Connecting Metaphysical and Ethical Systems (London: Bloomsbury, 2022). Pp. x + 161. £85.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 9781350189133.0
Muslim philosophers on the privation theory of evil0
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An interview with Richard Swinburne0
Propositional faith and trustworthiness0
In defence of partial faith0
Clifford Williams, Religion and the Meaning of Life: An Existential Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. vi + 189. £22.99 (Pbk). ISBN: 978-1-108-43298-60
Psychic immunity and uncomprehended pain: what Maimonides can tell us about the problem of suffering0
God, Über-God, and Unter-God0
In defence of Mary's consent: a response to Hereth0
Contractualism, exclusionary reasons and the moral argument for theism0
The transformative power of accepting God's love0
Are there de jure objections to Mādhvic belief?0
An argument for the perspectival account of faith0
Being a ‘not-quite-Buddhist theist’0
Semantic compositionality and Berkeley's divine language argument0
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Kelly James Clark and Justin Winslett A Spiritual Geography of Early Chinese Thought: Gods, Ancestors, and Afterlife (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2023). Pp. 1–225. £85.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781350262170
Conversational implicatures cannot save divine command theory from the counterpossible terrible commands objection0
Divine command theory and the (supposed) incoherence of self-commanding0
‘The metaphysical objection’ and concurrentist co-operation0
Why God allows undeserved horrendous evil0
The regeneration of the cosmic mind: cosmopsychism, mental chaos, and the new creation0
In defence of Rebel Angel Theodicy0
David E. Cooper Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge (Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda, 2024). pp. xiv + 168. £18.99 (Pbk. ISBN 9781788217705)0
Monism in Indian philosophy: the coherence, complexity, and connectivity of reality in Śaṃkara's arguments for Brahman0
The deal at the dawn of time0
Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt, and Eric Schwitzgebel, Philosophy Through Science Fiction: Exploring the Boundaries of the Possible (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). Pp. 251. £26.95 (Pbk). ISBN 97810
Jc Beall, The Contradictory Christ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 185. £45.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780199952360.0
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Lucifer’s disordered love and the first-person perspective: an Augustinian account of primal sin0
If naturalism is true, then scientific explanation is impossible0
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The Trinity as social and constitutional: a rejoinder to Brian Leftow0
Theorizing about Christian faith in God with John Bishop0
Reversing Pascal: scepticism about religious belief and its value0
Free will and the moral vice explanation of hell's finality0
Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck's Theological Epistemology (London: T&T Clark, 2020). Pp. x + 197. £28.99 (Pbk). ISBN 978-0-5676-9898-8.0
Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity0
Doing, Allowing, and Occasionalism0
Necessary existent theology0
José Eduardo Porcher. Afro-Brazilian Religions, Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). Pp 82. $ 22. ISBN97810094690120
The ‘Diderot Objection’ to Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology0
Divine and mortal loves0
Kirk Lougheed, Motsamai Molefe, Thaddeus Metz, African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. 78. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 97810095248960
The unreality of traditional Islamic theism's views on belief, providence, and eschatology: a rejoinder to Tabur0
The doing/allowing distinction in the divine context0
Worship and the problems of human evil and suffering0
Can pantheism explain the existence of the universe?0
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The logical problem of the incarnation: a new solution0
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Non-personal immortality0
Towards a Buddhist theism0
Minding Creation: response to critics0
Murphy's Anselmian theism and the problem of evil0
The semantics of Afro-Brazilian spirits: Applying Davidson on prior and passing theories0
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Amen to daat: on the foundations of Jewish epistemology0
The wisdom of ghosts0
A guide to the AfterDeath: Maimonides on olam ha-ba’0
Anxiety, alienation, and estrangement in the context of social media0
The curious case of the marginalized mystics0
A Christian ethics of blame: or, God says, ‘vengeance is mine’0
Francis Fallon and Gavin Hyman (eds.). Agnosticism: Explorations in Philosophy and Religious Thought (Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press 2020). Pp. x + 218. £78.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 978019880
Rita D. Sherma (ed.), Swami Vivekananda: His Life, Legacy, and Liberative Ethics (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021). Pp. xxx + 261. £73.00/US$95.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781498586047.0
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OP David Goodill Nature as Guide: Wittgenstein and the Renewal of Moral Theology (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2022). Pp. xiii + 319. £70.50 (Hbk). ISBN 97808132344580
Calum Miller's attempted refutation of Michael Tooley's evidential argument from evil0
Counting hiddenness: cognitive science and the distribution of belief in God0
Does God know our future sins?0
In defence of God making stuff up: a reply to Ward0
Shared intentionality and divine persons: explorations in empirical psychology and ramified natural theology0
Can the constitution be saved?0
Anabaptist two kingdom dualism: metaphysical grounding for non-violence0
A Buddhist's guide to self-destruction: Jñānaśrīmitra on the structure of yogic perception0
Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch0
Normative appraisals of faith in God0
‘There can be only one’: A response to Joseph C. Schmid0
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Is the desire for life rational?0
Why the Jesus as mother tradition undermines the symbolic argument against women's ordination0
The mythic narratives of Candomblé Nagô and what they imply about its Supreme Being0
Özgür Koca Islam, Causality, and Freedom: From the Medieval to the Modern Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 287. £75.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781108496346.0
Paul K. Moser, Understanding Religious Experience: From Conviction to Life's Meaning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. xi + 352. £29.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781108558785.0
Why the Good is supremely good: a defence of the Monologion proof0
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Why there is no obligation to love God0
God, the laws of nature, and occasionalism0
Evil and suffering in the world0
No new problem for the Trinity: A reply to Mooney0
Does the Orthodox tradition have anything to contribute to analytic theology?0
Jordan Wessling Love Divine: A Systematic Account of God's Love for Humanity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Pp. 288. £70.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 9780198852483.0
Naturalism, classical theism, and first causes0
Selfhood, persistence, and immortality in Jaina philosophy0
Conceptual plausibility and the rationality of theistic belief0
Wittgensteinian blasphemy: what it's like to be a heretic0
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Adam C. Pelser and W. Scott Cleveland (eds), Faith and Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy in Aid of Becoming Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). £75.00. ISBN 978-0-1928-9534-9.0
In defence of natural religion0
By what measure? A signpost theory of the truth of doctrine0
Scientism and the value of scientific evidence for religious belief0
Embracing the mystery: David Hume's playful religion of wonder0
Created goodness and the goodness of God: divine ideas and the possibility of creaturely value0
Death, deathless states, and time-consciousness in Sikh philosophy0
Pointless atheism0
Roberto di Ceglie Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022). Pp. x + 196. £120.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032191805.0
Deontological sceptical theism proved0
Robert Vinten (ed.) Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion: Interpreting Human Nature and the Mind (London: Bloomsbury, 2023). Pp. xii + 238. £28.99/US$39.95 (Pbk). ISBN 978135032930
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Divine Contradiction: some snippets0
A philosophical account of repentance0
Is the cosmological argument intuitive?0
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Divine psychology and cosmic fine-tuning0
A modified Meditation: exploring a grounding modal ontological argument0
Joshua Sijuwade. Analytic Theism: A Philosophical Investigation (New York: Routledge Press, 2024). Pp. 1–647. £135.00 (Hbk ISBN 978-1-032-26359-20
Causal and non-causal explanations in theology: the case of Aquinas's primary–secondary causation distinction0
Religion, hypocrisy, and betting on secularity: reversing Smilansky's wager0
A metaphysics of spiritual experience0
A Harrean perspective of theology0
Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive0
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger? Post-traumatic growth and the problem of suffering0
An Integral Advaitic theodicy of spiritual evolution:karma, rebirth, universal salvation, and mystical panentheism0
Conceptualizing divine trust0
True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud0
On sin-based responses to divine hiddenness0
Oppy on Thomistic cosmological arguments0
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