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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
RES volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter33
On astrotheology as natural theology28
AI-mediated mystical experiences20
Compositionalism, Nestorianism, and the principle of no co-member parts17
Self-annihilation in Marguerite Porete15
Author's Note for Symposium on A Hidden Wisdom9
Hans Van Eyghen, The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (London: Routledge, 2023). Pp. 168. £96.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032249988.8
Non-belief as self-deception?7
Divine Contradiction: replies to critics7
Even more happiness in hell6
‘Block’ing evil’s defeat5
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Front matter5
The restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion4
Evil and responsibility in the Quran4
The privation theory of evil and the evil-God challenge4
Murphy's Anselmian theism and the problem of evil4
An existentialist response to the problem of evil a la Jorge Portilla3
The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer3
Mysticism and scholasticism3
RES volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
How reincarnations can resolve moral issues for non-sufferer-focused theodicies3
RES volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
The opposition of omnibenevolence towards evil3
Sceptical theism, divine commands, and love3
How to believe in immortality3
Non-personal immortality3
Salih Sayilgan. God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. xvii + 224 (Hbk). ISBN 9781009377317.3
Is there non-resistant non-belief?2
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: 9781350189133.2
Theology meets philosophy of science2
José Eduardo Porcher. Afro-Brazilian Religions, Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). Pp 82. $ 22. ISBN97810094690122
Divine and mortal loves2
Artificial intelligence and the alienness of God2
Why philosophers should read Paradise Lost2
Selfhood, persistence, and immortality in Jaina philosophy2
Pointless atheism2
In defence of natural religion2
The wisdom of ghosts2
RES volume 61 issue S2 Cover and Back matter2
The characteristic damage of analytic theology: a response to William Wood2
‘Only God, my dear’: being loved for oneself and creation from nothing2
Alan L. Berger Elie Wiesel: Humanist Messenger for Peace (New York: Routledge, 2021). Pp. xiv + 164. £130.00 (Hbk), £35.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9780415738231.2
The 2024 Big Question Short Essay Competition2
The problem with the problem of mourning2
Is the desire for life rational?2
The problem of unconceived alternatives in science and religion2
Grounding panentheism1
Experimental philosophy and the problem of evil1
Shifting Perspectives in African Philosophy of Religion1
RES volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
My religion preaches ‘p’, but I don't believe that p: Moore's Paradox in religious assertions1
Evil and evidence: a reply to Bass1
RES volume 61 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
You could be immaterial (or not)1
African Traditional Religion and moral philosophy1
Unpacking conceptual idolatry1
Omnisubjectivity, counteractuals, and relating perfectly to subjectivity1
Is theism compatible with pointless non-resistant non-belief?1
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Byung-Chul Han The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (Cambridge: Polity, 2022). Pp. vii + 120. £12.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781509545100.1
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
The problem of unconceived alternatives in science and religion - ERRATUM1
An interview with Richard Swinburne1
The Sceptical Muslim1
Prospects and possibilities for interfaith environmentalism1
Atheistic modal realism1
Semantic compositionality and Berkeley's divine language argument1
Divine domination1
Are we free to work miracles? On Peter van Inwagen's concept of the miraculous1
Helen De Cruz (1978–2025): an academic and personal tribute1
Engaging and developing Ada Agada's philosophy: moral responsibility, creation, and the problem of evil1
Philosophy and the contemplative way of life1
Schelling and the problem of evil1
Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch1
Modal-epistemic arguments for the existence of God based on the possibility of the omniscience and/or refutation of the strong agnosticism1
Communal sin, atonement, and group non-agential moral responsibility1
Conversational implicatures cannot save divine command theory from the counterpossible terrible commands objection1
RES volume 58 issue S1 Cover and Front matter1
Women-focused Special Issue1
Divine psychology and cosmic fine-tuning1
Aquinas's science-engaged theology1
Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers, Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025). Pp. 528. £25.01
RES volume 61 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Newman on emotion and cognition in the Grammar of Assent1
An interview with Keith Ward1
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
The apple of God's eye: a biblical account of holiness1
Exemplars in ‘science and religion’: a theological dialogue with Thomas Kuhn1
R. T. Mullins, From Divine Timemaker to Divine Watchmaker: An Exploration of God’s Temporality Routledge Studies in Analytic and Systematic Theology (Routledge: New York, 2025). Pp. 318. $144.00 (Hbk)1
Roberto Di Ceglie God, the Good, and the Spiritual Turn in Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 350. £64.95 (Hbk). ISBN 9781009203531.1
Evil is still evidence: comment on Almeida1
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Back matter1
The doing/allowing distinction in the divine context1
The ‘Diderot Objection’ to Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology1
On Orthodox panentheism1
No new problem for the Trinity: A reply to Mooney1
Falsity and untruth1
An interview with John Leslie1
Free will and the moral vice explanation of hell's finality1
True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud1
A metaphysics of spiritual experience1
The perspectival account of faith1
Is religious experience epistemologically reliable? An embodied-philosophical inquiry1
God as an asset and some paradoxical implications1
Can panpsychism solve thorny theological problems?1
RES volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Editorial introduction: special issue on panpsychism and pan(en)theism0
What could it mean to say that sex is eternal?0
Engaging philosophically with Afro-Brazilian religions0
Lucifer’s disordered love and the first-person perspective: an Augustinian account of primal sin0
Saṅghabhadra's arguments for the existence of an intermediate state (antarābhava) between biological death and rebirth as translated by Xuanzang (602?–664 ce)0
Engaging Jeffrey Koperski’s decretalism: is occasionalism really avoidable?0
Non-ideal theory in the philosophy of religion: Exploring implications of non-ideal theorising for the problem of evil0
RES volume 61 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
‘Hell? Yes!’ Moorean reasons to reject three objections to the possibility of damnation0
Modal panentheism: Developed and defended0
A new problem of evil?0
Sceptical theists can endorse the fine-tuning argument0
RES volume 60 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Shifting the spotlight: What do we mean by ‘religious language’?0
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
RES volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
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
A guide to the AfterDeath: Maimonides on olam ha-ba’0
Worship and the problems of human evil and suffering0
Embodied constructivism: the imagination as a vehicle for mental time travel0
An interview with Graham Oppy0
Hidden grounds of religious hinge commitments0
The modal argument and Bailey's contingent physicalism: a rejoinder0
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
Divine domination - ERRATUM0
RES volume 59 issue S1 Cover and Back matter0
RES volume 60 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
RES volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Jc Beall, The Contradictory Christ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 185. £45.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780199952360.0
Embodied world construction: a phenomenology of ritual0
Analytic theology and science-engaged theology0
The good watchmaker0
Analytic theology and the academic study of religion: an overview0
A Christian ethics of blame: or, God says, ‘vengeance is mine’0
Death, deathless states, and time-consciousness in Sikh philosophy0
The problem of misfortunes0
Counting hiddenness: cognitive science and the distribution of belief in God0
Life after life: Mullā Ṣadrā on death and immortality0
Earthly life is not pointless for universalists0
RES volume 61 issue S2 Cover and Front matter0
Francis Fallon and Gavin Hyman (eds.). Agnosticism: Explorations in Philosophy and Religious Thought (Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press 2020). P0
Andrea Aguti, Il miracolo. Saggio di filosofia della religione (Morcelliana, 2025). Pp. 224. € 20.00. ISBN 8837240082.0
Two ‘logic’ problems for religious expressivists0
In defence of Rebel Angel Theodicy0
Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution0
Panentheism as cosmopolitanism: Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's conception of a global human league0
The presumption of compatibilism0
Glutty and simple?0
Should panpsychists be supernaturalists?0
Examining the logical argument of the problem of evil from an African perspective0
Should panpsychists be Christians?0
The Direct Argument, Rule B, and divine determinism0
The regeneration of the cosmic mind: cosmopsychism, mental chaos, and the new creation0
Theology as social knowledge0
Mulder’s hail Mary0
God, the laws of nature, and occasionalism0
The functional mind and the trinitarian God0
Can pantheism explain the existence of the universe?0
Reasonable faith and reasonable fideism0
Is the cosmological argument intuitive?0
Anselm on THAT, THIS, and panpsychism0
‘Orthodox panentheism’ is neither orthodox nor coherent0
Experimenting with philosophy of religion: Lessons from two decades of experimental philosophy0
Why there is no obligation to love 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 Existence and Nature of Deities0
Yujin Nagasawa, The Problem of Evil for Atheists(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). pp. xiii + 252. £ 76.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198901884.0
Love, suffering, and the problem of valorisation in Eleonore Stump’s The Image of God0
‘There can be only one’: A response to Joseph C. Schmid0
Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964–2023)0
Death and meaning(lessness): re-examining the African view0
Divine authority as divine parenthood0
Timothy Knepper Philosophies of Religion: A Global and Critical Introduction (London: Bloomsbury, 2023). Pp. xvi + 476. £24.99/US$34.95 (Pbk). ISBN 9781350262966.0
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
Shared intentionality and divine persons: explorations in empirical psychology and ramified natural theology0
Consciousness and Śakti-based Vedānta cosmopsychism: A philosophical reconstruction of Jīva’s Bhedābheda Vedānta0
The existence and nature of God: contributions from Latin America0
Ramon Harvey. Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp xv + 280. $33.90 (Pbk). ISBN 9781470
On defining ‘fundamentalism’0
The curious case of the marginalized mystics0
Consubstantial dualism: a Zoroastrian perspective on the soul0
Daniel A. Dombrowski, Process Mysticism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2023). Pp. x + 248. £19.95 (Pbk.). ISBN 97814384913560
In defence of qua-Christology0
Trinity, simplicity, and contradictory theology: a theologian's reflections0
In defence of God’s rational creativity: A reply to Gould0
Does panpsychism entail anti-realism? The worm in the panpsychist apple0
Conceivability and perfect being theology0
Abraham, Isaac, and the toxin: a Kavkan reading of the binding of Isaac0
In defence of partial faith0
An argument for the perspectival account of faith0
The African perfect God and limited God views and making a better world0
Do religious fictionalists face a problem of evil?0
The unreality of traditional Islamic theism's views on belief, providence, and eschatology: a rejoinder to Tabur0
What if God was all of us? Why the definition of ‘God’ matters in analytic discussions of meaning in life0
RES volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
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
Beth Singler Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2025). pp. 1–217. £35.99 (Pbk). ISBN 97810321876480
Jerry L. Martin: Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age (Doylestown, PA: Caladium Publishing, 2025). Pp. [14]+363. $14.99 (Pbk). ISBN0
Should atheists be worried about modal Calvinist epistemology?0
Fluctuating maximal God, the problem of inconsistent evil, and spacetime changes0
When to give weight to weighty religious disagreement0
How much horrific suffering is enough?0
Naturalism is an unexpected ally of theism in tackling the problem of religious diversity0
Conceptualizing divine trust0
In defence of God making stuff up: a reply to Ward0
Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought0
Reversing Pascal: scepticism about religious belief and its value0
Panpsychism’s problem of evil?0
Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive0
Would integration with religious studies improve analytic theology?0
Wittgensteinian blasphemy: what it's like to be a heretic0
Pretending to be a believer: on understanding religious fictionalism as a role-playing game0
Roberto di Ceglie Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022). Pp. x + 196. £120.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032191805.0
Evil and suffering in the world0
The old gods as a live possibility: on the rational feasibility of non-doxastic paganism0
A model of worldview formation0
In defence of Mary's consent: a response to Hereth0
RES volume 60 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
‘Not so much thought out as danced out’: expanding philosophy of religion in the light of Candomblé0
Prospects and pitfalls of science-engaged theology0
Intellectual humility and Christian faith0
Nagasawa's Maximal God and the Ontological Argument0
Elizabeth Pérez, The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 84. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781009031530.0
RES volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Robert C. Roberts, Virtue Ethics in Christian Perspective (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2024). Pp. ix+178. £20 (pbk). ISBN 9781498207980.0
Paul Draper. Atheism and the Problem of Evil (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025). Pp. 1+182. $100.00 (Hbk) ISBN 97801928471640
Clifford Williams, Religion and the Meaning of Life: An Existential Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. vi + 189. £22.99 (Pbk). I0
An evaluative ontological argument0
Minding Creation: response to critics0
Psychic immunity and uncomprehended pain: what Maimonides can tell us about the problem of suffering0
How much like us?0
RES volume 61 issue S1 Cover and Front matter0
God, love, and analytic philosophy of religion: a feminist proposal0
By what measure? A signpost theory of the truth of doctrine0
Values and facts and fancies0
Is ‘orthodox panentheism’ unorthodox? A response to James Dominic Rooney0
God's creativity and religious diversity: a theistic argument for a transformative pluralism0
Experimental philosophy of religion0
The deal at the dawn of time0
Engaging with Joanna Leidenhag's Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation0
Truth without truths: Grim's Cantorian paradox and the ontology of the objects of omniscience0
Joshua Sijuwade. Analytic Theism: A Philosophical Investigation (New York: Routledge Press, 2024). Pp. 1–647. £135.00 (Hbk ISBN 978-1-032-26359-20
The hard problem of ‘pure’ consciousness: Sāṃkhya dualist ontology0
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
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