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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Divine Contradiction: replies to critics16
Non-belief as self-deception?15
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Private evidence for atheism12
Hans Van Eyghen, The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (London: Routledge, 2023). Pp. 168. £96.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032249988.12
Compositionalism, Nestorianism, and the principle of no co-member parts8
Even more happiness in hell6
Author's Note for Symposium on A Hidden Wisdom6
Self-annihilation in Marguerite Porete6
Evil and responsibility in the Quran5
Murphy's Anselmian theism and the problem of evil4
The restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion4
The transformative power of accepting God's love3
Sceptical theism, divine commands, and love3
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The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer3
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The characteristic damage of analytic theology: a response to William Wood2
Evil is not evidence2
How to believe in immortality2
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An Integral Advaitic theodicy of spiritual evolution:karma, rebirth, universal salvation, and mystical panentheism2
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
Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity2
Non-personal immortality2
‘Block’ing evil’s defeat2
The privation theory of evil and the evil-God challenge2
Artificial intelligence and the alienness of God2
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
Naturalism, classical theism, and first causes2
Mysticism and scholasticism2
An existentialist response to the problem of evil a la Jorge Portilla2
Salih Sayilgan. God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. xvii + 224 (Hbk). ISBN 9781009377317.2
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Selfhood, persistence, and immortality in Jaina philosophy2
In defence of natural religion2
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Divine psychology and cosmic fine-tuning1
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The wisdom of ghosts1
José Eduardo Porcher. Afro-Brazilian Religions, Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). Pp 82. $ 22. ISBN97810094690121
The 2024 Big Question Short Essay Competition1
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
God as an asset and some paradoxical implications1
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
On Orthodox panentheism1
Conversational implicatures cannot save divine command theory from the counterpossible terrible commands objection1
Atheistic modal realism1
Free will and the moral vice explanation of hell's finality1
The proper basicality of belief in God and the evil-god challenge1
The ‘Diderot Objection’ to Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology1
An interview with Keith Ward1
The Sceptical Muslim1
Divine domination1
A metaphysics of spiritual experience1
Pointless atheism1
You could be immaterial (or not)1
Evil is still evidence: comment on Almeida1
An interview with John Leslie1
RES volume 58 issue S1 Cover and Front matter1
Exemplars in ‘science and religion’: a theological dialogue with Thomas Kuhn1
Unpacking conceptual idolatry1
Communal sin, atonement, and group non-agential moral responsibility1
No new problem for the Trinity: A reply to Mooney1
Roberto Di Ceglie God, the Good, and the Spiritual Turn in Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 350. £64.95 (Hbk). ISBN 9781009203531.1
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
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Is the desire for life rational?1
Philosophy and the contemplative way of life1
An interview with Richard Swinburne1
The problem with the problem of mourning1
Divine and mortal loves1
Experimental philosophy and the problem of evil1
Schelling and the problem of evil1
Falsity and untruth1
Newman on emotion and cognition in the Grammar of Assent1
Can panpsychism solve thorny theological problems?1
Human dominion and wild animal suffering1
Byung-Chul Han The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (Cambridge: Polity, 2022). Pp. vii + 120. £12.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781509545100.1
Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch1
Evil and evidence: a reply to Bass1
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The Aloneness Argument fails0
Joseph Rivera and Joseph S. O’Leary (eds) Theological Fringes of Phenomenology (London: Routledge, 2024). Pp. xii + 248. £108.00 (Hbk.) ISBN: 97810324721190
Why the Jesus as mother tradition undermines the symbolic argument against women's ordination0
Abraham, Isaac, and the toxin: a Kavkan reading of the binding of Isaac0
Analytic theology and the academic study of religion: an overview0
Shades of faith: the phenomenon of doubt in early Christianity0
A defence of merit transfer: Aquinas's interpretation and desert theory0
‘Hell? Yes!’ Moorean reasons to reject three objections to the possibility of damnation0
On the virtues of neutrality0
Engaging Jeffrey Koperski’s decretalism: is occasionalism really avoidable?0
Two ‘logic’ problems for religious expressivists0
Reasonable faith and reasonable fideism0
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David Patterson, Portraits: The Hasidic Legacy of Elie Wiesel (New York: SUNY Press, 2021). Pp. 308. $95.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781438483979.0
Joshua Sijuwade. Analytic Theism: A Philosophical Investigation (New York: Routledge Press, 2024). Pp. 1–647. £135.00 (Hbk ISBN 978-1-032-26359-20
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
Pretending to be a believer: on understanding religious fictionalism as a role-playing game0
Rāmānuja’s cosmopsychist-panentheistic solution to the hard problem of consciousness0
The alchemy of suffering in the laboratory of the world: Vedāntic Hindu engagements with the affliction of animals0
The deal at the dawn of time0
Being a ‘not-quite-Buddhist theist’0
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Absolute identity and the Trinity0
Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964–2023)0
Intellectual humility and Christian faith0
Counting hiddenness: cognitive science and the distribution of belief in God0
Death and meaning(lessness): re-examining the African view0
Panpsychism’s problem of evil?0
Anselm on THAT, THIS, and panpsychism0
RES volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
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
Psychic immunity and uncomprehended pain: what Maimonides can tell us about the problem of 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
Embodied world construction: a phenomenology of ritual0
Shared intentionality and divine persons: explorations in empirical psychology and ramified natural theology0
The modal argument and Bailey's contingent physicalism: a rejoinder0
In defence of God making stuff up: a reply to Ward0
‘Orthodox panentheism’ is neither orthodox nor coherent0
Analytic theology and science-engaged theology0
Trinity, simplicity, and contradictory theology: a theologian's reflections0
Jerry L. Martin (ed.), Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative (London and New York: Routledge, 2020). Pp. xiii + 268. $160 (Hbk) ISBN 9780367028718.0
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Evil and suffering in the world0
The regeneration of the cosmic mind: cosmopsychism, mental chaos, and the new creation0
Experimental philosophy of religion0
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
Non-ideal theory in the philosophy of religion: Exploring implications of non-ideal theorising for the problem of evil0
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
Worship and the problems of human evil and suffering0
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 978135030
By what measure? A signpost theory of the truth of doctrine0
A guide to the AfterDeath: Maimonides on olam ha-ba’0
Saṅghabhadra's arguments for the existence of an intermediate state (antarābhava) between biological death and rebirth as translated by Xuanzang (602?–664 ce)0
Life after life: Mullā Ṣadrā on death and immortality0
Our lives go better in a world created by God0
In defence of qua-Christology0
Glutty and simple?0
Divine Contradiction: some snippets0
Minding Creation: an overview0
Wisdom and methodological diversity in philosophy of religion0
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
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How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer0
A Buddhist's guide to self-destruction: Jñānaśrīmitra on the structure of yogic perception0
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Human rights and divine holiness0
Embodied constructivism: the imagination as a vehicle for mental time travel0
Do religious fictionalists face a problem of evil?0
Experimenting with philosophy of religion: Lessons from two decades of experimental philosophy0
Does analytic theology belong in the public university?0
Mulder’s hail Mary0
In defence of Mary's consent: a response to Hereth0
Fluctuating maximal God, the problem of inconsistent evil, and spacetime changes0
The functions of natural theology in Thomas Aquinas: A presumption of atheism?0
Why might God create?0
Knowing what you want–why disembodied repentance is impossible0
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
Is the cosmological argument intuitive?0
Lucifer’s disordered love and the first-person perspective: an Augustinian account of primal sin0
Consubstantial dualism: a Zoroastrian perspective on the soul0
Probing the mind of God: divine beliefs and credences0
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
The existence and nature of God: contributions from Latin America0
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Prospects and pitfalls of science-engaged theology0
Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution0
Engaging philosophically with Afro-Brazilian religions0
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A new problem of evil?0
Is ‘orthodox panentheism’ unorthodox? A response to James Dominic Rooney0
‘Not so much thought out as danced out’: expanding philosophy of religion in the light of Candomblé0
Engaging with Joanna Leidenhag's Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation0
The curious case of the marginalized mystics0
Nagasawa's Maximal God and the Ontological Argument0
How much horrific suffering is enough?0
Reversing Pascal: scepticism about religious belief and its value0
Conceivability and perfect being theology0
If naturalism is true, then scientific explanation is impossible0
Minding Creation: response to critics0
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
Why God allows undeserved horrendous evil0
Elizabeth Pérez, The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 84. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781009031530.0
Powers, possibility, and the essential cosmological argument0
An argument for the perspectival account of faith0
Would integration with religious studies improve analytic theology?0
Should panpsychists be supernaturalists?0
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Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices (New York: New York University Press). Pp. 255. £23.00. ISBN 1479804347.0
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Beth Singler Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction(New York: Routledge, 2025). pp. 1–217. £35.99 (Pbk). ISBN 97810321876480
In defence of partial faith0
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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
Ramon Harvey. Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp xv + 280. $33.90 (Pbk). ISBN 97814744516590
A philosophical account of repentance0
On defining ‘fundamentalism’0
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour Necessary Existence and Monotheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 1 + 75. £15.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781108940054.0
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
The presumption of compatibilism0
Samuel Lebens, The Principles of Judaism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Pp. xviii + 352. £75.00/$100.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198843252.0
Is God a person? Maimonides, Crescas, and beyond0
Muslim philosophers on the privation theory of evil0
God, the laws of nature, and occasionalism0
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God's creativity and religious diversity: a theistic argument for a transformative pluralism0
Wittgensteinian blasphemy: what it's like to be a heretic0
The hard problem of ‘pure’ consciousness: Sāṃkhya dualist ontology0
Evil and embodiment: towards a Latter-day Saint non-identity theodicy0
Contractualism, exclusionary reasons and the moral argument for theism0
In defence of Rebel Angel Theodicy0
Can pantheism explain the existence of the universe?0
Scientism and the value of scientific evidence for religious belief0
Do we need an account of prayer to address the problem for praying without ceasing?0
Propositional faith and trustworthiness0
Divine authority as divine parenthood0
Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive0
The Existence and Nature of Deities0
Divine domination - ERRATUM0
Yujin Nagasawa, The Problem of Evil for Atheists(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). pp. xiii + 252. £ 76.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198901884.0
Truth without truths: Grim's Cantorian paradox and the ontology of the objects of omniscience0
Why are we here?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
When to give weight to weighty religious disagreement0
Values and facts and fancies0
Jc Beall, The Contradictory Christ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 185. £45.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780199952360.0
A modified Meditation: exploring a grounding modal ontological argument0
Roberto di Ceglie Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022). Pp. x + 196. £120.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032191805.0
Should panpsychists be Christians?0
What could it mean to say that sex is eternal?0
The unreality of traditional Islamic theism's views on belief, providence, and eschatology: a rejoinder to Tabur0
Panentheism as cosmopolitanism: Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's conception of a global human league0
Conceptualizing divine trust0
‘There can be only one’: A response to Joseph C. Schmid0
Why there is no obligation to love God0
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
Should atheists be worried about modal Calvinist epistemology?0
Shifting the spotlight: What do we mean by ‘religious language’?0
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The old gods as a live possibility: on the rational feasibility of non-doxastic paganism0
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
Death, deathless states, and time-consciousness in Sikh philosophy0
Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought0
What if God was all of us? Why the definition of ‘God’ matters in analytic discussions of meaning in life0
A Christian ethics of blame: or, God says, ‘vengeance is mine’0
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