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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
RES volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter21
On astrotheology as natural theology17
AI-mediated mystical experiences16
Self-annihilation in Marguerite Porete9
Hans Van Eyghen, The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (London: Routledge, 2023). Pp. 168. £96.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032249988.7
Author's Note for Symposium on A Hidden Wisdom7
Divine Contradiction: replies to critics6
‘Block’ing evil’s defeat5
Even more happiness in hell5
Non-belief as self-deception?5
The privation theory of evil and the evil-God challenge4
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Front matter4
The restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion4
Sceptical theism, divine commands, and love4
Murphy's Anselmian theism and the problem of evil4
Evil and responsibility in the Quran4
‘Only God, my dear’: being loved for oneself and creation from nothing3
RES volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer3
Mysticism and scholasticism3
The opposition of omnibenevolence towards evil3
How reincarnations can resolve moral issues for non-sufferer-focused theodicies3
RES volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
Why philosophers should read Paradise Lost3
Non-personal immortality3
How to believe in immortality3
An existentialist response to the problem of evil a la Jorge Portilla3
The characteristic damage of analytic theology: a response to William Wood2
Selfhood, persistence, and immortality in Jaina philosophy2
Pointless atheism2
Theology meets philosophy of science2
The wisdom of ghosts2
Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers, Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025). Pp. 528. £25.02
The problem of unconceived alternatives in science and religion2
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
Divine and mortal loves2
An interview with Richard Swinburne2
Salih Sayilgan. God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. xvii + 224 (Hbk). ISBN 9781009377317.2
Artificial intelligence and the alienness of God2
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
RES volume 61 issue S2 Cover and Back matter2
José Eduardo Porcher. Afro-Brazilian Religions, Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). Pp 82. $ 22. ISBN97810094690122
Is religious experience epistemologically reliable? An embodied-philosophical inquiry2
In defence of natural religion2
Conversational implicatures cannot save divine command theory from the counterpossible terrible commands objection1
The problem of unconceived alternatives in science and religion - ERRATUM1
Experimental philosophy and the problem of evil1
A metaphysics of spiritual experience1
The doing/allowing distinction in the divine context1
An interview with Keith Ward1
RES volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
Two challenges for ‘no-norms’ theism1
Exemplars in ‘science and religion’: a theological dialogue with Thomas Kuhn1
Can panpsychism solve thorny theological problems?1
The God of falsehoods (or nonsense). Against Lebens’ apophatic theology1
Is the desire for life rational?1
Grounding panentheism1
Free will and the moral vice explanation of hell's finality1
My religion preaches ‘p’, but I don't believe that p: Moore's Paradox in religious assertions1
RES volume 61 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Schelling and the problem of evil1
The ‘Diderot Objection’ to Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology1
RES volume 58 issue S1 Cover and Front matter1
Is theism compatible with pointless non-resistant non-belief?1
Women-focused Special Issue1
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Back matter1
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Aquinas's science-engaged theology1
RES volume 61 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Evil is still evidence: comment on Almeida1
True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud1
The perspectival account of faith1
Atheistic modal realism1
The semantics of Afro-Brazilian spirits: Applying Davidson on prior and passing theories1
Philosophy and the contemplative way of life1
Helen De Cruz (1978–2025): an academic and personal tribute1
RES volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Newman on emotion and cognition in the Grammar of Assent1
Shifting Perspectives in African Philosophy of Religion1
Engaging and developing Ada Agada's philosophy: moral responsibility, creation, and the problem of evil1
An interview with John Leslie1
African Traditional Religion and moral philosophy1
Unpacking conceptual idolatry1
On Orthodox panentheism1
Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch1
Falsity and untruth1
God as an asset and some paradoxical implications1
Divine psychology and cosmic fine-tuning1
Omnisubjectivity, counteractuals, and relating perfectly to subjectivity1
Divine domination1
You could be immaterial (or not)1
Communal sin, atonement, and group non-agential moral responsibility1
Roberto Di Ceglie God, the Good, and the Spiritual Turn in Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 350. £64.95 (Hbk). ISBN 9781009203531.1
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
Analytic atheism and analytic apostasy across cultures1
Evil and evidence: a reply to Bass1
The apple of God's eye: a biblical account of holiness1
The universe as aṁśa of Brahman: towards a Viśiṣṭādvaita existence-cosmopsychism1
Byung-Chul Han The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (Cambridge: Polity, 2022). Pp. vii + 120. £12.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781509545100.1
Modal-epistemic arguments for the existence of God based on the possibility of the omniscience and/or refutation of the strong agnosticism1
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
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
No new problem for the Trinity: A reply to Mooney1
Prospects and possibilities for interfaith environmentalism1
Truth without truths: Grim's Cantorian paradox and the ontology of the objects of omniscience0
Daniel A. Dombrowski, Process Mysticism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2023). Pp. x + 248. £19.95 (Pbk.). ISBN 97814384913560
RES volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Trinity, simplicity, and contradictory theology: a theologian's reflections0
A cross-cultural perspective on God's personhood0
Minding Creation: response to critics0
Two ‘logic’ problems for religious expressivists0
RES volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Conceivability and perfect being theology0
RES volume 60 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Psychic immunity and uncomprehended pain: what Maimonides can tell us about the problem of suffering0
Prospects and pitfalls of science-engaged theology0
The problem of misfortunes0
Ramon Harvey. Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp xv + 280. $33.90 (Pbk). ISBN 9781470
What if God was all of us? Why the definition of ‘God’ matters in analytic discussions of meaning in life0
Embodied world construction: a phenomenology of ritual0
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
Abraham, Isaac, and the toxin: a Kavkan reading of the binding of Isaac0
Beth Singler Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2025). pp. 1–217. £35.99 (Pbk). ISBN 97810321876480
By what measure? A signpost theory of the truth of doctrine0
Why there is no obligation to love God0
God's creativity and religious diversity: a theistic argument for a transformative pluralism0
When to give weight to weighty religious disagreement0
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
Engaging Jeffrey Koperski’s decretalism: is occasionalism really avoidable?0
Should panpsychists be Christians?0
RES volume 61 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Engaging philosophically with Afro-Brazilian religions0
Is the cosmological argument intuitive?0
Can pantheism explain the existence of the universe?0
Panpsychism’s problem of evil?0
Non-ideal theory in the philosophy of religion: Exploring implications of non-ideal theorising for the problem of evil0
RES volume 59 issue S1 Cover and Back matter0
Fluctuating maximal God, the problem of inconsistent evil, and spacetime changes0
Yujin Nagasawa, The Problem of Evil for Atheists(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). pp. xiii + 252. £ 76.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198901884.0
Anselm on THAT, THIS, and panpsychism0
Gereon Kopf, Purushottama Bilimoria and Nathan Loewen, Engaging Philosophies of Religion: Thinking Across Boundaries (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025).0
The Existence and Nature of Deities0
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
Intellectual humility and Christian faith0
The unreality of traditional Islamic theism's views on belief, providence, and eschatology: a rejoinder to Tabur0
In defence of God’s rational creativity: A reply to Gould0
What are we? Collective neuroscience, metaphysics, and theology0
Embodied constructivism: the imagination as a vehicle for mental time travel0
‘There can be only one’: A response to Joseph C. Schmid0
Paul Draper. Atheism and the Problem of Evil (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025). Pp. 1+182. $100.00 (Hbk) ISBN 97801928471640
Experimental philosophy of religion0
God, love, and analytic philosophy of religion: a feminist proposal0
The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer: ERRATUM0
The curious case of the marginalized mystics0
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
A Christian ethics of blame: or, God says, ‘vengeance is mine’0
RES volume 61 issue S1 Cover and Front matter0
RES volume 61 issue S1 Cover and Back matter0
Do religious fictionalists face a problem of evil?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
An interview with Graham Oppy0
Conceptualizing divine trust0
In defence of qua-Christology0
Should panpsychists be supernaturalists?0
Divine domination - ERRATUM0
The deal at the dawn of time0
Clifford Williams, Religion and the Meaning of Life: An Existential Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. vi + 189. £22.99 (Pbk). I0
RES volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Consubstantial dualism: a Zoroastrian perspective on the soul0
In defence of Mary's consent: a response to Hereth0
How much like us?0
Editorial introduction: special issue on panpsychism and pan(en)theism0
‘…Or what’s a heaven for?’: the problem of unconceived alternatives in science and theology0
The regeneration of the cosmic mind: cosmopsychism, mental chaos, and the new creation0
RES volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Saṅghabhadra's arguments for the existence of an intermediate state (antarābhava) between biological death and rebirth as translated by Xuanzang (602?–664 ce)0
RES volume 60 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
In defence of God making stuff up: a reply to Ward0
Lucifer’s disordered love and the first-person perspective: an Augustinian account of primal sin0
Is ‘orthodox panentheism’ unorthodox? A response to James Dominic Rooney0
Theology as social knowledge0
Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive0
Reversing Pascal: scepticism about religious belief and its value0
The hard problem of ‘pure’ consciousness: Sāṃkhya dualist ontology0
The functional mind and the trinitarian God0
Roberto di Ceglie Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022). Pp. x + 196. £120.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032191805.0
Wittgensteinian blasphemy: what it's like to be a heretic0
Would integration with religious studies improve analytic theology?0
Andrea Aguti, Il miracolo. Saggio di filosofia della religione (Morcelliana, 2025). Pp. 224. € 20.00. ISBN 8837240082.0
Worship and the problems of human evil and suffering0
RES volume 60 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution0
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
RES volume 60 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
In defence of partial faith0
An evaluative ontological argument0
The promise of unconceived alternatives: metaphysical explanation in Indian philosophy0
Shared intentionality and divine persons: explorations in empirical psychology and ramified natural theology0
The modal argument and Bailey's contingent physicalism: a rejoinder0
Analytic theology and science-engaged theology0
Elizabeth Pérez, The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 84. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781009031530.0
Analytic theology and the academic study of religion: an overview0
Deontological sceptical theism proved0
Between horror and utopia: fiction and Nagasawa’s existential problem of evil0
Nagasawa's Maximal God and the Ontological Argument0
On defining ‘fundamentalism’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
Scientism and the value of scientific evidence for religious belief0
Sceptical theists can endorse the fine-tuning argument0
The presumption of compatibilism0
Consciousness and Śakti-based Vedānta cosmopsychism: A philosophical reconstruction of Jīva’s Bhedābheda Vedānta0
Hidden grounds of religious hinge commitments0
The good watchmaker0
What could it mean to say that sex is eternal?0
Robert C. Roberts, Virtue Ethics in Christian Perspective (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2024). Pp. ix+178. £20 (pbk). ISBN 9781498207980.0
Joshua Sijuwade. Analytic Theism: A Philosophical Investigation (New York: Routledge Press, 2024). Pp. 1–647. £135.00 (Hbk ISBN 978-1-032-26359-20
Counting hiddenness: cognitive science and the distribution of belief in God0
Glutty and simple?0
John Hick and Candomblé: The concept of religion and the experience of evil0
God, the laws of nature, and occasionalism0
A guide to the AfterDeath: Maimonides on olam ha-ba’0
The Direct Argument, Rule B, and divine determinism0
Death, deathless states, and time-consciousness in Sikh philosophy0
How much horrific suffering is enough?0
Life after life: Mullā Ṣadrā on death and immortality0
Mulder’s hail Mary0
Sceptical theism and fine-tuning: relocating rather than resolving the tension0
In defence of Rebel Angel Theodicy0
‘Orthodox panentheism’ is neither orthodox nor coherent0
Subject combination and the initiatory experience in Śrīvidyā0
Naturalism is an unexpected ally of theism in tackling the problem of religious diversity0
‘Hell? Yes!’ Moorean reasons to reject three objections to the possibility of damnation0
A new problem of evil?0
Experimenting with philosophy of religion: Lessons from two decades of experimental philosophy0
Modal panentheism: Developed and defended0
Love, suffering, and the problem of valorisation in Eleonore Stump’s The Image of God0
Does panpsychism entail anti-realism? The worm in the panpsychist apple0
Shifting the spotlight: What do we mean by ‘religious language’?0
Divine authority as divine parenthood0
The old gods as a live possibility: on the rational feasibility of non-doxastic paganism0
Does God know our future sins?0
A model of worldview formation0
Evil and suffering in the world0
The existence and nature of God: contributions from Latin America0
‘Not so much thought out as danced out’: expanding philosophy of religion in the light of Candomblé0
Earthly life is not pointless for universalists0
Francis Fallon and Gavin Hyman (eds.). Agnosticism: Explorations in Philosophy and Religious Thought (Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press 2020). P0
RES volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
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