Religious Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Divine Contradiction: replies to critics15
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Hans Van Eyghen, The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (London: Routledge, 2023). Pp. 168. £96.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032249988.14
Non-belief as self-deception?12
Private evidence for atheism9
Compositionalism, Nestorianism, and the principle of no co-member parts8
Self-annihilation in Marguerite Porete7
Author's Note for Symposium on A Hidden Wisdom6
Evil and responsibility in the Quran6
Even more happiness in hell6
The transformative power of accepting God's love5
The restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion4
Sceptical theism, divine commands, and love4
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Front matter4
An existentialist response to the problem of evil a la Jorge Portilla3
‘Block’ing evil’s defeat3
The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer3
The privation theory of evil and the evil-God challenge3
How to believe in immortality3
The characteristic damage of analytic theology: a response to William Wood2
Murphy's Anselmian theism and the problem of evil2
RES volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity2
Is there non-resistant non-belief?2
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
Non-personal immortality2
Artificial intelligence and the alienness of God2
Evil is not evidence2
The problem with the problem of mourning2
Naturalism, classical theism, and first causes2
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
Mysticism and scholasticism2
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An Integral Advaitic theodicy of spiritual evolution:karma, rebirth, universal salvation, and mystical panentheism2
Selfhood, persistence, and immortality in Jaina philosophy2
Pointless atheism2
The proper basicality of belief in God and the evil-god challenge1
Divine and mortal loves1
Atheistic modal realism1
Divine psychology and cosmic fine-tuning1
A metaphysics of spiritual experience1
José Eduardo Porcher. Afro-Brazilian Religions, Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). Pp 82. $ 22. ISBN97810094690121
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
Women-focused Special Issue1
Evil and evidence: a reply to Bass1
The doing/allowing distinction in the divine context1
Aquinas's science-engaged theology1
Experimental philosophy and the problem of evil1
African Traditional Religion and moral philosophy1
Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch1
Exemplars in ‘science and religion’: a theological dialogue with Thomas Kuhn1
Conversational implicatures cannot save divine command theory from the counterpossible terrible commands objection1
Evil is still evidence: comment on Almeida1
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Philosophy and the contemplative way of life1
Is the desire for life rational?1
The Sceptical Muslim1
In defence of natural religion1
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An interview with Keith Ward1
True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud1
No new problem for the Trinity: A reply to Mooney1
Prospects and possibilities for interfaith environmentalism1
An interview with John Leslie1
You could be immaterial (or not)1
Communal sin, atonement, and group non-agential moral responsibility1
Free will and the moral vice explanation of hell's finality1
On Orthodox panentheism1
God as an asset and some paradoxical implications1
Can panpsychism solve thorny theological problems?1
An interview with Richard Swinburne1
The wisdom of ghosts1
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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. £1
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Engaging and developing Ada Agada's philosophy: moral responsibility, creation, and the problem of evil1
The perspectival account of faith1
‘The metaphysical objection’ and concurrentist co-operation1
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
Schelling and the problem of evil1
Newman on emotion and cognition in the Grammar of Assent1
Falsity and untruth1
The ‘Diderot Objection’ to Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology1
A guide to the AfterDeath: Maimonides on olam ha-ba’0
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The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer: ERRATUM0
When to give weight to weighty religious disagreement0
A modified Meditation: exploring a grounding modal ontological argument0
Mulder’s hail Mary0
Death and meaning(lessness): re-examining the African view0
The regeneration of the cosmic mind: cosmopsychism, mental chaos, and the new creation0
Fluctuating maximal God, the problem of inconsistent evil, and spacetime changes0
Conceptualizing divine trust0
Embodied world construction: a phenomenology of ritual0
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Would integration with religious studies improve analytic theology?0
Lucifer’s disordered love and the first-person perspective: an Augustinian account of primal sin0
Why might God create?0
Panentheism as cosmopolitanism: Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's conception of a global human league0
Why God allows undeserved horrendous evil0
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
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
Absolute identity and the Trinity0
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
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In defence of qua-Christology0
Experimenting with philosophy of religion: Lessons from two decades of experimental philosophy0
The functions of natural theology in Thomas Aquinas: A presumption of atheism?0
Intellectual humility and Christian 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
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
Jc Beall, The Contradictory Christ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 185. £45.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780199952360.0
Joseph Rivera and Joseph S. O’Leary (eds) Theological Fringes of Phenomenology (London: Routledge, 2024). Pp. xii + 248. £108.00 (Hbk.) ISBN: 97810324721190
In defence of God making stuff up: a reply to Ward0
Do religious fictionalists face a problem of evil?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
Modal-epistemic arguments for the existence of God based on the possibility of the omniscience and/or refutation of the strong agnosticism0
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
Shades of faith: the phenomenon of doubt in early Christianity0
Conceivability and perfect being theology0
Joshua Sijuwade. Analytic Theism: A Philosophical Investigation (New York: Routledge Press, 2024). Pp. 1–647. £135.00 (Hbk ISBN 978-1-032-26359-20
Worship and the problems of human evil and suffering0
Death, deathless states, and time-consciousness in Sikh philosophy0
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger? Post-traumatic growth and the problem of suffering0
Is ‘orthodox panentheism’ unorthodox? A response to James Dominic Rooney0
In defence of Mary's consent: a response to Hereth0
Life after life: Mullā Ṣadrā on death and immortality0
On the virtues of neutrality0
Why the Jesus as mother tradition undermines the symbolic argument against women's ordination0
Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought0
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‘Orthodox panentheism’ is neither orthodox nor coherent0
Theorizing about faith and faithfulness with Jonathan Kvanvig0
Are there de jure objections to Mādhvic belief?0
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
Should panpsychists be Christians?0
If naturalism is true, then scientific explanation is impossible0
A cross-cultural perspective on God's personhood0
Engaging Jeffrey Koperski’s decretalism: is occasionalism really avoidable?0
‘There can be only one’: A response to Joseph C. Schmid0
God, the laws of nature, and occasionalism0
Scientism and the value of scientific evidence for religious belief0
Gorazd Andrejč and Daniel H. Weiss (eds) Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein (Leiden: Brill, 2019). Pp. xiv + 243. £100.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9789004397927.0
RES volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Prospects and pitfalls of science-engaged theology0
Why there is no obligation to love God0
Engaging philosophically with Afro-Brazilian religions0
Can pantheism explain the existence of the universe?0
The hard problem of ‘pure’ consciousness: Sāṃkhya dualist ontology0
Is God a person? Maimonides, Crescas, and beyond0
Roberto di Ceglie Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022). Pp. x + 196. £120.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032191805.0
Truth without truths: Grim's Cantorian paradox and the ontology of the objects of omniscience0
A new problem of evil?0
Do we need an account of prayer to address the problem for praying without ceasing?0
Jerry L. Martin (ed.), Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative (London and New York: Routledge, 2020). Pp. xiii + 268. $160 (Hbk) ISBN 9780367028718.0
Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive0
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The Trinity as social and constitutional: a rejoinder to Brian Leftow0
Probing the mind of God: divine beliefs and credences0
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
‘Hell? Yes!’ Moorean reasons to reject three objections to the possibility of damnation0
Abraham, Isaac, and the toxin: a Kavkan reading of the binding of Isaac0
Saṅghabhadra's arguments for the existence of an intermediate state (antarābhava) between biological death and rebirth as translated by Xuanzang (602?–664 ce)0
Our lives go better in a world created by God0
Divine authority as divine parenthood0
Counting hiddenness: cognitive science and the distribution of belief in God0
The unreality of traditional Islamic theism's views on belief, providence, and eschatology: a rejoinder to Tabur0
Why are we here?0
Shared intentionality and divine persons: explorations in empirical psychology and ramified natural theology0
Minding Creation: an overview0
Contractualism, exclusionary reasons and the moral argument for theism0
The presumption of compatibilism0
Elizabeth Pérez, The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 84. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781009031530.0
An argument for the perspectival account of faith0
Engaging with Joanna Leidenhag's Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation0
What if God was all of us? Why the definition of ‘God’ matters in analytic discussions of meaning in life0
In defence of Rebel Angel Theodicy0
A Buddhist's guide to self-destruction: Jñānaśrīmitra on the structure of yogic perception0
The semantics of Afro-Brazilian spirits: Applying Davidson on prior and passing theories0
By what measure? A signpost theory of the truth of doctrine0
A defence of merit transfer: Aquinas's interpretation and desert theory0
Analytic theology and science-engaged theology0
Trinity, simplicity, and contradictory theology: a theologian's reflections0
In defence of partial faith0
How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer0
Non-ideal theory in the philosophy of religion: Exploring implications of non-ideal theorising for the problem of evil0
The existence and nature of God: contributions from Latin America0
Reversing Pascal: scepticism about religious belief and its value0
Analytic theology and the academic study of religion: an overview0
Mary, did you consent?0
Wisdom and methodological diversity in philosophy of religion0
Evil and suffering in the world0
The deal at the dawn of time0
Does God know our future sins?0
Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution0
The modal argument and Bailey's contingent physicalism: a rejoinder0
Beth Singler Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction(New York: Routledge, 2025). pp. 1–217. £35.99 (Pbk). ISBN 97810321876480
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Glutty and simple?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
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Values and facts and fancies0
How much horrific suffering is enough?0
Anselm on THAT, THIS, and panpsychism0
Being a ‘not-quite-Buddhist theist’0
Pretending to be a believer: on understanding religious fictionalism as a role-playing game0
Consubstantial dualism: a Zoroastrian perspective on the soul0
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
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
The Existence and Nature of Deities0
Reasonable faith and reasonable fideism0
Powers, possibility, and the essential cosmological argument0
Is the cosmological argument intuitive?0
Ramon Harvey. Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp xv + 280. $33.90 (Pbk). ISBN 97814744516590
‘Not so much thought out as danced out’: expanding philosophy of religion in the light of Candomblé0
David Patterson, Portraits: The Hasidic Legacy of Elie Wiesel (New York: SUNY Press, 2021). Pp. 308. $95.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781438483979.0
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Optimism without theism? Nagasawa on atheism, evolution, and evil0
Yujin Nagasawa, The Problem of Evil for Atheists(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). pp. xiii + 252. £ 76.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198901884.0
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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
Two ‘logic’ problems for religious expressivists0
Samuel Lebens, The Principles of Judaism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Pp. xviii + 352. £75.00/$100.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198843252.0
Should panpsychists be supernaturalists?0
The curious case of the marginalized mystics0
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour Necessary Existence and Monotheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 1 + 75. £15.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781108940054.0
The alchemy of suffering in the laboratory of the world: Vedāntic Hindu engagements with the affliction of animals0
God's creativity and religious diversity: a theistic argument for a transformative pluralism0
The old gods as a live possibility: on the rational feasibility of non-doxastic paganism0
Minding Creation: response to critics0
Muslim philosophers on the privation theory of evil0
Psychic immunity and uncomprehended pain: what Maimonides can tell us about the problem of suffering0
Nagasawa's Maximal God and the Ontological Argument0
A Christian ethics of blame: or, God says, ‘vengeance is mine’0
John Hick and Candomblé: The concept of religion and the experience of evil0
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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A philosophical account of repentance0
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The Aloneness Argument fails0
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
Shifting the spotlight: What do we mean by ‘religious language’?0
Wittgensteinian blasphemy: what it's like to be a heretic0
On defining ‘fundamentalism’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
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
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