OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Literature and Theology 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.)

Article	Citations
Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds. By Jayna Brown	2
The hard, bloodless surface of a mirror: Patricia Highsmith’s Kierkegaardian anatomy of anxiety	1
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe By Richard Holloway	1
Precarious joy: Meena Alexander, postsecularism, and bhakti poetry	1
Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith. By David Newheiser	1
The ‘Strange Fruit’ of Flannery O’connor: Damning Monuments in Southern Literature and Southern History	1
Unfinished forgiveness: dynamics of Igbo cosmology and Christian theology in Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities	1
Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts. By George Corbett	0
Religion, secularism, and postsecularism in global south literatures: introduction to the special forum	0
Decay, Death, and the Return of Light: The I Ching Yin-Yang Cycle in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle	0
South Asian Ways of Seeing. Contemporary Visual Cultures, Edited by Samarth Singhal and Amrita Ajay	0
Connectivity, Grounding, and Amplification: The Base-Line in Changing and its Functions	0
Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World, Edited by Andrew W. Hass	0
Spinoza’s Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics, By Clare Carlisle	0
Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living, By Menachem Fisch and Debra Band	0
Blakean anti-wisdom in Thomas Merton’s proverbs	0
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality By David Edmonds	0
Teaching Religion and Literature. Edited by Daniel Boscaljon and Alan Levinovitz	0
Teaching 19th-Century Literature Beyond the Secularisation Thesis: Introduction to the Special Forum	0
‘Her body is Divided From Her Head’: Beheading and Biblical Intertextuality in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam	0
After eco-theocide: the shift from ecological conservation to eco-theological conversation in Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain	0
The Everlasting People: G.K. Chesterton and the First Nations, By Matthew J. Milliner	0
Following the signs: reading the Qur’anic epigraphs as postsecular in Sofiane Hadjadj’s So Perfect a Garden and Yamen Manai’s The Ardent Swarm	0
The Works of Lucy Hutchinson Volume II Theological Writings and Translations	0
Wordsworth and the World: Teaching Postsecular Romanticism in the Humanities	0

The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas. By Robert Zaretsky	0
Introduction to Special Issue on Postcolonial Women's Writing and Material Religion: New Directions	0
Inverting the ‘Gracelorn’ Father: Augustinian Notions of Evil and Goodness in Cormac McCarthy’S Outer Dark and The Road	0
Breaking Down Boundaries and ‘Making it New’: Oriental Elements in Western Modernism. By Zhaoming Qian	0
The Logic of Secular Sense in Cendrars’ Epic Trilogy	0
Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature, By Louis Groarke	0
Correction to: The Inconspicuous God: Heidegger, French Phenomenology, & the Theological Turn, by Jason W. Alvis	0
Heresy and Borders in the Twentieth Century, By Karina Jakubowicz and Robert Dickins	0
The Yijing Principles in the Japanese Creation Myth: A Study of the Jindai-No-Maki (‘Chapters on the Age of the Gods’) in the Nihon Shoki (‘The Chronicles Of Japan’)	0
Sultana’s Sisters: Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women’s Fiction, Edited by Haris Qadeer and P.K. Yasser Arafath	0
On White Theology … and other Lies: Redemptive Communal Narrative in Toni Morrison’s Beloved	0
The modern spiritual affect of perplexed affirmation, or, the David Hume of R. S. Thomas	0
Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy’s Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment, By D. Marcel DeCoste	0
Cain Furens: Imitations Of Virgil and Ovid in Canto Six of Lucy Hutchinson’s Order And Disorder	0
The I Ching and World Literature: Introduction to the Special Forum	0
Religion, Reading, and Metacognition in the Victorian Literature Classroom	0
Bridging the Divide: The Crucifixion in Endo’s The Samurai	0
Dao Jing Ying Yi Shi (The History of the English Translation of the Daoist Scriptures), By Senlin Yu	0
The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature, By Deni Kasa	0
‘Time Is Not All Powerful’: The Johannine Eschatological Vision in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Laurus	0
Literature and Religion: A Dialogue between China and the West, By David Jasper and Ou Guang-an	0
Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography, By Holly Ordway	0
What If God is a ‘Pagan Amalgam’: Marilynne Robinson and Historical Bible Scholarship	0
Celestial Nonsense: George Macdonald’s Apophatic Play	0
Correction to: Feminist Storytelling and the Problem of White Feminism	0
Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas: A Chinese Classic, By Jiankun Sun, Siyu Chen	0
The Yijing as Inspiration in Raymond Queneau’s Morale Élémentaire III (1975): An Intermingling of the Particular and the Universal	0
‘In the End, There Was No End’: Colonial Modernism and Moral Perfectionism in Patrick White’s The Tree of Man	0
Hunger, Poetry and the Oxford Movement: The Tractarian Social Vision. By Lesa Scholl	0
The ethico-religiousness of Atwood’s “God’s Gardeners” vis-à-vis Kierkegaard’s thought	0
Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratizing Human Futures, By Shazia Sadaf and Aroosa Kanwal	0
Modernism, Nominalism, and the Hidden God in Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, and David Jones	0
Biblical Themes in Science Fiction Edited by Nicole L. Tilford and Kelly J. Murphy	0
Fears and joys of writing in the fiction of Roberto Bolaño	0
Sister Death. Political Theologies for Living and Dying, By Beatrice Marovich	0
Lived Experiences and Social Transformations: Poetics, Politics and Power Relations in Practical Theology, By C.L. Wren Radford	0
‘Warma Kuyay (Amor de Niño)’ By Josê María Arguedas: A Dialectic Prelude to Liberation Ecotheology	0
“Dispossession”: the movement of hermeneutics and prayer in Paul Ricoeur and Rowan Williams	0
Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing, By Esra Mirze Santesso	0
The Disappointing, Parenthetical Providence of God in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year	0
The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, By Roger A. Sneed	0
Buddhist Reception in Pulp Science Fiction	0
The Ghosts of Lilith: haunting narratives of witness and the postcolonial poetry of Shivanee Ramlochan	0
Religion, secularism, and postsecularism in Chinese internet literature	0
postcolonial Racialisation of Gender and Religious Experience within the Settler Colonial Context: Ahed Tamimi’s Experience of a Racialised Practice	0
Materiality, Postcoloniality, and the Phenomenology of Mental Health	0
Religious Experience, Storytelling, and Ethical Action in Muhammad Iqbal’s Javid Nama and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan	0
Reading the Materiality of Caste	0
Music as incarnated beauty in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion: a neoplatonic reading	0
The Living Spring: A Comparison of Jacob’s Well and the Well Hexagram	0

The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships, By Barbara Newman	0
Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord, Edited by Ronald R. Bernier, Rachel Hostetter Smith	0
Corrections	0
Iris Murdoch and the Others: A Writer in Dialogue with Theology, By Paul S. Fiddes	0
Intersections of Forgiveness And ‘Queer Use’ In T.S. Eliot’s ‘Marina’	0
Little Dorrit and the Structure of Belief	0
Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack	0
Correction to: Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel. By Martyn Sampson	0
Unparalleled Poetry: A Cognitive Approach to the Free-Rhythm Verse of the Hebrew Bible, By Emmylou Grosser	0
Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Excitement and the Muslim Sacred, By Masood Ashraf Raja	0
Secularism and Hermeneutics. By Yael Almog	0
The Philosophy of Change and the Metaphor of Body: From the I Ching (The Classic of Changes) to Wenxin Diaolong (Carving the Dragon With A Literary Heart)	0
‘A Light in Sound, A Sound-Like Power in Light’: Coleridge’s Phenomenal Invisible	0
Rethreading the Fabric of Mystery: Thinking Myth, Counter-Myth, and Christian Theology With Hortense Spillers	0
Correction to an affiliation in two papers	0
Legal, Mythic, and Divine Violence: Post-secular Entanglements in Walter Benjamin’s ‘Toward the Critique of Violence’	0
Religions in Shakespeare’s Writings, Edited by David V. Urban	0
‘Blundering Brutuses’: Michael Field, Nonconformism, and The Politics of Social Purity	0
The Politics of Ritual, By Molly Farneth	0
Making Strange: Teaching 19th-Century Gothic and Fantastic Literature	0
The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction., By Erin McGlothlin	0
Senghor’s Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology, By David Tonghou Ngong	0
The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future, By Kathe Hicks Albrecht	0
Questions We Share	0
Unsayable word: gurbāni, Punjabi poetry, and the postsecular impulse	0
‘The Name of God Has Priority’: ‘God’ and The Apophatic Element in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire	0
Politics of Haya: Embodied Materiality of Piety as Everyday Resistance among British Muslim Women in Ayisha Malik's Fiction	0
LEONTES’ ORIGINAL SIN: GENESIS 3 AND THE WINTER’S TALE	0
An Interview with Mayra Rivera: Postcolonial Women’s Writing and Material Religion	0
Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction, By Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan	0
Salman Rushdie and postsecularism: The Satanic Verses and the postcolonial Bildungsroman	0
Old Forgotten Flowers: George Macdonald as Mystic	0
The Zen of Ecopoetics: Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry, By Enaiê Mairê Azambuja	0
Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space. By Stephen Prickett	0
Early Modern Economic Theology and Oikonomia in The Merchant of Venice	0
Science and Religion in Western Literature: Critical and Theological Studies, Edited by Michael Fuller	0
Phenomenal Knowledge and Martyrdom: Endō’s Silence	0
The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics, By Ruth Vanita	0
Belief and Doubt in the Landscape and Holocaust Poems of David Fram (1903–88)	0
Coleridge and Newman: Four Aspects	0
POSSESSION AND CONSUMPTION: CLARICE LISPECTOR AND THE ETHICS OF MYSTICISM	0
The Cyclops Myth and the Making of Selfhood, By Paul Robertson	0
Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel. By Martyn Sampson	0
Music as preternatural in Geoffrey Hill’s poetry	0
The Autism of Gxd: An Atheological Love Story. By Ruth Dunster	0
Petrified tears: Joy Harjo’s “Exile of Memory” and the story of Lot’s Wife	0
‘A Word of Song’: Reverberations of the Psalms in Christina Rossetti’s Roundels	0
Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture., By Sophia Rose Arjana	0
A “rhapsody of the sense of wonder”: G. K. Chesterton’s defense of mysticism in his reading of the Book of Job	0
The postsecular imaginaries of Orhan Pamuk’s novels	0
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology, By Taylor Driggers	0
Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China. By John T. P. Lai	0
Dropping the Albatross: Teaching Religion and Literature in a Postsecular Age	0
The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by Elizabeth Ludlow	0
Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation, By Kevin Hart	0
Wollstonecraft and Religion, By Brenda Ayers	0
Marilynne Robinson’s Worldly Gospel. A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision, By Ryan S. Kemp and Jordan Rodgers	0
Wild Mind, Wild Earth:Our Place In the Sixth Extinction. By David Hinton	0
Superman as the Measure of All Things: Black Gods and White Saviours in Watchmen and Doomsday Clock	0
A Sigh After Sleep: Poiesis and the Sacramentality of Nature in Annette von Droste-Hüshoff’s Late Lyric	0
Lyric Theology: Art and the Doctrine of Creation. By Thomas Gardner	0
THE SOLACE OF PILGRIMS: MOVEMENT, REST, AND SLEEP IN THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS	0
Marilynne Robinson and Theology. Edited by Håkan Möller and Ola Sigurdson	0
The Charge of God: Laudato Si’ read through Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins	0