OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Faith & International Affairs is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
The Radical Christian Witness of Daniel Philpott’s Scholarship	9
An Encounter in Three Phases with an Intellectual Giant	8
Freedom of Religion or Belief and Freedom of Expression	8
Curating Buddhism, Fostering Diplomacy: The “Secrets of the Fallen Pagoda” Exhibition in Singapore	8
Drafting on the Basis of Dignity: John Peters Humphrey’s Contribution to the UDHR	7
Why the Secular Academy Needs Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy	6
Ideology, Clericalism, and Socialization: Some Reflections on the Sociology of the Afghan Taliban	6
Professor Philpott: A Perspective from the Classroom	5
Indonesia’s Fragmented Responses to International Pressure During the 2016–2017 Blasphemy Case	5
Church-State Cooperation and its Impact on Freedom of Religion or Belief and on Gender Issues in Russia	5
In the Province of Faith: Disaggregating Pakistani Religious Parties’ Electoral Performance at the Sub-national and Denominational Levels	4
Religious Diversity and Religious Governance in South Korea: From Nominal to Covenantal Pluralism	4
The Hindu Right and India's Religious Diplomacy	4
Salafizing Hanafiyya? Madrasa Teachers in Afghanistan, State Actors, and Salafis	4
Theology and World Politics: Metaphysics, Genealogies, Political Theologies	3
Contending Discourses on Human Rights and Dignity in the Post-World War II Era	3
In Search of a Welcoming Environment for Religions in the “New Kazakhstan”	3
Prospects for Covenantal Pluralism in Bulgaria	3
Intrinsic and Strategic Leverage of Religion in Development	3
Religion and International Relations in Today’s Marketplace (or Industry?) of Ideas	3
Faith Leaders and Child Well-Being in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study	2
Clerics Should be Champions of Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy: And Yet …	2
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Soviet Political Religion, and Soviet Law	2
Religion and the Prevention of Election Violence: Lessons from Kenya	2
Cultural Congruency and Covenantal Pluralism in the Lao PDR	2

A Conversation about History, Race, Immigration, and the City on a Hill	2
Rethinking Religion and Politics in a Plural World: The Bahá’í International Community and the United Nations	2
Humanitarian Success Post Bellum	2
Women Driving in Saudi Arabia: Female Perceptions Five Years after Lifting of the Ban	2
Comprehensive Security and LGBTQ Rights	2
“Turkmen Islam” and the Paucity of Real Pluralism in Turkmenistan’s Post-Soviet Nation-building	2
The South African Charter of Religious Rights and Freedoms	2
From Likelihood of Success to Likely Consequences	2
Introduction: Faith and the Founding Figures of Human Dignity	2
The Loveliness Men Hide: Eleanor Roosevelt on Human Dignity	2
Religious Inequalities and Human Rights: Implications for International Development	2
The USAID Strategic Religious Engagement Summit: What Was Not Said	2
Revisiting Religious Freedom as a National Security Lens: The Case of China	1
Diplomatic Leadership Development after the “Weaponization of Everything”: Approaching Religion or Belief as a Professional Competence	1
The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana	1
Albania’s “Religious Harmony” Diplomacy	1
Theorizing Catholicism in International Relations: An English School Framework	1
Lives on Hyphens: Contributions of Hernán Santa Cruz from Chile and Guy Pérez Cisneros from Cuba to the UDHR	1
The Causal Impact of the Taliban’s Insurgency and Return to Power on Economic Well-being in Afghanistan	1
Two Cantatas	1
Building Pluralism in Central Asia: Outlining an Experiential Approach in Kyrgyzstan	1
Freedom of Religion or Belief is Security: The 2019 OSCE Policy Guidance on FoRB and Security	1
Religious Responses to the Military Coup in Myanmar	1
Pluralistic Islamic Religious Education: A Vision for Indonesia	1
A Bridge Over Troubled Water: How Worldview Helps Overcome the Religious-Secular Divide in Development Cooperation and Beyond	1
Counter-terrorism, Discrimination, and Freedom of Thought, Conscience, Religion, or Belief	1
Letter to the Editor	1
Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China’s Christian Universities	1
Introduction: Religion and Comprehensive Security	1
Know Your Enemy: Understanding the Worldview and Motives of Osama Bin Laden and the Jihadist Movement He Inspired	1
Piecing the Puzzle—Women and Freedom of Religion or Belief	1
Ukrainian Churches and the Implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Ukraine: Being Europe Without Accepting “Gender”	1
Being and Becoming: The Human Person and Human Dignity in Charles Malik’s Contribution to the UDHR	1
What Should We Hope For? In Search of Reasonable Definitions of Success	1
A Catholic Approach to Dialogue as a Tool of Diplomacy	1
The Religious Landscape of Malawi and Prospects for Covenantal Pluralism	1
Success in Battle—Failure in War	1
The Global Politics of Jesus: A Christian Case for Church-State SeparationNilay Saiya, The Global Politics of Jesus: A Christian Case for Church-State Separation (New Yo	1
Religion, Peace, and Inclusive Communication in Daniel Philpott’s Scholarship	1
P.C. Chang, Multicultural Confucian Philosopher and Human Rights Champion	1
An Experiential & Informal Pedagogy for Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy: Lessons from South Africa for a Troubled Muslim World	1
Covenantal Pluralism in “Homogenous” Japan: Finding a Space for Religious Pluralism	1
Many Great Migrations: Colonial History and the Contest for American Identity	1
Measuring Subnational Variation in Freedom of Religion or Belief Violations: Reflections on a Path Forward	1