Religions

Article	Citations
Authority over Death: Two Tales Related to the Lord of Mount Tai in Konjaku Monogatarishū	65
From Circle to Cycloid: The Philosophical Value of Religious Cult in Maurice Blondel’s L’Action	51
Hmong Spirituality, Nature, and Place	34
Mary of Bethany: Creation through Conversation	30
The Meeting: Ideas for an Architecture of Interreligious Civic Collaboration	27
Fully Ordained Nuns in Fourteenth-to-Seventeenth Tibetan Hagiographical Narratives	26
Leopold Cohn and the Evolution of Messianic Judaism into the Leading Missionary Movement among American Jews	26
Jacob Gordin: The Religious Crisis in Jewish Thought	26
Interculturalizing Religious Education—Mission Completed?	25
“O Piteous Spectacle! O Bloody Times!”: The Faithlessness of English Identity in 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI	24
Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of Water Deities Beliefs in the Pearl River Delta Applying Historical GIS	24
Transforming Inner Alchemical Vision into Painting: Huang Gongwang’s Clearing after Sudden Snow	23
The Changes of Chinese Oroqen Shaman Culture in the Context of Social Transformation	22
An Understanding of Christians’ Roles in Human Migration through the Biblical Theme of Shamar: From Genesis to the Good Samaritan	21
‘Not-All-There’ in the Necropolis: Afterlife and Madness in Urban Novels	21
Cloaked “Pagods”: Portuguese and “Heathen” Churches in Sixteenth-Century Malabar	20
Bathing Practices as a Religious and Medical Encounter: Water, Climate and Health Across Monsoon Asia	20
How Evangelicals Do Theology	19
Reflection on the Spread of Chinese Popular Religion: A Case-Study of the Han Yu Belief in the Chaozhou Region	19
The Paradox of Religiosity–Secularism in Formal Religious Education	18
Oἱ Ἰουδαῖοι (The Jews) in John’s Gospel: An African Reading	17
Miroslav Volf’s Theology of Memory in Relation to Zimbabwean Social Narratives	17
Criteria for the Acceptability of Scientific Theories as Locus theologicus: A Methodological Analysis of Catholic Church’s Reactions to the Cases of Galileo and Darwin (Bellarmine—Pius XII—John Paul I	17
When the Rūḥ Meets Its Creator: The Qurʾān, Gender, and Visual Culture in Contemporary Iranian Female Sufism	17
Religiously Grounded Character and Its Association with Subjective Well-Being in Emerging Adults: A Latent Profile Analysis	17

Social Welfare and Catholic Social Teaching: Foundational Theological Principles for Case Studies	16
The Southern Celestial Star Deities and the Refining and Transcendence Doctrine of the Ancient Lingbao Scriptures	16
Perfect Fools: Sanctity, Madness, and the Theory of Ambiguous Performance	15
Extending the Transhuman Person: Religious Practices as Cognitive Technological Enhancements	14
The Idea of Europe in the Work of Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis	14
“No Eden Without Its Serpent?”: Tracing Colonial Discourses in the Early Missionary Writings and the Development of Adventist Theological Education in Indonesia	14
Aligned in Human Dignity? Parallel Anthropological Aspects of EU Tech Regulation and Pope Francis’ Teaching on AI	14
Wake Up Cities! A Heritage Rebalancing Plan from the Sacred	14
We Are Not One, We Are Legion—Secular State in Mexico, Local Dynamics of a Federal Issue	14
Hierarchy Among Equals? A Response to Paul Molnar’s Torrance-Inspired Critique of Karl Barth’s Trinitarian Theology	14
Is It Rational to Reject God?	13
The Call and Response in the French Phenomenology of Religion	13
A Neurocognitive Approach Reveals Paul’s Embodied Emotional Strategies	13
Screening Out Their Own: Muslim Gatekeepers of Jewish Spaces in Morocco	13
The Tripods in Daoist Alchemy: Uncovering a Material Source of Immortality	13
The Pope of the Rain: The Extraordinary Solitude in the Media	13
“You Are My Brother, You Are My Sister… You Should Know Better…”: Racialised Experiences of Afro-Dutch Muslim Women: Navigating Intra-Muslim Anti-Blackness	12
Forgiving Others: Pastoral Care of Forgiveness in Post-Secular Societies	12
Living the Complete Picture: Realizing Wholeness in Faith, Art, and Career	12
The Transcendental Status of Beauty: Evaluating the Debate among Neo-Thomistic Philosophers	12
Psychedelics, the Bible, and the Divine	12
Granny Chan in Zen Buddhism: The Historical Deposition and Cultural Manifestation of Buddhist Women’s Zen Wisdom	12
Politics and Religion in Montenegro—From “Theocracy” to a Civic State	12
“Decide This Doubt for Me”: William Cowper’s Olney Hymns (1779)	12
Nationalism, Post-Secular and Sufism: The Making of Neo-Bektashism by Moikom Zeqo in Post-Socialist Albania	11
Compulsory Heterosexuality in Indonesia: A Literary Exploration of the Work of Ayu Utami	11
Ontology in Neolithic Britain and Ireland: Beyond Animism	11
Confucian Order and Religious Doctrines: Rhetorical Characterizations of Illustrations in the Fiction “Quanxiang Pinghua” in the Yuan Dynasty	11
Bioethics, Suffering, and the Culture Wars	11
Wittgenstein, Religion and Deep Epistemic Injustice	11
Editorial for Special Issue “The Global Urgency of Interreligious Studies”	11
Digital Animism: Towards a New Materialism	11
The Maternité Anglaise: A Lasting Legacy of the Friends’ War Victims’ Relief Committee to the People of France during the First World War (1914–1918)	11
Overcoming the Violence of “Virtuous” Womanhood: Liberating Women from the Proverbs 31 Paradigm	11
Newman and Wittgenstein on the Will to Believe: Quasi-Fideism and the Ground of Religious Certainty	10
Unsettling Man in Europe: Wynter and the Race–Religion Constellation	10
Catholic, Shia and Shakta Salvation Through Mystical Sorrow: Holy Mothers and Sacred Families	10
Encountering the Divine, Resisting Patriarchy: Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Prophetic Catholicism	10
The Tripartite Dimensions of “Ren 人” (Human Beings) in Pre-Qin Confucianism in Terms of “Li 礼” (Ritual)	10
Interfaith Dialogue Based on Community Action in Catalonia (Spain): Mapping, Indicators, and Conditions for a Successful Public Policy	10
“Sleeper Awake, Rise from the Dead”: Future Resurrection and Present Ethics in Ephesians	10
Love Speaking Understanding: Possible Steps toward Greater Church Unity Regarding Tongues through Biblical Theology	10
God Unhinged? A Critique of Quasi-Fideism	10
Is God’s Moral Perfection Reducible to His Love?	10
K.E. Løgstrup: Phenomenology of the Social World and Systematic Theology	10
Buddhist Civilisational Populism in Sri Lanka: Colonial Identity Formation, Post-War Othering, and Present Crises	10
Changing Identities of Religious People: The Role of Religiosity and the Public Discourse in Evaluating Gay People in Central and Eastern Europe	10
The Spiritual Prodigy, the Reluctant Guru, and the Saint: Mirabai and Collaborative Leadership at Hari Krishna Mandir	10
Religious Diversity Predicts Religions’ Population Growth in Tighter (vs. Looser) Cultures: A Study of Personality & Self-Reported Religion across 111 Countries	10
Introduction to the Special Issue “Religious Experience and Metaphysics”: A Brief Overview of Husserl’s Concept of Metaphysics	10

Aisthesis–Perception–Anaesthetics: Inspirations from Wolfgang Welsch’s Aesthetics for a Perception-Sensitive Theology	10
Zen Philosophy of Mindfulness: Nen 念 according to Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō	10
Between the Boundaries of Asceticism and Activism: Understanding the Authority of the Sadhvis within the Hindu Right in India	9
The Individual and the Collective: From the Confucian Perspective	9
Politics of the Blessed Lady: Catholic Art in the Contemporary Hungarian Culture Industry	9
Renewing the Narrative of the Age to Come: The Kingdom of God in NT Wright and John Zizioulas	9
Wearing the Good: A Kierkegaardian Exploration of “Messaged” Apparel	9
The State, Religion, and Violence in Colonial and Postcolonial Malawi	9
Radical Democracy’s Religion: Hobbes on Language, Domination, and Self-Creation	9
Animal Suffering, God and Lessons from the Book of Job	9
The Cosmopolitan World of the Quran and Late Antique Humanism	9
Globalization and Missionary Ambition in West African Islam. The Fayda after Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse	9
Racism as Delusion: A Buddhist Perspective	9
Neoliberalism, Postsecularism, and the End of Religion	9
Franny’s Jesus Prayer: J.D. Salinger and Orthodox Christian Spirituality	9
The Diaconate of All Believers: Theology, Formation, Practice	9
The Titles of the High Priest of Jerusalem in the Pre-Hasmonean Period	9
Apocalyptic Apologetics and the Witness of the Church	9
Tolerance of Ambiguity: Negotiating Religion and Sustaining the Lingsar Festival and Its Performing Arts in Lombok, Indonesia	9
“The Human Was Created Out of Haste.” On Prophecy and the Problem of Human Nature in the Qur’an	9
Research on a Buddha Mountain in Colonial-Period Korea: A Preliminary Discussion	9
Remnant and the New Dark Age	8
Divine Discomfort: A Relational Encounter with Multi-Generational and Multi-Layered Trauma	8
Origen’s ‘Celsus’: Questions of Identity	8
‘Ka asi kasya asi, kalyāṇi?’ The Ambiguity of the yakṣas in the Araṇya Parva of the Mahābhārata	8
How Religion Contributes to the Common Good, Positive Criminology, and Justice Reform	8
The Sanctification of the Disabled: A Study on the Images of Fortune Gods in Japanese Folk Beliefs	8
Communitas, Worship, and Music: Using Music to Revitalize the Post-Modern Church	8
Spiritual Leadership in the Upheaval of Settler Colonialism	8
The Problem of Evil, God’s Personhood, and the Reflective Muslim	8
Visualizing Faith and Futility in the Nuclear Apocalypse	8
Attention (to Virtuosity) Is All You Need: Religious Studies Pedagogy and Generative AI	8
A Beautiful Failure: The Tragic—And Luminous—Life of Jim Harvey (An Experiment in Narrative Theology)	8
Czesław Miłosz’s Translations as “Re-Visioning” of the Psalms: Poetry and Eschatology	8
Toward a Rhetography of James 1:1–18: Ekphrasis, Cinematography, and the Visual-Rhetorical Effects of the Passage	8
Between Scriptura et Pictura: Meditation on the Domus Dei and the Devotion of the Holy House of Mary	8
The Common Ground Between Japanese and Korean Buddhism in the Early Modern Period: Changes in the Perception of the Mechanism of the State–Buddhist Relationship	8
Cutting the Knot of the World Problem: Sri Aurobindo’s Experiential and Philosophical Critique of Advaita Vedānta	8
Developing Christ as Consolatory Example in the Christ Encomium	8
John Damascene’s Arguments about the Existence of God: A Logico-Philosophical and Religio-Hermeneutic Approach	8
Formation of the Traditional Chinese State Ritual System of Sacrifice to Mountain and Water Spirits	8
Defending Victims, Practicing Restraint: God-Consciousness and the Use of Force in the Qur’an	8
Mapping Muslim Moral Provinces: Framing Feminized Piety of Pakistani Diaspora	8
Liturgical Framing of Trials in 10th to 11th Century Catalonia	8
“It Makes a Difference!” Religion and Self-Assessed Health among Healthcare Support Professionals of Asian-Indian Origin	8
Islam Is Not Bad, Muslims Are: I’m Done with Islam	8
Hinduism, Hindutva and Hindu Populism in India: An Analysis of Party Manifestos of Indian Rightwing Parties	8
Towards a Kenotic Identity Politics: Migration, Transformation and the Eucharist	8
Woody Allen’s Broadway Danny Rose: Dialoguing with Jewish Tradition	8
A Moderate Proposal: Jonathan Dickinson and Benjamin Franklin Debate Freedom, Conscience, and Consensus	8
Sword and Lotus: The Life of a Confucian Buddhist Woman Warrior in Seventeenth Century China	8
Ayatollah Yusuf Sanei’s Contribution to the Discourse of Women’s Rights	8
Writing and Worship in Deng Zhimo’s Saints Trilogy	8
When the ‘Buddha’s Tree Itself Becomes a Rhizome’: The Religious Itinerant, Nomad Science and the Buddhist State	7
The Search for Originality within Established Boundaries—Rereading Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī (d. 716/1316) on Public Interest (maṣlaḥa) and the Purpose of the Law	7
“O Jewel Resplendent”: The Virgin Mary and Her Analogues in Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias	7
The Background of Stone Pagoda Construction in Ancient Japan	7
Christianity and Boxing: A Review Essay and Position Statement	7
“But Angels Don’t Have Wings”: Art, Religion, and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in Gilio’s Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters	7
Through the Open Gate of Heavens: The Tōdaiji Objects and Salvation in Vairocana’s Lotus Treasury World	7
Whiteness in Christianity and Decoloniality of the African Experience: Developing a Political Theology for ‘Shalom’ in Kenya	7
Secularism as an Anti-Religious Conspiracy: Salafi Challenges to French laïcité	7
Myths of Brotherly Animosity and the Civil Wars of Biblical Israel	7
Institutional Religious Freedom in Full: What the Liberty of Religious Organizations Really Is and Why It Is an “Essential Service” to the Common Good	7
Animals, Sages and Saints: Alfonso Vagnone’s Rhetorical Strategy in Chinese Context	7
Experts in Self-Isolation? Monastic Outreach during Lockdown	7
The Preacher as Artist: An Exploration of Sermon Creation as Art-Making	7
Religious Education in the Early Years: An Irish Perspective	7
“Justpeace-Diaconia” and the Challenges of Reconciliation in the Canadian Context	7
Australian Muslim Identities and the Question of Intra-Muslim Dialogue	7
Theorizing the (Un)Sounded in Sikhī: Anhad, Sabad, and Kīrtan	7
Ancient Egyptians in Black and White: ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ and the Hamitic Hypothesis	7
“For the First Time in Japan”: The Main Elements of Hangzhou‑Based Zen That Dōgen Transmitted	7
Panikkar on Mysticism as a Middle Way between Contemplation and Action	7
A Bābī Theology in Poetry: The Creative Imagination of Tāhirih, Qurratu’l-ʿAyn	7
The Question of Beauty and the Aesthetic Value of the Image of the Mother of God in Pastoral Care and Catechesis	7
Mobility and Intuition: What Does Pre-Qin Daoist Philosophy Reveal about Constructive Postmodernism?	7
John Milton and the English Women Prophets	7
Positivism and Reasonableness: Authoritarian Leanings in New Atheism’s Thinking	7
Phantoms of Faith—Experiences of Rupture and Residue of Amputated Religiosity among Norwegian Ex-Charismatic Christians	7

Christianity and Slavic Folk Culture: The Mechanisms of Their Interaction	7
Predictors of Religiosity among US Prisoners	7
Carnival in Rome: The Tension of Pope Paul III’s Dual Role Revisited	7
Preaching beyond Binary Categories: An Approach from Process Theology	7
Journeys without End: Narrative Endings and Implied Readers in Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana	7
Experiments with Buddhist Forms of Thought, Action and Practice to Promote Significant Learning	7
New Testament Theology and the Production of Theological Commentaries: Trends and Trajectories	7
The Contribution of Women to Peace in the Middle East: The Experience of the Movement Women Wage Peace (WWP)	7
The Interpretation of Watchman Nee’s Anthropology and Its Corresponding Ecclesiastical Influence in Contemporary Chinese Mainland Churches	7
Tajdid (Renewal) by Embodiment: Examining the Globalization of the First Mosque Open Day in Australian History	7
Restoring Community and Covenant in the 21st Century: The History and Potential Revival of Coventism in the Era of the ‘Global Village’	7
Heroism and Being-towards-Death: On Sacrificial Martyrdom in Contemporary Shiʿism	7
On Surprising Beauty. Aquinas’s Gift to Aesthetics	7
Cyberterrorism and Religious Fundamentalism: New Challenges for Europe in the Age of Universal Internet Access	7
Michael O’Brien’s Theological Aesthetics	7
On the Fiercely Debated Questions of a Chinese Metaphysics and a Tradition of Early Daoism: Western and Chinese Perspectives on the Daodejing and Huang-Lao Daoism	6
Buddhist Modernism and the Piety of Female Sex Workers in Northern Thailand	6
Yehudite Imaginations of King Darius and His Officials: Views from the Province beyond the River	6
My Soul Looks Beyond in Wonder: Curating Faith, Freedom, and Futurity at the National Museum of African American History and Culture	6
Description or Truth? A Typology of New Testament Theology	6
Producing Solidarities: Theological Reflections on Humanity and Ecology in Animal’s People	6
God Dwelling in the Clouds: The Dionysian Idea of the Triple Divine Darkness	6
Black and Blue: Black Women, ‘Law and Order,’ and the Church’s Silence on Police Violence	6
Proposition 187 and the Travel Ban: Addressing Economy, Security, and White Christian Nationalism in U.S. Christian Communities	6
Ethics Beyond Being?: Human Dignity and the Ontology of the Good in Twentieth-Century Catholic Thought	6
Ólöf the Rich and a Cloth from Svalbarð, Iceland	6
Prohibited Mountains and Forests in Late Imperial China	6
Widening the Circles of Dialogue: Paul VI and Interreligious Dialogue After 60 Years of Ecclesiam suam	6
Searching for the Location of Lord Lao: The Evolution of Daoist Cosmic Concept between the Han and Tang Dynasties	6
Christian Revelation in the Photographic Arts: Urban Warfare, Light as a Borrowed Metaphor, and Roman Bordun’s The Apartment After the Artillery Bombardment in Ukraine	6
Love Jihad and the Governance of Gender and Intimacy in Hindu Nationalist Statecraft	6
The Religious Plot in Museums or the Lack Thereof: The Case of Islamic Art Display	6
Jonas, Scholem, and the Taubeses in Jerusalem: From Metaphysical Antisemitism to a Jewish Gnostic Conspiracy	6
The Profane Land of the Happy: On the Messianic Promise in the Work of Giorgio Agamben	6
Avoidance of Riba-Based Loans and Enhancement of Quality of Life: An Indonesian Context Analysis	6
Gender Conflicts in Contemporary Korean Buddhism	6
Expressing Faith in a Phenomenological Mother Tongue	6
Portuguese Youth Religiosity in Comparative Perspective	6
Mystic on a Tilting Stage: Julian of Norwich’s Performance of English Visionary Devotion	6
Islamic Sexual Perversions and Apostasy Representations: Eastern and Western Classical Law Modern Reformist Mutations	6
Co-Creating Authentic Sacred Therapeutic Space: A Spiritually Sensitive Framework for Counselling Children	6
Precious Items Piling up Like Mountains: Buddhist Art Production via Fundraising Campaigns in Late Koryŏ Korea (918–1392)	6
National Populism and Religion: The Case of Fratelli d’Italia and Vox	6
The Idea of Mathematicity of the Universe as a Locus Theologicus: Michael Heller and Representatives of “The Kraków School of Philosophy in Science”	6
(De)Globalization, the Global Imaginary, and Religious Narratives: A Theoretical Framework and the East Asia Litmus Test	6
The Conversion of Heritage and the Heritage of Conversion: Two Case Studies from Trentino	6
Introduction to the Special Issue Art, Shamanism and Animism	6
Editorial: Examining the Complicated Nature of Religious Solidarity	6
Surprised by Hope: Possibilities of Spiritual Experience in Victorian Lyric Poetry	6
Getting to Know the Other: Niqab-Wearing Women in Liberal Democracies	6
Characterizing ‘New Korean Confucianism’: Focusing on Pak Chonghong and Yi Sang-ŭn’s Life and Thought	6
A New Hermeneutical Approach to the Qur’an with Special Reference to the Narrative of Prophet Yaḥyā (John the Baptist) in the Qur’an and the Bible	6
Observations on the Magisterium’s Gender Anthropology and Its Consequences for Women in the Catholic Church	6
Origins of Dualism and Nondualism in the History of Religion and Spiritual Practice	6
Theurgy, Paredroi, and Embodied Power in Neoplatonism and Late Antique Celestial Hierarchies	6
Beyond Controversy in the Hebrew Bible: Standing Stones as Messengers of Common Humanity	6
Coping and Religiosity of Polish Breast Cancer Patients	6
Dao, the Godhead, and the Wandering Way: Daoism and Eckhart’s Mystical Theology	6
“Until Dignity Becomes Ordinary”: The Grammar of Dignity in Catholic Social Teaching	6
Climate Emergency as Revelation: The Tragedy and Illusion of Sovereignty in Christian Political Theologies	6
“A World in a Grain of Sand”: The Book of Nature and Restoration Theology	6
Catholic Martyrs and Canon Law: Reassessing the Meaning of Hagiographic Texts in Philip II’s Spain	6
Giving Up Our Cultural Addiction	6
A Doctrinal and Practical Continuity: Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis on the Ecological Crisis	6
Water Spirits of the Yangzi River and Imperial Power in Traditional China	6
Towards a Holistic Approach to Sustainable Development: Inner Development as a Missing Link for Sustainability Transformation	6
Poured Out on Your Sons and Daughters: Pneumatologically Shaped Pedagogical Practices for Engaging Children in Congregational Worship	6
Christ’s Wounded Body, Sorrowful Soul and Joyful Spirit: The Interpretation of Christ’s Passion in a Forgotten 16th Century Classic of Mystical Literature	6
Saving Souls and ‘Trees’: An Emerging Model of Pentecostal-Charismatic Eco-Missions in the Church of Pentecost, Ghana	6
To Be Seen and Heard: Toward a Child Liberation Theology Framework for Contemporary Praise and Worship Practice	6
Thinking Proleptically: Paul Mendes-Flohr on Intellectual History as Second-Person Dialogue	6
The Church Land Programme and Black Theology of Liberation: Solidarity and Suggestions for an Innovative Methodology	6
Ibn Taymiyya on Human Nature and Belief in God: Using the Cognitive Science of Religion to Study the Fiṭra	6
The Laozi’s Ideal State: Nostalgia, Utopia, State of Nature	6
Between Tyranny and Anarchy: Islam, COVID-19, and Public Policy	6
Sparking Religious Conversion through AI?	5
Religious Minorities’ Rights in International Law: Acknowledging Intersectionality, Enhancing Synergy	5
The Holonic Christ: Catholicity as Individuation and Integration	5
Protestant Congregational Song in the Philippines: Localization through Translation and Hybridization	5
Toward a Generalizable Understanding of Rightist Movements: Utilizing the Revolutionary Right’s Value Wars in Iran (1995–2009) as a Case Study	5
Border Regimes: Homophobia and LGBT Place Making in Six Ordinary Cities in Europe	5
Black Religion and Reparations: Pragmatic Trajectories and Widening Support	5
Race, Religion and the Medieval Norse Discovery of America	5
The Evolution of Suffering, Epiphenomenalism, and the Phenomena of Life: Evidential Problems for Naturalists	5
Human (Relational) Dignity: Perspectives of Followers of Indigenous Religions of Indonesia	5
Rethinking Guo Xiang’s Concept of “Nothing” in the Perspective of His Reception of Laozi and Zhuangzi	5
Buddhist Cultural Exchange between Paekche and Ancient Japan: A Comparative Analysis of the Archaeological Remains from the Wooden Pagoda Site at Asukadera and Śarīra Reliquaries from Paekche Temple S	5
Renewed Minds and Redeemed Inheritance: Pauline Eschatology in Eph 4:17–32	5
U.S. Federal Investment in Religiousness/Spirituality and Health Research: A Systematic Review	5
Deciphering the Interaction between Daoism and Buddhism in the Wei-Jin Period Tale of “The Golden Pot of Futi”	5
The Universal and the Particular in Christian Political Life: Secular and Sacred Reflections on Christian Nationalism	5
Not Seeing Is Believing: Ritual Practice and Architecture at Chalcolithic Çadır Höyük in Anatolia	5
Mystical Theology and Its Relevance for Today’s Theology: Some Historical Observations	5
Catholics, Culture and the Renewal of Christian Humanism	5
Pope Francis, Islam, and the Ethics of Recognition: Openings and Muslim Responses	5