This is the second post in a series on us providing subject lists of (post-2000) books we have added in the last six months (since 1 October 2025, the beginning of our financial year). The list is sorted by date of publication. We hope that these lists will help to share what we have bought or added in the last few months, and make it easy to browse. If you find this useful please let us know.
We added 65 books published after 2000, in philosophy of religion, between 1 October 2025, and 21 May 2025.
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| Title | ISBN | Year | Classmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tao of the West : Western transformations of Taoist thought / J.J. Clarke. | 9780415206204 | 2000 | BL1920 CLA 2000 |
| Religion and the new republic : faith in the founding of America / edited by James H. Hutson. | 9780847694341 | 2000 | BL2525 REL |
| Shamanism : a reader / edited by Graham Harvey. | 9780415253307 | 2002 | BL2370.S5 SHA |
| Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion / edited by Ilkka Pyysiäinen and Veikko Anttonen. | 9780826457103 | 2002 | BL53 CUR 2002 |
| The alphabet of paradise : an A-Z of spirituality for everyday life / Howard Cooper. | 9780232524659 | 2002 | BL624 HOW 2002 |
| The masses are messiah : contemplating the Filipino soul / Karl M. Gaspar, CSsR. | n/a | 2003 | BL2130 GAS 2010 |
| Creative tension : essays on science and religion / Michael Heller. | 9781932031348 | 2003 | BL240.3 HEL 2003 |
| Exploring God-talk : using language in religion / Jeff Astley. | 9780232525199 | 2004 | BL65.L2 AST 2004 |
| The politics of faith : essays on the morality of key current issues / Peter C. Glover. | 9781594677960 | 2004 | BL65.P7 GLO 2004 |
| Fundamentalism : the search for meaning / Malise Ruthven. | 9780192806062 | 2005 | BL238 RUT 2005 |
| The Oxford handbook of religion and science / edited by Philip Clayton and Zachary Simpson, associate editor. | 9780199279272 | 2006 | BL240.3 OXF 2006 |
| Paths to transcendence : according to Shankara, Ibn Arabi, and Meister Eckhart / Reza Shah-Kazemi. | 9780941532976 | 2006 | BL85 SHA 2006 |
| Peace be upon you : the story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coexistence / Zachary Karabell. | 9781400043682 | 2007 | BL410 KAR 2007 |
| Subverting hatred : the challenge of nonviolence in religious traditions / edited by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher. | 9781570757471 | 2007 | BL65.V55 SUB 2007 |
| After atheism : science, religion and the meaning of life / Mark Vernon. | 9780230013421 | 2008 | BL240.3 VER 2008 |
| Does science make belief in God obsolete? : Thirteen views on the question | n/a | 2008 | BL241 DOE 2008 |
| The Law of God : The Philosophical History of an Idea / Rémi Brague | 9780226070797 | 2008 | BL65.L33 BRA 2008 |
| Why I am not a Christian : and other essays on religion and related subjects / Bertrand Russell ; with a new preface by Simon Blackburn. | 9780415325103 | 2009 | BL2780 RUS 2004 |
| Violence and belief in late antiquity : militant devotion in Christianity and Islam / Thomas Sizgorich. | 9780812241136 | 2009 | BL65.V55 SIZ 2009 |
| Enchanted Europe : superstition, reason, and religion 1250-1750 / Euan Cameron. | 9780199257829 | 2010 | BL490 CAM 2010 |
| Revolutionary deists : early America’s rational infidels / Kerry Walters. | 9781616141905 | 2010 | BL2747.4 WAL 2010 |
| Humanity : texts and contexts : Christian and Muslim perspectives / Michael Ipgrave and David Marshall, editors ; afterword by Rowan Williams. | 9781589017160 | 2011 | BL256 HUM 2011 |
| Multiculturalism : a Christian retrieval / Jonathan Chaplin. | 9780956218261 | 2011 | BL980.G7 CHA 2011 |
| The God of philosophy : an introduction to philosophy of religion / Roy Jackson. | 9781844655014 | 2011 | BL200 JAC 2011 |
| The Quest for God and the Good World Philosophy as a Living Experience / Diana Lobel | 9780231153157 | 2011 | BL51 LOB 2011 |
| Protecting Nature, Saving Creation: Ecological Conflicts, Religious Passions, and Political Quandaries Gagliardi, Pasquale | 9781137361752 | 2013 | BL65.E36 PRO 2013 |
| Jews, Christians and Muslims in encounter / Edward Kessler. | 9780334047155 | 2013 | BL80.3 KES 2013 |
| Kirche und Umma : Glaubensgemeinschaft in Christentum und Islam / Hansjörg Schmid, Amir Dziri, Mohammad Gharaibeh, Anja Middelbeck-Varwick (Herausgeber). | 9783791725833 | 2014 | BL631 KIR 2014 |
| Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested History | 9781611173543 | 2014 | BL238 FUN 2014 |
| Not in God’s name : confronting religious violence / Jonathan Sacks. | 9781473616530 | 2015 | BL65.V55 SAC 2015 |
| Reimagining the sacred : Richard Kearney Debates God with James Wood, Catherine Keller, Charles Taylor, Julia Kristeva, Gianni Vattimo, Simon Critchley, Jean-Luc Marion, John Caputo, David Tracey, Jens Zimmermann, and Merold Westphal / edited by Richard Kearney and Jens Zimmermann. | 9780231161039 | 2016 | BL473 REI 2016 |
| Issues in Science and Theology: Are We Special? : Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology – Issues in Science and Religion: Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology Fuller, Michael (ed.) | 9783319872384 | 2018 | BL240.3 ISS 2018 |
| What is this thing called Philosophy of Religion? – What Is This Thing Called? / Burns, Elizabeth | 9781138817784 | 2018 | BL51 BUR 2018 |
| Religion hurts : why religions do harm as well as good / John Bowker. | 9780281080168 | 2018 | BL85 BOW 2018 |
| The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions – Oxford Handbooks Adam J. Silverstein (editor), Guy G. Stroumsa (editor), Moshe Blidstein (editor) | 9780198783015 | 2018 | BL410 OXF 2015 |
| Continental Philosophy of Religion – Cambridge Elements : Elements in the Philosophy of Religion Elizabeth Burns | 9781108457439 | 2019 | BL51 BUR 2019 |
| The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions – Routledge International Handbooks / Bernadette Flanagan (editor), Laszlo Zsolnai (editor) | 9780367659547 | 2020 | BL624 ROU 2020 |
| An Epistemology of Religion and Gender: Biopolitics, Performativity and Agency – Routledge Critical Studies in Religion, Gender and Sexuality Auga, Ulrike E. | 9781032237008 | 2021 | BL65.S4 AUG 2021 |
| Coping with defeat : Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the modern state / Jonathan Laurence. | 9780691220543 | 2021 | BL65.S8 LAU 2021 |
| Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies / Lucinda Mosher | 9781647121631 | 2022 | BL410 GEO 2022 |
| Louis Roy OP, Revelation in a Pluralistic World OUP 2022 | 9780192864840 | 2022 | BL475.5 ROY 2022 |
| Philosophies of religion : a global and critical introduction / Timothy Knepper. | 9781350262959 | 2022 | BL51 KNE 2023 |
| Negotiating identities : conflict, conversion, and consolidation in early Judaism and Christianity (200 BCE-600 CE) / Karin Hedner Zetterholm, Anders Runesson, Cecilia Wassén, and Magnus Zetterholm. | 9781978714731 | 2022 | BL53 NEG 2022 |
| The Spiritual Turn The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity | 9780192859839 | 2022 | BL624 WAT 2022 |
| Zeus Syndrome A Very Short History of Religion-Based Masculine Domination | 9781032215518 | 2023 | BL215.3 KUG 2023 |
| T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil – T&T Clark Handbooks / Matthias Grebe (editor), Johannes Grössl (editor) | 9780567682437 | 2023 | BL216 CLA 2023 |
| Issues in Science and Theology: Global Sustainability Michael Fuller (editor), Mark Harris (editor), Joanna Leidenhag (editor), Anne Runehov (editor) | 9783031418020 | 2023 | BL240.3 ISS 2023 |
| Human Flourishing in a Technological World : A Theological Perspective / Jens Zimmermann (editor) | 9780192844019 | 2023 | BL265.T4 HUM 2023 |
| Learning from Other Religions David Brown | 9781009367707 | 2023 | BL41 BRO 2023 |
| Kimmel/Takacs Wiley Blackwell Companion to Comparative Theology (Festschrift for Francis Clooney) | 9781394160570 | 2023 | BL41 WIL 2024 |
| The Problem of Divine Action in the World /Joel Archer | 9781009270335 | 2023 | BL487 ARC 2023 |
| God and the Problems of Love / Kelly James Clark [Elements in the Problems of God] | 9781009269155 | 2023 | BL626.4 CLA 2023 |
| Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements – Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics Warren S. Goldstein (editor), Jean-Pierre Reed (editor) | 9781032012414 | 2023 | BL65.R48 REL 2022 |
| Living in Wonder / Rob Dreher | 9781399807869 | 2024 | BL2752 DRE 2024 |
| Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion / Heidi Campbell (editor), Pauline Hope Cheong (editor) | 9780197549803 | 2024 | BL37 OXF 2024 |
| The Uses of Idolatry / William T. Cavanaugh | 9780197679050 | 2024 | BL485 CAV 2024 |
| The Humane Perspective : Philosophical Reflections on Human Nature, the Search for Meaning, and the Role of Religion / John Cottingham | 9780198918912 | 2024 | BL51 COT 2024 |
| Christine Gschwandner, Ways of Living Religion: Philosophical Investigations into Religious Experience | 9781009476782 | 2024 | BL53 GSC 2024 |
| The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality and Contemplative Studies – Routledge Handbooks in Religion / Bernadette Flanagan (editor), Kerri Clough (editor) | 9781032377278 | 2024 | BL624 ROU 2025 |
| On Mysticism : the experience of ecstasy / Simon Critchley | 9781800816930 | 2024 | BL626 CRI 2024 |
| The Religious Body Imagined | 9781781799710 | 2024 | BL65.B63 REL 2024 |
| Researching Global Religious Landscapes A Methodology between Universalism and Particularism | 9781800503922 | 2024 | BL65.C8 RES 2024 |
| Listening to the Spirit The Radical Social Gospel, Sacred Value, and Broad-Based Community Organizing | 9780197755525 | 2024 | BL65.P7 STA 2024 |
| Green Theology Emerging 21St-Century Muslim and Christian Discourses on Ecology – Sapientia Islamica / Lejla Demiri (editor), Mujadad Zaman (editor), Tim Winter (editor) | 9783161633621 | 2024 | BL65.E36 GRE 2024 |
| The Environment of Compassion Ecology, Religion, and Embodied Story – Routledge Studies in Religion / Cia Sautter | 9781032979779 | 2025 | BL65.E36 SAU 2025 |
What are your thoughts about the above?