History of Religions

Papers
(The median citation count of History of Religions 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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:Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right3
Prayer, Deconstruction, and Boundless Play: Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya’s Avant-Garde Sufism3
The Story of Myth. By Sarah Iles Johnston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. x+374. $46.50 (cloth).2
Chan before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism. By Eric M. Greene. Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 28. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Pr2
Enacting Identities: Chōgen, Kujō Kanezane, and the Tōdaiji Great Buddha1
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“Like Silkworms in Their Cocoons”: Silkworm-Human Relations in Middle-Period Chinese Buddhism1
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The Problem of Becoming a Bodhisattva and the Emergence of Mahāyāna0
Buddhist Fund-Raising Poems and Other Lost Verses from Venerable Miaozhan’s Gāthā (Printed 1142)0
Cultivation, Salvation, and Obligation: Quanzhen Daoist Thoughts on Family Abandonment0
:Unbridled: Studying Religion in Performance0
:Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice0
:Buddhist Historiography in China0
Reconstructing the Past and Conceptualizing the Jewish “Other”: How the Babylonian Geonim Contributed to the Creation of the Founding Myth of Karaism0
The Ritual Construction of Confucian Gods in Imperial China: The Case of Vast Heaven High God0
Trading Power for Authority: An Intertextual Reading of the Concentration of Heroic Progress and the Precious Banner0
#pluralism: Indian Queer Activism and Secularism0
Ritual Authority and the Problem of Likeness in Chan Buddhism0
:In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions0
:Inscribing Death: Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China0
High-Tech Devotion: Experimental Religion and Media Sevā in Swaminarayan Hinduism0
The Deconstruction of Dafther Jailani: Muslim and Buddhist Contests of Original History in Sri Lanka0
Speech Acts of the Buddha: Sovereign Ritual and the Poetics of Power in Mahāyāna Sūtras0
Orality in the Tekke and the Circulation of “High” and “Low” Cultures of Sufism in Seventeenth-Century İstanbul0
Making Canon Practicable: Scaling the Tripiṭaka with a Medieval Chinese Buddhist Anthology0
The Invention of Idolatry0
:The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Image in Daoism0
:Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism0
Metamodernism: The Future of Theory. By Jason Ᾱnanda Josephson Storm. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. xii+360. $95.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
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:The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil0
How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others. By T. M. Luhrmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 256. $29.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).0
:White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America0
“Indo-European” Cosmogony: Fifty Years Later0
The Vicissitudes of Multiple Buddhas in Theravada Buddhism: Of Ludic Play, Gender, and Politics0
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:Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion0
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A Domesticated Charisma: Buddhist Hagiographies in Southern Song China (1127–1279)0
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The Incas and the Enlightenment: Andean Idols and European Discourses on Religion, 1550–19000
A Comparative Analysis of Ahreman’s Assault and Alexander’s Invasion: Exploring Narrative Themes in Pahlavi Sources0
Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India. Elaine M. Fisher. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. Pp. xii+285. $34.95 (paper).0
Bouillon for His Majesty: Healthy halal Modernity in Colonial Java0
:Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism0
The History of the Arthaśāstra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India. By Mark McClish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii+267. $99.99 (cloth); $32.99 (paper).0
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Religion, Art, Literature, and Society in Early Modern Rajasthan0
Water, Identity, and Baptism in K’iche’an Maya Narratives from Colonial Highland Guatemala0
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Toward a History of Theravada Cosmological Literature0
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:Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History0
Espousal of the Impoverished Bride in Early Franciscan Hagiography and the Kabbalah of Gerona0
The Conceptualization of Religion and Incipient Secularity in Late Sasanian Iran: Burzōy and Paul the Persian’s Parallel Departures from Tradition0
:Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
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Comparing Faiths: The Making of Religious Dialogue between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe0
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:Profaning Paul0
:Global Tantra: Religion, Science, and Nationalism in Colonial Modernity0
Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea. By Jack Meng-Tat Chia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 305. $99.00 (cloth).0
:Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa0
Rhetoric of Reorganization: Thinking beyond Millennialism through the Notion of Great Peace (Taiping) in Early Medieval Daoist Texts0
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:Musicology of Religion: Theories, Methods, and Directions0
:The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West0
:Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity0
“Briskness in the Market of Shaikh-Dom”: The Commercialization of Piety in Early Eighteenth-Century Delhi0
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How to Do Things with Hagiography: Bodhidharma’s Rebirth in Premodern Japanese Buddhism0
:The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali0
War, Public Letters, and Piety: The Making of a New Pure Land Patriarch in Modern China0
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The Who, Why, and What of Religion—and Its Study0
The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE. By Robert Ford Campany. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020. Pp. xvii+260. $55.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
How to See the Invisible: Attention, Landscape, and the Transformation of Vision in Tibetan Pilgrimage Guides0
Roberto de Nobili and the Myth of the Modern Conceptualization of Religion in Seventeenth-Century India0
The Heretic Talks Back: Feigning Orthodoxy in Ṣaffār al-Qummī’s Baṣāʾir al-Darajāt (d. 902–3)0
The Long Arm of the Law: The Generative Power of Metatextuality in Mahāyāna Sūtras0
Rhetorics of Solidarity in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature: Or, “You’re So Vain, I Bet You Think This Sūtra Is about You”0
Antipathy, Ambivalence, and Acceptance: Chan Attitudes toward Ritual from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century0
:Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion0
Temples and the Ruins of Time in Sunthorn Phu’s Nirat to Golden Mountain Temple0
:Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition0
Discovering and Disciplining Religion in Manchuria and Taiwan Under Japanese Rule0
Bovine Bodies and Foreign Kings: Immunity and Dharma in the Hindu Epics0
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