History of Religions

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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Africana Esoteric Studies and Western Intellectual Hegemony: A Continuing Conversation with Western Esotericism14
Rhetorics of Solidarity in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature: Or, “You’re So Vain, I Bet You Think This Sūtra Is about You”3
In an Ottoman Holy Land: The Hajj and the Road from Damascus, 1500–18003
Late Imperial Chinese Anticlericalism and the Division of Ritual Labor2
Between Sound and Silence in Early Yoga: Meditation on “Om” at Death2
Buddhist Law beyond the Vinaya: Monastic Constitutions (katikāvatas) and Their Transformations in Colonial Sri Lanka2
Cultivation, Salvation, and Obligation: Quanzhen Daoist Thoughts on Family Abandonment1
Speech Acts of the Buddha: Sovereign Ritual and the Poetics of Power in Mahāyāna Sūtras1
Religion in the Mirror of the Other: The Discursive Value of Cult-Atrocity Stories in Mediterranean Antiquity1
Western Missionaries in Modern China: From Ministers of Foreign Teachings to Agents of Imperialism?1
Espousal of the Impoverished Bride in Early Franciscan Hagiography and the Kabbalah of Gerona1
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Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea. By Juhn Young Ahn. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. Pp. xv+243. $95.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).0
Kaiser, Christ, and Canaan: The Religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871–1918. By Paul Michael Kurtz. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. Pp. xiv+370. €129.00 (cloth).0
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How to See the Invisible: Attention, Landscape, and the Transformation of Vision in Tibetan Pilgrimage Guides0
Antipathy, Ambivalence, and Acceptance: Chan Attitudes toward Ritual from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century0
Practical Canons from Buddhist Pasts: What Pāli Anthologies Can Tell Us about Buddhist History0
The Incas and the Enlightenment: Andean Idols and European Discourses on Religion, 1550–19000
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Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. By Jolyon Baraka Thomas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. xiv+356. $97.50 (cloth); $32.50 (paper).0
The Who, Why, and What of Religion—and Its Study0
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
:White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America0
The Rule and the Folk: The Emergence of the Clergy/Laity Divide and the Forms of Anticlerical Discourse in China’s Late Antiquity0
Temples and the Ruins of Time in Sunthorn Phu’s Nirat to Golden Mountain Temple0
The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion. By Nathan McGovern. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+313. $99.00 (cloth); $31.27 (ebook).0
The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio, and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India. By Ananya Chakravarti. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+355, bla0
Water, Identity, and Baptism in K’iche’an Maya Narratives from Colonial Highland Guatemala0
A Domesticated Charisma: Buddhist Hagiographies in Southern Song China (1127–1279)0
:The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Image in Daoism0
The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia. By Johan Elverskog. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. xxii+178. $55.00 (cloth).0
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Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions. By Jeffrey J. Kripal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. ix+478, color illustrations. $45.00 (cloth); $35.00 0
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Vedic Voices: Intimate Narratives of a Living Andhra Tradition. By David M. Knipe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxiv+340, 12 color illustrations, 30 monochrome illustrations, ma0
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The Invention of Idolatry0
:Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism0
Orality in the Tekke and the Circulation of “High” and “Low” Cultures of Sufism in Seventeenth-Century İstanbul0
The Heretic Talks Back: Feigning Orthodoxy in Ṣaffār al-Qummī’s Baṣāʾir al-Darajāt (d. 902–3)0
Imperiled Destinies: The Daoist Quest for Deliverance in Medieval China. By Franciscus Verellen. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 118. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 0
Śiva’s Saints: The Origins of Devotion in Kannada according to Harihara’s “Ragaḷegaḷu.” By Gil Ben-Herut. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+276. $99.00 (cloth).0
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 Pr0
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:Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right0
The Long Arm of the Law: The Generative Power of Metatextuality in Mahāyāna Sūtras0
:The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali0
:Buddhist Historiography in China0
Recent Studies on Raffaele Pettazzoni0
Buddhism in Court: Clerical Privileges and the Jurisdiction of the Buddhist Clergy in Indian Buddhism0
Mobilizing Krishna’s World: The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh. Global South Asia. By Heidi R. M. Pauwels. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. Pp. xv+262, 27 black-and0
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
Embodying the Sacred: Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima. By Nancy E. van Deusen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. viii+272, 1 illustration. $99.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).0
Disappearing and Disappeared Daughters in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: Sūtras on Sex Transformation and an Intervention into Their Transmission History0
:Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
Buddhism and the Siberian Buryat Chronicles: Stories of Origin, Rivalry, and Negotiation in the Russian Empire0
“Briskness in the Market of Shaikh-Dom”: The Commercialization of Piety in Early Eighteenth-Century Delhi0
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Roads, State, and Religion in Japanese Antiquity0
Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism. By Banu Subramaniam. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. Pp. xviii+290. $95.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
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Ritual Authority and the Problem of Likeness in Chan Buddhism0
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Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal. By Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xx+312. $115.00 (cloth).0
Roberto de Nobili and the Myth of the Modern Conceptualization of Religion in Seventeenth-Century India0
The Neighborhood of Gods: The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai. By William Elison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xiii+315. $35.00 (paper); $90.00 (cloth).0
The Conceptualization of Religion and Incipient Secularity in Late Sasanian Iran: Burzōy and Paul the Persian’s Parallel Departures from Tradition0
Comparing Faiths: The Making of Religious Dialogue between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe0
Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity. By David Frankfurter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xix+314, 8 color illustrations, 16 halftone illus0
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
The Inconvenience of Chocolate: Disciplining the Society of Jesus in Seventeenth-Century Mexico0
Fashioning Health as Beauty: Cosmetic Rulings in Early Islam0
The Future of Comparison0
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The Deconstruction of Dafther Jailani: Muslim and Buddhist Contests of Original History in Sri Lanka0
The Ritual Construction of Confucian Gods in Imperial China: The Case of Vast Heaven High God0
Reconstructing the Past and Conceptualizing the Jewish “Other”: How the Babylonian Geonim Contributed to the Creation of the Founding Myth of Karaism0
Re-ending the Mahābhārata: The Rejection of Dharma in the Sanskrit Epic. By Naama Shalom. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017. Pp. xvii+248. $95.00 (cloth); $32.95 (paper).0
Bouillon for His Majesty: Healthy halal Modernity in Colonial Java0
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The Problem of Becoming a Bodhisattva and the Emergence of Mahāyāna0
American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. By Duncan Ryūken Williams. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. viii+384, 34 plates. $29.95 (cloth).0
War, Public Letters, and Piety: The Making of a New Pure Land Patriarch in Modern China0
:Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism0
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
Medieval Anticlericalism: Terms and Conditions0
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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
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
Making Canon Practicable: Scaling the Tripiṭaka with a Medieval Chinese Buddhist Anthology0
Buddhist Fund-Raising Poems and Other Lost Verses from Venerable Miaozhan’s Gāthā (Printed 1142)0
The Story of Myth. By Sarah Iles Johnston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. x+374. $46.50 (cloth).0
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