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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Prayer, Deconstruction, and Boundless Play: Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya’s Avant-Garde Sufism3
:Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right3
The Story of Myth. By Sarah Iles Johnston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. x+374. $46.50 (cloth).2
“Like Silkworms in Their Cocoons”: Silkworm-Human Relations in Middle-Period Chinese Buddhism2
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
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Enacting Identities: Chōgen, Kujō Kanezane, and the Tōdaiji Great Buddha1
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).1
:Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism0
Western Missionaries in Modern China: From Ministers of Foreign Teachings to Agents of Imperialism?0
Rhetorics of Solidarity in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature: Or, “You’re So Vain, I Bet You Think This Sūtra Is about You”0
The Heretic Talks Back: Feigning Orthodoxy in Ṣaffār al-Qummī’s Baṣāʾir al-Darajāt (d. 902–3)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
:The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Image in Daoism0
:Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion0
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
Bovine Bodies and Foreign Kings: Immunity and Dharma in the Hindu Epics0
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:Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition0
The Invention of Idolatry0
A Domesticated Charisma: Buddhist Hagiographies in Southern Song China (1127–1279)0
Antipathy, Ambivalence, and Acceptance: Chan Attitudes toward Ritual from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century0
:Profaning Paul0
Cultivation, Salvation, and Obligation: Quanzhen Daoist Thoughts on Family Abandonment0
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
:Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion0
:Global Tantra: Religion, Science, and Nationalism in Colonial Modernity0
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:Musicology of Religion: Theories, Methods, and Directions0
The Incas and the Enlightenment: Andean Idols and European Discourses on Religion, 1550–19000
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Ritual Authority and the Problem of Likeness in Chan Buddhism0
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
:The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali0
How to Do Things with Hagiography: Bodhidharma’s Rebirth in Premodern Japanese Buddhism0
The Who, Why, and What of Religion—and Its Study0
War, Public Letters, and Piety: The Making of a New Pure Land Patriarch in Modern China0
Comparing Faiths: The Making of Religious Dialogue between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe0
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Toward a History of Theravada Cosmological Literature0
:Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism0
:Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
:Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History0
:The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil0
Bouillon for His Majesty: Healthy halal Modernity in Colonial Java0
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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
A Comparative Analysis of Ahreman’s Assault and Alexander’s Invasion: Exploring Narrative Themes in Pahlavi Sources0
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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
The Vicissitudes of Multiple Buddhas in Theravada Buddhism: Of Ludic Play, Gender, and Politics0
:Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity0
:Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice0
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Discovering and Disciplining Religion in Manchuria and Taiwan Under Japanese Rule0
The Ritual Construction of Confucian Gods in Imperial China: The Case of Vast Heaven High God0
:The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West0
:In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions0
Buddhist Fund-Raising Poems and Other Lost Verses from Venerable Miaozhan’s Gāthā (Printed 1142)0
Rhetoric of Reorganization: Thinking beyond Millennialism through the Notion of Great Peace (Taiping) in Early Medieval Daoist Texts0
The Deconstruction of Dafther Jailani: Muslim and Buddhist Contests of Original History in Sri Lanka0
:Inscribing Death: Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China0
Orality in the Tekke and the Circulation of “High” and “Low” Cultures of Sufism in Seventeenth-Century İstanbul0
High-Tech Devotion: Experimental Religion and Media Sevā in Swaminarayan Hinduism0
The Rule and the Folk: The Emergence of the Clergy/Laity Divide and the Forms of Anticlerical Discourse in China’s Late Antiquity0
#pluralism: Indian Queer Activism and Secularism0
:Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa0
Espousal of the Impoverished Bride in Early Franciscan Hagiography and the Kabbalah of Gerona0
The Long Arm of the Law: The Generative Power of Metatextuality in Mahāyāna Sūtras0
Roberto de Nobili and the Myth of the Modern Conceptualization of Religion in Seventeenth-Century India0
The Conceptualization of Religion and Incipient Secularity in Late Sasanian Iran: Burzōy and Paul the Persian’s Parallel Departures from Tradition0
Temples and the Ruins of Time in Sunthorn Phu’s Nirat to Golden Mountain Temple0
“Briskness in the Market of Shaikh-Dom”: The Commercialization of Piety in Early Eighteenth-Century Delhi0
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:Unbridled: Studying Religion in Performance0
The Problem of Becoming a Bodhisattva and the Emergence of Mahāyāna0
Reconstructing the Past and Conceptualizing the Jewish “Other”: How the Babylonian Geonim Contributed to the Creation of the Founding Myth of Karaism0
“Indo-European” Cosmogony: Fifty Years Later0
Medieval Anticlericalism: Terms and Conditions0
Trading Power for Authority: An Intertextual Reading of the Concentration of Heroic Progress and the Precious Banner0
Late Imperial Chinese Anticlericalism and the Division of Ritual Labor0
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:Buddhist Historiography in China0
:White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America0
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
Making Canon Practicable: Scaling the Tripiṭaka with a Medieval Chinese Buddhist Anthology0
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
Speech Acts of the Buddha: Sovereign Ritual and the Poetics of Power in Mahāyāna Sūtras0
Water, Identity, and Baptism in K’iche’an Maya Narratives from Colonial Highland Guatemala0
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How to See the Invisible: Attention, Landscape, and the Transformation of Vision in Tibetan Pilgrimage Guides0
Religion, Art, Literature, and Society in Early Modern Rajasthan0
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