Numen-International Review for the History of Religions

Papers
(The TQCC of Numen-International Review for the 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Euro-American Esoteric Readings of East Asia: Introductory Remarks14
The One Death and Many Lives of King Kumārapāla: Biography and Resilience in Jainism4
(Un)Making Chorography: Ecstatic Dance Along California’s Coast4
Alfred Loisy and the Making of History of Religions: A Study of the Development of Comparative Religion in the Early 20th Century, written by Annelies Lannoy4
Towards a Theory of Oral Criticism for Early Buddhist Scripture3
Ways of Learning in Spiritual Self-Help: Singing Bowl Manuals and Handbooks3
Religious Minorities at Risk, written by Matthias Basedau, Jonathan Fox, and Ariel Zellman3
Hartmut Leppin: The Early Christians: From the Beginnings to Constantine2
A Brief History of the Relationship Between Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, written by Zhongjian Mou2
Astrology in European History: Its Philosophical Foundations Through the Ages, written by Gustav-Adolf Schoener2
“Each of Our Springs Has Lost Its Miraculous Power”1
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The Ancient Greek Pharmakos Rituals1
Contested Hierarchies1
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The Danish-Halle Mission from the Perspective of Embodiment: Communication, Ritual, and the Body in Interreligious Contact1
Degraded Gods on Parade: Reading Temple Festivals in Early Malayalam Literature1
Introduction: Jainism, Adaptation, and Resilience1
Religious Gentrification as Heterarchies of Urban Planning1
“We Were as Dreamers:” Prayer as the Royal Road to the Unconscious in Hasidism1
From Festive Sacred to Festive Secular? Indigenous Religious Presence in Two Nigerian Festivals1
In Between Human–Animal Bodies: Transcorporeal Experiences in Hittite Anatolia1
Spiritual Power, Witchcraft and Protestants: Conflicting Approaches to Religious Belonging and Practice in the Komi Countryside1
Homer and the Poetics of Hades, written by George Alexander Gazis0
On Curse and the Power of Knowledge: Upanishadic Moments and the Aṣṭāvakra Tale of the Mahābhārata0
Silent Mastery: The Concealed Art of Buddhist Writing0
Between the Real and Ideal: Efficacy in an Ancient Mesopotamian Building Ritual0
Applying Heterarchy Theory to Ancient Mesopotamian Religions0
Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, edited by J. H. Miller and J. S. Clay0
The Origins of Mircea Eliade’s Transconscious and the Vicissitudes of the Religious Faculty0
From Puzzle to Paradigm: A Kuhnian Perspective on Javanese Islam0
The Śrāvaka Saṃbodha: Recasting Śrāvakācāra for Contemporary Lay Jains0
Moving Beyond Religious Clichés: A Review0
The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland, written by Crawford Gribben0
Monastic Authority and Legitimizing Religio-Political Activism: Buddhist Nationalist Monks in Myanmar0
Internal Controversy and Literary Heritage: a Discussion of Two Śvetāmbara Dharmaparīkṣā Adaptations0
The Return of the Bodhisattvas and Other Possible Explanations for the Appearance of Mahāyāna Sūtras0
From Indra’s Net to Iternet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas, written by Daniel Veidlinger0
Releasing Urban Religion beyond the City Wall: The Spatial Capital of Early Buddhist Monasticism in NW South Asia0
A Reconsideration of the Issue of Authorship in the Vinaya0
English Translations of Daoist Scriptures: A Historical Study, written by Yu Senlin0
The Emergence of the Kabbalah: Early Sefirotic Theosophy as a Response to Contemporary Theological Challenges0
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Unlikely Departures: a Jain Mendicant’s Decision to Travel Overseas0
Resilience and Consilience in the Science of Religion(s)0
Christianity: A Brief Introduction, written by Charles E. Farhadian0
Uncanny Experience and Its Meaning-Making as Moral Experience0
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Local Cure, Global Chant: Performing Theravadic Awakening in the Footsteps of the Ledi Sayadaw0
To Whom to Pray?0
The Power of the Written Word in Manichaeism0
Crystal Shops and Shopping for Crystals in Estonia: Materiality and Experience as Sources of Value0
Voices from Zoroastrian Iran. Vol. 1: Urban Centres, written by Sarah Stewart in collaboration with Mandana Moavenat Voices from Zoroastrian Iran. Vol. 2: Urban and Rural Centres – Yazd and Outlying V0
Variability in the Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts, edited by Carlos Grazia Zamacona0
Obituary: Louise Bäckman (1926–2021)0
The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature, edited by Colin McAllister0
Interdisciplinarity in Nondisciplines: Archive and Academe in the Study of Religion0
The Reception of ʿAbdu’l-Bahā in Britain: East Comes West, written by Brendan McNamara0
The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology, written by Paul R. Rovang0
Screenwriting Applied to the Academic Study of Religion: Some Kind of Liberating Effect, a Documentary on Central and Eastern Europe0
Introducing “the Heavenly Empire of China” (le Céleste Empire de la Chine)0
Ramakrishna, Jesus, Friedrich Max Müller: A Peril of Comparativism0
The Mysteries, Resurrection, and 1 Corinthians 15, written by Terri Moore0
Esotericism between Europe and East Asia: How the “Esoteric Distinction” Became a Structure in Cross-Cultural Interpretation0
“Mon cher Mithra …” La Correspondance entre Franz Cumont et Alfred Loisy, written by Annelies Lannoy, Corinne Bonnet, and Danny Praet0
Going Unseen in the Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Magical Tradition0
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Tēvāram: Worshipping Gods on Stage0
Source of Life: Revitalisation Rites and Bon Shamans in Bhutan and the Eastern Himalayas, written by Toni Huber0
Collective Intentionality and the Study of Religion: Social Ontology and Empirical Research, written by Andrea Rota0
Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka, written by Alexander McKinley0
Reciting Buddhist Texts: Long Suttas of the Dīghanikāya in Performance0
The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Horror Fiction0
The Study of Religions in Ireland: Past, Present and Future, edited by Brendan McNamara and Hazel O’Brien0
Writing in Kannada, Being a Jain: Sanskrit as a Site of Contestation in a Fourteenth-Century Kannada Text0
J. F. Marc des Jardins: the Tradition of Everlasting Bön: Five Key Texts on Scripture, Tantra, and the Great Perfection0
Hotspots: On the Usefulness of a New Category0
Apocalyptic Actors and Historical Trajectories in Mythic Discourse of Conspiracism0
Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective, written by Carlo Ginzburg and Bruce Lincoln0
The Power of Kataragama: From “Hotspot” to “Cold Spot”?0
Friends in Dharma: Buddhism in Singapore-Thailand Relations, 1965–Present0
The Yogi Physician: The Conscious Self and the Yoga of Karmic Observation in Early Ayurvedic Medicine0
The Glory Jest and Riddle: Jonathan Z. Smith and an Aesthetic of Impossibles0
… and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption – From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year, written by Michael Hudson0
The Study of Religion in Sweden: Past, Present and Future, edited by Henrik Bogdan and Göran Larsson0
A Divisive Intellectualist Leader0
Living Phonologies: Khmer Pronunciations of Pali at the Nexus of Writing and Orality0
What Are Religious Hotspots? An Introduction0
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living, written by Dimitris Xygalatas0
Meditative Listening in the Pāli Buddhist Canon0
A Muslim-Christian Heterarchy in 12th-Century Cairo0
Determining the Realm of the Dead through Metaphors: The Case of Gilgameš, Enkidu, and the Netherworld0
Domesticating a Marian Apparition and Pilgrimage Site: A Case of Mount Živčák in Slovakia0
Teaching the Cognitive Science of Religion: Claire White’s An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion and Other Approaches0
Pilgrimage Space, Hinduization of Space, Hindutva Politics of Space, and the Case of Ayodhyā as a Religious and Religiopolitical Hotspot0
Appropriating the Historical Other: Utilizing Ancient Heresy in the Struggle over Gender Dominance at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
Albert de Pouvourville’s Occultisme Colonial0
An Interview with Robert A. Segal (1948–2024)0
Performing Theravāda: Introduction0
Tibetan Remediations: Wax Doubles of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok0
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Turn to Traditions – Calls for Change: Negotiations over Liturgy in the Synagogues of Finland0
The Ascended Confucius: Images of the Chinese Master in the Euro-American Esoteric Discourse0
Ritual Syntax Revisited0
Heterarchy0
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The Success of Early Christ Religion as a Result of the Inflexible and Intolerant Zeal of the Movement0
Abduʾl-Bahā Abbāsʿ: Head of the Baháʾí Faith, A Life in Social & Regional Context, written by Joshua Lincoln0
Aztec Religion between Christianity and New Age Spirituality: “Mana” and Spiritual Energies in James Maffie’s Concept of Teotl0
Kritische Gesamtausgabe (KGA), written by Ernst Troeltsch0
Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East, written by Jae Hee Han0
“If the Kingdom be Ruled According to the Tao”: Politics as “Eastern Wisdom” in Aleister Crowley’s Reception of the Daodejing0
Irish Mormons: Reconciling Identity in Global Mormonism, written by Hazel O’Brien0
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination, written by Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld0
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Volume 8: Pentecostals and the Body, edited by Michael Wilkinson and Peter Althouse0
The Othering and Resilience of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Soviet and Contemporary Lithuania0
How about Pantheism in Ancient Greek Religion?0
Possessing Enlightenment: Sorcery, Selfhood, and Tragic Responsibility in a Chinese Buddhist Apocryphon0
Handbook of Hinduism in Europe: Pan-European Developments, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen and Ferdinando Sardella0
Performing the Buddha’s Word: The Role of the Bhāṇaka0
Facilitating Buddhism through Portable Absolution0
Nothing Personal: Blavatsky and Her Indian Interlocutors0
Reconsidering “Secular Religion”: On Modern, Postmodern, and Metamodern Spirituality0
Dancing with Religion: Organized Atheism and Humanism in the Field of Religions in Denmark0
A Neurocognitive Model for Analyzing End Time Narratives: the Book of Revelation 14–16 as a Test Case0
Hierarchy into Heterarchy0
Histories of Śatruñjaya and the Making of Jain Identity in South Asia0
India in the Eyes of Europeans: Conceptualization of Religion in Theology and Oriental Studies, written by Martin Fárek0
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