Religion

Papers
(The TQCC of Religion 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Documenting the History of Religions in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1950–1970): Letters, Reports, and Requests across the Iron Curtain13
Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment10
To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations8
Mindfulness: Where It Comes From and What It Means7
Between local culture, leisure activity, and nonreligion – the individual constructions of religion by adolescents in rural Austria7
The Politics of Ritual6
Post-Lineage Yoga: From Guru to #MeToo6
Experimenting with Religion: The New Science of Belief5
Philosophy, religion, and ‘studies': scholarship as a spiritual exercise in Chinese thought5
The Oxford handbook of the Latin bible5
Religious beliefs and social practices5
Do you practice the critical study of religion?5
The pillar saint seen as a totally devoted emperor: the in-group around Symeon Stylites the elder4
The Space of Religion: Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China4
In Praise of the Few: Studies in Shiʿi Thought and History4
How the Qur'ān Works: Reading Sacred Narrative4
Melchizedek, King of Sodom: How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King4
Across the Worlds of Islam: Muslim Identities, Beliefs, and Practices from Asia to America4
The Fifty Years That Changed Chinese Religion, 1898–19483
Islam, Liberalism, and Ontology: A Critical Re-Evaluation3
Marriage, leadership, and dynasties in Hasidism: big data approach3
How religious space is constituted by means of metaphors. The Buddhist Sīmā as a semiotic case study – with special consideration of the distinction between the urban an3
The making of American Catholicism: regional culture and the Catholic experience3
Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion3
A Cultural History of Genocide, 6 volumes3
The names of the leader: the political deification of prabhakaran2
The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism2
Sociology of Religion: Overview and Analysis of Contemporary Religion2
Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic: mediating presence and distance2
Anything is possible: Word of Life and utopian thinking during the revolutionary processes in Estonia, 1987–19912
A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine , by C. Pierce Salguero, Columbia University Press, New York, 2022, vii + 244, US$1402
Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism2
Handbook of Hinduism in Europe, 2 volumes2
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe2
Conceptualizing utopias: Tibetan perceptions2
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa , by Noah Tamarkin, Duke University Press, Durh2
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice2
A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond2
Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge2
Emic concepts and etic paths2
The Holy Spirit and the Eagle Feather: The Struggle for Indigenous Pentecostalism in Canada2
Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks – And What It Can Teach Us Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks – And What It Can Teach Us2
The transitional objects of January 61
‘Real Gs and pastors in the church’: hip-hop esthetics in the rap music video productions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland1
Moved to distraction: the ritual theatre of the Fire Festival in Southwest China1
Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life1
Humanist marriage ceremonies in Poland: re-enchantment and four social constructions of the sacred1
Utopias for Boomers: religion, psychology, and sovereignty in the long sixties1
Women in Buddhist Traditions1
Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania1
Imagined utopias: Brasília and the Valley of the Dawn1
Rethinking Islam and Human Rights: Practice and Knowledge Production in the Case of Hizmet1
Do avatars weep? Ritual and sacred space at virtual burning man1
The remaking of a Tibetan mountain cult festival: the worship of landscape deities in the Rebgong Valley, Amdo1
Listening for/as presence: religious mediation of a Sufi ritual in the time of COVID-191
Kyoto's Gion festival: a longue-durée history of patronage, piety, and play1
Avenues of re-enchantment in Bulgarian mumming1
Urban religion beyond the city: theory and practice of a specific constellation of religious geography-making1
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion1
Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness: Black Jews in France1
Acute religious experiences: madness, psychosis and religious studies1
The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood1
Learning to learn in candomblé: notes on paths, knowledge, and the ‘education of distraction’1
The importance and limitations of ‘Choice’ in child-rearing practices for non-believing older adults1
Some moods and modes of enchantment in the human sciences: on the troublesome dead1
Festivals in Asia: patronage, play, and piety1
Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks1
Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations1
Why Baby Boomers Turned From Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945-20211
Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe: Pursuing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands1
The First Sikh: The Life and Legacy of Guru Nanak0
Religion and the ‘Secular shadow’: responses to covid-19 in Ethiopia0
Context and Catholicity in the Science and Religious Debate: Intercultural contributions from French-Speaking Africa0
British Buddhism, secular mindfulness, and the politics of sustainability0
Ordinary things: classifying Nahua religion in colonial Mexico0
Speak of the Devil: How the Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion0
Periodizing Secularization: Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945 Periodizing Secularization: Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945 0
The Western Epistemic Tradition and the Scientific Study of Religion0
Christian Zionists And Jewish settlers: the challenging and maintenance of religious boundaries0
Projectification of religion: an analytical framework0
From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus’ Understanding of Embodied Practices0
The business suit: transitional phenomena and religious comparison0
Finding Faith in American Foreign Policy: Religion and American Diplomacy in a Post-Secular World0
Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona0
Encounter, mixture, and syncretism from the perspective of the Afro-Brazilian religion Terecô0
Secular, religious or spiritual? A sociological portrait of UK mindfulness teachers0
The Political Theology of International Order0
Feeling out alternatives within secularity0
The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas0
Emplotting total devotion: secrecy, fame, and imitation in late antique Lives of Christian ascetics0
The pluralistic notion of zvipuka : Shona indigenous knowledge and human and nonhuman animal interaction in Zimbabwe0
Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam0
The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader: Islam Beyond Borders0
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic0
The Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheries of East Africa: Their Quest for a New Socio-religious Identity (1860–1960)0
The philosophy of religious studies0
Decolonizing utopias0
Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism0
Vernacular utopia0
‘Re-enchantment’ and religious change in former socialist Europe0
Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–12700
Mary, founder of Christianity0
The greater India experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast0
Journeys Toward Gender Equality In Islam0
God at War: A Meditation on Religion and Warfare0
Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature0
A technology of re-enchantment: reading, referencing, and redistributing Orthodox ‘spiritual literature’ in post-Yugoslav Serbia0
Modern religion as vestigial structure: an evolutionary account of secularisation0
Beyond ‘radical’ versus ‘moderate’? New perspectives on the politics of moderation in Muslim majority and Muslim minority settings0
Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Towards an Anthropocentric Study of Religion Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Towards an Anthropocentric Study of Religion , by Willi Brau0
The Proper Study of Religion: Building on Jonathan Z. Smith0
The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism0
Neither ‘underpinning’ nor ‘overarching’: explicating a critically reciprocal philosophy of religious studies0
Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe0
The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahāmudrā0
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria0
Islam and Democracy in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh0
Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: A Fresh Interpretation0
The power of the Nāth Yogīs: yogic charisma, political influence and social authority0
Absent dead, and abstract signs for absence: on the semiotic affordance of religion0
Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana0
Zemi, teotl, huaca: reconsidering materiality through three emic concepts in the New World0
Between Hindu and Christian: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics, and the Negotiation of Devotion in Banaras0
Democracy and Morality Religious and Secular Views0
Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel0
God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music0
Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists are Waging War Against the United States0
The future never dies: a relational approach to secular and religious entanglements of posthuman utopia0
Total devotion in the ancient world: emotions and narrative in radical religion0
Back to the future? The place of the religious ‘other’ in Ismail Gasprinsky’s Islamic utopia0
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity0
Language ideology in American Jewish thought0
Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism , by Baird Tipson, New York, Oxford University Press,0
Christians in the City of Shanghai: A History Resurrected Above the Sea0
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism0
The Vatican’s mediums. The strange case of Pope Pius IX and the spiritualistic experiences of the archbishop of Rennes0
Subversive habits: black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle0
Colonial sovereignty and the intermittent order of silver things0
The Critique of Religion and Religion’s Critique: On Dialectical Religiology0
Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology , edited by Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shep0
A managerial apocalypse: Mormon Missionaries, eschatological anxieties, and covid-190
Whaling on stage: a comparison of contemporary Japanese whale festivals0
Unveiling the counternarratives of Ganga: Ganga as goddess in the Sundarbans0
Oaths and Vows: Words as Genesis0
Understanding ‘Sectarianism’ Sunni-Shi’a Relations in the Modern Arab World0
Animal spirit: other bodies in relation0
At home in the gurdwara? Religious space and the resonance with domesticity in a London suburb0
‘May our hearts rise up in prayer’: responses of Russian-speaking immigrant Israeli reform congregations to the Russo-Ukrainian war0
Slaves of God/Christ: narrated total devotion in the apocryphalActs of Peter0
The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination0
Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan (Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series)0
Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea0
Pagan revival, re-enchantment, and new forms of rituality in Hungary: the case of the Kurultaj festival0
The ambiguous role of materiality in transitions to Orthodox Christianity in contemporary Finland0
Weird Confucius: Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History0
The making of the modern Muslim state: Islam and governance in the Middle East and North Africa0
Situating philosophy of religious studies0
Lemongrass, lotteries and the digital: interfaces, mediums, and underworld gods on a live-stream0
Severing ties: ritual objects and the category of religion in Hmong American families0
Myth Theorized0
Hindu festivals in small town India: patronage, play, piety0
A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion: ‘Why God Thinks Like You’0
On the (un)doing of anthropology and secularity, and its relevance for religious studies0
The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe0
An investigation into para-scientific imageries and esoteric nationalism around the cult of the Holy Crown of Hungary0
The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma0
Harichand-Guruchand Thakur: the emerging icons of Dalit politics in West Bengal0
Islam in North America: An Introduction0
In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions0
On two modalities of our secularity: anthropology’s immanent frames0
Exploring Hindu Philosophy0
Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel0
Modern Hadith Studies: Continued Debates and New Approaches Modern Hadith Studies: Continued Debates and New Approaches , edited by Belal Abu-Alabbas, Michael Dann and C0
Accommodating a mega-festival: the Āti Atti Varatar Vaipavam festival in Kanchipuram0
The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India0
Imagining the human: applying the philosophy of religious studies to Jonathan Z. Smith0
When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends , by Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California Press, Berkel0
The translation of the bible into Chinese: the origin and unique authority of the union version0
Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics0
Conspirituality and meme culture: transgressive dynamics in right-wing esoteric social media discourse0
Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil0
Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra0
The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious , by Joseph Blankholm, New York, New York Unive0
Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States0
Geographies of transimperial religion: the transformation of religious space in a world of empires0
Between religion and politics: the political deification of Mahishasur0
Mormon Lifestyles: Communicating Religion and Ethics in Documentary Media0
Readers of the ‘Lost’ Purana: mythopolitics and Suthar caste identity in Gujarat0
Refugee resettlement and policies of assimilation: an oral history of engagement with religion and responses to trauma in post-war Queensland0
Futures of an unknown world: utopian and dystopian visions of religion in Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series0
Introduction: anthropology within and without the secular condition0
Ritual exegesis among Mauritian Hindus0
The Final Pagan Generation: Rome’s Unexpected Path to Christianity0
Religious transitions and border making in southeast Brazilian spiritual landscape – the encruzilhada (crossroads) perspective0
Mighty Baal: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith Mighty Baal: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith , edited by Stephen C. Russell and Esther J. Hamori, Leiden and Boston, Brill0
Training for total devotion: emotionality and narrativity in Deuteronomy0
The Baha’i Faith in India: A Developmental Stage Approach0
The doctrine of the sky-blue one in Myanmar: disenchanted Buddhism0
Islamic Modernities in World Society: The Rise, Spread, and Fragmentation of a Hegemonic Idea0
A subjective response to ‘transitional phenomena’ and case study of chinoiseries in “Afro-Cuban” religions0
The European encounter with Hinduism in India0
Political deification of Lord Parshuram: tracing Brahminic masculinity in contemporary North India0
The Oxford Handbook of Confucianism0
‘The forest is my church’: Christianity, secularisation and love of nature in a northern European existential field0
Preaching the pandemic: COVID-19 specific theodicies among Iranian evangelical Christians in the diaspora0
God Gave Rock & Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music0
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism0
Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale0
Religious media settlers in times of deep mediatization0
The gypsylorist as occultist: anti-gypsy stereotypes and the entanglement of esotericism and scholarship in Charles Godfrey Leland’s work on ‘gypsy magic’0
‘Islamic humanism’: another form of universalism in contemporary Sufism0
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion0
Women missionaries, Chinese girls, and Protestant empire-building: The Salvation Army’s social and evangelical work in 1930s colonial Hong Kong0
Religion, Secularism, & Political Belonging0
Vivir la fe: entre el catolicismo y el pentecostalismo, la religiosidad de los sectores populares en la Argentina0
Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society Became More Secular0
Faithful atheists: the paradox of Jewish nonbelievers in Israel0
Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North0
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity0
Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity0
Building the Buddhist Revival: Reconstructing Monasteries in Modern China0
Personal development and religion in the workplace in Slovakia: from life meaning to religious selves0
Voracious secularism: emotional habitus and the desire for knowledge in animal experimentation0
Gobind Singh (1666–1708): Master of the White Hawk0
One Faith No Longer: The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America0
Buddhism in Five Minutes0
Digital religion: the basics0
Divine order and secular social science in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America0
I-Thou-Nymph: a relational approach to ancient Greek religious devotion0
Veneration of Venus in Augustan love poetry as a metaphor of total devotion0
The ‘early medieval’ origins of India0
Flourishing bodies: spiritual entanglements and psychobiological imperatives0
Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet0
Who owns religion? Scholars, Sikhs and the public sphere0
The secular and the global: rethinking the anthropology of Christianity in the wake of 14920
‘Tears flowed from his eyes unceasingly’: weeping and total devotion in Egypt in late antiquity0
Imagery of ritual actions in religious dreaming: steps toward a theory and method of the cognition of dreamt ritual interaction0
Voices of the Ritual: Devotion to Female Saints and Shrines in the Holy Land0
Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in t0
Feijoadaas a concept of cultural/religious mixture0
The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism0
The unintended consequences of state-enforced religion: ‘blasphemous’ metal music as secondary deviation in Iran0
Live-streaming the goddess in the times of COVID-19: a digital ethnography of diasporic Durga Puja festivals in pandemic Britain0
Daoism in Modern China: Clerics and Temples in Urban Transformations, 1860-Present0
Evil Deeds in High Places: Christian America’s Moral Struggle with Watergate0
A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life0
Religion and Medicine: A History of the Encounter Between Humanity's Two Greatest Institutions0
Undisciplining the study of religion: critical posthumanities and more-than-human ways of knowing0
Navigating queerness and religion in India: a phenomenological queer ethnography0
Uncertainty, reconstruction and resistance: young adults’ responses to religious diversity in Spain and the UK0
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