OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Religion is 1. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction: anthropology within and without the secular condition	12
The deliverance of the administrative state: deep state conspiracism, charismatic demonology, and the post-truth politics of American Christian nationalism	11
Aesthetics of authority: ‘Islam Nusantara’ and Islamic ‘radicalism’ in Indonesian film and social media	10
‘Just leave it blank’ non-religious children and their negotiation of prayer in school	8
The secular and the global: rethinking the anthropology of Christianity in the wake of 1492	8
A comparative analysis of three Sunni Muslim organizations on ‘moderate’ and ‘radical’ Islam in Egypt, Morocco and Indonesia	8
Total devotion in the ancient world: emotions and narrative in radical religion	7
Religious engineering: exploring projects of transformation from a relational perspective	7
Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic: mediating presence and distance	7
Religion and the ‘Secular shadow’: responses to covid-19 in Ethiopia	6
At home in the gurdwara? Religious space and the resonance with domesticity in a London suburb	6
The big friendly counter-space? Interreligious encounter within social media	6
Live-streaming the goddess in the times of COVID-19: a digital ethnography of diasporic Durga Puja festivals in pandemic Britain	6
Shared resonances: Cham Bani conceptions of divinities in contemporary Vietnam	5
Religions and development: a paradigm shift or business as usual?	5
Does time stop in the world of Talmud Torah?	5
Development as a form of religious engineering? Religion and secularity in development discourse	5
Patriotic loyalty and interest representation among the Russian Islamic elite	4
On two modalities of our secularity: anthropology’s immanent frames	4
Training for total devotion: emotionality and narrativity in Deuteronomy	4
Interreligious contact and media: introduction	4
Divine order and secular social science in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America	4
Undisciplining the study of religion: critical posthumanities and more-than-human ways of knowing	4
Some moods and modes of enchantment in the human sciences: on the troublesome dead	4
Beyond ‘radical’ versus ‘moderate’? New perspectives on the politics of moderation in Muslim majority and Muslim minority settings	3

Ritual exegesis among Mauritian Hindus	3
Urban religion beyond the city: theory and practice of a specific constellation of religious geography-making	3
Christian Zionists And Jewish settlers: the challenging and maintenance of religious boundaries	3
Bangabandhu as the eternal sovereign: on the construction of a civil religion	3
Kyoto's Gion festival: a longue-durée history of patronage, piety, and play	3
Between religion and politics: the political deification of Mahishasur	3
Gods in the public sphere: political deification in South Asia	3
Feeling out alternatives within secularity	2
Countering ‘Islamic’ violent extremism? The implementation of programs to prevent radicalization by Muslim-led civil society organizations in Malindi, Kenya	2
Feijoada as a concept of cultural/religious mixture	2
Harichand-Guruchand Thakur: the emerging icons of Dalit politics in West Bengal	2
Vocation for travel. Catholic priestly training in Sri Lanka	2
Pagan revival, re-enchantment, and new forms of rituality in Hungary: the case of the Kurultaj festival	2
British Buddhism, secular mindfulness, and the politics of sustainability	2
The remaking of a Tibetan mountain cult festival: the worship of landscape deities in the Rebgong Valley, Amdo	2
The gospel of prosperity and its concept of development: A Ghanaian Pentecostal-Charismatic experience	2
Political deification of Lord Parshuram: tracing Brahminic masculinity in contemporary North India	2
Norwegian Muslims denouncing terrorism: beyond ‘moderate’ versus ‘radical’?	2
An investigation into para-scientific imageries and esoteric nationalism around the cult of the Holy Crown of Hungary	2
Do avatars weep? Ritual and sacred space at virtual burning man	2
Slaves of God/Christ: narrated total devotion in the apocryphalActs of Peter	2
Emplotting total devotion: secrecy, fame, and imitation in late antique Lives of Christian ascetics	2
Encounter, mixture, and syncretism from the perspective of the Afro-Brazilian religion Terecô	1
‘Tears flowed from his eyes unceasingly’: weeping and total devotion in Egypt in late antiquity	1
Veneration of Venus in Augustan love poetry as a metaphor of total devotion	1
The pluralistic notion of zvipuka : Shona indigenous knowledge and human and nonhuman animal interaction in Zimbabwe	1
Religious transitions and border making in southeast Brazilian spiritual landscape – the encruzilhada (crossroads) perspective	1
Musical negotiations of a ‘moderate’ versus a ‘radical’ Islam in Morocco: dissonance and the sonic among vocal performers of Islam-inspired music	1
The importance and limitations of ‘Choice’ in child-rearing practices for non-believing older adults	1
Festivals in Asia: patronage, play, and piety	1
Emic concepts and etic paths	1
I-Thou-Nymph: a relational approach to ancient Greek religious devotion	1
A technology of re-enchantment: reading, referencing, and redistributing Orthodox ‘spiritual literature’ in post-Yugoslav Serbia	1
Whaling on stage: a comparison of contemporary Japanese whale festivals	1
Becoming secular, yet remaining religious: the Gülen movement and the ‘engineering’ of the golden generation	1
Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion: 50 Years After the Sacred Canopy	1
Misa, Lefa, Puang: ritual, piety, and performance in opening the ocean season in a Southeast Asian marine hunting community	1
Flourishing bodies: spiritual entanglements and psychobiological imperatives	1
Learning to learn in candomblé: notes on paths, knowledge, and the ‘education of distraction’	1
Avenues of re-enchantment in Bulgarian mumming	1
The pillar saint seen as a totally devoted emperor: the in-group around Symeon Stylites the elder	1
Moved to distraction: the ritual theatre of the Fire Festival in Southwest China	1
Hindu festivals in small town India: patronage, play, piety	1
The costs of religious ‘cheap talk’: the semiotics of interpretant driven costly signaling within contested communicative environments	1
Accommodating a mega-festival: the Āti Atti Varatar Vaipavam festival in Kanchipuram	1
On the (un)doing of anthropology and secularity, and its relevance for religious studies	1
Zoompartation: Benny Hinn’s touch in Zoom healing	1
I’ll fly away: religious studies within and without the secular condition	1
Personal development and religion in the workplace in Slovakia: from life meaning to religious selves	1
Listening for/as presence: religious mediation of a Sufi ritual in the time of COVID-19	1

Humanist marriage ceremonies in Poland: re-enchantment and four social constructions of the sacred	1
The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism	1
None of the Above: Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada	1