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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood	15
Conceptualizing utopias: Tibetan perceptions	9
The making of American Catholicism: regional culture and the Catholic experience	9
The Politics of Ritual	8
Islam, Liberalism, and Ontology: A Critical Re-Evaluation	7
Melchizedek, King of Sodom: How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King	7
A Cultural History of Genocide, 6 volumes	7
Between local culture, leisure activity, and nonreligion – the individual constructions of religion by adolescents in rural Austria	5
Religious beliefs and social practices	5
Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness: Black Jews in France	5
Moved to distraction: the ritual theatre of the Fire Festival in Southwest China	5
Defending life: environmental crisis and Catholicism in Western Kenya	4
Urban religion beyond the city: theory and practice of a specific constellation of religious geography-making	4
The importance and limitations of ‘Choice’ in child-rearing practices for non-believing older adults	4
Emic concepts and etic paths	4
Virtual Immortality: God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism	4
Listening for/as presence: religious mediation of a Sufi ritual in the time of COVID-19	4
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic	4
Uncertainty, reconstruction and resistance: young adults’ responses to religious diversity in Spain and the UK	3
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 Unive	3
The Kabbalistic Tree: האילן הקבלי	3
The greater India experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast	3
Utopias for Boomers: religion, psychology, and sovereignty in the long sixties	3
White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals	3
Gods in the public sphere: political deification in South Asia	3

Projectification of religion: an analytical framework	3
Faithful atheists: the paradox of Jewish nonbelievers in Israel	3
Utopia, theodicy, and ritual: East Asian perspectives	3
Weird Confucius: Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History	3
Religious transitions and border making in southeast Brazilian spiritual landscape – the encruzilhada (crossroads) perspective	3
Severing ties: ritual objects and the category of religion in Hmong American families	2
The gypsylorist as occultist: anti-gypsy stereotypes and the entanglement of esotericism and scholarship in Charles Godfrey Leland’s work on ‘gypsy magic’	2
The doctrine of the sky-blue one in Myanmar: disenchanted Buddhism	2
Mary, founder of Christianity	2
The unintended consequences of state-enforced religion: ‘blasphemous’ metal music as secondary deviation in Iran	2
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism	2
Political deification of Lord Parshuram: tracing Brahminic masculinity in contemporary North India	2
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds	2
Emplotting total devotion: secrecy, fame, and imitation in late antique Lives of Christian ascetics	2
The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination	2
Understanding ‘Sectarianism’ Sunni-Shi’a Relations in the Modern Arab World	2
Ritual exegesis among Mauritian Hindus	2
The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe	2
Whaling on stage: a comparison of contemporary Japanese whale festivals	2
The power of the Nāth Yogīs: yogic charisma, political influence and social authority	1
Hijacked: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion	1
Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania	1
Undoing religion, redoing gender: sexual stories of religious exit	1
Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic: mediating presence and distance	1
Jerusalem: History of a Global City	1
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice	1
Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind: What Mental Abnormalities Can Teach us About Religions	1
Slaves of God/Christ: narrated total devotion in the apocryphalActs of Peter	1
From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus’ Understanding of Embodied Practices	1
I-Thou-Nymph: a relational approach to ancient Greek religious devotion	1
Futures of an unknown world: utopian and dystopian visions of religion in Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series	1
Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana	1
Total devotion in the ancient world: emotions and narrative in radical religion	1
God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music	1
The translation of the bible into Chinese: the origin and unique authority of the union version	1
Making Mongol History: Rashid al-Din and the Jami‘ al-Tawarikh	1
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 t	1
Desistance rituals: ritual practice among street criminal men (re-) turning to Islam within and beyond Norwegian prisons	1
The Mechanical Turk : a human-centered approach to the transcendence narrative of artificial intelligence	1
Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn	1
Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction	1
British Buddhism, secular mindfulness, and the politics of sustainability	1
A subjective response to ‘transitional phenomena’ and case study of chinoiseries in “Afro-Cuban” religions	1
A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life	1
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity	1
Islamic Modernities in World Society: The Rise, Spread, and Fragmentation of a Hegemonic Idea	1
Navigating queerness and religion in India: a phenomenological queer ethnography	1
Absent dead, and abstract signs for absence: on the semiotic affordance of religion	1
The Science of Satyug: Class, Charisma, and Vedic Revivalism in the All World Gayatri Pariwar	1
A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion: ‘Why God Thinks Like You’	1

The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity	1
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity	1
Religion and utopia: a critical overview of the field	1
The transitional objects of January 6	1
The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India	1
Oaths and Vows: Words as Genesis	1
God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America	1
Decolonizing utopias	1
Islam and Democracy in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh	1
Digital religion: the basics	1
Underneath the peace: Shaolin monks’ views on the relationship between Buddhism and science	1
Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism , by Baird Tipson, New York, Oxford University Press,	1