Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

Papers
(The median citation count of Method & Theory in the Study 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editor’s Note12
Colonial Modernity and Diffusion of Power: Identity and Community Formation among Mappilas of Malabar11
The Postsecular – Jürgen Habermas, the Intellectual Dark Web, and Alexandr Dugin as (In)Voluntary Participants in a Global Dispositif9
The Yoga Studies Dispositif5
“The Field, at the Moment, Is Up for Redefinition”: Twenty Five Years of Manufacturing Religion5
How Do We Tell the Story of Medieval Copts? Inspirations from Burton Mack5
Global Religious History as a Rhizome: Colonial Panics and Political Islam in German East Africa4
Performative Animism4
In Search of Rules for a Critical Study of Religion3
Discourses on Research Freedom in the Academic Study of Religion. An Overview3
Pondering the Legacy of Geo Widengren: Isolated Genius, or Uncritical Supporter of a Band of Brothers?3
American Christian Nationalism and the Meaning of “Religion”3
Curators of Global Buddhism: A Critical Genealogy and Decolonial Reading of Contemporary Curatorial Practices in Buddhist Studies3
Power and the Reproduction of History: Twentieth-Century Histories of Abortion in the Ancient Mediterranean World2
On the Orientalism of Dana Logan’s Awkward Rituals2
Back matter2
Metamodernism: A Multispecies Approach to Hermeneutics1
Front matter1
The Typological Phenomenology of Religion – Resurrected: Managing a Legacy from Geo Widengren1
Introduction to “On Whose Terms?”1
Global Religious History1
“Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain”: A Critique of the Rational Choice Approach to Religion1
An Indigenous Jesus: Methodological and Theoretical Intersections in the Comparative Study of Religion1
“Reconstructing the Study of Religion”: Entering the Conversation from a Different Corner of the Academic World1
Debating Critical Religion: A Response to Timothy Fitzgerald1
Transcendence: A Defensible and Fruitful Concept for Religious Studies1
Branding Salafism: Salafi Missionaries as Social Media Influencers1
Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities1
The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion1
Critical Religion and the Sociology of Religion1
Speculative Realism and Religion: Irreduction, Objects, Forms, and Intensities1
The Realist Discursive Study of Religion1
Paying the Piper: History, Humanities, and the Scientific Study of Religion0
The “Constitutive Relevance of Models” (CRoM) Test0
Absolutely Disruptive: An Introduction to Josephson Storm’s Metamodernism Book Review Symposium0
Studying ‘Religion’ Critically and the Decolonial Turn: Lessons for Critical Terrorism Studies0
The Awkwardness of American Exceptionalism0
How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Religious Literacy’?: Thinking with Wolfart’s ‘Religious Literacy’ Reservations0
The Case for Studying Non-Muslim Islams0
The Approach of the Fiqh Council of North America towards Identity Problems of Contemporary Muslim Minorities0
Learning from the Past0
Editor’s Note0
Scholarly Values, Methods, and Evidence in the Academic Study of Religion0
Critical Humanism and the Study of Religion: A Statement and Defense0
Attached Critique: Paranoid and Reparative Studies of Religion0
Awkward History, Awkward Theory0
‘Religious Literacy’: Some Considerations and Reservations0
Islam Is Not a “Religion” – Global Religious History and Early Twentieth-Century Debates in British Malaya0
Identity Turn: Managing Decolonialization and Identity Politics in the Study of Religion0
Speaking Theory to Power0
Antisemitic Charisma: A Critique of Max Weber’s Interpretations of Paul, Jews, and Charisma and Their Enduring Legacy in Religious Studies0
Worldview Literacy as Educational Praxis0
Global Religious History in Theory and Practice0
He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune: Big Data, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Demise of the Historical Study of Religions0
The Way Is Dark, the Truth Is in the Cave0
Cringing at Benevolence0
Imagining NAASR: Pasts and Futures0
“So Many Mothers, So Little Love”: Discourse of Motherly Love and Parental Governance in 2019 Hong Kong Protests0
Theorizing Awkwardness, with Style, in the Study of Religion: A Forum on Dana W. Logan’s Awkward Rituals (2022)0
Missionary Methodology and the Making of Aztec Human Sacrifice: Decolonizing a Concept0
Rajnarayan Basu and His “Science of Religion”: The Emergence of Religious Studies through Exchanges between Bengali and Christian Reformers, Orientalists, and Theosophists0
The Eclipse of Morality: A Riposte to Lane, Wildman, & Shults’ “Paying the Piper” Commentary0
Back matter0
Meeting Moses Mendelssohn at the Mikveh: an Ethnodrashy0
Voluntary Costly Signals in Religious Communities: A Political Interpretation0
African Witchcraft and Religion among the Yoruba: Translation as Demarcation Practice within a Global Religious History0
Emotion and Islamic Hagiology: A Post-taxonomic Approach0
A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions?0
What’s the Matter with You, Rock?!: What the Study of Daoism Can Say about Religious Images0
Response to Symposium on Awkward Rituals0
A Response to Wolfart’s “Religious Literacy”: Some Considerations and Reservations0
Religionizing Christianity: Towards a Poststructuralist Notion of Global Religious History0
Negotiating Identity and Power during a Crisis: An Analysis of ‘Small Stories’ Told by Australian Christian Priests during the COVID-19 Health Crisis0
Method and Methodology in the Study of Religion: Making Sense of the Diversity0
Religious Literacy as Religion Literacy: A Response from the UK0
Tradition as Body0
“What is critical religion?” A Response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn, “Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules?”0
Survivals: The Stakes of Religious Literacy0
Recent Research in Syriac Studies and the Recurring Question of Identity0
Burton Mack’s Challenge to the Study of Religion0
Front matter0
Capital-T-truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies0
Editorial0
Our Incomplete Reckoning with the Study of Religion’s Past0
Reflections on Wolfart, Challenges to Religious Literacy, and Course Design0
Breaking the Postmodern Deadlock: Metamodernism’s Methodological Revolution0
Critical Religion Takes a Punch: Notes on a Scholarly Skirmish0
Cognitive Artifacts in the Evolution of Cultural Systems of Beliefs and Practices0
Alternative Lenses for Qualitative Religion Research: Interstitial, Inverted, and Dialogical Approaches0
Redescribing, But Really, Finally Moving on From Israelite Origins0
Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an “All-Round Historian of Religion”0
“‘Cause Even Though Perfect It’s Not/ It’s the Best Thing This World’s Got” – or Not?0
Back matter0
Understanding Chinese Governance by Critiquing ‘Religion’0
We Have Never Been Modern (Enough)0
The Realism of Discourse: Critical Reflections on the Work of Kevin Schilbrack0
Front matter0
‘Belief’ and Anthropology, in Use and in Theory0
“Then He Stabbed Me with a Spear”: Aggressive Sacred Images and Interreligious Polemics0
Front matter0
Reading Texts as Bodies: Object Agency in the Age of Human Empowerment0
On Redescribing Christian Origins0
Beyond Boundaries: Scholarly Categories and the Apocryphal Mary in Text, Pictorial Art, and Iconography0
A Contextual Genealogical Approach to Study the Religious0
Concepts of ‘Law’ as Both Tools and Objects in the Study of Religions: A Case from 1950s Ghana – or When may a Christian Slaughter a Sheep?0
Metamodernism: A Response About Magic0
The Role of Religious Experiences and Religious Institutions: Comparing Peter L. Berger’s and Hans Joas’ Approach to Religion0
“What the One Thing Shows Me in the Case of Two Things”: Comparison as Essential to a Proper Academic Study of Religion0
Hearing Hindu Stories0
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