Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

Papers
(The TQCC of Method & Theory in the Study 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Esoteric Practices in a Reflexive and Critical Perspective12
Using the Emic–Etic Distinction to Understand the Medieval Christian Interpretations of Slavic Pagan Religion11
How Do We Tell the Story of Medieval Copts? Inspirations from Burton Mack6
Performative Animism4
Esotericism and Religious Studies: Historical Relationships and Contemporary Challenges2
Entropy as Metaphysical Perplexity in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Sufi Thought2
Putting the Persian Back in “Magic”: Problems with Ignoring Ancient Ethnographic Discourses2
Pondering the Legacy of Geo Widengren: Isolated Genius, or Uncritical Supporter of a Band of Brothers?2
“The Field, at the Moment, Is Up for Redefinition”: Twenty Five Years of Manufacturing Religion2
Discourses on Research Freedom in the Academic Study of Religion. An Overview2
In Search of Rules for a Critical Study of Religion2
“Reconstructing the Study of Religion”: Entering the Conversation from a Different Corner of the Academic World1
On the Orientalism of Dana Logan’s Awkward Rituals1
Front matter1
Critical Religion and the Sociology of Religion1
Transcendence: A Defensible and Fruitful Concept for Religious Studies1
Neo-Perennialism and Mystical Exceptionalism1
Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities1
Debating Critical Religion: A Response to Timothy Fitzgerald1
Metamodernism: A Multispecies Approach to Hermeneutics1
What’s Alternative about Alternative Rationality in CAS-E’s Definition of ‘Esotericism’?1
Curators of Global Buddhism: A Critical Genealogy and Decolonial Reading of Contemporary Curatorial Practices in Buddhist Studies1
Back matter1
The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion1
The Typological Phenomenology of Religion – Resurrected: Managing a Legacy from Geo Widengren1
“Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain”: A Critique of the Rational Choice Approach to Religion1
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