History of Religions

Papers
(The TQCC of History of Religions 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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:Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right3
Prayer, Deconstruction, and Boundless Play: Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya’s Avant-Garde Sufism3
Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples3
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Enacting Identities: Chōgen, Kujō Kanezane, and the Tōdaiji Great Buddha2
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:The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali1
“Like Silkworms in Their Cocoons”: Silkworm-Human Relations in Middle-Period Chinese Buddhism1
Luther Goes East: Buddhism and the Protestant Reformation in 1880s Japan1
The Who, Why, and What of Religion—and Its Study1
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On Commonality: The Ambivalence of Religious Belonging1
:In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions1
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Toward a History of Theravada Cosmological Literature0
Rhetoric of Reorganization: Thinking beyond Millennialism through the Notion of Great Peace (Taiping) in Early Medieval Daoist Texts0
:Unbridled: Studying Religion in Performance0
:Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa0
Cultivation, Salvation, and Obligation: Quanzhen Daoist Thoughts on Family Abandonment0
“Indo-European” Cosmogony: Fifty Years Later0
: Of Ancestors and Ghosts: How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist Ethics0
Discovering and Disciplining Religion in Manchuria and Taiwan Under Japanese Rule0
:Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism0
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Antipathy, Ambivalence, and Acceptance: Chan Attitudes toward Ritual from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century0
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The Deconstruction of Dafther Jailani: Muslim and Buddhist Contests of Original History in Sri Lanka0
Modeling Religion’s Impact on Urbanity0
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Roberto de Nobili and the Myth of the Modern Conceptualization of Religion in Seventeenth-Century India0
:White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America0
:The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Image in Daoism0
:Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
:Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion0
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Bovine Bodies and Foreign Kings: Immunity and Dharma in the Hindu Epics0
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:Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion0
Trading Power for Authority: An Intertextual Reading of the Concentration of Heroic Progress and the Precious Banner0
The Conceptualization of Religion and Incipient Secularity in Late Sasanian Iran: Burzōy and Paul the Persian’s Parallel Departures from Tradition0
The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE. By Robert Ford Campany. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020. Pp. xvii+260. $55.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
:Buddhist Historiography in China0
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:Musicology of Religion: Theories, Methods, and Directions0
Reconstructing the Past and Conceptualizing the Jewish “Other”: How the Babylonian Geonim Contributed to the Creation of the Founding Myth of Karaism0
Ritual Authority and the Problem of Likeness in Chan Buddhism0
A Comparative Analysis of Ahreman’s Assault and Alexander’s Invasion: Exploring Narrative Themes in Pahlavi Sources0
How to Do Things with Hagiography: Bodhidharma’s Rebirth in Premodern Japanese Buddhism0
High-Tech Devotion: Experimental Religion and Media Sevā in Swaminarayan Hinduism0
The Adjectival Turn in Japanese Buddhist Studies0
Ordering and Pacifying: A Fundamental Urban Ambivalence Based on the Water Paradox, South Asia, Tenth–Sixteenth Century0
Comparing Faiths: The Making of Religious Dialogue between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe0
The Ritual Construction of Confucian Gods in Imperial China: The Case of Vast Heaven High God0
How to See the Invisible: Attention, Landscape, and the Transformation of Vision in Tibetan Pilgrimage Guides0
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On the Use of Locks and Keys in a Buddhist Monastic Code and Some Characteristics of Monasticism0
War, Public Letters, and Piety: The Making of a New Pure Land Patriarch in Modern China0
How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others. By T. M. Luhrmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 256. $29.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).0
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:The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil0
#pluralism: Indian Queer Activism and Secularism0
:Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History0
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:Global Tantra: Religion, Science, and Nationalism in Colonial Modernity0
:Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition0
:Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice0
The Incas and the Enlightenment: Andean Idols and European Discourses on Religion, 1550–19000
A Domesticated Charisma: Buddhist Hagiographies in Southern Song China (1127–1279)0
:Profaning Paul0
:Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity0
Buddhist Fund-Raising Poems and Other Lost Verses from Venerable Miaozhan’s Gāthā (Printed 1142)0
Blending the Rivers, Loosing the Flavor: Shaku Sōen’s Ambiguous Stance on Sri Lankan Buddhism and Colonialism0
:Inscribing Death: Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China0
Religion, Art, Literature, and Society in Early Modern Rajasthan0
Water, Identity, and Baptism in K’iche’an Maya Narratives from Colonial Highland Guatemala0
: Kingdom Come: The Politics of Faith and Freedom in Segregationist South Africa and Beyond0
Orality in the Tekke and the Circulation of “High” and “Low” Cultures of Sufism in Seventeenth-Century İstanbul0
:The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West0
Religious Ambivalences as a Source of Change in Early Buddhism s0
The Vicissitudes of Multiple Buddhas in Theravada Buddhism: Of Ludic Play, Gender, and Politics0
Temples and the Ruins of Time in Sunthorn Phu’s Nirat to Golden Mountain Temple0
:Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism0
Bouillon for His Majesty: Healthy halal Modernity in Colonial Java0
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Religious Ambivalences: The Constitutive Tensions within Religion in Urban Space0
Buddhist Poetry by Its Persecutors: The Cases of Li Shen and Li Deyu0
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