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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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Africana Esoteric Studies and Western Intellectual Hegemony: A Continuing Conversation with Western Esotericism13
The Who, Why, and What of Religion—and Its Study3
Rhetorics of Solidarity in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature: Or, “You’re So Vain, I Bet You Think This Sūtra Is about You”3
Religion in the Mirror of the Other: The Discursive Value of Cult-Atrocity Stories in Mediterranean Antiquity2
Between Sound and Silence in Early Yoga: Meditation on “Om” at Death2
Buddhist Law beyond the Vinaya: Monastic Constitutions (katikāvatas) and Their Transformations in Colonial Sri Lanka2
Late Imperial Chinese Anticlericalism and the Division of Ritual Labor2
Espousal of the Impoverished Bride in Early Franciscan Hagiography and the Kabbalah of Gerona1
Cultivation, Salvation, and Obligation: Quanzhen Daoist Thoughts on Family Abandonment1
Disappearing and Disappeared Daughters in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: Sūtras on Sex Transformation and an Intervention into Their Transmission History1
Speech Acts of the Buddha: Sovereign Ritual and the Poetics of Power in Mahāyāna Sūtras1
The Problem of Becoming a Bodhisattva and the Emergence of Mahāyāna1
Western Missionaries in Modern China: From Ministers of Foreign Teachings to Agents of Imperialism?1
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:White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America0
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:Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History0
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The Invention of Idolatry0
Metamodernism: The Future of Theory. By Jason Ᾱnanda Josephson Storm. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. xii+360. $95.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal. By Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xx+312. $115.00 (cloth).0
Water, Identity, and Baptism in K’iche’an Maya Narratives from Colonial Highland Guatemala0
:Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion0
Imperiled Destinies: The Daoist Quest for Deliverance in Medieval China. By Franciscus Verellen. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 118. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 0
Re-ending the Mahābhārata: The Rejection of Dharma in the Sanskrit Epic. By Naama Shalom. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017. Pp. xvii+248. $95.00 (cloth); $32.95 (paper).0
:Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism0
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:Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition0
The Heretic Talks Back: Feigning Orthodoxy in Ṣaffār al-Qummī’s Baṣāʾir al-Darajāt (d. 902–3)0
How to See the Invisible: Attention, Landscape, and the Transformation of Vision in Tibetan Pilgrimage Guides0
Prayer, Deconstruction, and Boundless Play: Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya’s Avant-Garde Sufism0
Śiva’s Saints: The Origins of Devotion in Kannada according to Harihara’s “Ragaḷegaḷu.” By Gil Ben-Herut. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+276. $99.00 (cloth).0
American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. By Duncan Ryūken Williams. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. viii+384, 34 plates. $29.95 (cloth).0
Buddhism and the Siberian Buryat Chronicles: Stories of Origin, Rivalry, and Negotiation in the Russian Empire0
The Inconvenience of Chocolate: Disciplining the Society of Jesus in Seventeenth-Century Mexico0
Temples and the Ruins of Time in Sunthorn Phu’s Nirat to Golden Mountain Temple0
War, Public Letters, and Piety: The Making of a New Pure Land Patriarch in Modern China0
Reconstructing the Past and Conceptualizing the Jewish “Other”: How the Babylonian Geonim Contributed to the Creation of the Founding Myth of Karaism0
Bouillon for His Majesty: Healthy halal Modernity in Colonial Java0
Medieval Anticlericalism: Terms and Conditions0
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:The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil0
“Briskness in the Market of Shaikh-Dom”: The Commercialization of Piety in Early Eighteenth-Century Delhi0
Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism. By Banu Subramaniam. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. Pp. xviii+290. $95.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
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
The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia. By Johan Elverskog. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. xxii+178. $55.00 (cloth).0
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Making Canon Practicable: Scaling the Tripiṭaka with a Medieval Chinese Buddhist Anthology0
Toward a History of Theravada Cosmological Literature0
Orality in the Tekke and the Circulation of “High” and “Low” Cultures of Sufism in Seventeenth-Century İstanbul0
The Rule and the Folk: The Emergence of the Clergy/Laity Divide and the Forms of Anticlerical Discourse in China’s Late Antiquity0
How to Do Things with Hagiography: Bodhidharma’s Rebirth in Premodern Japanese Buddhism0
The Story of Myth. By Sarah Iles Johnston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. x+374. $46.50 (cloth).0
:The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali0
Roberto de Nobili and the Myth of the Modern Conceptualization of Religion in Seventeenth-Century India0
Chan before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism. By Eric M. Greene. Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 28. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Pr0
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:Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right0
The Conceptualization of Religion and Incipient Secularity in Late Sasanian Iran: Burzōy and Paul the Persian’s Parallel Departures from Tradition0
The Incas and the Enlightenment: Andean Idols and European Discourses on Religion, 1550–19000
Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity. By David Frankfurter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xix+314, 8 color illustrations, 16 halftone illus0
The Ritual Construction of Confucian Gods in Imperial China: The Case of Vast Heaven High God0
The History of the Arthaśāstra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India. By Mark McClish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii+267. $99.99 (cloth); $32.99 (paper).0
Antipathy, Ambivalence, and Acceptance: Chan Attitudes toward Ritual from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century0
:Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
:The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Image in Daoism0
Ritual Authority and the Problem of Likeness in Chan Buddhism0
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
The Vicissitudes of Multiple Buddhas in Theravada Buddhism: Of Ludic Play, Gender, and Politics0
Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. By Jolyon Baraka Thomas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. xiv+356. $97.50 (cloth); $32.50 (paper).0
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:Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism0
Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea. By Jack Meng-Tat Chia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 305. $99.00 (cloth).0
Vedic Voices: Intimate Narratives of a Living Andhra Tradition. By David M. Knipe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxiv+340, 12 color illustrations, 30 monochrome illustrations, ma0
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#pluralism: Indian Queer Activism and Secularism0
The Deconstruction of Dafther Jailani: Muslim and Buddhist Contests of Original History in Sri Lanka0
:Profaning Paul0
Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea. By Juhn Young Ahn. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. Pp. xv+243. $95.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).0
Buddhism in Court: Clerical Privileges and the Jurisdiction of the Buddhist Clergy in Indian Buddhism0
Buddhist Fund-Raising Poems and Other Lost Verses from Venerable Miaozhan’s Gāthā (Printed 1142)0
Comparing Faiths: The Making of Religious Dialogue between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe0
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Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India. Elaine M. Fisher. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. Pp. xii+285. $34.95 (paper).0
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:Unbridled: Studying Religion in Performance0
Kaiser, Christ, and Canaan: The Religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871–1918. By Paul Michael Kurtz. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. Pp. xiv+370. €129.00 (cloth).0
:Buddhist Historiography in China0
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A Domesticated Charisma: Buddhist Hagiographies in Southern Song China (1127–1279)0
High-Tech Devotion: Experimental Religion and Media Sevā in Swaminarayan Hinduism0
The Long Arm of the Law: The Generative Power of Metatextuality in Mahāyāna Sūtras0
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