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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Prayer, Deconstruction, and Boundless Play: Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya’s Avant-Garde Sufism3
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The Story of Myth. By Sarah Iles Johnston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. x+374. $46.50 (cloth).2
:Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right2
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 Pr1
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“Like Silkworms in Their Cocoons”: Silkworm-Human Relations in Middle-Period Chinese Buddhism1
Enacting Identities: Chōgen, Kujō Kanezane, and the Tōdaiji Great Buddha1
The Vicissitudes of Multiple Buddhas in Theravada Buddhism: Of Ludic Play, Gender, and Politics0
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
Roberto de Nobili and the Myth of the Modern Conceptualization of Religion in Seventeenth-Century India0
“Indo-European” Cosmogony: Fifty Years Later0
Toward a History of Theravada Cosmological Literature0
The Heretic Talks Back: Feigning Orthodoxy in Ṣaffār al-Qummī’s Baṣāʾir al-Darajāt (d. 902–3)0
Making Canon Practicable: Scaling the Tripiṭaka with a Medieval Chinese Buddhist Anthology0
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
Buddhist Law beyond the Vinaya: Monastic Constitutions (katikāvatas) and Their Transformations in Colonial Sri Lanka0
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Rhetorics of Solidarity in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature: Or, “You’re So Vain, I Bet You Think This Sūtra Is about You”0
:White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America0
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 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
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Water, Identity, and Baptism in K’iche’an Maya Narratives from Colonial Highland Guatemala0
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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
:Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice0
Western Missionaries in Modern China: From Ministers of Foreign Teachings to Agents of Imperialism?0
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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
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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
Disappearing and Disappeared Daughters in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: Sūtras on Sex Transformation and an Intervention into Their Transmission History0
:Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition0
:Profaning Paul0
:Unbridled: Studying Religion in Performance0
Medieval Anticlericalism: Terms and Conditions0
:The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West0
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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
“Briskness in the Market of Shaikh-Dom”: The Commercialization of Piety in Early Eighteenth-Century Delhi0
A Comparative Analysis of Ahreman’s Assault and Alexander’s Invasion: Exploring Narrative Themes in Pahlavi Sources0
The Ritual Construction of Confucian Gods in Imperial China: The Case of Vast Heaven High God0
:The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil0
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Ritual Authority and the Problem of Likeness in Chan Buddhism0
:The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali0
How to Do Things with Hagiography: Bodhidharma’s Rebirth in Premodern Japanese Buddhism0
The Who, Why, and What of Religion—and Its Study0
High-Tech Devotion: Experimental Religion and Media Sevā in Swaminarayan Hinduism0
Speech Acts of the Buddha: Sovereign Ritual and the Poetics of Power in Mahāyāna Sūtras0
#pluralism: Indian Queer Activism and Secularism0
Buddhist Fund-Raising Poems and Other Lost Verses from Venerable Miaozhan’s Gāthā (Printed 1142)0
The Invention of Idolatry0
:Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History0
:Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
Cultivation, Salvation, and Obligation: Quanzhen Daoist Thoughts on Family Abandonment0
The Problem of Becoming a Bodhisattva and the Emergence of Mahāyāna0
Bouillon for His Majesty: Healthy halal Modernity in Colonial Java0
:Buddhist Historiography in China0
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Reconstructing the Past and Conceptualizing the Jewish “Other”: How the Babylonian Geonim Contributed to the Creation of the Founding Myth of Karaism0
A Domesticated Charisma: Buddhist Hagiographies in Southern Song China (1127–1279)0
:Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa0
Espousal of the Impoverished Bride in Early Franciscan Hagiography and the Kabbalah of Gerona0
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
Late Imperial Chinese Anticlericalism and the Division of Ritual Labor0
:Musicology of Religion: Theories, Methods, and Directions0
The Conceptualization of Religion and Incipient Secularity in Late Sasanian Iran: Burzōy and Paul the Persian’s Parallel Departures from Tradition0
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
:Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion0
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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The Incas and the Enlightenment: Andean Idols and European Discourses on Religion, 1550–19000
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
:Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism0
The Deconstruction of Dafther Jailani: Muslim and Buddhist Contests of Original History in Sri Lanka0
War, Public Letters, and Piety: The Making of a New Pure Land Patriarch in Modern China0
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
Religion, Art, Literature, and Society in Early Modern Rajasthan0
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How to See the Invisible: Attention, Landscape, and the Transformation of Vision in Tibetan Pilgrimage Guides0
:The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Image in Daoism0
The Long Arm of the Law: The Generative Power of Metatextuality in Mahāyāna Sūtras0
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
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Antipathy, Ambivalence, and Acceptance: Chan Attitudes toward Ritual from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century0
Comparing Faiths: The Making of Religious Dialogue between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe0
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