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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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Africana Esoteric Studies and Western Intellectual Hegemony: A Continuing Conversation with Western Esotericism14
Rhetorics of Solidarity in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature: Or, “You’re So Vain, I Bet You Think This Sūtra Is about You”3
In an Ottoman Holy Land: The Hajj and the Road from Damascus, 1500–18003
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
Religion in the Mirror of the Other: The Discursive Value of Cult-Atrocity Stories in Mediterranean Antiquity1
Western Missionaries in Modern China: From Ministers of Foreign Teachings to Agents of Imperialism?1
Espousal of the Impoverished Bride in Early Franciscan Hagiography and the Kabbalah of Gerona1
Cultivation, Salvation, and Obligation: Quanzhen Daoist Thoughts on Family Abandonment1
Speech Acts of the Buddha: Sovereign Ritual and the Poetics of Power in Mahāyāna Sūtras1
The Long Arm of the Law: The Generative Power of Metatextuality in Mahāyāna Sūtras0
:Buddhist Historiography in China0
:The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali0
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
Recent Studies on Raffaele Pettazzoni0
Mobilizing Krishna’s World: The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh. Global South Asia. By Heidi R. M. Pauwels. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. Pp. xv+262, 27 black-and0
Buddhism in Court: Clerical Privileges and the Jurisdiction of the Buddhist Clergy in Indian Buddhism0
Buddhism and the Siberian Buryat Chronicles: Stories of Origin, Rivalry, and Negotiation in the Russian Empire0
Embodying the Sacred: Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima. By Nancy E. van Deusen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. viii+272, 1 illustration. $99.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).0
:Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation0
Disappearing and Disappeared Daughters in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: Sūtras on Sex Transformation and an Intervention into Their Transmission History0
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“Briskness in the Market of Shaikh-Dom”: The Commercialization of Piety in Early Eighteenth-Century Delhi0
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Roads, State, and Religion in Japanese Antiquity0
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
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Ritual Authority and the Problem of Likeness in Chan Buddhism0
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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
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The Neighborhood of Gods: The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai. By William Elison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xiii+315. $35.00 (paper); $90.00 (cloth).0
Roberto de Nobili and the Myth of the Modern Conceptualization of Religion in Seventeenth-Century India0
The Conceptualization of Religion and Incipient Secularity in Late Sasanian Iran: Burzōy and Paul the Persian’s Parallel Departures from Tradition0
Comparing Faiths: The Making of Religious Dialogue between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe0
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
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
The Inconvenience of Chocolate: Disciplining the Society of Jesus in Seventeenth-Century Mexico0
The Future of Comparison0
Fashioning Health as Beauty: Cosmetic Rulings in Early Islam0
In Memoriam0
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The Ritual Construction of Confucian Gods in Imperial China: The Case of Vast Heaven High God0
The Deconstruction of Dafther Jailani: Muslim and Buddhist Contests of Original History in Sri Lanka0
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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
Bouillon for His Majesty: Healthy halal Modernity in Colonial Java0
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
War, Public Letters, and Piety: The Making of a New Pure Land Patriarch in Modern China0
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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
The Problem of Becoming a Bodhisattva and the Emergence of Mahāyāna0
Medieval Anticlericalism: Terms and Conditions0
:Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism0
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 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
Making Canon Practicable: Scaling the Tripiṭaka with a Medieval Chinese Buddhist Anthology0
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
The Story of Myth. By Sarah Iles Johnston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. x+374. $46.50 (cloth).0
Buddhist Fund-Raising Poems and Other Lost Verses from Venerable Miaozhan’s Gāthā (Printed 1142)0
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
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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
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How to See the Invisible: Attention, Landscape, and the Transformation of Vision in Tibetan Pilgrimage Guides0
Antipathy, Ambivalence, and Acceptance: Chan Attitudes toward Ritual from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century0
The Incas and the Enlightenment: Andean Idols and European Discourses on Religion, 1550–19000
Practical Canons from Buddhist Pasts: What Pāli Anthologies Can Tell Us about Buddhist History0
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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
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
The Who, Why, and What of Religion—and Its Study0
The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion. By Nathan McGovern. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+313. $99.00 (cloth); $31.27 (ebook).0
:White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America0
Temples and the Ruins of Time in Sunthorn Phu’s Nirat to Golden Mountain Temple0
The Rule and the Folk: The Emergence of the Clergy/Laity Divide and the Forms of Anticlerical Discourse in China’s Late Antiquity0
:The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Image in Daoism0
The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio, and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India. By Ananya Chakravarti. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+355, bla0
A Domesticated Charisma: Buddhist Hagiographies in Southern Song China (1127–1279)0
Water, Identity, and Baptism in K’iche’an Maya Narratives from Colonial Highland Guatemala0
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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Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions. By Jeffrey J. Kripal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. ix+478, color illustrations. $45.00 (cloth); $35.00 0
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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
The Invention of Idolatry0
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Orality in the Tekke and the Circulation of “High” and “Low” Cultures of Sufism in Seventeenth-Century İstanbul0
:Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism0
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
The Heretic Talks Back: Feigning Orthodoxy in Ṣaffār al-Qummī’s Baṣāʾir al-Darajāt (d. 902–3)0
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
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
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