Numen-International Review for the History of Religions

Papers
(The TQCC of Numen-International Review for the 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Divisive Intellectualist Leader11
To Whom to Pray?5
Nothing Personal: Blavatsky and Her Indian Interlocutors3
Contested Hierarchies3
The Legacy of Vaiṣṇavism in Colonial Bengal, edited by Ferdinando Sardella and Lucian Wong3
Handbook of Hinduism in Europe: Pan-European Developments, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen and Ferdinando Sardella3
What Are Religious Hotspots? An Introduction2
The Glory Jest and Riddle: Jonathan Z. Smith and an Aesthetic of Impossibles2
Alfred Loisy and the Making of History of Religions: A Study of the Development of Comparative Religion in the Early 20th Century, written by Annelies Lannoy2
From an Aristotelian Ordo Essendi to Relation: Shifting Paradigms in the Study of Religions in the Light of the Sociology of Knowledge2
The Othering and Resilience of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Soviet and Contemporary Lithuania1
The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland, written by Crawford Gribben1
Euro-American Esoteric Readings of East Asia: Introductory Remarks1
A Reconsideration of the Issue of Authorship in the Vinaya1
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Moving Beyond Religious Clichés: A Review1
In Between Human–Animal Bodies: Transcorporeal Experiences in Hittite Anatolia1
Living Phonologies: Khmer Pronunciations of Pali at the Nexus of Writing and Orality1
Crystal Shops and Shopping for Crystals in Estonia: Materiality and Experience as Sources of Value1
Tēvāram: Worshipping Gods on Stage1
Local Cure, Global Chant: Performing Theravadic Awakening in the Footsteps of the Ledi Sayadaw1
Collective Intentionality and the Study of Religion: Social Ontology and Empirical Research, written by Andrea Rota1
Going Unseen in the Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Magical Tradition0
Source of Life: Revitalisation Rites and Bon Shamans in Bhutan and the Eastern Himalayas, written by Toni Huber0
Voices from Zoroastrian Iran. Vol. 1: Urban Centres, written by Sarah Stewart in collaboration with Mandana Moavenat Voices from Zoroastrian Iran. Vol. 2: Urban and Rural Centres – Yazd and Outlying V0
The Mysteries, Resurrection, and 1 Corinthians 15, written by Terri Moore0
Destruction, Death, and Drama: Narratives of Religiocide in the Hebrew Bible0
“Mon cher Mithra …” La Correspondance entre Franz Cumont et Alfred Loisy, written by Annelies Lannoy, Corinne Bonnet, and Danny Praet0
Monastic Authority and Legitimizing Religio-Political Activism: Buddhist Nationalist Monks in Myanmar0
Muslims by Ascription: On Post-Lutheran Secularity and Muslim Immigrants0
The Study of Religions in Ireland: Past, Present and Future, edited by Brendan McNamara and Hazel O’Brien0
Humanizing the Enlightened Childhood: Epistolography as Human Formation in Tibetan Buddhism0
Feeling the Way to Revelation: Patterns of Doubt and Persuasion in Tibetan Buddhist Auto/biographical Treasure Narratives0
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Volume 8: Pentecostals and the Body, edited by Michael Wilkinson and Peter Althouse0
Introducing “the Heavenly Empire of China” (le Céleste Empire de la Chine)0
Seeing the Mithraic Tauroctony0
Meditative Listening in the Pāli Buddhist Canon0
Kritische Gesamtausgabe (KGA), written by Ernst Troeltsch0
The Aesthetics and Emotions of Religious Belonging: Examples from the Buddhist World0
“If the Kingdom be Ruled According to the Tao”: Politics as “Eastern Wisdom” in Aleister Crowley’s Reception of the Daodejing0
Astrology in European History: Its Philosophical Foundations Through the Ages, written by Gustav-Adolf Schoener0
Degraded Gods on Parade: Reading Temple Festivals in Early Malayalam Literature0
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… and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption – From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year, written by Michael Hudson0
The Origins of Mircea Eliade’s Transconscious and the Vicissitudes of the Religious Faculty0
Determining the Realm of the Dead through Metaphors: The Case of Gilgameš, Enkidu, and the Netherworld0
The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature, edited by Colin McAllister0
Silent Mastery: The Concealed Art of Buddhist Writing0
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination, written by Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld0
Buddhist Ritual as “Connectionwork”: Aesthetics and Technologies of Mediating Religious Belonging0
The Ascended Confucius: Images of the Chinese Master in the Euro-American Esoteric Discourse0
A Brief History of the Relationship Between Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, written by Zhongjian Mou0
Tibetan Remediations: Wax Doubles of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok0
The Reception of ʿAbdu’l-Bahā in Britain: East Comes West, written by Brendan McNamara0
Pilgrimage Space, Hinduization of Space, Hindutva Politics of Space, and the Case of Ayodhyā as a Religious and Religiopolitical Hotspot0
Prophesying the Demise of Egyptian Religion in Late Antiquity: The Perfect Discourse and Antoninus in Canopus0
How Do We Explain the Quiet Demise of Graeco-Roman Religion? An Essay0
Negating Seth: Destruction as Vitality0
The Aesthetics of In/Authenticity: Buddhism, Commodification, and Ethnoreligious Belonging in a Sino-Tibetan Contact Zone0
The Power of Kataragama: From “Hotspot” to “Cold Spot”?0
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The Ancient Greek Pharmakos Rituals0
A Muslim-Christian Heterarchy in 12th-Century Cairo0
Performing the Buddha’s Word: The Role of the Bhāṇaka0
Ritual Syntax Revisited0
The Role of Rulers in the Winding Up of the Old Norse Religion0
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Heterarchy0
Hierarchy into Heterarchy0
Towards a Theory of Oral Criticism for Early Buddhist Scripture0
Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, edited by J. H. Miller and J. S. Clay0
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Obituary: Louise Bäckman (1926–2021)0
Feasting with Buddhist Women: Food Literacy in Religious Belonging0
Applying Heterarchy Theory to Ancient Mesopotamian Religions0
Possessing Enlightenment: Sorcery, Selfhood, and Tragic Responsibility in a Chinese Buddhist Apocryphon0
A Neurocognitive Model for Analyzing End Time Narratives: the Book of Revelation 14–16 as a Test Case0
Hartmut Leppin: The Early Christians: From the Beginnings to Constantine0
English Translations of Daoist Scriptures: A Historical Study, written by Yu Senlin0
The Yogi Physician: The Conscious Self and the Yoga of Karmic Observation in Early Ayurvedic Medicine0
Dancing with Religion: Organized Atheism and Humanism in the Field of Religions in Denmark0
From Puzzle to Paradigm: A Kuhnian Perspective on Javanese Islam0
Apocalyptic Actors and Historical Trajectories in Mythic Discourse of Conspiracism0
The New Atheism, Myth, and History: The Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion, written by Nathan Johnstone0
India in the Eyes of Europeans: Conceptualization of Religion in Theology and Oriental Studies, written by Martin Fárek0
Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective, written by Carlo Ginzburg and Bruce Lincoln0
Reciting Buddhist Texts: Long Suttas of the Dīghanikāya in Performance0
Esotericism between Europe and East Asia: How the “Esoteric Distinction” Became a Structure in Cross-Cultural Interpretation0
The Demise, Dissolution and Elimination of Religions0
Communities of Absence: Emotions, Time, and Buddhism in the Creation of Belonging0
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Islands in the West: Classical Myth and the Medieval and Irish Geographical Imaginations, written by Matthias Egeler0
From Indra’s Net to Iternet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas, written by Daniel Veidlinger0
How about Pantheism in Ancient Greek Religion?0
Beethoven and Buddhism in a Japanese Religion: Culture as Cultivation in Soka Gakkai0
Teaching the Cognitive Science of Religion: Claire White’s An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion and Other Approaches0
From Festive Sacred to Festive Secular? Indigenous Religious Presence in Two Nigerian Festivals0
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living, written by Dimitris Xygalatas0
Feeling Apart: Relations of Belonging in Tibetan Buddhist Lay-Monastic Communities0
Abduʾl-Bahā Abbāsʿ: Head of the Baháʾí Faith, A Life in Social & Regional Context, written by Joshua Lincoln0
Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks, written by Siv Ellen Kraft, Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Arkotong Longkumer, Gregory D. Alles, Greg Johnson0
Homer and the Poetics of Hades, written by George Alexander Gazis0
The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire, written by Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, and Brian Bocking0
Albert de Pouvourville’s Occultisme Colonial0
Interdisciplinarity in Nondisciplines: Archive and Academe in the Study of Religion0
Facilitating Buddhism through Portable Absolution0
Turn to Traditions – Calls for Change: Negotiations over Liturgy in the Synagogues of Finland0
The Emergence of the Kabbalah: Early Sefirotic Theosophy as a Response to Contemporary Theological Challenges0
Spiritual Power, Witchcraft and Protestants: Conflicting Approaches to Religious Belonging and Practice in the Komi Countryside0
Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East, written by Jae Hee Han0
Hotspots: On the Usefulness of a New Category0
“Each of Our Springs Has Lost Its Miraculous Power”0
Releasing Urban Religion beyond the City Wall: The Spatial Capital of Early Buddhist Monasticism in NW South Asia0
Performing Theravāda: Introduction0
Christianity: A Brief Introduction, written by Charles E. Farhadian0
Religious Minorities at Risk, written by Matthias Basedau, Jonathan Fox, and Ariel Zellman0
Invoking Humans in Roman-Era Oaths: Emotional Relations and Divine Ambiguity0
Resilience and Consilience in the Science of Religion(s)0
What Comes to an End When a “Religion” Comes to an “End”? Reflections on a Historiographical Trope and Ancient Mediterranean History of Religion0
Between the Real and Ideal: Efficacy in an Ancient Mesopotamian Building Ritual0
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Religious Gentrification as Heterarchies of Urban Planning0
Screenwriting Applied to the Academic Study of Religion: Some Kind of Liberating Effect, a Documentary on Central and Eastern Europe0
The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Horror Fiction0
The Power of the Written Word in Manichaeism0
The Danish-Halle Mission from the Perspective of Embodiment: Communication, Ritual, and the Body in Interreligious Contact0
“We Were as Dreamers:” Prayer as the Royal Road to the Unconscious in Hasidism0
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