OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Muslims by Ascription: On Post-Lutheran Secularity and Muslim Immigrants	9
Reframing Pilgrimage in Northern Europe: Introduction to the Special Issue	6
How Do We Explain the Quiet Demise of Graeco-Roman Religion? An Essay	5
The Pilgrimage Landscape in Contemporary Estonia: New Routes, Narratives, and Re-Christianization	5
“Rehabilitating” Pilgrimage in Scotland: Heritage, Protestant Pilgrimage, and Caledonian Caminos	4
Contemporary Pagan Pilgrimage: Ritual and Re-Storying in the Irish Landscape	4
From Festive Sacred to Festive Secular? Indigenous Religious Presence in Two Nigerian Festivals	3
Caminoization at Sea: The Fjord Pilgrim Route in Norway	3
Heterarchy	3
Buddhist Ritual as “Connectionwork”: Aesthetics and Technologies of Mediating Religious Belonging	3
Religious Gentrification as Heterarchies of Urban Planning	2
How to Be a Pilgrim: Guidebooks on the Norwegian St. Olav Ways and the Heritagization of Religion	2
The Demise, Dissolution and Elimination of Religions	2
(Re)Introducing “Secular Religion”: On the Study of Entangled Quests for Meaning in Modern Western Cultures	2
In Nature’s Cathedral: Caminoization and Cultural Critique in Swedish Pilgrim Spirituality	2
What Comes to an End When a “Religion” Comes to an “End”? Reflections on a Historiographical Trope and Ancient Mediterranean History of Religion	2
Who Owns Religion? Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Cultural Appropriation in Postglobal Buddhism	2
The Fraternité Notre Dame: From Emergence in Fréchou to Sojourn in Chicago	1
Politics, Experience, and the Languages of Holiness	1
Releasing Urban Religion beyond the City Wall: The Spatial Capital of Early Buddhist Monasticism in NW South Asia	1
Mohini: A Case Study of a Transnational Spiritual Space in the History of the Theosophical Society	1
Religious Agency and Time Regimes in the Roman Empire: The Cult of Anubis as a Case Study	1
Getting off the Wheel: A Conceptual History of the New Age Concept of Enlightenment	1
The Aesthetics of In/Authenticity: Buddhism, Commodification, and Ethnoreligious Belonging in a Sino-Tibetan Contact Zone	1
… and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption – From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year, written by Michael Hudson	1

Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis, written by Suzanne Newcombe	1
From an Aristotelian Ordo Essendi to Relation: Shifting Paradigms in the Study of Religions in the Light of the Sociology of Knowledge	1
Prophesying the Demise of Egyptian Religion in Late Antiquity: The Perfect Discourse and Antoninus in Canopus	1
Destruction, Death, and Drama: Narratives of Religiocide in the Hebrew Bible	1
The Aesthetics and Emotions of Religious Belonging: Examples from the Buddhist World	1
Feasting with Buddhist Women: Food Literacy in Religious Belonging	1
Tēvāram: Worshipping Gods on Stage	1
Applying Heterarchy Theory to Ancient Mesopotamian Religions	0
Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity: Towards a Dynamic Theory of People and Place, edited by Vaia Touna	0
The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature, edited by Colin McAllister	0
Hell and Its Rivals: Death and Retribution among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Early Middle Ages, written by Alan E. Bernstein	0
English Translations of Daoist Scriptures: A Historical Study, written by Yu Senlin	0
The Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Research and Reception. Vol. 1: From the Middle Ages to c. 1830, edited by Margaret Clunies Ross	0
Obituary: Louise Bäckman (1926–2021)	0
John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age, written by Brian C. Wilson	0
“Mon cher Mithra …” La Correspondance entre Franz Cumont et Alfred Loisy, written by Annelies Lannoy, Corinne Bonnet, and Danny Praet	0
The New Atheism, Myth, and History: The Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion, written by Nathan Johnstone	0
The Gülen Movement in Turkey: The Politics of Islam and Modernity, written by Caroline Tee	0
Going Unseen in the Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Magical Tradition	0
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 V	0
The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire, written by Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, and Brian Bocking	0
The Power of the Written Word in Manichaeism	0
“We Were as Dreamers:” Prayer as the Royal Road to the Unconscious in Hasidism	0
Centering Indigenous People in the Study of Religion in America	0
The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Horror Fiction	0
From the Archives to Living Tradition	0
Religion in Taiwan and China: Locality and Transmission, edited by Benjamin Penny and Hsun Chang	0
Communities of Absence: Emotions, Time, and Buddhism in the Creation of Belonging	0
The Othering and Resilience of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Soviet and Contemporary Lithuania	0
From Puzzle to Paradigm: A Kuhnian Perspective on Javanese Islam	0
“Each of Our Springs Has Lost Its Miraculous Power”	0
The Glory Jest and Riddle: Jonathan Z. Smith and an Aesthetic of Impossibles	0
Monastic Authority and Legitimizing Religio-Political Activism: Buddhist Nationalist Monks in Myanmar	0
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Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism, edited by Wouter Hanegraaff, Peter Forshaw, and Marco Pasi	0
The Emergence of the Kabbalah: Early Sefirotic Theosophy as a Response to Contemporary Theological Challenges	0
Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies, written by Oliver Freiberger	0
Appropriation: A New Approach to Religious Transformation in Late Antiquity	0
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Volume 8: Pentecostals and the Body, edited by Michael Wilkinson and Peter Althouse	0
To Whom to Pray?	0
Albert de Pouvourville’s Occultisme Colonial	0
Religion and Empire in Transnational Perspective: a Response to Pamela Klassen’s Story of Radio Mind and Jennifer Graber’s Gods of Indian Country	0
Meditative Listening in the Pāli Buddhist Canon	0
Kritische Gesamtausgabe (KGA), written by Ernst Troeltsch	0
The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism, edited by James R. Lewis	0
Spiritual Power, Witchcraft and Protestants: Conflicting Approaches to Religious Belonging and Practice in the Komi Countryside	0
The Legacy of Vaiṣṇavism in Colonial Bengal, edited by Ferdinando Sardella and Lucian Wong	0
Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks, written by Siv Ellen Kraft, Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Arkotong Longkumer, Gregory D. Alles, Greg Johnson	0
The Ascended Confucius: Images of the Chinese Master in the Euro-American Esoteric Discourse	0

Hierarchy into Heterarchy	0
The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom: Essays on the Intersection of Religion and Pop Culture, edited by Carol M. Cusack, John W. Morehead, and Venetia Laura Delano Robertson	0
Teaching the Cognitive Science of Religion: Claire White’s An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion and Other Approaches	0
Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer, written by Emily Pierini	0
Interdisciplinarity in Nondisciplines: Archive and Academe in the Study of Religion	0
From Indra’s Net to Iternet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas, written by Daniel Veidlinger	0
Beethoven and Buddhism in a Japanese Religion: Culture as Cultivation in Soka Gakkai	0
The Role of Rulers in the Winding Up of the Old Norse Religion	0
North America, Turtle Island, and the Study of Religion	0
Islands in the West: Classical Myth and the Medieval and Irish Geographical Imaginations, written by Matthias Egeler	0
Invoking Humans in Roman-Era Oaths: Emotional Relations and Divine Ambiguity	0
Reinventions of an Old Tradition: Orthodox Processions and Pilgrimage in Contemporary Finland	0
The Yogi Physician: The Conscious Self and the Yoga of Karmic Observation in Early Ayurvedic Medicine	0
Protestant Confucianism: Kang Youwei’s Influence in Korea	0
Euro-American Esoteric Readings of East Asia: Introductory Remarks	0
The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Atheism in American Culture, written by Jerome Baggett	0
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 Lannoy	0
The Power of Kataragama: From “Hotspot” to “Cold Spot”?	0
Possessing Enlightenment: Sorcery, Selfhood, and Tragic Responsibility in a Chinese Buddhist Apocryphon	0
Moving Beyond Religious Clichés: A Review	0
The Mysteries, Resurrection, and 1 Corinthians 15, written by Terri Moore	0
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination, written by Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld	0
Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism, edited by Karl Debreczeny	0
Feeling Apart: Relations of Belonging in Tibetan Buddhist Lay-Monastic Communities	0
Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective, written by Carlo Ginzburg and Bruce Lincoln	0
Nothing Personal: Blavatsky and Her Indian Interlocutors	0
Hotspots: On the Usefulness of a New Category	0
Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn, written by Clara A. B. Joseph	0
The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions, edited by Adam J. Silverstein, Guy G. Stroumsa, and Moshe Blidstein	0
Introducing “the Heavenly Empire of China” (le Céleste Empire de la Chine)	0
Homer and the Poetics of Hades, written by George Alexander Gazis	0
Facilitating Buddhism through Portable Absolution	0
A Divisive Intellectualist Leader	0
Turn to Traditions – Calls for Change: Negotiations over Liturgy in the Synagogues of Finland	0
Relating North American Indigenous History and the Study of Religion: Introducing a Review Symposium on Jennifer Graber’s The Gods of Indian Country and Pamela Klassen’s The Story of Radio Mind	0
Dancing with Religion: Organized Atheism and Humanism in the Field of Religions in Denmark	0
Handbook of Hinduism in Europe: Pan-European Developments, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen and Ferdinando Sardella	0
Enoch From Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Volume 1: Sources from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, written by John C. Reeves and Annette Yoshiko Reed	0
Esotericism between Europe and East Asia: How the “Esoteric Distinction” Became a Structure in Cross-Cultural Interpretation	0
Seeing the Mithraic Tauroctony	0
The Origins of Mircea Eliade’s Transconscious and the Vicissitudes of the Religious Faculty	0
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age: From Shamans to Priests to Prophets, written by Stephen K. Sanderson	0
Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: Festschrift in Honour of Armin W. Geertz, edited by Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, Luther H. Martin, Jeppe Sinding Jensen, and J	0
Negating Seth: Destruction as Vitality	0
Feeling the Way to Revelation: Patterns of Doubt and Persuasion in Tibetan Buddhist Auto/biographical Treasure Narratives	0
Pilgrimage Space, Hinduization of Space, Hindutva Politics of Space, and the Case of Ayodhyā as a Religious and Religiopolitical Hotspot	0
Inscribing the Corpus: Scribal and Ritual Practice in the Material Culture of Dunhuang	0
Conspiracy Theories, UFOs and the New Age: Millennial Conspiracism, written by David G. Robertson	0
Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females, written by Serinity Young	0
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Crystal Shops and Shopping for Crystals in Estonia: Materiality and Experience as Sources of Value	0
Obituary	0
What Are Religious Hotspots? An Introduction	0
Ritual Syntax Revisited	0
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living, written by Dimitris Xygalatas	0
The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland, written by Crawford Gribben	0
The Ancient Greek Pharmakos Rituals	0
Images, Land, and Places: Telling Indigenous Narratives and Histories	0
Religious Literacy in Policy and Practice, edited by Adam Dinham and Matthew Francis	0
Humanizing the Enlightened Childhood: Epistolography as Human Formation in Tibetan Buddhism	0
A Muslim-Christian Heterarchy in 12th-Century Cairo	0
Contested Hierarchies	0
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Source of Life: Revitalisation Rites and Bon Shamans in Bhutan and the Eastern Himalayas, written by Toni Huber	0
“If the Kingdom be Ruled According to the Tao”: Politics as “Eastern Wisdom” in Aleister Crowley’s Reception of the Daodejing	0