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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Euro-American Esoteric Readings of East Asia: Introductory Remarks	14
(Un)Making Chorography: Ecstatic Dance Along California’s Coast	4
The One Death and Many Lives of King Kumārapāla: Biography and Resilience in Jainism	4
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	4
Religious Minorities at Risk, written by Matthias Basedau, Jonathan Fox, and Ariel Zellman	3
Towards a Theory of Oral Criticism for Early Buddhist Scripture	3
Ways of Learning in Spiritual Self-Help: Singing Bowl Manuals and Handbooks	3
Hartmut Leppin: The Early Christians: From the Beginnings to Constantine	2
Astrology in European History: Its Philosophical Foundations Through the Ages, written by Gustav-Adolf Schoener	2
“Each of Our Springs Has Lost Its Miraculous Power”	2
A Brief History of the Relationship Between Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, written by Zhongjian Mou	2
Front matter	1
The Ancient Greek Pharmakos Rituals	1
Contested Hierarchies	1
Back matter	1
Back matter	1
The Danish-Halle Mission from the Perspective of Embodiment: Communication, Ritual, and the Body in Interreligious Contact	1
Degraded Gods on Parade: Reading Temple Festivals in Early Malayalam Literature	1
Introduction: Jainism, Adaptation, and Resilience	1
“We Were as Dreamers:” Prayer as the Royal Road to the Unconscious in Hasidism	1
From Festive Sacred to Festive Secular? Indigenous Religious Presence in Two Nigerian Festivals	1
In Between Human–Animal Bodies: Transcorporeal Experiences in Hittite Anatolia	1
Spiritual Power, Witchcraft and Protestants: Conflicting Approaches to Religious Belonging and Practice in the Komi Countryside	1
Religious Gentrification as Heterarchies of Urban Planning	1
Irish Mormons: Reconciling Identity in Global Mormonism, written by Hazel O’Brien	0

“If the Kingdom be Ruled According to the Tao”: Politics as “Eastern Wisdom” in Aleister Crowley’s Reception of the Daodejing	0
Resilience and Consilience in the Science of Religion(s)	0
The Othering and Resilience of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Soviet and Contemporary Lithuania	0
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Volume 8: Pentecostals and the Body, edited by Michael Wilkinson and Peter Althouse	0
Front matter	0
Possessing Enlightenment: Sorcery, Selfhood, and Tragic Responsibility in a Chinese Buddhist Apocryphon	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
Handbook of Hinduism in Europe: Pan-European Developments, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen and Ferdinando Sardella	0
Facilitating Buddhism through Portable Absolution	0
A Neurocognitive Model for Analyzing End Time Narratives: the Book of Revelation 14–16 as a Test Case	0
Nothing Personal: Blavatsky and Her Indian Interlocutors	0
The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology, written by Paul R. Rovang	0
Reconsidering “Secular Religion”: On Modern, Postmodern, and Metamodern Spirituality	0
Screenwriting Applied to the Academic Study of Religion: Some Kind of Liberating Effect, a Documentary on Central and Eastern Europe	0
Dancing with Religion: Organized Atheism and Humanism in the Field of Religions in Denmark	0
Ramakrishna, Jesus, Friedrich Max Müller: A Peril of Comparativism	0
Hierarchy into Heterarchy	0
The Mysteries, Resurrection, and 1 Corinthians 15, written by Terri Moore	0
The Reception of ʿAbdu’l-Bahā in Britain: East Comes West, written by Brendan McNamara	0
Going Unseen in the Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Magical Tradition	0
Between the Real and Ideal: Efficacy in an Ancient Mesopotamian Building Ritual	0
Back matter	0
Homer and the Poetics of Hades, written by George Alexander Gazis	0
Back matter	0
From Puzzle to Paradigm: A Kuhnian Perspective on Javanese Islam	0
Applying Heterarchy Theory to Ancient Mesopotamian Religions	0
The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Horror Fiction	0
Monastic Authority and Legitimizing Religio-Political Activism: Buddhist Nationalist Monks in Myanmar	0
The Śrāvaka Saṃbodha: Recasting Śrāvakācāra for Contemporary Lay Jains	0
Writing in Kannada, Being a Jain: Sanskrit as a Site of Contestation in a Fourteenth-Century Kannada Text	0
From Indra’s Net to Iternet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas, written by Daniel Veidlinger	0
Internal Controversy and Literary Heritage: a Discussion of Two Śvetāmbara Dharmaparīkṣā Adaptations	0
English Translations of Daoist Scriptures: A Historical Study, written by Yu Senlin	0
Aztec Religion between Christianity and New Age Spirituality: “Mana” and Spiritual Energies in James Maffie’s Concept of Teotl	0
Apocalyptic Actors and Historical Trajectories in Mythic Discourse of Conspiracism	0
Unlikely Departures: a Jain Mendicant’s Decision to Travel Overseas	0
Front matter	0
Friends in Dharma: Buddhism in Singapore-Thailand Relations, 1965–Present	0
Uncanny Experience and Its Meaning-Making as Moral Experience	0
Christianity: A Brief Introduction, written by Charles E. Farhadian	0
… and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption – From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year, written by Michael Hudson	0
Local Cure, Global Chant: Performing Theravadic Awakening in the Footsteps of the Ledi Sayadaw	0
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living, written by Dimitris Xygalatas	0
To Whom to Pray?	0
The Power of the Written Word in Manichaeism	0
Determining the Realm of the Dead through Metaphors: The Case of Gilgameš, Enkidu, and the Netherworld	0
Crystal Shops and Shopping for Crystals in Estonia: Materiality and Experience as Sources of Value	0
Pilgrimage Space, Hinduization of Space, Hindutva Politics of Space, and the Case of Ayodhyā as a Religious and Religiopolitical Hotspot	0
Variability in the Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts, edited by Carlos Grazia Zamacona	0
Appropriating the Historical Other: Utilizing Ancient Heresy in the Struggle over Gender Dominance at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	0

Obituary: Louise Bäckman (1926–2021)	0
An Interview with Robert A. Segal (1948–2024)	0
Interdisciplinarity in Nondisciplines: Archive and Academe in the Study of Religion	0
Performing Theravāda: Introduction	0
Histories of Śatruñjaya and the Making of Jain Identity in South Asia	0
Turn to Traditions – Calls for Change: Negotiations over Liturgy in the Synagogues of Finland	0
Esotericism between Europe and East Asia: How the “Esoteric Distinction” Became a Structure in Cross-Cultural Interpretation	0
The Ascended Confucius: Images of the Chinese Master in the Euro-American Esoteric Discourse	0
Albert de Pouvourville’s Occultisme Colonial	0
Collective Intentionality and the Study of Religion: Social Ontology and Empirical Research, written by Andrea Rota	0
Tēvāram: Worshipping Gods on Stage	0
“Mon cher Mithra …” La Correspondance entre Franz Cumont et Alfred Loisy, written by Annelies Lannoy, Corinne Bonnet, and Danny Praet	0
Abduʾl-Bahā Abbāsʿ: Head of the Baháʾí Faith, A Life in Social & Regional Context, written by Joshua Lincoln	0
Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka, written by Alexander McKinley	0
Source of Life: Revitalisation Rites and Bon Shamans in Bhutan and the Eastern Himalayas, written by Toni Huber	0
Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East, written by Jae Hee Han	0
The Study of Religions in Ireland: Past, Present and Future, edited by Brendan McNamara and Hazel O’Brien	0
Reciting Buddhist Texts: Long Suttas of the Dīghanikāya in Performance	0
Hotspots: On the Usefulness of a New Category	0
J. F. Marc des Jardins: the Tradition of Everlasting Bön: Five Key Texts on Scripture, Tantra, and the Great Perfection	0
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination, written by Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld	0
The Power of Kataragama: From “Hotspot” to “Cold Spot”?	0
Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective, written by Carlo Ginzburg and Bruce Lincoln	0
How about Pantheism in Ancient Greek Religion?	0
The Glory Jest and Riddle: Jonathan Z. Smith and an Aesthetic of Impossibles	0
The Yogi Physician: The Conscious Self and the Yoga of Karmic Observation in Early Ayurvedic Medicine	0
Performing the Buddha’s Word: The Role of the Bhāṇaka	0
The Study of Religion in Sweden: Past, Present and Future, edited by Henrik Bogdan and Göran Larsson	0
The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature, edited by Colin McAllister	0
A Divisive Intellectualist Leader	0
Living Phonologies: Khmer Pronunciations of Pali at the Nexus of Writing and Orality	0
India in the Eyes of Europeans: Conceptualization of Religion in Theology and Oriental Studies, written by Martin Fárek	0
What Are Religious Hotspots? An Introduction	0
On Curse and the Power of Knowledge: Upanishadic Moments and the Aṣṭāvakra Tale of the Mahābhārata	0
Meditative Listening in the Pāli Buddhist Canon	0
Silent Mastery: The Concealed Art of Buddhist Writing	0
A Muslim-Christian Heterarchy in 12th-Century Cairo	0
Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, edited by J. H. Miller and J. S. Clay	0
Domesticating a Marian Apparition and Pilgrimage Site: A Case of Mount Živčák in Slovakia	0
The Origins of Mircea Eliade’s Transconscious and the Vicissitudes of the Religious Faculty	0
Teaching the Cognitive Science of Religion: Claire White’s An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion and Other Approaches	0
Moving Beyond Religious Clichés: A Review	0
Tibetan Remediations: Wax Doubles of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok	0
The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland, written by Crawford Gribben	0
Introducing “the Heavenly Empire of China” (le Céleste Empire de la Chine)	0
The Return of the Bodhisattvas and Other Possible Explanations for the Appearance of Mahāyāna Sūtras	0
Ritual Syntax Revisited	0
Front matter	0
Releasing Urban Religion beyond the City Wall: The Spatial Capital of Early Buddhist Monasticism in NW South Asia	0
The Success of Early Christ Religion as a Result of the Inflexible and Intolerant Zeal of the Movement	0
Heterarchy	0
Kritische Gesamtausgabe (KGA), written by Ernst Troeltsch	0
A Reconsideration of the Issue of Authorship in the Vinaya	0
The Emergence of the Kabbalah: Early Sefirotic Theosophy as a Response to Contemporary Theological Challenges	0