Religion

Papers
(The median citation count of Religion 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conceptualizing utopias: Tibetan perceptions14
The making of American Catholicism: regional culture and the Catholic experience14
The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood10
Melchizedek, King of Sodom: How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King8
Islam, Liberalism, and Ontology: A Critical Re-Evaluation7
A Cultural History of Genocide, 6 volumes7
The importance and limitations of ‘Choice’ in child-rearing practices for non-believing older adults7
Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness: Black Jews in France6
Between local culture, leisure activity, and nonreligion – the individual constructions of religion by adolescents in rural Austria6
Defending life: environmental crisis and Catholicism in Western Kenya5
Urban religion beyond the city: theory and practice of a specific constellation of religious geography-making5
The Politics of Ritual5
Listening for/as presence: religious mediation of a Sufi ritual in the time of COVID-194
The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious , by Joseph Blankholm, New York, New York Unive4
Religious beliefs and social practices4
Virtual Immortality: God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism4
Moved to distraction: the ritual theatre of the Fire Festival in Southwest China4
Emic concepts and etic paths4
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic4
Utopias for Boomers: religion, psychology, and sovereignty in the long sixties3
The Kabbalistic Tree: האילן הקבלי3
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism3
The greater India experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast3
Uncertainty, reconstruction and resistance: young adults’ responses to religious diversity in Spain and the UK3
Utopia, theodicy, and ritual: East Asian perspectives3
White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals3
Faithful atheists: the paradox of Jewish nonbelievers in Israel3
Weird Confucius: Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History3
Religious transitions and border making in southeast Brazilian spiritual landscape – the encruzilhada (crossroads) perspective3
Gods in the public sphere: political deification in South Asia3
Projectification of religion: an analytical framework3
The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe2
Ritual exegesis among Mauritian Hindus2
The First Sikh: The Life and Legacy of Guru Nanak2
The doctrine of the sky-blue one in Myanmar: disenchanted Buddhism2
Decolonizing utopias2
Mary, founder of Christianity2
Understanding ‘Sectarianism’ Sunni-Shi’a Relations in the Modern Arab World2
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds2
The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination2
Emplotting total devotion: secrecy, fame, and imitation in late antique Lives of Christian ascetics2
The unintended consequences of state-enforced religion: ‘blasphemous’ metal music as secondary deviation in Iran2
The gypsylorist as occultist: anti-gypsy stereotypes and the entanglement of esotericism and scholarship in Charles Godfrey Leland’s work on ‘gypsy magic’2
Political deification of Lord Parshuram: tracing Brahminic masculinity in contemporary North India2
Severing ties: ritual objects and the category of religion in Hmong American families2
Whaling on stage: a comparison of contemporary Japanese whale festivals2
I-Thou-Nymph: a relational approach to ancient Greek religious devotion2
Desistance rituals: ritual practice among street criminal men (re-) turning to Islam within and beyond Norwegian prisons1
Underneath the peace: Shaolin monks’ views on the relationship between Buddhism and science1
The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India1
Futures of an unknown world: utopian and dystopian visions of religion in Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series1
Islamic Modernities in World Society: The Rise, Spread, and Fragmentation of a Hegemonic Idea1
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice1
Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction1
From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus’ Understanding of Embodied Practices1
A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life1
A subjective response to ‘transitional phenomena’ and case study of chinoiseries in “Afro-Cuban” religions1
Digital religion: the basics1
Making Mongol History: Rashid al-Din and the Jami‘ al-Tawarikh1
Undoing religion, redoing gender: sexual stories of religious exit1
God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America1
Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana1
Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania1
The Mechanical Turk : a human-centered approach to the transcendence narrative of artificial intelligence1
Post-Lineage Yoga: From Guru to #MeToo1
A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion: ‘Why God Thinks Like You’1
Slaves of God/Christ: narrated total devotion in the apocryphalActs of Peter1
Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in t1
Navigating queerness and religion in India: a phenomenological queer ethnography1
The translation of the bible into Chinese: the origin and unique authority of the union version1
Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet’s Encounters in the Spirit World1
Religion and utopia: a critical overview of the field1
Jerusalem: History of a Global City1
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity1
British Buddhism, secular mindfulness, and the politics of sustainability1
Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn1
The transitional objects of January 61
Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic: mediating presence and distance1
Oaths and Vows: Words as Genesis1
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity1
Islam and Democracy in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh1
Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind: What Mental Abnormalities Can Teach us About Religions1
Hijacked: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion1
Women missionaries, Chinese girls, and Protestant empire-building: The Salvation Army’s social and evangelical work in 1930s colonial Hong Kong0
Readers of the ‘Lost’ Purana: mythopolitics and Suthar caste identity in Gujarat0
Religious media settlers in times of deep mediatization0
Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World0
Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion0
Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet0
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion0
The decline of religion or its social significance? An unresolved issue in the secularization debate0
The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas0
Conceptual dilemmas from a fieldwork in Indonesia: ‘religious’ ‘unity in diversity’ at the Lingsar Temple festival0
The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader: Islam Beyond Borders0
The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism0
Who owns religion? Scholars, Sikhs and the public sphere0
An investigation into para-scientific imageries and esoteric nationalism around the cult of the Holy Crown of Hungary0
Misa, Lefa, Puang: ritual, piety, and performance in opening the ocean season in a Southeast Asian marine hunting community0
Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature0
Context and Catholicity in the Science and Religious Debate: Intercultural contributions from French-Speaking Africa0
One Faith No Longer: The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America0
In Praise of the Few: Studies in Shiʿi Thought and History0
Defending Muhammad in Modernity0
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion0
Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought. Becoming Angels and Demons0
Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism0
Feijoadaas a concept of cultural/religious mixture0
Correction0
The Oxford handbook of the Latin bible0
Undisciplining the study of religion: critical posthumanities and more-than-human ways of knowing0
Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism , by Baird Tipson, New York, Oxford University Press,0
Imagined utopias: Brasília and the Valley of the Dawn0
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism0
Islam in North America: An Introduction0
Handbook of Hinduism in Europe, 2 volumes0
Animal spirit: other bodies in relation0
Finding Faith in American Foreign Policy: Religion and American Diplomacy in a Post-Secular World0
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa , by Noah Tamarkin, Duke University Press, Durh0
Secular, religious or spiritual? A sociological portrait of UK mindfulness teachers0
The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India0
‘Islamic humanism’: another form of universalism in contemporary Sufism0
Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra0
Feeling out alternatives within secularity0
Religionization and world obfuscation – the display of computers, robots, and big data-based applications in museums0
Subversive habits: black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle0
Religion: reviewers 2019–20210
The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma0
Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology , edited by Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shep0
‘Re-enchantment’ and religious change in former socialist Europe0
What Happens When We Practice Religion? Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life0
Marriage, leadership, and dynasties in Hasidism: big data approach0
Ecological aesthesis: figurations of the animal spirit in contemporary science, philosophy and literature0
The Science of Satyug: Class, Charisma, and Vedic Revivalism in the All World Gayatri Pariwar0
Between Hindu and Christian: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics, and the Negotiation of Devotion in Banaras0
Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst0
Anything is possible: Word of Life and utopian thinking during the revolutionary processes in Estonia, 1987–19910
Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States0
Muslim Qurʾanic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities0
Neither ‘underpinning’ nor ‘overarching’: explicating a critically reciprocal philosophy of religious studies0
Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins, and Extremism0
The Biography of a God: Mahasu in the Himalayas0
Mirabai: The Making of a Saint0
‘May our hearts rise up in prayer’: responses of Russian-speaking immigrant Israeli reform congregations to the Russo-Ukrainian war0
Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism0
Politicizing Islam in Central Asia: From the Russian Revolution to the Afghan and Syrian Jihads0
Geographies of transimperial religion: the transformation of religious space in a world of empires0
Why Baby Boomers Turned From Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945-20210
Those For Whom the Lamp Shines: The Making of Egyptian Ethnic Identity in Late Antiquity0
Divine order and secular social science in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America0
Interpreting Child Sacrifice Narratives: Horror and Redemption0
Religionin changing times: an overview of the journal in its comparative scholarly and publishing contexts0
Voices of the Ritual: Devotion to Female Saints and Shrines in the Holy Land0
Periodizing Secularization: Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945 Periodizing Secularization: Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945 0
Certainty, complicity, complexity: approaching sexual abuse0
Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists are Waging War Against the United States0
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music0
Handbook of Leaving Religion0
The religious roots of AI and the rise of neo-feudalism0
Buddhism in Five Minutes0
To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations0
Religious studies approaches to the intersection of artificial intelligence and religion: formations analogous to religion0
Daoism in Modern China: Clerics and Temples in Urban Transformations, 1860-Present0
Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life0
Acute religious experiences: madness, psychosis and religious studies0
Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale0
Merleau-Ponty's phenomenal body and the study of religion0
Experimenting with Religion: The New Science of Belief0
Back to the future? The place of the religious ‘other’ in Ismail Gasprinsky’s Islamic utopia0
Absent dead, and abstract signs for absence: on the semiotic affordance of religion0
Learning to learn in candomblé: notes on paths, knowledge, and the ‘education of distraction’0
The Western Epistemic Tradition and the Scientific Study of Religion0
Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra0
A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond0
#IAMHUSSEINI: television and mourning during the COVID-19 pandemic0
The power of the Nāth Yogīs: yogic charisma, political influence and social authority0
Documenting the History of Religions in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1950–1970): Letters, Reports, and Requests across the Iron Curtain0
Early Buddhist Society: The World of Gautama Buddha0
I’ll fly away: religious studies within and without the secular condition0
Voracious secularism: emotional habitus and the desire for knowledge in animal experimentation0
Training for total devotion: emotionality and narrativity in Deuteronomy0
Does time stop in the world of Talmud Torah?0
The philosophy of religious studies0
Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan (Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series)0
A processual perspective on utopia as a lived social project: the case of a Ghanaian ‘Christian Town’0
The Political Theology of International Order0
Modern Religious Druidry: Studies in Paganism, Celtic Identity and Nature Spirituality0
Introduction: anthropology within and without the secular condition0
Ecumenism and independency in world christianity: historical studies in honour of Brian Stanley0
Imagining the human: applying the philosophy of religious studies to Jonathan Z. Smith0
Colonial sovereignty and the intermittent order of silver things0
Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe0
Myth Theorized0
Do avatars weep? Ritual and sacred space at virtual burning man0
‘The forest is my church’: Christianity, secularisation and love of nature in a northern European existential field0
On two modalities of our secularity: anthropology’s immanent frames0
Between religion and politics: the political deification of Mahishasur0
Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit0
Challenging the secular0
Women in Buddhist Traditions0
The Baha’i Faith in India: A Developmental Stage Approach0
Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam0
Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India0
Digital Jesus: an inquiry in artificial intelligence0
Mormon Lifestyles: Communicating Religion and Ethics in Documentary Media0
‘The YouTube gods will bless you’: seeking algorithmic salvation in the YouTube prosperity gospel0
Vernacular utopia0
The Buddha: Life and Afterlife between East and West0
Prophets of Love: The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul0
Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel0
A managerial apocalypse: Mormon Missionaries, eschatological anxieties, and covid-190
Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil0
Do you practice the critical study of religion?0
Aleksander Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism0
Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End0
How the Qur'ān Works: Reading Sacred Narrative0
Mindfulness: Where It Comes From and What It Means0
The Oxford Handbook Qur’anic Studies0
Christians in the City of Shanghai: A History Resurrected Above the Sea0
How religious space is constituted by means of metaphors. The Buddhist Sīmā as a semiotic case study – with special consideration of the distinction between the urban an0
Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–12700
Flourishing bodies: spiritual entanglements and psychobiological imperatives0
Personal development and religion in the workplace in Slovakia: from life meaning to religious selves0
Alternative interpretations of manifold texts: the case of Mircea Eliade’s political writings0
The pillar saint seen as a totally devoted emperor: the in-group around Symeon Stylites the elder0
The Qur’an with Christian Commentary: A Guide to Understanding the Scripture of Islam0
Total devotion in the ancient world: emotions and narrative in radical religion0
Humanist marriage ceremonies in Poland: re-enchantment and four social constructions of the sacred0
The Oxford Handbook of Confucianism0
Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism0
Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge0
The ambiguous role of materiality in transitions to Orthodox Christianity in contemporary Finland0
God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music0
The future never dies: a relational approach to secular and religious entanglements of posthuman utopia0
When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends , by Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California Press, Berkel0
What can utopia do for us?0
Ordinary things: classifying Nahua religion in colonial Mexico0
The Embodied God: Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Church0
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity0
Situating philosophy of religious studies0
Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona0
The making of the modern Muslim state: Islam and governance in the Middle East and North Africa0
Bōkā or how one Religion sees another: Islamic discourses on ‘African Traditional Religion’ in West Africa0
The remaking of a Tibetan mountain cult festival: the worship of landscape deities in the Rebgong Valley, Amdo0
The Shariatisation of Indonesia: The Politics of the Council of Indonesian Ulama (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, MUI)0
Mighty Baal: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith Mighty Baal: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith , edited by Stephen C. Russell and Esther J. Hamori, Leiden and Boston, Brill0
Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North0
Zemi, teotl, huaca: reconsidering materiality through three emic concepts in the New World0
Pagan revival, re-enchantment, and new forms of rituality in Hungary: the case of the Kurultaj festival0
Cultural theology and social robotics: the intersection of religion and science in ethical AI0
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe0
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