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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood12
Conceptualizing utopias: Tibetan perceptions10
The making of American Catholicism: regional culture and the Catholic experience8
The Politics of Ritual7
Islam, Liberalism, and Ontology: A Critical Re-Evaluation7
Melchizedek, King of Sodom: How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King7
A Cultural History of Genocide, 6 volumes6
Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness: Black Jews in France6
Between local culture, leisure activity, and nonreligion – the individual constructions of religion by adolescents in rural Austria5
Defending life: environmental crisis and Catholicism in Western Kenya5
Religious beliefs and social practices5
Urban religion beyond the city: theory and practice of a specific constellation of religious geography-making5
The importance and limitations of ‘Choice’ in child-rearing practices for non-believing older adults5
Moved to distraction: the ritual theatre of the Fire Festival in Southwest China5
Utopias for Boomers: religion, psychology, and sovereignty in the long sixties4
In the name of heritage: the quiet encroachment of Hindutva in Janakpurdham, Nepal4
Projectification of religion: an analytical framework4
Uncertainty, reconstruction and resistance: young adults’ responses to religious diversity in Spain and the UK4
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
Faithful atheists: the paradox of Jewish nonbelievers in Israel4
Weird Confucius: Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History4
The greater India experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast4
The Bloomsbury handbook of Muslims and popular culture4
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic4
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism3
White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals3
‘If Baba calls you, no one can stop you’: affective storytelling and the resacralization of heritage in Golconda Fort3
Understanding ‘Sectarianism’ Sunni-Shi’a Relations in the Modern Arab World3
Utopia, theodicy, and ritual: East Asian perspectives3
Gods in the public sphere: political deification in South Asia3
The gypsylorist as occultist: anti-gypsy stereotypes and the entanglement of esotericism and scholarship in Charles Godfrey Leland’s work on ‘gypsy magic’3
The Kabbalistic Tree: האילן הקבלי3
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds3
Decolonizing utopias2
The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe2
Between preserving Pakistani ‘traditions’ and creative adaptation Barelvi brotherhood and heritagisation of Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas mausoleum in Guangzhou2
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity2
From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus’ Understanding of Embodied Practices2
Futures of an unknown world: utopian and dystopian visions of religion in Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series2
I-Thou-Nymph: a relational approach to ancient Greek religious devotion2
Emplotting total devotion: secrecy, fame, and imitation in late antique Lives of Christian ascetics2
Political deification of Lord Parshuram: tracing Brahminic masculinity in contemporary North India2
The unintended consequences of state-enforced religion: ‘blasphemous’ metal music as secondary deviation in Iran2
The doctrine of the sky-blue one in Myanmar: disenchanted Buddhism2
Oaths and Vows: Words as Genesis2
The church and the temple: Catholic Sinhalese and heritage crossings in Sicily (Southern Italy)2
Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction2
Whaling on stage: a comparison of contemporary Japanese whale festivals2
Mary, founder of Christianity2
Severing ties: ritual objects and the category of religion in Hmong American families2
The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination2
A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life2
A subjective response to ‘transitional phenomena’ and case study of chinoiseries in “Afro-Cuban” religions2
Slaves of God/Christ: narrated total devotion in the apocryphalActs of Peter2
Islam and Democracy in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh2
The Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheries of East Africa: Their Quest for a New Socio-religious Identity (1860–1960)1
Islamic Modernities in World Society: The Rise, Spread, and Fragmentation of a Hegemonic Idea1
Jerusalem: History of a Global City1
Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind: What Mental Abnormalities Can Teach us About Religions1
Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania1
The transitional objects of January 61
Religion and utopia: a critical overview of the field1
Desistance rituals: ritual practice among street criminal men (re-) turning to Islam within and beyond Norwegian prisons1
Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics1
‘The Great Heroes’ Day is much holier for us than religion’. The commemoration of martyrs in post-war Tamil communities1
Hegemonic masculinities and sexual abuse: two case studies1
The ‘early medieval’ origins of India1
God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music1
Navigating queerness and religion in India: a phenomenological queer ethnography1
The Science of Satyug: Class, Charisma, and Vedic Revivalism in the All World Gayatri Pariwar1
Underneath the peace: Shaolin monks’ views on the relationship between Buddhism and science1
Digital religion: the basics1
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
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice1
The translation of the bible into Chinese: the origin and unique authority of the union version1
Hijacked: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion1
Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Towards an Anthropocentric Study of Religion Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Towards an Anthropocentric Study of Religion , by Willi Brau1
Imagining the human: applying the philosophy of religious studies to Jonathan Z. Smith1
Modern Hadith Studies: Continued Debates and New Approaches Modern Hadith Studies: Continued Debates and New Approaches , edited by Belal Abu-Alabbas, Michael Dann and C1
Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism , by Baird Tipson, New York, Oxford University Press,1
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity1
British Buddhism, secular mindfulness, and the politics of sustainability1
The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India1
The Mechanical Turk : a human-centered approach to the transcendence narrative of artificial intelligence1
The effect of family religious socialization on adult religiosity in the context of secular transition in five Western countries1
A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion: ‘Why God Thinks Like You’1
Undoing religion, redoing gender: sexual stories of religious exit1
Making Mongol History: Rashid al-Din and the Jami‘ al-Tawarikh1
Total devotion in the ancient world: emotions and narrative in radical religion1
Democracy and Morality Religious and Secular Views1
Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea1
The power of the Nāth Yogīs: yogic charisma, political influence and social authority1
Personal development and religion in the workplace in Slovakia: from life meaning to religious selves0
Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization0
Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society Became More Secular0
Marriage, leadership, and dynasties in Hasidism: big data approach0
Pagan revival, re-enchantment, and new forms of rituality in Hungary: the case of the Kurultaj festival0
In Praise of the Few: Studies in Shiʿi Thought and History0
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
Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge0
Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra0
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe0
Secular, religious or spiritual? A sociological portrait of UK mindfulness teachers0
Cultural theology and social robotics: the intersection of religion and science in ethical AI0
Religious literacy and its discontents: a critical review0
The Netherworld in Ancient Egypt and China: An Imagined Paradise0
Humanist marriage ceremonies in Poland: re-enchantment and four social constructions of the sacred0
When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends , by Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California Press, Berkel0
Kamakura Buddhism as Japanese reformation: Hara Katsurō’s modern historiographical project0
The Shariatisation of Indonesia: The Politics of the Council of Indonesian Ulama (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, MUI)0
Religion: reviewers 2019–20210
The Oxford Handbook Qur’anic Studies0
Politicizing Islam in Central Asia: From the Russian Revolution to the Afghan and Syrian Jihads0
‘May our hearts rise up in prayer’: responses of Russian-speaking immigrant Israeli reform congregations to the Russo-Ukrainian war0
The Church of Stop Shopping and Religious Activism: Combatting Consumerism and Climate Change through Performance0
Anything is possible: Word of Life and utopian thinking during the revolutionary processes in Estonia, 1987–19910
The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma0
Buddhism in Five Minutes0
Voices of the Ritual: Devotion to Female Saints and Shrines in the Holy Land0
A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine , by C. Pierce Salguero, Columbia University Press, New York, 2022, vii + 244, US$1400
Prophets of Love: The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul0
Handbook of Leaving Religion0
The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India0
Forging ‘worldview’ in modern culture wars: the global history of a religious-secular concept0
Exploring Hindu Philosophy0
The Oxford handbook of the Latin bible0
The Biography of a God: Mahasu in the Himalayas0
Merleau-Ponty's phenomenal body and the study of religion0
Religious studies approaches to the intersection of artificial intelligence and religion: formations analogous to religion0
Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet0
Myth Theorized0
Interpreting Child Sacrifice Narratives: Horror and Redemption0
Correction0
Misa, Lefa, Puang: ritual, piety, and performance in opening the ocean season in a Southeast Asian marine hunting community0
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
Certainty, complicity, complexity: approaching sexual abuse0
Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists are Waging War Against the United States0
Those For Whom the Lamp Shines: The Making of Egyptian Ethnic Identity in Late Antiquity0
Harichand-Guruchand Thakur: the emerging icons of Dalit politics in West Bengal0
The religious roots of AI and the rise of neo-feudalism0
Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire0
Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End0
The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism0
Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life0
Undisciplining the study of religion: critical posthumanities and more-than-human ways of knowing0
Priests on the prowl: monster talk within the discourse of clergy sexual abuse0
Islam in North America: An Introduction0
In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions0
Experimenting with Religion: The New Science of Belief0
Women missionaries, Chinese girls, and Protestant empire-building: The Salvation Army’s social and evangelical work in 1930s colonial Hong Kong0
Imagined utopias: Brasília and the Valley of the Dawn0
Discerning Buddhas: Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism0
Aleksander Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism0
The making of the modern Muslim state: Islam and governance in the Middle East and North Africa0
The Embodied God: Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Church0
Documenting the History of Religions in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1950–1970): Letters, Reports, and Requests across the Iron Curtain0
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism0
Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins, and Extremism0
The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland0
Ecological aesthesis: figurations of the animal spirit in contemporary science, philosophy and literature0
Religious media settlers in times of deep mediatization0
Early Buddhist Society: The World of Gautama Buddha0
The Religion & Sexual Abuse Project (R&SAP): an introduction0
Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst0
The Notion of Solitude in Pali Buddhist Literature: Finding a Space in the Crowd0
The names of the leader: the political deification of prabhakaran0
Digital Jesus: an inquiry in artificial intelligence0
Back to the future? The place of the religious ‘other’ in Ismail Gasprinsky’s Islamic utopia0
Pilgrimages to the sylvan church: Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Poland searching for home0
The Holy Spirit and the Eagle Feather: The Struggle for Indigenous Pentecostalism in Canada0
Between religion and politics: the political deification of Mahishasur0
A processual perspective on utopia as a lived social project: the case of a Ghanaian ‘Christian Town’0
Kyoto's Gion festival: a longue-durée history of patronage, piety, and play0
The Jesuit Modus Procedendi in heroic drama: a critical study of the Chaocungus Tragoedia0
The Political Theology of International Order0
Jagged edges: exploring Muslim efforts against sexual violence0
Christians in the City of Shanghai: A History Resurrected Above the Sea0
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria0
Close the door and change the world: the formation and transformation of a rabbinic leadership model across two centuries0
Neither ‘underpinning’ nor ‘overarching’: explicating a critically reciprocal philosophy of religious studies0
Menace and perseverance at the dargah of Sofala: the transnational afterlife of a Mozambican saint’s tomb0
Alternative interpretations of manifold texts: the case of Mircea Eliade’s political writings0
Sociology of Religion: Overview and Analysis of Contemporary Religion0
The Baha’i Faith in India: A Developmental Stage Approach0
Who owns religion? Scholars, Sikhs and the public sphere0
Flourishing bodies: spiritual entanglements and psychobiological imperatives0
Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra0
Philosophy, religion, and ‘studies': scholarship as a spiritual exercise in Chinese thought0
Islam A New History from Muhammad to the Present0
A ‘secret’ heritage in Chattogram? The tensions between Sufism and reformist Islam in Southern Bangladesh0
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion0
Archaeological intimacy and heritage publics: domesticating Buddhism in Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh0
Hindu festivals in small town India: patronage, play, piety0
Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest0
Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil0
The Western Epistemic Tradition and the Scientific Study of Religion0
‘The YouTube gods will bless you’: seeking algorithmic salvation in the YouTube prosperity gospel0
Vivir la fe: entre el catolicismo y el pentecostalismo, la religiosidad de los sectores populares en la Argentina0
Muslim Qurʾanic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities0
Training for total devotion: emotionality and narrativity in Deuteronomy0
Do you practice the critical study of religion?0
Periodizing Secularization: Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945 Periodizing Secularization: Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945 0
A technology of re-enchantment: reading, referencing, and redistributing Orthodox ‘spiritual literature’ in post-Yugoslav Serbia0
The pillar saint seen as a totally devoted emperor: the in-group around Symeon Stylites the elder0
The ambiguous role of materiality in transitions to Orthodox Christianity in contemporary Finland0
Acute religious experiences: madness, psychosis and religious studies0
Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale0
Religion, Secularism, & Political Belonging0
‘Islamic humanism’: another form of universalism in contemporary Sufism0
Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology , edited by Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shep0
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa , by Noah Tamarkin, Duke University Press, Durh0
The Oxford Handbook of Confucianism0
Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World0
Voracious secularism: emotional habitus and the desire for knowledge in animal experimentation0
Ecumenism and independency in world christianity: historical studies in honour of Brian Stanley0
Imagined futures beyond the Religion & Sexual Abuse Project (R&SAP)0
Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks0
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music0
Readers of the ‘Lost’ Purana: mythopolitics and Suthar caste identity in Gujarat0
Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America0
Across the Worlds of Islam: Muslim Identities, Beliefs, and Practices from Asia to America0
‘The forest is my church’: Christianity, secularisation and love of nature in a northern European existential field0
Geographies of transimperial religion: the transformation of religious space in a world of empires0
Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks – And What It Can Teach Us Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks – And What It Can Teach Us0
Religion in changing times: an overview of the journal in its comparative scholarly and publishing contexts0
What can utopia do for us?0
The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism0
Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment0
Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion0
Ordinary things: classifying Nahua religion in colonial Mexico0
The Buddha: Life and Afterlife between East and West0
Mission, Race, and Empire: The Episcopal Church in Global Context0
Journeys Toward Gender Equality In Islam0
Mirabai: The Making of a Saint0
Animal spirit: other bodies in relation0
Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India0
Daoism in Modern China: Clerics and Temples in Urban Transformations, 1860-Present0
Defending Muhammad in Modernity0
Why Baby Boomers Turned From Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945-20210
Vernacular utopia0
Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism0
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion0
God Gave Rock & Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music0
Tradition: A Critical Primer0
Vote of Faith: Democracy, Desire, and the Turbulent Lives of Priest Politicians0
Enacting religious submission: between doing religion and being done by religion0
I don’t chase, I attract: TikTok, new thought, and the algorithms of divination0
How the Qur'ān Works: Reading Sacred Narrative0
Frictions, entanglements and reconfigurations: religion and heritage in global South Asia0
An investigation into para-scientific imageries and esoteric nationalism around the cult of the Holy Crown of Hungary0
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