OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Religion is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood	13
Conceptualizing utopias: Tibetan perceptions	11
The Politics of Ritual	8
The making of American Catholicism: regional culture and the Catholic experience	8
Melchizedek, King of Sodom: How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King	6
Islam, Liberalism, and Ontology: A Critical Re-Evaluation	6
Between local culture, leisure activity, and nonreligion – the individual constructions of religion by adolescents in rural Austria	5
Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness: Black Jews in France	5
Defending life: environmental crisis and Catholicism in Western Kenya	5
Moved to distraction: the ritual theatre of the Fire Festival in Southwest China	5
A Cultural History of Genocide, 6 volumes	5
Religious beliefs and social practices	5
The importance and limitations of ‘Choice’ in child-rearing practices for non-believing older adults	5
Projectification of religion: an analytical framework	4
Weird Confucius: Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History	4
Utopias for Boomers: religion, psychology, and sovereignty in the long sixties	4
The greater India experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast	4
Faithful atheists: the paradox of Jewish nonbelievers in Israel	4
Urban religion beyond the city: theory and practice of a specific constellation of religious geography-making	4
The Bloomsbury handbook of Muslims and popular culture	4
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic	4
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 Unive	4
White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals	3
‘If Baba calls you, no one can stop you’: affective storytelling and the resacralization of heritage in Golconda Fort	3
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 הקבלי	3
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds	3
Severing ties: ritual objects and the category of religion in Hmong American families	3
In the name of heritage: the quiet encroachment of Hindutva in Janakpurdham, Nepal	3
Utopia, theodicy, and ritual: East Asian perspectives	3
Understanding ‘Sectarianism’ Sunni-Shi’a Relations in the Modern Arab World	3
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism	3
The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination	2
Islam and Democracy in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh	2
The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe	2
Futures of an unknown world: utopian and dystopian visions of religion in Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series	2
I-Thou-Nymph: a relational approach to ancient Greek religious devotion	2
The transitional objects of January 6	2
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity	2
The unintended consequences of state-enforced religion: ‘blasphemous’ metal music as secondary deviation in Iran	2
The doctrine of the sky-blue one in Myanmar: disenchanted Buddhism	2
Mary, founder of Christianity	2
Oaths and Vows: Words as Genesis	2
A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion: ‘Why God Thinks Like You’	2
Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction	2
From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus’ Understanding of Embodied Practices	2
Whaling on stage: a comparison of contemporary Japanese whale festivals	2
Emplotting total devotion: secrecy, fame, and imitation in late antique Lives of Christian ascetics	2
Between preserving Pakistani ‘traditions’ and creative adaptation Barelvi brotherhood and heritagisation of Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas mausoleum in Guangzhou	2
A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life	2
A subjective response to ‘transitional phenomena’ and case study of chinoiseries in “Afro-Cuban” religions	2
Slaves of God/Christ: narrated total devotion in the apocryphalActs of Peter	2
The church and the temple: Catholic Sinhalese and heritage crossings in Sicily (Southern Italy)	2
Decolonizing utopias	2
British Buddhism, secular mindfulness, and the politics of sustainability	1
The translation of the bible into Chinese: the origin and unique authority of the union version	1
The Science of Satyug: Class, Charisma, and Vedic Revivalism in the All World Gayatri Pariwar	1
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity	1
God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music	1
Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Towards an Anthropocentric Study of Religion Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Towards an Anthropocentric Study of Religion , by Willi Brau	1
Total devotion in the ancient world: emotions and narrative in radical religion	1
Hegemonic masculinities and sexual abuse: two case studies	1
The ‘early medieval’ origins of India	1
Desistance rituals: ritual practice among street criminal men (re-) turning to Islam within and beyond Norwegian prisons	1
The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India	1
Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania	1
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 t	1
The Mechanical Turk : a human-centered approach to the transcendence narrative of artificial intelligence	1
Undoing religion, redoing gender: sexual stories of religious exit	1
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria	1
Modern Hadith Studies: Continued Debates and New Approaches Modern Hadith Studies: Continued Debates and New Approaches , edited by Belal Abu-Alabbas, Michael Dann and C	1
Journeys Toward Gender Equality In Islam	1
The Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheries of East Africa: Their Quest for a New Socio-religious Identity (1860–1960)	1
Imagining the human: applying the philosophy of religious studies to Jonathan Z. Smith	1
Jerusalem: History of a Global City	1

Religion and utopia: a critical overview of the field	1
Digital religion: the basics	1
The effect of family religious socialization on adult religiosity in the context of secular transition in five Western countries	1
Islamic Modernities in World Society: The Rise, Spread, and Fragmentation of a Hegemonic Idea	1
The power of the Nāth Yogīs: yogic charisma, political influence and social authority	1
Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics	1
‘The Great Heroes’ Day is much holier for us than religion’. The commemoration of martyrs in post-war Tamil communities	1
Democracy and Morality Religious and Secular Views	1
Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea	1
Navigating queerness and religion in India: a phenomenological queer ethnography	1
Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism , by Baird Tipson, New York, Oxford University Press,	1
Underneath the peace: Shaolin monks’ views on the relationship between Buddhism and science	1