Religion

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The making of American Catholicism: regional culture and the Catholic experience14
Conceptualizing utopias: Tibetan perceptions14
The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood10
Melchizedek, King of Sodom: How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King8
A Cultural History of Genocide, 6 volumes7
The importance and limitations of ‘Choice’ in child-rearing practices for non-believing older adults7
Islam, Liberalism, and Ontology: A Critical Re-Evaluation7
Between local culture, leisure activity, and nonreligion – the individual constructions of religion by adolescents in rural Austria6
Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness: Black Jews in France6
Religious beliefs and social practices4
The Politics of Ritual4
Defending life: environmental crisis and Catholicism in Western Kenya4
Moved to distraction: the ritual theatre of the Fire Festival in Southwest China4
Urban religion beyond the city: theory and practice of a specific constellation of religious geography-making4
Listening for/as presence: religious mediation of a Sufi ritual in the time of COVID-194
Emic concepts and etic paths4
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic3
Religious transitions and border making in southeast Brazilian spiritual landscape – the encruzilhada (crossroads) perspective3
Weird Confucius: Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History3
White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals3
Gods in the public sphere: political deification in South Asia3
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 Unive3
Faithful atheists: the paradox of Jewish nonbelievers in Israel3
Understanding ‘Sectarianism’ Sunni-Shi’a Relations in the Modern Arab World3
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
Virtual Immortality: God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism3
Projectification of religion: an analytical framework3
Uncertainty, reconstruction and resistance: young adults’ responses to religious diversity in Spain and the UK3
Utopia, theodicy, and ritual: East Asian perspectives3
Utopias for Boomers: religion, psychology, and sovereignty in the long sixties3
Ritual exegesis among Mauritian Hindus2
The gypsylorist as occultist: anti-gypsy stereotypes and the entanglement of esotericism and scholarship in Charles Godfrey Leland’s work on ‘gypsy magic’2
The doctrine of the sky-blue one in Myanmar: disenchanted Buddhism2
The unintended consequences of state-enforced religion: ‘blasphemous’ metal music as secondary deviation in Iran2
The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe2
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
Mary, founder of Christianity2
Severing ties: ritual objects and the category of religion in Hmong American families2
Political deification of Lord Parshuram: tracing Brahminic masculinity in contemporary North India2
Decolonizing utopias2
Whaling on stage: a comparison of contemporary Japanese whale festivals2
Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic: mediating presence and distance1
From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus’ Understanding of Embodied Practices1
A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life1
I-Thou-Nymph: a relational approach to ancient Greek religious devotion1
Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind: What Mental Abnormalities Can Teach us About Religions1
The Science of Satyug: Class, Charisma, and Vedic Revivalism in the All World Gayatri Pariwar1
God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America1
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
A subjective response to ‘transitional phenomena’ and case study of chinoiseries in “Afro-Cuban” religions1
Slaves of God/Christ: narrated total devotion in the apocryphalActs of Peter1
Islam and Democracy in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh1
Oaths and Vows: Words as Genesis1
Digital religion: the basics1
Hijacked: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion1
Undoing religion, redoing gender: sexual stories of religious exit1
Religion and utopia: a critical overview of the field1
Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana1
The Mechanical Turk : a human-centered approach to the transcendence narrative of artificial intelligence1
Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania1
Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction1
A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion: ‘Why God Thinks Like You’1
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity1
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
Making Mongol History: Rashid al-Din and the Jami‘ al-Tawarikh1
Desistance rituals: ritual practice among street criminal men (re-) turning to Islam within and beyond Norwegian prisons1
Jerusalem: History of a Global City1
British Buddhism, secular mindfulness, and the politics of sustainability1
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity1
The transitional objects of January 61
Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn1
Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature0
God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music0
Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan (Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series)0
Divine order and secular social science in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America0
Interpreting Child Sacrifice Narratives: Horror and Redemption0
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion0
Democracy and Morality Religious and Secular Views0
Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe: Pursuing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands0
Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil0
Women in Buddhist Traditions0
Correction0
Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona0
Muslim Qurʾanic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities0
Buddhism in Five Minutes0
In Praise of the Few: Studies in Shiʿi Thought and History0
Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins, and Extremism0
The Baha’i Faith in India: A Developmental Stage Approach0
Back to the future? The place of the religious ‘other’ in Ismail Gasprinsky’s Islamic utopia0
Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism0
The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India0
A managerial apocalypse: Mormon Missionaries, eschatological anxieties, and covid-190
#IAMHUSSEINI: television and mourning during the COVID-19 pandemic0
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe0
Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra0
Digital Jesus: an inquiry in artificial intelligence0
Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life0
Training for total devotion: emotionality and narrativity in Deuteronomy0
Humanist marriage ceremonies in Poland: re-enchantment and four social constructions of the sacred0
Religionin changing times: an overview of the journal in its comparative scholarly and publishing contexts0
Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe0
Ecological aesthesis: figurations of the animal spirit in contemporary science, philosophy and literature0
The future never dies: a relational approach to secular and religious entanglements of posthuman utopia0
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music0
The pillar saint seen as a totally devoted emperor: the in-group around Symeon Stylites the elder0
The Shariatisation of Indonesia: The Politics of the Council of Indonesian Ulama (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, MUI)0
Situating philosophy of religious studies0
Anything is possible: Word of Life and utopian thinking during the revolutionary processes in Estonia, 1987–19910
The Oxford Handbook Qur’anic Studies0
What can utopia do for us?0
Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge0
Myth Theorized0
Imagined utopias: Brasília and the Valley of the Dawn0
The Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheries of East Africa: Their Quest for a New Socio-religious Identity (1860–1960)0
Personal development and religion in the workplace in Slovakia: from life meaning to religious selves0
The making of the modern Muslim state: Islam and governance in the Middle East and North Africa0
‘The YouTube gods will bless you’: seeking algorithmic salvation in the YouTube prosperity gospel0
Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion0
Hegemonic masculinities and sexual abuse: two case studies0
The Western Epistemic Tradition and the Scientific Study of Religion0
‘The forest is my church’: Christianity, secularisation and love of nature in a northern European existential field0
Ordinary things: classifying Nahua religion in colonial Mexico0
Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology , edited by Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shep0
Voices of the Ritual: Devotion to Female Saints and Shrines in the Holy Land0
Total devotion in the ancient world: emotions and narrative in radical religion0
When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends , by Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California Press, Berkel0
Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam0
Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India0
Handbook of Leaving Religion0
Feeling out alternatives within secularity0
Defending Muhammad in Modernity0
Vernacular utopia0
The Buddha: Life and Afterlife between East and West0
Daoism in Modern China: Clerics and Temples in Urban Transformations, 1860-Present0
In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions0
Colonial sovereignty and the intermittent order of silver things0
One Faith No Longer: The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America0
Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists are Waging War Against the United States0
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
Women missionaries, Chinese girls, and Protestant empire-building: The Salvation Army’s social and evangelical work in 1930s colonial Hong Kong0
Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–12700
To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations0
Merleau-Ponty's phenomenal body and the study of religion0
Challenging the secular0
Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet0
The Qur’an with Christian Commentary: A Guide to Understanding the Scripture of Islam0
Flourishing bodies: spiritual entanglements and psychobiological imperatives0
Islam in North America: An Introduction0
Context and Catholicity in the Science and Religious Debate: Intercultural contributions from French-Speaking Africa0
The ambiguous role of materiality in transitions to Orthodox Christianity in contemporary Finland0
Do you practice the critical study of religion?0
Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism0
Politicizing Islam in Central Asia: From the Russian Revolution to the Afghan and Syrian Jihads0
Marriage, leadership, and dynasties in Hasidism: big data approach0
The Embodied God: Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Church0
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa , by Noah Tamarkin, Duke University Press, Durh0
Prophets of Love: The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul0
How the Qur'ān Works: Reading Sacred Narrative0
Ecumenism and independency in world christianity: historical studies in honour of Brian Stanley0
Religionization and world obfuscation – the display of computers, robots, and big data-based applications in museums0
Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Towards an Anthropocentric Study of Religion Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Towards an Anthropocentric Study of Religion , by Willi Brau0
Do avatars weep? Ritual and sacred space at virtual burning man0
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion0
Handbook of Hinduism in Europe, 2 volumes0
Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst0
‘Re-enchantment’ and religious change in former socialist Europe0
Encounter, mixture, and syncretism from the perspective of the Afro-Brazilian religion Terecô0
Feijoadaas a concept of cultural/religious mixture0
A processual perspective on utopia as a lived social project: the case of a Ghanaian ‘Christian Town’0
Pagan revival, re-enchantment, and new forms of rituality in Hungary: the case of the Kurultaj festival0
Jagged edges: exploring Muslim efforts against sexual violence0
Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea0
Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale0
Religious media settlers in times of deep mediatization0
The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism0
‘Islamic humanism’: another form of universalism in contemporary Sufism0
Mormon Lifestyles: Communicating Religion and Ethics in Documentary Media0
Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism , by Baird Tipson, New York, Oxford University Press,0
The Oxford Handbook of Confucianism0
Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought. Becoming Angels and Demons0
The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma0
Neither ‘underpinning’ nor ‘overarching’: explicating a critically reciprocal philosophy of religious studies0
Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel0
The power of the Nāth Yogīs: yogic charisma, political influence and social authority0
Subversive habits: black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle0
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
Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End0
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity0
Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States0
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
Christians in the City of Shanghai: A History Resurrected Above the Sea0
Religious studies approaches to the intersection of artificial intelligence and religion: formations analogous to religion0
Zemi, teotl, huaca: reconsidering materiality through three emic concepts in the New World0
Certainty, complicity, complexity: approaching sexual abuse0
Priests on the prowl: monster talk within the discourse of clergy sexual abuse0
Cultural theology and social robotics: the intersection of religion and science in ethical AI0
Mirabai: The Making of a Saint0
Undisciplining the study of religion: critical posthumanities and more-than-human ways of knowing0
Mindfulness: Where It Comes From and What It Means0
Alternative interpretations of manifold texts: the case of Mircea Eliade’s political writings0
Why Baby Boomers Turned From Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945-20210
Readers of the ‘Lost’ Purana: mythopolitics and Suthar caste identity in Gujarat0
Acute religious experiences: madness, psychosis and religious studies0
Periodizing Secularization: Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945 Periodizing Secularization: Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945 0
Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World0
The religious roots of AI and the rise of neo-feudalism0
Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra0
Learning to learn in candomblé: notes on paths, knowledge, and the ‘education of distraction’0
I’ll fly away: religious studies within and without the secular condition0
Conceptual dilemmas from a fieldwork in Indonesia: ‘religious’ ‘unity in diversity’ at the Lingsar Temple festival0
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
Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North0
Documenting the History of Religions in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1950–1970): Letters, Reports, and Requests across the Iron Curtain0
Misa, Lefa, Puang: ritual, piety, and performance in opening the ocean season in a Southeast Asian marine hunting community0
Experimenting with Religion: The New Science of Belief0
Bōkā or how one Religion sees another: Islamic discourses on ‘African Traditional Religion’ in West Africa0
The philosophy of religious studies0
Modern Hadith Studies: Continued Debates and New Approaches Modern Hadith Studies: Continued Debates and New Approaches , edited by Belal Abu-Alabbas, Michael Dann and C0
Aleksander Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism0
Religion: reviewers 2019–20210
A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond0
‘May our hearts rise up in prayer’: responses of Russian-speaking immigrant Israeli reform congregations to the Russo-Ukrainian war0
Between religion and politics: the political deification of Mahishasur0
Imagining the human: applying the philosophy of religious studies to Jonathan Z. Smith0
Secular, religious or spiritual? A sociological portrait of UK mindfulness teachers0
The Political Theology of International Order0
Those For Whom the Lamp Shines: The Making of Egyptian Ethnic Identity in Late Antiquity0
The Biography of a God: Mahasu in the Himalayas0
The ‘early medieval’ origins of India0
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism0
The Oxford handbook of the Latin bible0
Voracious secularism: emotional habitus and the desire for knowledge in animal experimentation0
Geographies of transimperial religion: the transformation of religious space in a world of empires0
The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader: Islam Beyond Borders0
Absent dead, and abstract signs for absence: on the semiotic affordance of religion0
Early Buddhist Society: The World of Gautama Buddha0
Animal spirit: other bodies in relation0
Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism0
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