Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

Papers
(The median citation count of Method & Theory in the Study 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editor’s Note12
Colonial Modernity and Diffusion of Power: Identity and Community Formation among Mappilas of Malabar9
Esoteric Practices in a Reflexive and Critical Perspective6
“The Field, at the Moment, Is Up for Redefinition”: Twenty Five Years of Manufacturing Religion4
Using the Emic–Etic Distinction to Understand the Medieval Christian Interpretations of Slavic Pagan Religion4
How Do We Tell the Story of Medieval Copts? Inspirations from Burton Mack4
Esotericism and Religious Studies: Historical Relationships and Contemporary Challenges3
Performative Animism3
Discourses on Research Freedom in the Academic Study of Religion. An Overview2
Putting the Persian Back in “Magic”: Problems with Ignoring Ancient Ethnographic Discourses2
Power and the Reproduction of History: Twentieth-Century Histories of Abortion in the Ancient Mediterranean World1
American Christian Nationalism and the Meaning of “Religion”1
Pondering the Legacy of Geo Widengren: Isolated Genius, or Uncritical Supporter of a Band of Brothers?1
The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion1
The Typological Phenomenology of Religion – Resurrected: Managing a Legacy from Geo Widengren1
Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities1
Neo-Perennialism and Mystical Exceptionalism1
In Search of Rules for a Critical Study of Religion1
On the Orientalism of Dana Logan’s Awkward Rituals1
“Reconstructing the Study of Religion”: Entering the Conversation from a Different Corner of the Academic World1
Debating Critical Religion: A Response to Timothy Fitzgerald1
Entropy as Metaphysical Perplexity in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Sufi Thought1
Curators of Global Buddhism: A Critical Genealogy and Decolonial Reading of Contemporary Curatorial Practices in Buddhist Studies1
Back matter1
What’s Alternative about Alternative Rationality in CAS-E’s Definition of ‘Esotericism’?1
Front matter1
Critical Religion and the Sociology of Religion1
Meeting Moses Mendelssohn at the Mikveh: an Ethnodrashy0
Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective0
Hearing Hindu Stories0
The Approach of the Fiqh Council of North America towards Identity Problems of Contemporary Muslim Minorities0
Back matter0
“So Many Mothers, So Little Love”: Discourse of Motherly Love and Parental Governance in 2019 Hong Kong Protests0
Back matter0
“‘Cause Even Though Perfect It’s Not/ It’s the Best Thing This World’s Got” – or Not?0
Burton Mack’s Challenge to the Study of Religion0
Imagining NAASR: Pasts and Futures0
Religious Studies in the Garden of Academic Delights0
Introduction: Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective0
Introduction to “On Whose Terms?”0
“Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain”: A Critique of the Rational Choice Approach to Religion0
Scholarly Values, Methods, and Evidence in the Academic Study of Religion0
Reading Texts as Bodies: Object Agency in the Age of Human Empowerment0
Negotiating Identity and Power during a Crisis: An Analysis of ‘Small Stories’ Told by Australian Christian Priests during the COVID-19 Health Crisis0
Method and Methodology in the Study of Religion: Making Sense of the Diversity0
“Then He Stabbed Me with a Spear”: Aggressive Sacred Images and Interreligious Polemics0
Front matter0
The “Constitutive Relevance of Models” (CRoM) Test0
Reflections on Wolfart, Challenges to Religious Literacy, and Course Design0
“What is critical religion?” A Response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn, “Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules?”0
Worldview Literacy as Educational Praxis0
“What the One Thing Shows Me in the Case of Two Things”: Comparison as Essential to a Proper Academic Study of Religion0
Tradition as Body0
Cringing at Benevolence0
Metamodernism: A Response About Magic0
Paying the Piper: History, Humanities, and the Scientific Study of Religion0
Afterword – Global Esotericism0
Attached Critique: Paranoid and Reparative Studies of Religion0
Studying ‘Religion’ Critically and the Decolonial Turn: Lessons for Critical Terrorism Studies0
Capital-T-truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies0
Emotion and Islamic Hagiology: A Post-taxonomic Approach0
Redescribing, But Really, Finally Moving on From Israelite Origins0
Our Incomplete Reckoning with the Study of Religion’s Past0
Critical Humanism and the Study of Religion: A Statement and Defense0
Editorial0
Critical Religion Takes a Punch: Notes on a Scholarly Skirmish0
How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Religious Literacy’?: Thinking with Wolfart’s ‘Religious Literacy’ Reservations0
The Discursive Study of Religion, Critical Realism, and the Social Reality of “Religion”0
The Realist Discursive Study of Religion0
Metamodernism: A Multispecies Approach to Hermeneutics0
A Response to Wolfart’s “Religious Literacy”: Some Considerations and Reservations0
Recent Research in Syriac Studies and the Recurring Question of Identity0
‘Belief’ and Anthropology, in Use and in Theory0
Awkward History, Awkward Theory0
A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions?0
Identity Turn: Managing Decolonialization and Identity Politics in the Study of Religion0
Religious Literacy as Religion Literacy: A Response from the UK0
The Realism of Discourse: Critical Reflections on the Work of Kevin Schilbrack0
Ars Botanica: Art, Science, and Comparison in Religious Studies0
Antisemitic Charisma: A Critique of Max Weber’s Interpretations of Paul, Jews, and Charisma and Their Enduring Legacy in Religious Studies0
Queer(y)ing How We See0
The Eclipse of Morality: A Riposte to Lane, Wildman, & Shults’ “Paying the Piper” Commentary0
Cognitive Artifacts in the Evolution of Cultural Systems of Beliefs and Practices0
Here, There & Everywhere0
Voluntary Costly Signals in Religious Communities: A Political Interpretation0
Missionary Methodology and the Making of Aztec Human Sacrifice: Decolonizing a Concept0
Survivals: The Stakes of Religious Literacy0
Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an “All-Round Historian of Religion”0
Breaking the Postmodern Deadlock: Metamodernism’s Methodological Revolution0
He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune: Big Data, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Demise of the Historical Study of Religions0
Editor’s Note0
‘Religious Literacy’: Some Considerations and Reservations0
Speaking Theory to Power0
Alternative Lenses for Qualitative Religion Research: Interstitial, Inverted, and Dialogical Approaches0
Learning from the Past0
The Wildness of (Racialized) Experimentation0
Speculative Realism and Religion: Irreduction, Objects, Forms, and Intensities0
The Way Is Dark, the Truth Is in the Cave0
Understanding Chinese Governance by Critiquing ‘Religion’0
Transcendence: A Defensible and Fruitful Concept for Religious Studies0
We Have Never Been Modern (Enough)0
Response to Symposium on Awkward Rituals0
Sex, Magic, & Rockets or the Implications of the Babalon Working for Theories of Belief and Rationality0
Theorizing Awkwardness, with Style, in the Study of Religion: A Forum on Dana W. Logan’s Awkward Rituals (2022)0
Back matter0
The Case for Studying Non-Muslim Islams0
Esoteric Practices: of Secrecy, Resilience and Politics0
On Redescribing Christian Origins0
Front matter0
The Awkwardness of American Exceptionalism0
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Beyond Boundaries: Scholarly Categories and the Apocryphal Mary in Text, Pictorial Art, and Iconography0
Absolutely Disruptive: An Introduction to Josephson Storm’s Metamodernism Book Review Symposium0
What’s the Matter with You, Rock?!: What the Study of Daoism Can Say about Religious Images0
Concepts of ‘Law’ as Both Tools and Objects in the Study of Religions: A Case from 1950s Ghana – or When may a Christian Slaughter a Sheep?0
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