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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editor’s Note	14
Colonial Modernity and Diffusion of Power: Identity and Community Formation among Mappilas of Malabar	14
Esoteric Practices in a Reflexive and Critical Perspective	9
The Postsecular – Jürgen Habermas, the Intellectual Dark Web, and Alexandr Dugin as (In)Voluntary Participants in a Global Dispositif	6
“The Field, at the Moment, Is Up for Redefinition”: Twenty Five Years of Manufacturing Religion	6
The Yoga Studies Dispositif	5
Global Religious History as a Rhizome: Colonial Panics and Political Islam in German East Africa	4
How Do We Tell the Story of Medieval Copts? Inspirations from Burton Mack	4
Esotericism and Religious Studies: Historical Relationships and Contemporary Challenges	4
Discourses on Research Freedom in the Academic Study of Religion. An Overview	4
Performative Animism	4
In Search of Rules for a Critical Study of Religion	3
Pondering the Legacy of Geo Widengren: Isolated Genius, or Uncritical Supporter of a Band of Brothers?	3
American Christian Nationalism and the Meaning of “Religion”	3
Power and the Reproduction of History: Twentieth-Century Histories of Abortion in the Ancient Mediterranean World	2
Curators of Global Buddhism: A Critical Genealogy and Decolonial Reading of Contemporary Curatorial Practices in Buddhist Studies	2
Critical Religion and the Sociology of Religion	1
Global Religious History	1
Branding Salafism: Salafi Missionaries as Social Media Influencers	1
“Reconstructing the Study of Religion”: Entering the Conversation from a Different Corner of the Academic World	1
An Indigenous Jesus: Methodological and Theoretical Intersections in the Comparative Study of Religion	1
Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities	1
“Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain”: A Critique of the Rational Choice Approach to Religion	1
Transcendence: A Defensible and Fruitful Concept for Religious Studies	1
The Realist Discursive Study of Religion	1

The Typological Phenomenology of Religion – Resurrected: Managing a Legacy from Geo Widengren	1
Front matter	1
Back matter	1
What’s Alternative about Alternative Rationality in CAS-E’s Definition of ‘Esotericism’?	1
Introduction to “On Whose Terms?”	1
Speculative Realism and Religion: Irreduction, Objects, Forms, and Intensities	1
Metamodernism: A Multispecies Approach to Hermeneutics	1
The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion	1
On the Orientalism of Dana Logan’s Awkward Rituals	1
Debating Critical Religion: A Response to Timothy Fitzgerald	1
Learning from the Past	0
Sex, Magic, & Rockets or the Implications of the Babalon Working for Theories of Belief and Rationality	0
The Case for Studying Non-Muslim Islams	0
Esoteric Practices: of Secrecy, Resilience and Politics	0
A Contextual Genealogical Approach to Study the Religious	0
Worldview Literacy as Educational Praxis	0
Scholarly Values, Methods, and Evidence in the Academic Study of Religion	0
Metamodernism: A Response About Magic	0
Awkward History, Awkward Theory	0
On Redescribing Christian Origins	0
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
Religious Literacy as Religion Literacy: A Response from the UK	0
Beyond Boundaries: Scholarly Categories and the Apocryphal Mary in Text, Pictorial Art, and Iconography	0
The Role of Religious Experiences and Religious Institutions: Comparing Peter L. Berger’s and Hans Joas’ Approach to Religion	0
Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective	0
Hearing Hindu Stories	0
Absolutely Disruptive: An Introduction to Josephson Storm’s Metamodernism Book Review Symposium	0
Back matter	0
“So Many Mothers, So Little Love”: Discourse of Motherly Love and Parental Governance in 2019 Hong Kong Protests	0
The Awkwardness of American Exceptionalism	0
‘Religious Literacy’: Some Considerations and Reservations	0
Rajnarayan Basu and His “Science of Religion”: The Emergence of Religious Studies through Exchanges between Bengali and Christian Reformers, Orientalists, and Theosophists	0
Voluntary Costly Signals in Religious Communities: A Political Interpretation	0
A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions?	0
Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an “All-Round Historian of Religion”	0
Introduction: Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective	0
Editor’s Note	0
A Response to Wolfart’s “Religious Literacy”: Some Considerations and Reservations	0
Religionizing Christianity: Towards a Poststructuralist Notion of Global Religious History	0
Method and Methodology in the Study of Religion: Making Sense of the Diversity	0
The Approach of the Fiqh Council of North America towards Identity Problems of Contemporary Muslim Minorities	0
Antisemitic Charisma: A Critique of Max Weber’s Interpretations of Paul, Jews, and Charisma and Their Enduring Legacy in Religious Studies	0
The “Constitutive Relevance of Models” (CRoM) Test	0
“Then He Stabbed Me with a Spear”: Aggressive Sacred Images and Interreligious Polemics	0
Global Religious History in Theory and Practice	0
Survivals: The Stakes of Religious Literacy	0
Response to Symposium on Awkward Rituals	0
Islam Is Not a “Religion” – Global Religious History and Early Twentieth-Century Debates in British Malaya	0
Negotiating Identity and Power during a Crisis: An Analysis of ‘Small Stories’ Told by Australian Christian Priests during the COVID-19 Health Crisis	0
Imagining NAASR: Pasts and Futures	0

Afterword – Global Esotericism	0
How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Religious Literacy’?: Thinking with Wolfart’s ‘Religious Literacy’ Reservations	0
Paying the Piper: History, Humanities, and the Scientific Study of Religion	0
Here, There & Everywhere	0
Theorizing Awkwardness, with Style, in the Study of Religion: A Forum on Dana W. Logan’s Awkward Rituals (2022)	0
Studying ‘Religion’ Critically and the Decolonial Turn: Lessons for Critical Terrorism Studies	0
He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune: Big Data, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Demise of the Historical Study of Religions	0
“What the One Thing Shows Me in the Case of Two Things”: Comparison as Essential to a Proper Academic Study of Religion	0
Redescribing, But Really, Finally Moving on From Israelite Origins	0
Our Incomplete Reckoning with the Study of Religion’s Past	0
Meeting Moses Mendelssohn at the Mikveh: an Ethnodrashy	0
Editorial	0
Attached Critique: Paranoid and Reparative Studies of Religion	0
The Discursive Study of Religion, Critical Realism, and the Social Reality of “Religion”	0
Emotion and Islamic Hagiology: A Post-taxonomic Approach	0
Tradition as Body	0
What’s the Matter with You, Rock?!: What the Study of Daoism Can Say about Religious Images	0
‘Belief’ and Anthropology, in Use and in Theory	0
Front matter	0
We Have Never Been Modern (Enough)	0
Critical Humanism and the Study of Religion: A Statement and Defense	0
“What is critical religion?” A Response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn, “Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules?”	0
Queer(y)ing How We See	0
Understanding Chinese Governance by Critiquing ‘Religion’	0
Recent Research in Syriac Studies and the Recurring Question of Identity	0
Front matter	0
Identity Turn: Managing Decolonialization and Identity Politics in the Study of Religion	0
Cringing at Benevolence	0
Front matter	0
Cognitive Artifacts in the Evolution of Cultural Systems of Beliefs and Practices	0
Burton Mack’s Challenge to the Study of Religion	0
The Way Is Dark, the Truth Is in the Cave	0
Missionary Methodology and the Making of Aztec Human Sacrifice: Decolonizing a Concept	0
Capital-T-truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies	0
Ars Botanica: Art, Science, and Comparison in Religious Studies	0
Breaking the Postmodern Deadlock: Metamodernism’s Methodological Revolution	0
Critical Religion Takes a Punch: Notes on a Scholarly Skirmish	0
The Eclipse of Morality: A Riposte to Lane, Wildman, & Shults’ “Paying the Piper” Commentary	0
African Witchcraft and Religion among the Yoruba: Translation as Demarcation Practice within a Global Religious History	0
Speaking Theory to Power	0
Alternative Lenses for Qualitative Religion Research: Interstitial, Inverted, and Dialogical Approaches	0
“‘Cause Even Though Perfect It’s Not/ It’s the Best Thing This World’s Got” – or Not?	0
Reflections on Wolfart, Challenges to Religious Literacy, and Course Design	0
Religious Studies in the Garden of Academic Delights	0
Back matter	0
Reading Texts as Bodies: Object Agency in the Age of Human Empowerment	0
The Realism of Discourse: Critical Reflections on the Work of Kevin Schilbrack	0