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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Global Religious History	9
Cognitive Science of Religion and the Study of Islam: Rethinking Islamic Theology, Law, Education, and Mysticism Using the Works of al-Ghazālī	8
The New Animism and Its Challenges to the Study of Religion	7
Comparative Secularities: Tracing Social and Epistemic Structures beyond the Modern West	6
The Yoga Studies Dispositif	5
Branding Salafism: Salafi Missionaries as Social Media Influencers	5
Entheogenic Experience and Spirituality	4
I Want to Become an Orientalist Not a Colonizer or a “De-Colonizer”	3
Rajnarayan Basu and His “Science of Religion”: The Emergence of Religious Studies through Exchanges between Bengali and Christian Reformers, Orientalists, and Theosophists	3
African Witchcraft and Religion among the Yoruba: Translation as Demarcation Practice within a Global Religious History	3
He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune: Big Data, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Demise of the Historical Study of Religions	3
“So Many Mothers, So Little Love”: Discourse of Motherly Love and Parental Governance in 2019 Hong Kong Protests	2
Global Religious History in Theory and Practice	2
“Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain”: A Critique of the Rational Choice Approach to Religion	2
Studying the Qurʾan in the Context of Indonesian Islamic Higher Education	2
The Religious Predisposition	2
Islam Is Not a “Religion” – Global Religious History and Early Twentieth-Century Debates in British Malaya	2
Reversing the Gaze? Or Decolonizing the Study of the Qurʾan	2
Religion, Politics, History, and Culture	1
‘Religious Literacy’: Some Considerations and Reservations	1
The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion	1
Paying the Piper: History, Humanities, and the Scientific Study of Religion	1
What’s in a (Change of) Name? Much—but Not That Much—and Not What Wiebe Claims	1
A Critical Examination of Pascal Boyer’s Religion Explained The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought	1
A Report on the Special Executive Committee Meeting of the International Association for the History of Religions in Delphi	1

A Response to Stephen L. Young, “Let’s Take the Text Seriously”: the Protectionist Doxa in Mainstream New Testament Studies	1
The Primary History as Museum Exhibit: Rethinking the Recovery of the Hebrew Bible’s Artifacts	1
A Contextual Genealogical Approach to Study the Religious	1
The Approach of the Fiqh Council of North America towards Identity Problems of Contemporary Muslim Minorities	1
Pondering the Legacy of Geo Widengren: Isolated Genius, or Uncritical Supporter of a Band of Brothers?	0
Speculative Realism and Religion: Irreduction, Objects, Forms, and Intensities	0
On Redescribing Christian Origins	0
Studying Islam in Western and Non-Western Contexts	0
Learning from the Past	0
Hearing Hindu Stories	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
Missionary Methodology and the Making of Aztec Human Sacrifice: Decolonizing a Concept	0
Religious Rituals as Civil hexis	0
How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Religious Literacy’?: Thinking with Wolfart’s ‘Religious Literacy’ Reservations	0
Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an “All-Round Historian of Religion”	0
Awkward History, Awkward Theory	0
Discourses on Research Freedom in the Academic Study of Religion. An Overview	0
Revolutionizing the Human Sciences: A Response to Wiebe	0
Editor’s Note	0
‘Belief’ and Anthropology, in Use and in Theory	0
“Then He Stabbed Me with a Spear”: Aggressive Sacred Images and Interreligious Polemics	0
Constructing Spirituality in the Cognitive Science of Religion	0
Breaking the Spell: Reconsidering Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Atheism	0
The Comparative Method in the Study of Religion and Race: a Reflection on Lincoln and Freiberger	0
By Way of Response	0
Power and the Reproduction of History: Twentieth-Century Histories of Abortion in the Ancient Mediterranean World	0
A Modest Reply to Timothy Fitzgerald	0
Debating Critical Religion: A Response to Timothy Fitzgerald	0
Survivals: The Stakes of Religious Literacy	0
“What is critical religion?” A Response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn, “Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules?”	0
“The Main Parts Are Made in Europe”: Apologetic/Critical Dichotomy and the Untold Story of Qur’anic Studies in the Iranian Academy	0
Distinguishing Our Object of Study: “Religious” but not “Religion”	0
An Indigenous Jesus: Methodological and Theoretical Intersections in the Comparative Study of Religion	0
The Eclipse of Morality: A Riposte to Lane, Wildman, & Shults’ “Paying the Piper” Commentary	0
The Realism of Discourse: Critical Reflections on the Work of Kevin Schilbrack	0
Comparison Considered: Some Methodological Responses	0
The Case for Studying Non-Muslim Islams	0
Metamodernism: A Multispecies Approach to Hermeneutics	0
Burton Mack’s Challenge to the Study of Religion	0
Chastening and Disciplining Comparison: Bruce Lincoln and Oliver Freiberger on the Comparative Method in the Study of Religion	0
A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions?	0
The Postsecular – Jürgen Habermas, the Intellectual Dark Web, and Alexandr Dugin as (In)Voluntary Participants in a Global Dispositif	0
The “Constitutive Relevance of Models” (CRoM) Test	0
Metamodernism: A Response About Magic	0
Front matter	0
Worldview Literacy as Educational Praxis	0
Back matter	0
On the Orientalism of Dana Logan’s Awkward Rituals	0
Response to Symposium on Awkward Rituals	0

Transcendence: A Defensible and Fruitful Concept for Religious Studies	0
Religious Studies and the Spiritual Turn	0
Memoirs of an Academic Rōnin: Religious Studies and Mentorship in the Age of Post-Truth	0
Voluntary Costly Signals in Religious Communities: A Political Interpretation	0
Recent Research in Syriac Studies and the Recurring Question of Identity	0
Comparison and the Academic Study of Indigenous Religious Traditions	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
A Response to My Critics	0
You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But You Can’t Make It Drink	0
Alternative Lenses for Qualitative Religion Research: Interstitial, Inverted, and Dialogical Approaches	0
Religious Studies for Cyborgs: Cognitive Science and Social Theory after Humanism	0
The Typological Phenomenology of Religion – Resurrected: Managing a Legacy from Geo Widengren	0
Inevitably Comparative, but Not Inevitably Positive: the Study of Jews and Judaism within the Field of Religious Studies	0
American Christian Nationalism and the Meaning of “Religion”	0
“The Field, at the Moment, Is Up for Redefinition”: Twenty Five Years of Manufacturing Religion	0
Curators of Global Buddhism: A Critical Genealogy and Decolonial Reading of Contemporary Curatorial Practices in Buddhist Studies	0
Religionizing Christianity: Towards a Poststructuralist Notion of Global Religious History	0
“Reconstructing the Study of Religion”: Entering the Conversation from a Different Corner of the Academic World	0
Method and Methodology in the Study of Religion: Making Sense of the Diversity	0
Tradition as Body	0
Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities	0
The Awkwardness of American Exceptionalism	0
Editor’s Note	0
How Do We Tell the Story of Medieval Copts? Inspirations from Burton Mack	0
A Point by Point Response to Donald Wiebe: A Manifesto for the Scientific Study of Religion	0
Back matter	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
Scholarly Values, Methods, and Evidence in the Academic Study of Religion	0
Comparing ‘Religion’ and ‘Nonreligion’: towards a Critique of Modernity	0
Attached Critique: Paranoid and Reparative Studies of Religion	0
Theorizing Awkwardness, with Style, in the Study of Religion: A Forum on Dana W. Logan’s Awkward Rituals (2022)	0
A Response to Wolfart’s “Religious Literacy”: Some Considerations and Reservations	0
“‘Cause Even Though Perfect It’s Not/ It’s the Best Thing This World’s Got” – or Not?	0
Religious Literacy as Religion Literacy: A Response from the UK	0
Cringing at Benevolence	0
Critical Humanism and the Study of Religion: A Statement and Defense	0
Identity Turn: Managing Decolonialization and Identity Politics in the Study of Religion	0
Editor’s Note	0
Front matter	0
Studying the Qurʾan: Neither Here nor There	0
Colonial Modernity and Diffusion of Power: Identity and Community Formation among Mappilas of Malabar	0
The Scientific Study of Religion: A Very Brief Reply to Donald Wiebe	0
Global Religious History as a Rhizome: Colonial Panics and Political Islam in German East Africa	0
Protecting Difference: Protectionist Strategies and the Parting of the Ways	0
The Role of Canon in the Study of Hinduism and Some Notes About Bourdieu: A Response to Stephen L. Young	0
Performative Animism	0
Is There a Difference Between “Religion” and “Politics”?	0
Reflections on Wolfart, Challenges to Religious Literacy, and Course Design	0
Emotion and Islamic Hagiology: A Post-taxonomic Approach	0
We Have Never Been Modern (Enough)	0
Front matter	0
The Role of Religious Experiences and Religious Institutions: Comparing Peter L. Berger’s and Hans Joas’ Approach to Religion	0