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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Global Religious History	10
Branding Salafism: Salafi Missionaries as Social Media Influencers	8
‘Religious Literacy’: Some Considerations and Reservations	6
The Yoga Studies Dispositif	5
“Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain”: A Critique of the Rational Choice Approach to Religion	4
Reversing the Gaze? Or Decolonizing the Study of the Qurʾan	4
Entheogenic Experience and Spirituality	4
“So Many Mothers, So Little Love”: Discourse of Motherly Love and Parental Governance in 2019 Hong Kong Protests	3
He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune: Big Data, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Demise of the Historical Study of Religions	3
A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions?	3
African Witchcraft and Religion among the Yoruba: Translation as Demarcation Practice within a Global Religious History	3
Rajnarayan Basu and His “Science of Religion”: The Emergence of Religious Studies through Exchanges between Bengali and Christian Reformers, Orientalists, and Theosophists	3
Identity Turn: Managing Decolonialization and Identity Politics in the Study of Religion	3
Global Religious History in Theory and Practice	3
Islam Is Not a “Religion” – Global Religious History and Early Twentieth-Century Debates in British Malaya	2
The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion	1
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?	1
Religionizing Christianity: Towards a Poststructuralist Notion of Global Religious History	1
Religious Studies and the Spiritual Turn	1
“What is critical religion?” A Response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn, “Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules?”	1
The Approach of the Fiqh Council of North America towards Identity Problems of Contemporary Muslim Minorities	1
Paying the Piper: History, Humanities, and the Scientific Study of Religion	1
Alternative Lenses for Qualitative Religion Research: Interstitial, Inverted, and Dialogical Approaches	1
American Christian Nationalism and the Meaning of “Religion”	1
A Contextual Genealogical Approach to Study the Religious	1

Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities	1
Attached Critique: Paranoid and Reparative Studies of Religion	1
Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an “All-Round Historian of Religion”	1
A Response to Wolfart’s “Religious Literacy”: Some Considerations and Reservations	1
Critical Humanism and the Study of Religion: A Statement and Defense	1
“The Field, at the Moment, Is Up for Redefinition”: Twenty Five Years of Manufacturing Religion	1
The Eclipse of Morality: A Riposte to Lane, Wildman, & Shults’ “Paying the Piper” Commentary	0
The Typological Phenomenology of Religion – Resurrected: Managing a Legacy from Geo Widengren	0
The Realist Discursive Study of Religion	0
The Case for Studying Non-Muslim Islams	0
“Reconstructing the Study of Religion”: Entering the Conversation from a Different Corner of the Academic World	0
“What the One Thing Shows Me in the Case of Two Things”: Comparison as Essential to a Proper Academic Study of Religion	0
Debating Critical Religion: A Response to Timothy Fitzgerald	0
Worldview Literacy as Educational Praxis	0
On Redescribing Christian Origins	0
The Realism of Discourse: Critical Reflections on the Work of Kevin Schilbrack	0
Hearing Hindu Stories	0
Reflections on Wolfart, Challenges to Religious Literacy, and Course Design	0
Editorial	0
Speculative Realism and Religion: Irreduction, Objects, Forms, and Intensities	0
Voluntary Costly Signals in Religious Communities: A Political Interpretation	0
Religious Literacy as Religion Literacy: A Response from the UK	0
“Then He Stabbed Me with a Spear”: Aggressive Sacred Images and Interreligious Polemics	0
Awkward History, Awkward Theory	0
Colonial Modernity and Diffusion of Power: Identity and Community Formation among Mappilas of Malabar	0
Front matter	0
Back matter	0
Learning from the Past	0
Power and the Reproduction of History: Twentieth-Century Histories of Abortion in the Ancient Mediterranean World	0
Absolutely Disruptive: An Introduction to Josephson Storm’s Metamodernism Book Review Symposium	0
Metamodernism: A Multispecies Approach to Hermeneutics	0
Speaking Theory to Power	0
Method and Methodology in the Study of Religion: Making Sense of the Diversity	0
Performative Animism	0
We Have Never Been Modern (Enough)	0
Studying ‘Religion’ Critically and the Decolonial Turn: Lessons for Critical Terrorism Studies	0
The “Constitutive Relevance of Models” (CRoM) Test	0
The Role of Religious Experiences and Religious Institutions: Comparing Peter L. Berger’s and Hans Joas’ Approach to Religion	0
Imagining NAASR: Pasts and Futures	0
Burton Mack’s Challenge to the Study of Religion	0
Discourses on Research Freedom in the Academic Study of Religion. An Overview	0
The Postsecular – Jürgen Habermas, the Intellectual Dark Web, and Alexandr Dugin as (In)Voluntary Participants in a Global Dispositif	0
Front matter	0
Missionary Methodology and the Making of Aztec Human Sacrifice: Decolonizing a Concept	0
Critical Religion and the Sociology of Religion	0
‘Belief’ and Anthropology, in Use and in Theory	0
Front matter	0
Response to Symposium on Awkward Rituals	0
Metamodernism: A Response About Magic	0
“‘Cause Even Though Perfect It’s Not/ It’s the Best Thing This World’s Got” – or Not?	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
Back matter	0
“The Main Parts Are Made in Europe”: Apologetic/Critical Dichotomy and the Untold Story of Qur’anic Studies in the Iranian Academy	0
Curators of Global Buddhism: A Critical Genealogy and Decolonial Reading of Contemporary Curatorial Practices in Buddhist Studies	0
Global Religious History as a Rhizome: Colonial Panics and Political Islam in German East Africa	0
Understanding Chinese Governance by Critiquing ‘Religion’	0
Pondering the Legacy of Geo Widengren: Isolated Genius, or Uncritical Supporter of a Band of Brothers?	0
Emotion and Islamic Hagiology: A Post-taxonomic Approach	0
The Awkwardness of American Exceptionalism	0
Breaking the Postmodern Deadlock: Metamodernism’s Methodological Revolution	0
Scholarly Values, Methods, and Evidence in the Academic Study of Religion	0
An Indigenous Jesus: Methodological and Theoretical Intersections in the Comparative Study of Religion	0
Our Incomplete Reckoning with the Study of Religion’s Past	0
How Do We Tell the Story of Medieval Copts? Inspirations from Burton Mack	0
Transcendence: A Defensible and Fruitful Concept for Religious Studies	0
Back matter	0
Tradition as Body	0
Editor’s Note	0
Redescribing, But Really, Finally Moving on From Israelite Origins	0
Theorizing Awkwardness, with Style, in the Study of Religion: A Forum on Dana W. Logan’s Awkward Rituals (2022)	0
On the Orientalism of Dana Logan’s Awkward Rituals	0
Cringing at Benevolence	0
How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Religious Literacy’?: Thinking with Wolfart’s ‘Religious Literacy’ Reservations	0
Editor’s Note	0
Survivals: The Stakes of Religious Literacy	0
Critical Religion Takes a Punch: Notes on a Scholarly Skirmish	0
Recent Research in Syriac Studies and the Recurring Question of Identity	0
In Search of Rules for a Critical Study of Religion	0