Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

Papers
(The TQCC of Method & Theory in the Study of Religion is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editor’s Note14
Colonial Modernity and Diffusion of Power: Identity and Community Formation among Mappilas of Malabar13
Esoteric Practices in a Reflexive and Critical Perspective9
The Postsecular – Jürgen Habermas, the Intellectual Dark Web, and Alexandr Dugin as (In)Voluntary Participants in a Global Dispositif6
“The Field, at the Moment, Is Up for Redefinition”: Twenty Five Years of Manufacturing Religion5
The Yoga Studies Dispositif5
Global Religious History as a Rhizome: Colonial Panics and Political Islam in German East Africa4
How Do We Tell the Story of Medieval Copts? Inspirations from Burton Mack4
Esotericism and Religious Studies: Historical Relationships and Contemporary Challenges4
Discourses on Research Freedom in the Academic Study of Religion. An Overview4
Performative Animism4
In Search of Rules for a Critical Study of Religion3
American Christian Nationalism and the Meaning of “Religion”3
Power and the Reproduction of History: Twentieth-Century Histories of Abortion in the Ancient Mediterranean World2
Curators of Global Buddhism: A Critical Genealogy and Decolonial Reading of Contemporary Curatorial Practices in Buddhist Studies2
Pondering the Legacy of Geo Widengren: Isolated Genius, or Uncritical Supporter of a Band of Brothers?2
Front matter1
Back matter1
Debating Critical Religion: A Response to Timothy Fitzgerald1
“Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain”: A Critique of the Rational Choice Approach to Religion1
Transcendence: A Defensible and Fruitful Concept for Religious Studies1
The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion1
On the Orientalism of Dana Logan’s Awkward Rituals1
The Typological Phenomenology of Religion – Resurrected: Managing a Legacy from Geo Widengren1
Metamodernism: A Multispecies Approach to Hermeneutics1
Introduction to “On Whose Terms?”1
Speculative Realism and Religion: Irreduction, Objects, Forms, and Intensities1
“Reconstructing the Study of Religion”: Entering the Conversation from a Different Corner of the Academic World1
An Indigenous Jesus: Methodological and Theoretical Intersections in the Comparative Study of Religion1
Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities1
Critical Religion and the Sociology of Religion1
Global Religious History1
What’s Alternative about Alternative Rationality in CAS-E’s Definition of ‘Esotericism’?1
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