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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editor’s Note14
Colonial Modernity and Diffusion of Power: Identity and Community Formation among Mappilas of Malabar14
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 Religion6
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
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 World2
Curators of Global Buddhism: A Critical Genealogy and Decolonial Reading of Contemporary Curatorial Practices in Buddhist Studies2
On the Orientalism of Dana Logan’s Awkward Rituals1
Debating Critical Religion: A Response to Timothy Fitzgerald1
Critical Religion and the Sociology of Religion1
Global Religious History1
Branding Salafism: Salafi Missionaries as Social Media Influencers1
“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
“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 Realist Discursive Study of Religion1
The Typological Phenomenology of Religion – Resurrected: Managing a Legacy from Geo Widengren1
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Back matter1
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 Intensities1
Metamodernism: A Multispecies Approach to Hermeneutics1
The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion1
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