OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Esoteric Practices in a Reflexive and Critical Perspective	12
Using the Emic–Etic Distinction to Understand the Medieval Christian Interpretations of Slavic Pagan Religion	6
How Do We Tell the Story of Medieval Copts? Inspirations from Burton Mack	4
“The Field, at the Moment, Is Up for Redefinition”: Twenty Five Years of Manufacturing Religion	4
Performative Animism	4
Esotericism and Religious Studies: Historical Relationships and Contemporary Challenges	3
The Poetics of Longing-in-Separation: Reading Birahā as an Onto-Poetic Topos	2
In Search of Key Actors Network in Community Cultural Production: a Retrospective Analysis of the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Film Industry	2
Putting the Persian Back in “Magic”: Problems with Ignoring Ancient Ethnographic Discourses	2
Entropy as Metaphysical Perplexity in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Sufi Thought	1
Curators of Global Buddhism: A Critical Genealogy and Decolonial Reading of Contemporary Curatorial Practices in Buddhist Studies	1
Neo-Perennialism and Mystical Exceptionalism	1
Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities	1
The Typological Phenomenology of Religion – Resurrected: Managing a Legacy from Geo Widengren	1
In Search of Rules for a Critical Study of Religion	1
An Essay on the Scientific Study of Religion: a Macrolevel or Microlevel Enterprise?	1
Front matter	1
“Reconstructing the Study of Religion”: Entering the Conversation from a Different Corner of the Academic World	1
Back matter	1
Introduction: Indigenous Epistemologies and the Study of Religion	1
Pondering the Legacy of Geo Widengren: Isolated Genius, or Uncritical Supporter of a Band of Brothers?	1
Discourses on Research Freedom in the Academic Study of Religion. An Overview	1
On the Orientalism of Dana Logan’s Awkward Rituals	1
What’s Alternative about Alternative Rationality in CAS-E’s Definition of ‘Esotericism’?	1
The Realist Discursive Study of Religion	0

Here, There & Everywhere	0
Religion as a Social Kind?	0
Cringing at Benevolence	0
Studying ‘Religion’ Critically and the Decolonial Turn: Lessons for Critical Terrorism Studies	0
Hearing Hindu Stories	0
Redescribing, But Really, Finally Moving on From Israelite Origins	0
Our Incomplete Reckoning with the Study of Religion’s Past	0
Editorial	0
Tradition as Body	0
Esoteric Practices: of Secrecy, Resilience and Politics	0
Debating Critical Religion: A Response to Timothy Fitzgerald	0
Occulture: a Material Cartography of Contemporary Spirituality and the Arts	0
Ars Botanica: Art, Science, and Comparison in Religious Studies	0
Metamodernism: A Multispecies Approach to Hermeneutics	0
We Have Never Been Modern (Enough)	0
Absolutely Disruptive: An Introduction to Josephson Storm’s Metamodernism Book Review Symposium	0
Transcendence: A Defensible and Fruitful Concept for Religious Studies	0
Teaching with Native American Religions	0
Introduction to “On Whose Terms?”	0
The Discursive Study of Religion, Critical Realism, and the Social Reality of “Religion”	0
Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an “All-Round Historian of Religion”	0
Response to Symposium on Awkward Rituals	0
Critical Humanism and the Study of Religion: A Statement and Defense	0
Editor’s Note	0
Awkward History, Awkward Theory	0
Queer(y)ing How We See	0
Imagining NAASR: Pasts and Futures	0
What’s the Matter with You, Rock?!: What the Study of Daoism Can Say about Religious Images	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
Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective	0
Relational Agency: Right Relations as Socio-Political Power	0
Breaking the Postmodern Deadlock: Metamodernism’s Methodological Revolution	0
Capital-T-truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies	0
Learning from the Past	0
Speaking Theory to Power	0
‘Belief’ and Anthropology, in Use and in Theory	0
“Yours for a United Race”: the Society of American Indians and the Meaning of Unity	0
Religious Studies in the Garden of Academic Delights	0
Metamodernism: A Response About Magic	0
Karma’s Warp, Death’s Weft: Time, Sikhi, and Decolonial Thought	0
Introduction: Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective	0
The Awkwardness of American Exceptionalism	0
Critical Religion and the Sociology of Religion	0
Reading Texts as Bodies: Object Agency in the Age of Human Empowerment	0
The Way Is Dark, the Truth Is in the Cave	0
Speculative Realism and Religion: Irreduction, Objects, Forms, and Intensities	0
Sex, Magic, & Rockets or the Implications of the Babalon Working for Theories of Belief and Rationality	0
Understanding Chinese Governance by Critiquing ‘Religion’	0
Critical Religion Takes a Punch: Notes on a Scholarly Skirmish	0
Response to “Reflections on Stanley Stowers’s New Realist Theory and the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Religion”	0

Front matter	0
The Realism of Discourse: Critical Reflections on the Work of Kevin Schilbrack	0
Back matter	0
Front matter	0
Beyond Boundaries: Scholarly Categories and the Apocryphal Mary in Text, Pictorial Art, and Iconography	0
Meeting Moses Mendelssohn at the Mikveh: an Ethnodrashy	0
Afterword – Global Esotericism	0
Missionary Methodology and the Making of Aztec Human Sacrifice: Decolonizing a Concept	0
Burton Mack’s Challenge to the Study of Religion	0
Back matter	0
Beyond Content: Analysing What Is Said and How It’s Said in Interviews about Spiritual Experience Integration	0
A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions?	0
Attached Critique: Paranoid and Reparative Studies of Religion	0
Antisemitic Charisma: A Critique of Max Weber’s Interpretations of Paul, Jews, and Charisma and Their Enduring Legacy in Religious Studies	0
On Redescribing Christian Origins	0
The Wildness of (Racialized) Experimentation	0
The Hermeneutics of Absence: Re-theorizing “Data” in the Study of Non- and Post-religious Phenomena	0
Land as Method: Grounding the Study of Religion	0
Front matter	0
Cognitive Artifacts in the Evolution of Cultural Systems of Beliefs and Practices	0
“Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain”: A Critique of the Rational Choice Approach to Religion	0
Theorizing Awkwardness, with Style, in the Study of Religion: A Forum on Dana W. Logan’s Awkward Rituals (2022)	0
“What is critical religion?” A Response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn, “Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules?”	0
Method and Methodology in the Study of Religion: Making Sense of the Diversity	0
Voluntary Costly Signals in Religious Communities: A Political Interpretation	0
Beyond the Eurocentrism of the Claim That Religion Is Western	0
The Case for Studying Non-Muslim Islams	0
Sauf le nām, or Awkward Turns between Derrida and Nānak	0
Back matter	0
Beyond Religion and Secularism: Reflections from ‘Sikh Philosophy’ for International Relations Theory	0
Becoming Kin in the Archive: Toward a Relational Turn in Indigenous–Settler Research	0