Subfield · Religious studies
Most cited papers in Religious studies
What are the most cited papers in Religious studies?
The most cited paper in Religious studies is "Faithfulness and Reduplicative Identity" (John J. McCarthy, Alan Prince, 1995), with 1,620 citations. Next come "Christian moderns freedom and fetish in the mission encounter" (1,497) and "1911 Encyclopedia Britannica" (1,038).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 216 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faithfulness and Reduplicative Identity John J. McCarthy, Alan Prince · Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) | 1995 | 1,620 |
| 2 | Christian moderns freedom and fetish in the mission encounter Webb Keane | 2007 | 1,497 |
| 3 | 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica Jetta Carol Culpepper · Reference Reviews | Apr 2006 | 1,038 |
| 4 | The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science Margaret W. Rossiter · Social Studies of Science | May 1993 | 986 |
| 5 | The Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global Vision Kendall Roth · Journal of International Business Studies | Jun 1988 | 874 |
| 6 | A Meta-Analysis of Compassion-Based Interventions: Current State of Knowledge and Future Directions James N. Kirby, Cassandra L. Tellegen, Stanley R. Steindl · Behavior Therapy | 21 Jun 2017 | 835 |
| 7 | The Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity Joel Robbins · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 2004 | 818 |
| 8 | For An Anthropology Of Ethics And Freedom James C. Laidlaw · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Jun 2002 | 626 |
| 9 | 'Make a Complete Break With the Past.' Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse' Birgit Meyer · Journal of Religion in Africa | 1998 | 501 |
| 10 | Yoga for depression: The research evidence Karen Pilkington, Graham Kirkwood, Hagen Rampes et al. · Journal of Affective Disorders | 27 Sep 2005 | 496 |
| 11 | Hermeneutic phenomenological research method simplified Narayan Prasad Kafle · Bodhi An Interdisciplinary Journal | 6 May 2013 | 494 |
| 12 | Tourism in Ghana Edward M. Bruner · American Anthropologist | Jun 1996 | 489 |
| 13 | An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values, and Issues Peter Harvey · DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) | 2000 | 468 |
| 14 | Women's Trials: The Approval of the First Oral Contraceptive Pill in the United States and Great Britain Suzanne White Junod · Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Apr 2002 | 460 |
| 15 | Yoga as a Therapeutic Intervention: A Bibliometric Analysis of Published Research Studies from 1967 to 2013 Pamela E. Jeter, Jeremiah Slutsky, Nilkamal Singh et al. · The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine | 21 Jul 2015 | 448 |
| 16 | On Qualculation, Agency, and Otherness Michel Callon, John Easton Law · Environment and Planning D Society and Space | Oct 2005 | 444 |
| 17 | Legislation against the Christians Timothy David Barnes · The Journal of Roman Studies | Nov 1968 | 432 |
| 18 | Wealth in People as Wealth in Knowledge: Accumulation and Composition in Equatorial Africa Jane I. Guyer, Samuel M. Eno Belinga · The Journal of African History | Mar 1995 | 420 |
| 19 | Christian theology: An introduction Alister E. McGrath, M. Sarot · Sophia | Dec 1995 | 405 |
| 20 | Doubt, conflict, mediation: the anthropology of modern time Laura Bear · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Apr 2014 | 405 |
| 21 | Pax in development Peter Gruß, Claudia Walther · Cell | May 1992 | 404 |
| 22 | Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience Robert H. Sharf · Numen | 1995 | 397 |
| 23 | Antibacterial activity of Thymoquinone, an active principle of Nigella sativa and its potency to prevent bacterial biofilm formation Kamel Chaieb, Bochra Kouidhi, Hanene Jrah et al. · BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 13 Apr 2011 | 397 |
| 24 | Christian Identity In The Jewish And Graeco-Roman World JUDITH M. LIEU · SBL Press eBooks | 27 May 2004 | 390 |
| 25 | John Locke, Carolina, and the Two Treatises of Government David Armitage · Political Theory | 7 Sep 2004 | 385 |
| 26 | Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination, by Catharine A. MacKinnon Susan A. MacManus · Political Science Quarterly | 1979 | 384 |
| 27 | Between Babel and Pentecost: Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America Paul Gifford, André Cortèn, Ruth Marshall-Fratani · Africa | 2003 | 375 |
| 28 | Aidos: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature Elizabeth S. Belfiore, Douglas Cairns · The American Journal of Philology | 1994 | 371 |
| 29 | Jews, Judaeans, Judaizing, Judaism: Problems of Categorization in Ancient History Steve M. Mason · Journal for the Study of Judaism | 2007 | 357 |
| 30 | A free gift makes no friends James C. Laidlaw · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Dec 2000 | 352 |
| 31 | convicted by the holy spirit: the rhetoric of fundamental Baptist conversion Susan Harding · American Ethnologist | Feb 1987 | 349 |
| 32 | Good Faith in the Cisg: The Interpretation Problems of Article 7 Benedict Sheehy · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2005 | 349 |
| 33 | The Fewer the Merrier?: Assessing Stigma Surrounding Consensually Non‐monogamous Romantic Relationships Terri D. Conley, Amy C. Moors, Jes L. Matsick et al. · Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy | 4 Jun 2012 | 349 |
| 34 | Self-interpreting animals Charles Taylor · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 19 Jun 2012 | 343 |
| 35 | Characteristics of Yoga Users: Results of a National Survey Gurjeet S. Birdee, Anna Legedza, Robert B. Saper et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine | 23 Jul 2008 | 339 |
| 36 | Should Physicians Prescribe Religious Activities? Richard P. Sloan, Emilia Bagiella, Larry VandeCreek et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 22 Jun 2000 | 337 |
| 37 | Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification Alister E. McGrath | 1986 | 333 |
| 38 | Things as They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology Kevin Birth · Anthropology of Consciousness | Mar 1997 | 330 |
| 39 | Measurement: The boon and bane of investigating religion. Richard L. Gorsuch · American Psychologist | Mar 1984 | 328 |
| 40 | Early Feminist Theory and the "Querelle des Femmes", 1400-1789 Joan P. Kelly · Signs | Oct 1982 | 319 |
| 41 | Anti-inflammatory effects of the Nigella sativa seed extract, thymoquinone, in pancreatic cancer cells Navdeep Chehl, Galina I. Chipitsyna, Qiaoke Gong et al. · HPB | Aug 2009 | 316 |
| 42 | Religion and spirituality defined according to current use in nursing literature Julia D. Emblen · Journal of Professional Nursing | 1992 | 315 |
| 43 | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Robert S. Levine · Resources for American Literary Study | Jul 2019 | 313 |
| 44 | Preclinical and clinical effects of Nigella sativa and its constituent, thymoquinone: A review Zahra Gholamnezhad, Shahrzad Havakhah, Mohammad Hossein Boskabady · Journal of Ethnopharmacology | 28 Jun 2016 | 304 |
| 45 | Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece. C. Neal Stewart, Rosalind Thomas, Joseph Svenbro et al. · Man | Dec 1994 | 302 |
| 46 | Alternative Modernities Christopher Houston · Critique of Anthropology | Jun 1998 | 300 |
| 47 | Aesthetics of Persuasion: Global Christianity and Pentecostalism's Sensational Forms Birgit Meyer · South Atlantic Quarterly | 27 Sep 2010 | 295 |
| 48 | Prevalence, Patterns, and Predictors of Yoga Use Holger Cramer, Lesley Ward, Amie Steel et al. · American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 24 Oct 2015 | 293 |
| 49 | Gender and society Allan Heaton Anderson · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 24 Oct 2013 | 288 |
| 50 | THE FAMILY IN LATE ANTIQUITY: THE EXPERIENCE OF AUGUSTINE Brent Donald Shaw · Past & Present | 1987 | 287 |
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