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  1. What’s Alternative about Alternative Rationality in CAS-E’s Definition of ‘Esotericism’?

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, June 2025, De Gruyter

    Prof Steven J Engler

  2. The semantics of Afro-Brazilian spirits: Applying Davidson on prior and passing theories

    Article • Religious Studies, November 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Steven J Engler

  3. Situating philosophy of religious studies

    Article • Religion, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  4. Definition as Situated Interpretational Vector

    Article • Aries, July 2024, De Gruyter

    Prof Steven J Engler

  5. Religionin changing times: an overview of the journal in its comparative scholarly and publishing contexts

    Article • Religion, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  6. (Re)defining Esotericism

    Article • Aries, October 2023, De Gruyter

    Prof Steven J Engler

  7. Perspectivas religiosas e críticas da “tradição”

    Article • HORIZONTE - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião, May 2023, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais

    Prof Steven J Engler

  8. Umbanda: Hybridity, Tradition and Semantic Plurality

    Article • Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, April 2022, Brill Deutschland GmbH

    Prof Steven J Engler

  9. Emic concepts and etic paths

    Article • Religion, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  10. Feijoadaas a concept of cultural/religious mixture

    Article • Religion, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  11. Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer, written by Emily Pierini

    Article • Numen, September 2020, Brill

    Prof Steven J Engler

  12. Religion at 50: pasts and futures

    Article • Religion, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  13. Religion: reviewers 2017–2018

    Article • Religion, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  14. Theoretical Appliqué and Comparative Contextualization in Cristina Rocha’s John of God / Bordado teórico e contextualização comparativa no livro John of God, de Cristina Rocha

    Article • HORIZONTE - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião, April 2018, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais

    Prof Steven J Engler

  15. Semantics and the sacred

    Article • Religion, August 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  16. John of God: the globalization of Brazilian faith healing, by Cristina Rocha, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, xii + 269 pp., US$29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-019-046671-8

    Article • Religion, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  17. Comparing Marxist and Historicizing views of the "critical" study of religion.

    Article • Religion, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  18. The Philosophy and Semantics of the Cognitive Science of Religion

    Article • Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, January 2016, Equinox Publishing

    Steven J Engler, Dr Mark Gardiner, Prof Steven J Engler

  19. Response to Commentaries

    Article • Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, January 2016, Equinox Publishing

    Steven J Engler, Dr Mark Gardiner, Prof Steven J Engler

  20. Peer-reviewers and selected review statistics, 2013–2014

    Article • Religion, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  21. Dona Benta's Rosary: Managing Ambiguity in a Brazilian Women's Prayer Group

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Religion, December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Steven J Engler

  22. Bibliometrics and the study of religion\s1

    Article • Religion, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  23. Signs in their times: introducing a review symposium on Robert Yelle'sSemiotics of Religion

    Article • Religion, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  24. Acknowledging our referees (with selected review statistics)

    Article • Religion, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  25. Textbooks in the study of religion\s: introducing a new feature series

    Article • Religion, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  26. Lincoln’s Clarion Call for Methodological Solipsism

    Article • January 2013, Brill

    Prof Steven J Engler

  27. The benefits and risks of strategic genealogy and dichotomy

    Article • Religion, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  28. How the "Afro-Brazilian" religion Umbanda is Brazilian, not "trans-Atlantic"

    Article • Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, May 2012, University of California Press

    Prof Steven J Engler

  29. A Review of “Encyclopedia of Religion in America”

    Article • Journal of Religious & Theological Information, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  30. Response to Timothy Fitzgerald

    Article • Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, December 2011, SAGE Publications

    Prof Steven J Engler

  31. Semantic holism and the insider–outsider problem

    Article • Religious Studies, November 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Steven J Engler

  32. ‘Religion,’ ‘the Secular’ and the Critical Study of Religion

    Article • Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, September 2011, SAGE Publications

    Prof Steven J Engler

  33. Constitutional Secularization: Religious Pluralism and the Canadian Courts (Secularização constitucional: O Pluralismo Religioso e os tribunais canadenses) - DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2011v9n21p220

    Article • HORIZONTE - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião, July 2011, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais

    Prof Steven J Engler

  34. Introductory essay. Crisis and creativity: opportunities and threats in the global study of religion\s

    Article • Religion, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  35. Editorial:Religionresituated

    Article • Religion, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  36. Religion and Social Problems

    Article • December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  37. Christianity in Latin America: A History

    Article • Religion, October 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  38. Editorial: Acknowledging peer review

    Article • Religion, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  39. Ten Implications of Semantic Holism for Theories of Religion

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, January 2010, Brill

    Prof Steven J Engler

  40. Charting the map metaphor in theories of religion

    Article • Religion, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  41. Book reviews

    Article • Religion, December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  42. The Invention of Sacred Tradition

    Article • Religion, December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  43. A Review of “The Encyclopedia of Religion in Australia”

    Article • Journal of Religious & Theological Information, November 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  44. Contemporary Theories of Religion

    Article • June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  45. John Warne Monroe, Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism and Occultism in Modern France. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2008, xi+293 pp., $35.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 8014 4562 0.

    Article • Religion, June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  46. Book reviews

    Article • Religion, June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  47. Ritual Theory and Attitudes to Agency in Brazilian Spirit Possession

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, January 2009, Brill

    Prof Steven J Engler

  48. Umbanda and Hybridity

    Article • Numen, January 2009, Brill

    Prof Steven J Engler

  49. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion - Edited by John Corrigan

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2008, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  50. Review Essay

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, April 2008, Brill

    Prof Steven J Engler

  51. Field Guides to the Study of Religion

    Article • Religious Studies Review, March 2008, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  52. Editorial

    Article • Religion, March 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  53. Theory of Religion

    Article • Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  54. Time, Habit, and Agency in English Puritanism

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, October 2007, Brill

    Prof Steven J Engler

  55. Time, Habit, and Agency in English Puritanism

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, October 2007, Brill

    Prof Steven J Engler

  56. Religious Studies

    Article • September 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  57. Theory for Religious Studies – By William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal

    Article • Religious Studies Review, July 2007, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  58. Breve Historia De Las Religiones – By Francisco Diez de Velasco

    Article • Religious Studies Review, July 2007, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  59. As Religiões No Brasil: Continuidades E Rupturas – Edited by Faustino Teixeira and Renata Menezes

    Article • Religious Studies Review, July 2007, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  60. Review of Peter Berger and the Study of Religion edited by Linda Woodhead with Paul Heelas and David Martin

    Article • Religious Studies and Theology, March 2007, Equinox Publishing

    Prof Steven J Engler

  61. Review of Religion and the Body edited by Sarah Coakley

    Article • Religious Studies and Theology, March 2007, Equinox Publishing

    Prof Steven J Engler

  62. Review of Religion and Society in Early Stuart England by Darren Oldridge

    Article • Religious Studies and Theology, March 2007, Equinox Publishing

    Prof Steven J Engler

  63. The Comity of Grace and Method: Essays in Honor of Edmund F. Perry ? Edited by Thomas Ryba, George D. Bond, and Herman Tull

    Article • Religious Studies Review, January 2007, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  64. New Approaches to the Study of Religion. Volume 1: Regional, Critical and Historical Approaches and Volume 2: Textual, Comparative, Sociological and Cognitive Approaches ? Edited by Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, and Randi R. Warne

    Article • Religious Studies Review, January 2007, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  65. L?�tude De La Religion Au Qu�bec: Bilan et Prospective ? Edited by Jean-Marc Larouche and Guy M�nard

    Article • Religious Studies Review, January 2007, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  66. Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion ? By Thomas Tweed

    Article • Religious Studies Review, January 2007, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  67. Daniel Dubuisson,The Western Construction of Religion

    Article • Religion, September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  68. Why Would Anyone Believe in God? – Justin L. Barrett

    Article • Religious Studies Review, April 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  69. Tradicao, Transmissao E Emocao Religiosa: Sociologia Do Protestantismo Contemporaneo Na America Latina – Paulo Barrera Rivera

    Article • Religious Studies Review, April 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  70. The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology – Daniel Dubuisson

    Article • Religious Studies Review, April 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  71. The Dynamics of Religious Organizations: the Extravasation Of the Sacred and Other Essays – Phillip E. Hammond

    Article • Religious Studies Review, April 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  72. A(s) Ciencia(s) Da Religiao No Brasil: Affirmacao De Uma area Academica – Edited by Faustino Teixeira

    Article • Religious Studies Review, April 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  73. A Religiao Do Cerebro: As Novas Descobertas Da Neurociencia A Respeito Da Fe Humana – Raul Marino

    Article • Religious Studies Review, April 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  74. Social Origins of Religion – Roger Bastide

    Article • Religious Studies Review, April 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  75. The Academic Study of Religion During the Cold War: East and West – Edited by Iva Doležalova, Luther H. Martin, and Dalibor Papoušek

    Article • Religious Studies Review, April 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  76. Tradicao, Transmissao E Emocao Religiosa: Sociologia do Protestantismo Contemporaneo Na America Latina - By Paulo Barrera Rivera

    Article • Religious Studies Review, January 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  77. The Academic Study of Religion During the Cold War: East and West - Edited by Iva Dolezalova, Luther H. Martin, and Dalibor Papousek

    Article • Religious Studies Review, January 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  78. O Desencantamento do Mundo: Todos OS Passos do Conceito EM Max Weber - By Antonio Flavio Pierucci

    Article • Religious Studies Review, January 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  79. Festa No Pedaco: Cultura Popular E Lazer Na Cidade - By Jose Guilherme Cantor Magnani

    Article • Religious Studies Review, January 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  80. A Religiao do Cerebro: As Novas Descobertas da Neurociencia a Respeito Da Fe Humana - By Raul Marino Jr

    Article • Religious Studies Review, January 2006, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  81. Historicizing "Tradition" in the Study of Religion

    Article • January 2005, De Gruyter

    Prof Steven J Engler

  82. Constructionism versus what?

    Article • Religion, October 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  83. CONSIDER TRANSLATION: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION1

    Article • Religious Studies Review, April 2004, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  84. Russell T. McCutcheon,  Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion . Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xxi+266 pp. $23.95 (paper).

    Article • The Journal of Religion, January 2004, University of Chicago Press

    Prof Steven J Engler

  85. MODERN TIMES: RELIGION, CONSECRATION AND THE STATE IN BOURDIEU

    Article • Cultural Studies, May 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Steven J Engler

  86. "SCIENCE" VS. "RELIGION" IN CLASSICAL AYURVEDA

    Article • Numen, January 2003, Brill

    Prof Steven J Engler

  87. Reading Images in the Religious Studies Classroom

    Article • Teaching Theology & Religion, July 2002, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  88. Reading in Colors: Highlighting for Active Reading in Religious Studies

    Article • Teaching Theology & Religion, February 2001, Wiley

    Prof Steven J Engler

  89. Afterward: Tradition’s Legacy

    Article • De Gruyter

    Prof Steven J Engler