John L. Crow

Determining scholarly impact is challenging. In the past this was based simply on citation counts in peer reviewed journals and books. Today, as scholarship becomes available in a variety of formats, and as commons repositories, news media, social media, and search engines becomes avenues for scholarship dissemination and publishing, counting references in books and journals is no longer sufficient. Moreover, what counts as being published is shifting too. Sites such as academia.edu and researchgate.com can expose scholarship to many even when the scholarship was never officially published. For instance, one of my presentations made at a conference in 2012 and posted to academia.edu has had over 1100 views and over 60 bookmarks, yet has not appeared in print anywhere. To adapt to these changes, new metric systems, such as Altmetric, Mendeley, and Google Scholar, attempt to count references in a variety of media. However, each has significant limitations. Beyond technical impediments, many of metric systems favor English scholarship from North America and Europe, leaving large gaps for non-English scholarship worldwide.

Below is a conservative list of all the publications and websites my peer reviewed scholarship has been referenced. This list does not include counts such as bookmarks on Mendeley, views or bookmarks on academia.edu, or references on social media, such as Twitter or Facebook. It only lists publications and websites that specifically reference my publications in the context of a larger scholarly discourse. As such, this conservative list demonstrates that even as a junior scholar, the research I have published is making an impact. To see a broader list of publications and their download and bookmark counts, please visit my academia.edu page.

Taming the Astral Body: The Theosophical Society’s Ongoing Problem of Emotion and Control

Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80.3 (September 1, 2012): 691–717. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfs042.

• 	Peer-Reviewed Essays 2

  • 	Davidsen, Markus Altena, “Fiction-based religion: Conceptualising a new category against history-based religion and fandom,” Culture and Religion, 14:4 (2013), 378-395, doi: 10.1080/14755610.2013.838798.
    	Lilleleht, Erica. “‘Assuming the privilege’ of bridging divides: Abigail Fowler-Chumos, practical phrenology, and America’s Gilded Age.” History of Psychology, Vol 18(4), Nov 2015, 414-432. doi: 10.1037/a0039476

• Theses/Dissertations 1

  • 	Davidsen, Markus Altena, “The spiritual Tolkien milieu: a study of fiction‐based religion.” PhD Dissertation, Leiden University, 2014.

• Social Media/Blogs/Web 2

  • 	Blavatsky News, 5 August 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
    	Wikipedia, Astral projection. Retrieved 28 September 2016.

Accessing the Astral with a Monitor and Mouse: Esoteric Religion and the Astral located in Three Dimensional Virtual Realms

In Contemporary Esotericism, edited by Egil Asprem and Kenneth Granholm. Gnostica: Texts and Interpretations. London: Equinox Publishing, 2013.

• Books 1

  • 	Asprem, Egil, The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900 - 1939. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

• Peer-Reviewed Essays 1

  • 	Plaisance, Christopher. “Methods of Web Philology: Computer Metadata and Web Archiving in the Primary Source Documents of Contemporary Esotericism.” International Journal for the Study of New Religions, Volume 7 Number 1 (May 2016). doi: 10.1558/ijsnr.v7i1.26074

• Theses/Dissertations 1

  • 	Wedin, Robert, “A Newer New Age: Irony and the Enchantment of Atheism in Syntheist Religion” Thesis, University of Gothenburg, 2016.

• Reviews 1

  • 	Adam Anczyk & Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska (2015). “Contemporary Esotericism, edited by Egil Asprem and Kennet Granholm, New York: Routledge, 2013, ix +448 pp. ISBN 978 1 908049 32 2, US$120.00 (hardback); ISBN 978 1 13 885611 0, US$49.95 (paperback),” Religion, 45:4, 606-609, doi: 10.1080/0048721X.2015.1036711

• Social Media/Blogs/Web 2

  • 	Sanctuary of Horus Behdety (blog post) 29 Nov. 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
    	Pickering, Stephan Borowski. “Jews and the Afterlife.” (blog post) Retrieved 28 September 2016.

The White Knight in the Yellow Robe: Allan Bennett's Search for Truth

Master's Thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2009.

• Books 5

  • 	Bocking, Brian, Phibul Choompolpaisa, Laurence Cox & Alicia Turner. A Buddhist Crossroads: Pioneer European Buddhists and Globalizing Asian Networks 1860–1960. London: Routledge, 2015.
    	Asprem, Egil. The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900 - 1939. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
    	Pasi, Marco. Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics. Durham, UK: Acumen, 2013.
    	Asprem, Egil. Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012.
    	Bogdan, Henrik, and Martin P. Starr, eds. Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

• Book Chapter 1

  • 	Perreira, Todd LeRoy. “Whence Theravada? The Modern Genealogy of an Ancient Term.” In How Theravada in Theravada? Exploring Buddhist Identities, edited by Peter Skilling, Jason A. Carbine, Claudio Cicuzza, and Santi Pakdeekham, 443–571. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, 2012.

• Peer-Reviewed Essays 6

  • 	Bocking, Brian, Laurence Cox, and Shin‘ichi Yoshinaga. “The First Buddhist Mission to the West: Charles Pfoundes and the London Buddhist mission of 1889 – 1892.” Diskus: The Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions 16.3 (2014), 1-33.
    	Turner, Alicia, Laurence Cox, and Brian Bocking, “A Buddhist Crossroads: Pioneer European Buddhists and Globalizing Asian Networks 1860–1960.” Contemporary Buddhism 14.1 (2013) doi: 10.1080/14639947.2013.785244
    	Harris, Elizabeth J. “Ananda Metteyya: Controversial Networker, Passionate Critic.” Contemporary Buddhism 14.1 (2013) 78-93. doi: 10.1080/14639947.2013.785727
    	Pasi, Marco. “Varieties of Magical Experience: Aleister Crowley’s Views on Occult Practice.” Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 6.2 (Winter 2011), 123-162. doi: 10.1353/mrw.2011.0018
    	Turner, Alicia, “Dhammaloka, ‘The Irish Buddhist’: rewriting the history of early western Buddhist monastics.” Contemporary Buddhism 11.2 (2010). doi: 10.1080/14639947.2010.530070
    	Cox, Laurence. “The politics of Buddhist revival: U Dhammaloka as social movement organizer.” Contemporary Buddhism 11.2 (2010) doi: 10.1080/14639947.2010.530071

• Theses/Dissertations 1

  • 	Asprem, Egil. “The problem of disenchantment: scientific naturalism and esoteric discourse, 1900-1939.” PhD Dissertation, University of Amsterdam, 2013.

• Social Media/Blogs/Web 3

  • 	Readdy, Keith. “Embodied Occultism: Contemporary Religiosity Represented in Aleister Crowley’s Experiential Science.” M.A. Course Paper, Contested Knowledge II: Cosmotheism and Disenchantment, n.d.
    	Lashtal, The Practice of the Magical Diary. (Web forum) Retrieved 28 September 2016.
    	Theosophy Wiki, Herbert Coryn. Retrieved 28 September 2016.

Miracle or Magic? The Problematic Status of Christian Amulets

In Van Discussie tot Beleving: Religiestudies aan de UvA (2009).

• Books 2

  • 	Licence, Amy. In Bed with the Tudors. Gloucestershire: Amberley, 2012.
    	Vinklát, Marek. “‘Christian’ Mesopotamian Magic Texts from Late Antiquity. (“Křesťanské” Mezopotámské Magické Texty Pozdní Antiky.)” in ‘Unity in Diversity’ Proceedings of the Theological Conference of Early Scholars (“Jednota v mnohosti” Zborník z Teologickej konferencie mladých vedeckých pracovníkov), Adriána Biela, Richard Schön, Ján Badura, eds., Evangelical Theological Faculty, Comenius University in Bratislava, 2012, 70-84. ISBN 978-80-88827-43-6. (Chapter in Czech, publication in Slovak and Czech.)

• Peer-Reviewed Essays 1

  • 	Kosior, Wojciech. “Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego.” Studia Religiologica 48.2 (2015): 143-154. doi: 10.4467/20844077SR.15.011.3557

• Theses/Dissertations 4

  • 	Ulčar, Milena. “The Relationship of Imitation and Expression in Culture and Visual Culture German Romanticism.” [Serbian] PhD Dissertation, University of Belgrade, 2015.
    	Frank, Tarina, “Investigation of Traditional Amulets, Contemporary Amulets, Theoretical Amulets, and the overlap with Contemporary Wearable Objects of Protection and Safety.” Master’s of Fine Arts Thesis, Konstfack University, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014.
    	Guscin, Mark, “The Tradition of the Image of Edessa.” PhD Dissertation, University of London, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, 2014.
    	Kopmels, Aida. “Marsilio Ficino: Melancholy and the Relations between Body, Spirit and Soul.” Master's Thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2014.

• Social Media/Blogs/Web 3

  • 	기독교의 부적: 자연스러운 인간의 발로, 낯설 것도, 혐오할 것도. 그냥 그런 것 (Blog in Korean). Retrieved 28 September 2016.
    	Wikipedia, Tefillin. Retrieved 28 September 2016.

Venerable Ananda Metteyya’s Buddhist Mission to the UK

In Dharma to the UK: A Centennial Celebration of Buddhist Legacy. London: World Buddhist Foundation, 2008, 14-36.

• Newspaper 1

  • 	Mahendra, Sunanda. “Rediscovering Buddhist insights.” Daily News [Colombo, Sri Lanka] 2 June 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2016.