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Guides to the literature that map the major works on a single tradition Book reviews in religious studies journals and how they judge new work Anthologies of primary sources used for teaching world religions How to read a scholarly monograph on religion without drowning in jargon Translations of sacred texts as works in their own right Memoirs of leaving a faith and what they reveal about religious socialization Introductions to comparative religion: which textbooks are actually assigned Popular atheist bestsellers about religion and how scholars responded to them The Encyclopedia of Religion as a reference work and how to use it well Rudolf Otto's The Idea of the Holy and the category of the numinous The Golden Bough and why Frazer's comparative method fell out of favor Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and the debates it started The Elementary Forms of Religious Life and Durkheim's sociological approach William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience as a still-cited starting point Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane and how it shaped a generation of religious studies Why redirecting a stub can erase a documented local religious practice Assessment scales that rate religion articles by quality and importance How a one-line stub about a sacred site can mislead readers Machine translation and the flood of low-quality religion stubs The gap between articles on major world religions and on folk traditions Notability rules and the fate of stub articles on tiny spiritual groups From stub to featured article: how a religion topic gets expanded Why stubs about living religious leaders attract conflict and get protected Edit-a-thons aimed at expanding underdeveloped religion articles How oral religious traditions resist the citation rules that wiki articles need Deletion debates over stub articles about minor denominations The sourcing problem for traditions documented mainly in non-English publications Stub templates on Wikipedia and how WikiProject Religion sorts them Why articles on small religious movements stay stubs for years What makes an article about religion a stub rather than a short article Metadata standards for digitized religious archives and the problem of variant names Citation practice in religious studies: why primary sources are cited by edition