Quality assured publications

Sára Eszter Heidl: 2026. Event Religion and European Festival Experience: Concepts and Case Studies. London, New York: Routledge.

—: 2025. ’Expanding the Spiritual Festival Space. The Online Event Community of a Hungarian Festival.’ Social Compass 72 (2): 221–39. https://doi.org/10.1177/00377686251336966.

—: 2024. ‘Event Religion: A Conceptual Approach to Understanding Changing Forms of Religion at a Contemporary Festival’. Journal of Religion in Europe 17 (1): 32–60. https://doi.org/10.1163/18748929-bja10094.

—: 2024. ‘Religion as a Spectrum: Introducing Religionesque Experiences’. Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe 17 (1): 9–21. https://doi.org/10.20413/rascee.2024.17.1.9-21. Winner of best paper and Miklós Tomka award at the ISORECEA conference, 2024.

—: 2024. ‘When the Event Ends: Post-Event Blues after Attending a Festival’. Journal of Festive Studies 6 (December):279–99. https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2024.6.1.245.

—: 2023. ‘Event Religion : Az Everness Fesztivál Vallási Dimenziói és azok Értelmezése’. Vallástudományi Szemle 19 (1): 78–99. https://doi.org/10.55193/RS.2023.1.78. Published MA thesis.

—: 2023. ‘Religionesque: A Term for Dealing with Contemporary Alternative Religious Forms in Empirical Studies’. Spirituality Studies 9 (2): 18–27.

—: with Máté-Tóth, András. 2020. ‘Vallás És Ráció: Weber Varázstalanítás Fogalmának Recepciójához’. Vallástudományi Szemle, no. 2.

Other publications

—: 2023. ‘A Zaj-Élmény. Egy Zenei Fesztivál Vallásszociológiai Elemzése’. Kultúra És Közösség, V., XIV. (2): 23–34.

—: with Barcsa, Krisztina, András Máté-Tóth. 2023. ‘Varieties of Populism in Hungary: Societal and Religious Discourses Regarding the Refugee Crisis’. In Populism and migration, by Eva Gedo and Eva Szenasi. Paris: l’Harmattan.

—: and Réka Szilárdi. 2022. ‘Privát Vallásosság, Spirituális Közösség - Az Everness Fesztivál Résztvevőinek Vallási/Spirituális Dimenziói’. Erdélyi Társadalom., no. 20. évfolyam 1. szám, 81–96.

—: with Barcsa, Krisztina, Kitti Sándor. 2019. ‘The Hungarian Religious Leaders’ Statements on the Migration from 2016 and 2017’. Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe 39 (3). https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol39/iss3/5.

—: with Szilárdi, Réka. 2018. ‘Fesztiválvallás 2.0’. In Vallásdömping. Ezoterika, Spiritualitás És New Age Az Alkalmazott Valláskutatás Perspektívájából, edited by Réka Szilárdi. Vallás a Társadalomban 7. Szeged: Szegedi Tudományegyetem BTK Vallástudományi Tanszék.

—: 2018. ‘Vallási Dimenziók Az Everness Fesztivál Résztvevőinek Körében’. In Vallásdömping. Ezoterika, Spiritualitás És New Age Az Alkalmazott Valláskutatás Perspektívájából, edited by Réka Szilárdi. Szeged. Published BA thesis.

Reviews

—. 2025. ‘ESOTERIC CATHOLICISM/ESOTERISCHER KATHOLIZISMUS. Edited by ViktoriaVitanova‐Kerber and HelmutZander. Okkulte Moderne. Beiträge Zur Nichthegemonialen Innovation, 8. De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. vi + 395. Hardback, $65.99; E‐book, Open‐access.’ Religious Studies Review 51 (4): 1055–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.70049.

—. 2025. ‘LOVE MAGIC AND CONTROL IN PREMODERN IBERIAN LITERATURE. By VeronicaMenaldi. Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature. Routledge, 2022. Pp. x + 158. Hardback, $190.00; Paperback, $54.99.’ Religious Studies Review 51 (4): 1055–1055. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.70050.

—. 2025. ‘THE BLOOMSBURY HANDBOOK OF RELIGIOUS ECSTASY. Edited by AlisonMarshall, RubinaRamji, and MichaelWilkinson. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. Viii + 282. Hardback, $190.00.’ Religious Studies Review 51 (4): 1057–1057. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.70046.

—. 2025. ‘WYRD ECOLOGY: HEATHEN RITUAL AND GIFTING RELATIONS. By Barbara JaneDavy. Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. x + 229. Hardback, $125.00; Paperback, $34.99.’ Religious Studies Review 51 (4): 1059–60. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.70132.

—: 2025. ‘OCCULTISM AND THE ORIGINS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: FREUD, FERENCZI AND THE CHALLENGE OF THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE. By Maria Pierri. Translated by Adam Elgar. History of Psychoanalysis. New York and London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. Xii + 276. Hardback, $170.00; Paperback, $42.99.’ Religious Studies Review 51 (3): 854–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.18133.

—: 2025. ‘THE HAND OF FATIMA: THE KHAMSA IN THE ARAB‐ISLAMIC WORLD. By Eva‐Maria von Kemnitz. Edited, Reviewed, and Finalized by Amina Inloes. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section One: The Near and Middle East, 170. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. Xxx + 219. Hardback, €183.70.’ Religious Studies Review 51 (3): 857–857. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.18131.

—: 2025. LIKE A TREE UNIVERSALLY SPREAD. SRI SABHAPATI SWAMI AND ŚIVARĀJAYOGA. Keith Edward Cantú. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024, Pp. xxii + 496. Hardback £71.00, Religious Studies Review 51 (1): 213–213. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17633.

—: 2025. MODERN RELIGIOUS DRUIDRY: STUDIES IN PAGANISM, CELTIC IDENTITY, AND NATURE SPIRITUALITY. Edited by Ethan Doyle White and Jonathan Woolley. Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. xxiv + 241. Hardback, €131.99. Religious Studies Review 51 (1): 211–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17609.

—: 2025. HOW TO THINK IMPOSSIBLY: ABOUT SOULS, UFOS, TIME, BELIEF, AND EVERYTHING ELSE. Jeffrey J. Kripal. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. xiv + 297. Hardback, $35.00,Religious Studies Review 51 (1): 212–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17618.

—: 2024. ‘MODERNITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SACRED SPACE. Edited by AaronFrench and KatharinaWaldner. SpatioTemporality: Practices—Concepts—Media, 15. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2024, Pp. Viii+238. Hardback, €69.95.’ Religious Studies Review 50 (4): 811–811. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17563.