history-of-religions
Use when targeting History of Religions or deciding whether a comparative-historical religious-studies manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, its comparative-method and primary-source bar, textual/philological and morphological expectations, house style and review norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill history-of-religions --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# History of Religions (history-of-religions) ## Journal positioning History of Religions, published by the University of Chicago Press, is the field-defining venue for the comparative and historical study of religious traditions worldwide. Its defining commitment is the **"history of religions" methodology** — cross-cultural, comparative, and morphological analysis of religious phenomena (myth, ritual, symbol, cosmology, the sacred) grounded in primary-source and philological control of specific traditions. A strong submission joins close, language-based study of particular materials to a comparative or historical argument that illuminates how a religious form works across cases or develops over time. It is distinct from `the-journal-of-religion`, which is broader and welcomes theology and philosophy of religion, and from `harvard-theological-review`, with its textual, biblical, and early-Christian focus: History of Religions foregrounds method — comparison and historical morphology — over confessional or constructive concerns. Theological advocacy, or comparison that floats free of sources and languages, is a poor fit. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** aid. I
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the history-of-religions skill do?
Use when targeting History of Religions or deciding whether a comparative-historical religious-studies manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, its comparative-method and primary-source bar, textual/philological and morphological expectations, house style and review norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill history-of-religions --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.