jaar-sources-and-evidence
Use when handling the evidence base of a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article — primary texts, traditions, historical documents, material/visual sources, or ethnographic fieldwork. Plans rigorous, transparent source work for humanities scholarship in the study of religion; it does not run statistics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jaar-sources-and-evidence --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.
# Sources & Evidence (jaar-sources-and-evidence) Religious-studies scholarship rests on **primary materials**: scriptures and commentaries, ritual and liturgical texts, historical archives, material and visual culture, or fieldwork. JAAR judges whether your handling of these sources is careful, well-situated, and adequate to the claim. This is humanities evidence — no datasets or replication, but rigor still governs. ## When to trigger - Selecting and justifying the primary sources the argument rests on - A reviewer questioned your translation, dating, provenance, or representativeness - Integrating fieldwork/interviews into a humanities argument - Deciding what is primary vs. secondary and how much to quote ## Source-work standards JAAR expects 1. **Cite from primary sources.** Ground claims in the texts/traditions/objects themselves, not only in others' summaries; secondary literature situates, primary evidence proves. 2. **Languages and translation.** Work from originals where the argument depends on wording; state which edition/translation you use and why; flag contested terms (and consider transliteration conventions). 3. **Provenance, dating, and context.** Establish what a s
- When to trigger
- Source-work standards JAAR expects
- Quoting and apparatus
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Evidence-type rigor matrix
- Worked vignette: an over-reaching textual claim, right-sized
- Source-handling pushback → the fix
- Supplementary resources
What does the jaar-sources-and-evidence skill do?
Use when handling the evidence base of a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article — primary texts, traditions, historical documents, material/visual sources, or ethnographic fieldwork. Plans rigorous, transparent source work for humanities scholarship in the study of religion; it does not run statistics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jaar-sources-and-evidence --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 984 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.