Publications

— Books —

A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism. Co-authored with Brain Ruppert. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan.

Theory for Religious Studies. Co-authored with Timothy K. Beal. New York: Routledge, 2004.

— Book Chapters —

“Religion in Ancient Japan.” In Routledge Handbook of Japanese History. Edited by Karl Friday. Routledge, forthcoming in 2016.

“The Serial Killer Was (Cognitively) Framed.” In Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing. Edited by Sara Waller. Blackwell, 2010.

“Introduction: Meditations on Murder, or What Is So Philosophical About Serial Killers?” Co-authored with Sara Waller. In Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing. Edited by Sara Waller. Blackwell, 2010.

“The Mind of Santa Claus and the Metaphors He Lives By.” Co-authored with Sara Waller. In Christmas - Philosophy for Everyone: Better Than a Lump of Coal. Edited by Scott C. Lowe. Blackwell, 2010.

“Simulating Pure Land Space: The Hyperreality of a Japanese Buddhist Paradise.” In Constructions of Space II: The Biblical City and Other Imagined Spaces. Edited by Jon L. Berquist and Claudia V. Camp. (New York and London: T & T Clark, 2008): 171-188.

“Concepts of Personhood in Alzheimer's Disease: Considering Japanese Notions of a Relational Self.” Co-authored with Peter J. Whitehouse. In Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the United State: Practices and Policies. Edited by Susan O. Long (London and New York: Routledge, 2000): 318-333.

“Hagiography and History: The Image of Prince Shōtoku.” In Religions of Japan in Practice. Edited by George J. Tanabe, Jr. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999): 316-333.

“Women and Japanese Buddhism: Tales of Birth in the Pure Land.” In Religions of Japan in Practice. Edited by George J. Tanabe, Jr. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999): 176-184.

“Buddhism and the State in Early Japan.” In Buddhism in Practice. Edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995): 216-227.

“Toward a Politics of Asceticism.” In Asceticism. Edited by Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995): 424-442.

“Ethics in the Japanese Religious Tradition.” In A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics. Edited by John Carman and Mark Juergensmeyer. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991): 228-278.

— Selected Articles —

"Theory, Disciplinarity, and the Study of Religion: Lessons from a Publishing Nightmare." Co-authored with Timothy Beal. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 79:4 (2011): 1050-1064.

“Concerning Theory for Religious Studies: William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal Answer Richard Schechner’s Questions.” TDR (The Drama Review - The Journal of Performance Studies), 53:1 (2009): 14-16.

“Short List: Most Influential Books.” Chronicle of Higher Education, Section: The Chronicle Review. Volume 52, Issue 14 (November 25, 2005), Page B4.

“Nichiren's Risshō ankoku ron and Canon Formation.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 26/3-4 (1999): 325–348.

“Rethinking Medieval Japanese Buddhism.” Religious Studies Review 22/4 (1996): 313-322.

“In Reply to Reply to Whitehouse and Deal Editorial (Situated Beyond Modernity: Lessons for Alzheimer's Disease Research).” Co-authored with Peter J. Whitehouse. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 44/6 (1996): 735-737.

“Situated Beyond Modernity: Lessons for Alzheimer's Disease Research.” Co-authored with Peter J. Whitehouse. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 43/11 (1995): 1314-1315.

“Postmodern and New Historicist Perspectives in Recent Western Scholarship on Japanese Religion.” Critical Review of Books in Religion 6 (1993): 1-39.

“The Lotus Sutra and the Rhetoric of Legitimization in Eleventh-Century Japanese Buddhism.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 20/4 (1993): 261-295.

— Encyclopedia Entries —

“Buddhism, Bioethics in.” Bioethics. Ed. Bruce Jennings. 4th ed. Vol. 1. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2014. 458-464. Online: Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 25 June 2014. (This is a revision of the version originally appearing in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., 2003.)

“Abortion VIII. Buddhist Perspectives.” Bioethics. Ed. Bruce Jennings. 4th ed. Vol. 1. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2014. 51-54. Online: Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 25 June 2014.

“Buddhism, Bioethics in.” Entry in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed. Ed. Stephen G. Post. New York: Macmillan, 2003.

“Mountain Monasteries: Buddhist,” “Tendai (Japan),” “Saichō (767-822), and “Ennin (793-864)” in Encyclopedia of Monasticism. Edited by William M. Johnston. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001.

“Fujiwara Seika,” “Suzuki Shosan,” “Hayashi Razan,” “Yamazaki Ansai,” “Motoori Norinaga,” and “Hirata Atsutane,” in Great Thinkers of the Eastern World: The Major Thinkers and the Philosophical and Religious Classics of China, India, Japan, Korea, and the Middle East. Edited by Ian P. McGreal. San Francisco: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1995, pp. 338-342; 343-346; 347-350; 355-358; 375-379; 380-383.

— Conference Papers Available Online —

“Discourses of Religious Space.” Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2003.

“Simulating Pure Land Space: The Hyperreality of a Japanese Buddhist Paradise.” Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 2002.

— Book Reviews —

Review of Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan by Charlotte Eubanks. (University of California Press, 2011). Forthcoming in Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

Review of Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan by R. Keller Kimbrough (Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies 62, 2008). Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 37/1 (2010): 163-167.

Review of Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China by Eugene Y. Wang (University of Washington Press, 2005). H-Buddhism, H-Net Reviews, July, 2006.

Review of Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan by Brian D. Ruppert (Harvard University Press, Harvard East Asian Monographs 188, 2000). Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 29/1-2 (2002): 152-156.

Review of Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism by Jacqueline I. Stone (Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 12. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999). Journal of Japanese Studies 27/1 (2001): 232-237.

Review of Monastic Quest and Interreligious Dialogue by Gilbert G. Hardy (Peter Lang Publishing, 1990) Journal of Developing Societies 14/1 (1998).

Review of The Lotus Sutra. Translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1993) in China Review International 3/2 (1996): 559-564.

Review of Eloquent Zen: Daitō and Early Japanese Zen by Kenneth Kraft (University of Hawaii Press, 1992) in History of Religions 35/2 (1995): 189-191.

Review of Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan by William R. LaFleur (Princeton University Press, 1992) in The Japan Foundation Newsletter XXI/3 (1993): 28-30.

Review of Rethinking Sorrow: Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan by Margaret Helen Childs (Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1991) in Journal of Japanese Studies 18/2 (1992): 618-623.

Review of New Wine: The Cultural Shaping of Japanese Christianity by David Reid (Asian Humanities Press, 1991) in Journal of Asian Studies 51/1 (1992): 172-174.

Review of Tao-sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sūtra: A Study and Translation by Young-ho Kim (State University of New York Press, 1990) in Monumenta Nipponica 46/3 (1991): 398-401.

Review of Zen-Man Ikkyū by James Sanford in Bulletin, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, Fall 1981.

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