Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan.
- Paperback edition: New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Hardbound edition: New York: Facts On File, 2005.
- Estonian translation: Keskaeg ja uusaeg Jaapanis, Tänapäev Publishers, 2009.
Theory for Religious Studies. Co-authored with Timothy Beal. New York: Routledge, 2004.
— Book Chapters —
“The Serial Killer Was (Cognitively) Framed.” In Serial Killers and Philosophy. Edited by Sara Waller. Blackwell, forthcoming 2010.
“Introduction: Meditations on Murder, or What Is So Philosophical About Serial Killers?” Co-authored with Sara Waller. In Serial Killers and Philosophy. Edited by Sara Waller. Blackwell, forthcoming 2010.
“The Mind of Santa Claus and the Metaphors He Lives By.” Co-authored with Sara Waller. In Christmas and Philosophy. Edited by Scott C. Lowe. Blackwell, forthcoming 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 —“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.” 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 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.