PEER REVIEWED

MONOGRAPHS

Death By Association: Temples, Burials, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism. 299 pages, 237 notes. Submitted to University of Chicago Press, June 2009.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Death, Burial, and the Study of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism,” Religious Compass, 3/1 (2009): 18-30.

“Where the Action Is: Sites of Contemporary Sōtō Buddhism,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 31/2 (Fall 2004), 357-88.

“Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Teachings, Doctrines, and Practices,” Editors’ introduction written with Stephen Covell. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 31/2 (Fall 2004), 245-54.

“Round-table Discussion: The Current State of Sectarian Universities,” Organized,
edited and wrote introduction with Stephen Covell. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 31/2 (2004), 429-64.

“Grave Changes: Scattering Ashes in Contemporary Japan,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 30/1-2 (Spring 2003), 85-118.

“Stickers for Nails: The Ongoing Transformation of Roles, Rites, and Symbols in Japanese Funerals,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 27/3-4 (Fall 2000), 353-78.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

“Grave Changes: Scattering Ashes in Contemporary Japan,” The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, and Representations. Cuevas, B., & Stone, J. (Eds.). University of Hawai‘i Press (2007). This is a modified version of “Grave Changes,” listed above.

Nancy Stalker, Prophet Motive:Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan, Journal of Religion 89/3 (2009).

Nam-lin Hur, Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 77/1 (2009).
               
Stephen Covell, Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34/2 (2007).

NOT PEER REVIEWED

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Gaikokujin kara mita Nihonjin no Shiseikan” (An Outsider’s Look at Japanese views of death). Banki, 76 (May 2005), 6-15.

“Sōshiki/haka kara mita Gendai Nihon no Bukkyō” (Japanese Buddhism through Mortuary Rites and Graves). With Himonya Hajime. Sōgi 13/5 (2003).

TRANSLATIONS

“Changes in Japanese Urban Funeral Customs during the Twentieth Century,” by Murakami Kōkyō. Translation. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 27/3-4 (Fall 2000) 335-52.

The Hadaka Festival of Mitsuke Tenjin (Documentary Film). Co-translation with John LoBreglio. The Association of Shinto Shrines (1996).