History of Religions

Title Publication Date Language Citations
The Center out There: Pilgrim's Goal1973/02/01English292
Reading a Modern Classic: W. C. Smith's "The Meaning and End of Religion"2001/02/01English70
On the Very Idea of Religions (In the Modern West and in Early Medieval China)2003/05/01English41
In Search of Equivalence: Conceiving Muslim-Hindu Encounter through Translation Theory2001/02/01English41
Archaeology and Protestant Presuppositions in the Study of Indian Buddhism1991/08/01English36
India's "Tīrthas": "Crossings" in Sacred Geography1981/05/01English35
The "Slametan": Textual Knowledge and Ritual Performance in Central Javanese Islam1988/08/01English35
The Religious Commitment: Shang Theology and the Genesis of Chinese Political Culture1978/02/01English34
The Zen of Japanese Nationalism1993/08/01English31
Performativity, Citationality, Ritualization2002/11/01English30
The Bare Facts of Ritual1980/08/01English30
The Image of the Androgyne: Some Uses of a Symbol in Earliest Christianity1974/02/01English30
The Torment of Secrecy: Ethical and Epistemological Problems in the Study of Esoteric Traditions1998/02/01English27
On the Word "Taoist" as a Source of Perplexity. With Special Reference to the Relations of Science and Religion in Traditional China1978/02/01English27
Wild Victims: Hunting as Sacrifice and Sacrifice as Hunting in Huaulu1994/11/01English26
Icons in Theory and Practice: An Orthodox Christian Example1985/05/01English24
The North American Indian Trickster1966/12/01English22
Buddhist Pilgrimage Centers and the Twelve-Year Cycle: Northern Thai Moral Orders in Space and Time1975/08/01English21
"Merit Transference" in Sinhalese Buddhism: A Case Study of the Interaction between Doctrine and Practice1971/11/01English21
Sound and Senses: Toward a Hermeneutics of Performance1986/08/01English21
Intervals ("Ma") in Space and Time: Foundations for a Religio-Aesthetic Paradigm in Japan1986/02/01English20
The Bodies of Nations: A Comparative Study of Religious Violence in Jerusalem and Ayodhya1998/11/01English20
The Cult of Ecstasy: Tantrism, the New Age, and the Spiritual Logic of Late Capitalism2000/02/01English20
The Image of the Perfect Ruler in Early Taoist Messianism: Lao-tzu and Li Hung1969/11/01English20
Cosmology and Meditation: From the Aggañña-Sutta to the Mahāyāna1997/02/01English20
Religion and Chinese Culture: Toward an Assessment of "Popular Religion"1989/08/01English20
Sacrifice as Quintessential Process Prophylaxis or Abandonment?1977/02/01English18
Signs of Power: Talismanic Writing in Chinese Buddhism2008/11/01English17
Mindful Wisdom: TheSati-paṭṭhāna-suttaon Mindfulness, Memory, and Liberation2010/05/01English17
Nāga, Yakṣiṇī, Buddha: Local Deities and Local Buddhism at Ajanta1998/05/01English17