Articles, Chapters

2010      “Shooting the Dead.” Written with Erik Venbrux. In Die Realität des Todes, 63-75. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.

2009      “Re-Sensualizing Ritual Theory.” In Senses and Religion, 207-219. Ljubljana: Zalozba ZRC. [Dated 2007.]

2006      Reimagining Ritual Theory: John Bourke among the Hopis. Inaugural Oration. Faculty of Religious Studies. Radboud University Nijmegen, April 27, 2006.

2006      “Shooting Rites.” Colloquium 1.2: 1-10.

2006      “Performance.” In Theorizing Rituals: Classical Topics, Theoretical Approaches, Analytical Concepts, Annotated Bibliography, 379-394. Edited by Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek, Michael Strausberg. Leiden: Brill.

2005      “Ritual [and Nature].” In The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, edited by Bron R. Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan, 1385-1388. London, New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005.

2004a    “Performance Theory and the Study of Ritual.” In New Approaches to the Study of Religion, 109-138. Ed. Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, and Randi Warne. Religion and Reason Series. Berlin, New York: Verlag de Gruyter.

2004b   “Ritual, Performance, and the Sequestering of Sacred Space.” In Ritual Economies, edited by Lorenzo Buj, 1-20. Windsor, ON: University of Windsor Humanities Research Group.

2007. Reprinted in Discourse in Ritual Studies, edited by Hans Schilderman, 149-168. Leiden: Brill.

2003a    “Consuming Ritual: A&E’s ‘Sacred Rites and Rituals.’” In Contemporary Consumption Rituals: A Research Anthology, 21 – 36. Ed. Cele C. Otnes and Tina M. Lowrey. Mawah, NJ: Erlbaum.

2003b   “Ritual and Performance.” In Religion and American Cultures: An Encyclopedia of Traditions, Diversity, and Popular Expressions, 2: 515 – 528. Ed. Gary Laderman and Luis León. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio.

2003c    “Ritualizing September 11.” In Disaster Ritual: Explorations of an Emerging Ritual Repertoire, 199 – 213. Ed. P. Post and others. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters.

2003d   “Visiting Rites.” Religious Studies News, March 22, p. 7.

2003e    “Ritual Theory and the Environment.” In Nature Performed: Environment, Culture, Performance, edited by Bronislaw Szerszynski and others, 31 – 45. Oxford: Blackwell.

2002a    “Zen and the Art of Not Teaching Zen and the Arts: An Autopsy.” In Teaching Buddhism in the West: From the Wheel to the Web, 155 – 169. Ed. Victor Sogen Hori, Richard P. Hayes, and James Mark Shields. London: RoutledgeCurzon. Reprinted in Teaching Ritual, edited by Catherine Bell, 89-100. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

2002b   “Performance Is Currency in the Deep World’s Gift Economy: An Incantatory Riff for a Global Medicine Show.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 9.1 (Winter): 149 – 164.

2002c    “Ritual and the Media.” In Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion and Culture, 219 – 234. Ed. Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark. New York: Columbia University Press.

2000a   “Initiatory Fantasy and White Western Male Identity.” Doxology 17: 23 – 33.

2000b   “Writing against…” Culture and Religion 1.1: 19 – 21.

2000c    “Ritual.” In Guide to the Study of Religion. Ed. Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon, 259 – 270. London: Continuum.

1999a     “Spirituality and Ritual in America,” in the Forum on American Spirituality, Religion in American Culture 9.2: 145 – 152.  2001. Revised and reprinted as “Global Spirituality and Ritual.” In Anáil Dé: The Breath of God: Music, Ritual and Spirituality, 17 – 25. Ed. Helen Phelan. Dublin: Veritas for the Irish World Music Centre.

1999b    “Jonathan Smith’s Theory of Ritual.” Journal of Religion. 29: 261 – 273.

1998a    “The Initiatory Dilemma: Cinematic Fantasy and Ecclesiastical Rarifiction.” Zeitschrift für Theologie in Europa, Bulletin ET 9.2: 161 – 170.

1998b    “Negotiating Religious Life Histories in North American Religious Studies.” International Journal of Practical Theology 2.1: 65 – 83.

1996       “This May Be a Feud, but It is not a War: An Electronic, Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Teaching Native Religions.” American Indian Quarterly 20.3. Reprinted in Native American Spirituality: A Critical Reader, 78 – 94. Ed. Lee Irwin. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. ISBN: 0 – 8032 – 8261 – 3.

1996       “Ritual Criticism.” In Readings in Ritual Studies. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice – Hall.

1995a     “Exorcising Exorcism.” Kitchener – Waterloo Record and other newspapers across Canada, e.g., “When Religious Fervor Becomes Deadly,” London Free Press, London, ON, Jan. 28, 1995.

1995b    “Color and Number Symbolism.” In Harper’s Dictionary of Religion. Ed. Jonathan Z. Smith. New York: HarperCollins.

1994a     “Sacred Space and the Southwest: Mapping Histories of American Religion.” Environments 22.2: 21 – 28.

1994b    “The Presentation of Self in Native American Autobiography.” In Other Selves: Biography and Autobiography in Cross – Cultural Context, 1 – 15. Ed. Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara. Oakville, Canada: Mosaic.

1994c     “Ritual and Autobiography in Frank Hamilton Cushing’s My Adventures in Zuni.” In Other Selves: Biography and Autobiography in Cross – Cultural Context, 207 – 221. Ed. Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara. Oakville, Canada: Mosaic.

1993       “Liturgical Supinity, Liturgical Erectitude: Two Attitudes toward Ritual Authority.” Studia Liturgica 23: 51 – 69.  2007. Reprinted in Paul Bradshaw and John Melloh, eds., Foundations in Ritual Studies: A Readers for Students of Christian Worship, 148-165. London: SPCK.

1992a     “Sacred Objects in Museum Spaces.” Studies in Religion 21.4: 419 – 430.

1992b    “The Biography of a Mask.” The Drama Review 36.3: 61 – 77.

1992c     “Ritual.” In New Handbook of Christian Theology, 413 – 415. Ed. Donald Musser and Joseph Price. Nashville: Abingdon Press. 2002. Revised for A New Handbook of Christian Theology, revised edition, edited by Joseph L. Price and Donald W. Musser. New York: Abingdon.

1992d    “Reinventing Ritual.” Soundings 75.1: 21 – 41.

1992e     “Liturgical Renewal and Ritual Criticism.” In The Church Awakening: 25 Years of Liturgical Renewal. Ed. Lawrence Madden. Georgetown: Liturgical Press.

1990a    “Breaking the Glass Barrier: The Power of Display.” Journal of Ritual Studies 4.2: 239 – 261.

1990b    “Emerging Ritual.” In Proceedings of the North American Academy of Liturgy. Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO. Jan. 2 – 5: 15 – 34.

1990c     “Victor Turner’s Definition, Theory, and Sense of Ritual.” In Victor Turner and the Construction of Cultural Criticism: Between Literature and Anthropology, 141 – 146. Ed. Kathleen M. Ashley. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

1989b    “Bound to Baptize: Ritualization in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away. Religion and Literature 21.1: 9 – 26.

1988a    “The Koan of Liturgy: A Meditation of Empty Liturgical Space.” Liturgy 7.3: 8 – 13.

1988b    “Ritual Criticism and Reflexivity in Fieldwork.” Journal of Ritual Studies 2.2: 217 – 239.

1988c    “Victor Turner’s Social Drama and T.S. Eliot’s Ritual Drama.” Anthropologica, N.S. 27.1-2: 79-99. [published 1988 though dated 1985].

1988d    “Ritual in the Toronto Towneley Cycle of Mystery Plays.” Studies in Religion 16.4: 473-480.

1988e    “Infelicitous Performances and Ritual Criticism.” Semeia 43: 103-122.

1987a    “Ritual Studies.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, 12: 422-425. Ed. Mircea Eliade. New York: Macmillan.

1987b    “Procession.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, 12: 1-3. Ed. Mircea Eliade. New York: Macmillan.

1987c     “Portals.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, 11: 452-453. Ed. Mircea Eliade. New York: Macmillan.

1987d    “Key Words in Searching for Data on Ritual.” Journal of Ritual Studies 1.2: 139 – 145.

1986a    “Desecration: an Interreligious Controversy.” American Indian Quarterly 10.4: 304 – 318. Revised and reprinted in The Future of the Past: Archaeologists, Native Americans, and Repatriation, 91 – 105. Ed. Tamara L. Bray. New York: Garland, 2001.

1986b    “Of Words the Speaker, Of Deeds the Doer.” Journal of Religion 66.1: 1-17.

1984a    “Sources for the Study of Ritual.” Religious Studies Review 10.2: 134-145.

1984b    “The Need for Ritual Practice: Weddings that Wed.” Liturgy 4.2: 9-13. Reprinted in The Landscape of Praise: Readings in Liturgical Renewal. Ed. Blair Gilmer Meeks. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity, 1996, 167 – 171.

1984c     “Ritual and Illness.” Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health 3.1: 55-65.

1983       “Tempest on Snake Island.” In Engineers of the Imagination. Ed. by Tony Coult and Baz Kershaw. London: Methuen, pp. 164-181.

1982a    “Theater of Sources.” The Drama Review 25.3: 67-74. 1997.  Reprinted in Lisa Wolford and Richard Schechner, eds., The Grotowski Sourcebook, 269 – 278. London: Routledge.

1982b    “Defining Nascent Ritual.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 50.4: 539-555.

1982c     “The Lifeblood of Public Ritual.” In Celebration: Studies in Festivity and Ritual. Ed. by Victor Turner. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute Press.

1980      “Symbolic Processes in Illness and Healing.” Voices: Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists 6.3: 21-29.

1979a     “Modes of Ritual Necessity.” Worship 53.2: 126-141.

1979b    “The Actor’s Lab: The Ritual Roots of Human Action.” Canadian Theatre Review, Spring, 9-19.

1978       “The Rituals of Walking and Flying: Public Participatory Events at Actor’s Lab.” The Drama Review 22.4: 77-82.

1977       “Route to the Mountain: A Prose Meditation on Grotowski as Pilgrim.” Jewish Dialogue: New Directions in the Performing Arts. January, 11-12. Reprinted in The Road To Active Culture. Ed. by Leszek Kolankiewicz. Wroclaw, Poland: Theater Laboratory Institute, 1978. Reprinted in Lisa Wolford and Richard Schechner, eds., The Grotowski Sourcebook, 246 – 249. London: Routledge, 1997.

1976       “Ritual Studies: A Comparative Review of Theodor Gaster and Victor Turner.” Religious Studies Review 2.4: 13-25.

1975       “Masking: Toward a Phenomenology of Exteriorization.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 43.3: 508-516.

1973       “Time and Space in Blake’s Major Prophecies.” In Blake’s Sublime Allegory. Ed. Joseph A. Wittreich and Stuart Curran. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.