Shattered Grief: How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America,
Columbia University Press, 2024.
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Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous, Lexington Books, 2021.
“Three Spirit Mediums: A Case Study on Grief, Death, and Alternative Religious Traditions during the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 27.2 (2023): 86-100.
“Tracking the Tulpa?: Exploring the ‘Tibetan’ Origins of a Contemporary Paranormal Idea.”
Nova Religio.19.1 (2015): 87-97.
“The Monstrous and the Moral: King Yama’s Representation in Returner Literature.”
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 55 (2020): 385-408.
“Tears Like Fluttering Leaves: Karmic Resentment and the Senses in Gesar’s Trip to Hell.”
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 50 (2019): 212-234.
“Buddhicizing the Warrior-King Gesar in the dMyal gling rDzogs pa Chen po.”
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 37 (2016). 231-246.
“When is a Hat a Mountain?: The Material Religion of Gesar Bard’s Hats.”
Material Religion 16.2 (2020): 187-212.
“The Power of Genres and the Project of Secularization: Publishing the Gesar Epic in Contemporary China”
Culture and Religion. 20.3 (2019): 322-350.
“Interpreting Intercultural Encounters with 90 Day Fiancé in the World Religions' Classroom.”
Teaching Theology & Religion 23.3 (2020): 163-174.
“Forum on Teaching Asian Religions in the American South.”
Teaching Theology & Religion 22.3 (2019): 208-222.
The Religion Matters Reader.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.: 2021.
“Name it and Disclaim It: A Tool for Better Discussion in Religious Studies.”
The Bulletin for the Study of Religion 47.3-4 (2018): 18-21.
“Is Nessie a Naga?: The Changing Face of Buddhism in the West.”
The Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43.4 (2014): 35-40