Books

A God’s Own Tale: The Book of Transformations of Wenchang

A study of the 12th century revealed autohagiography of Wenchang, the patron deity of Chinese literati.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Reviewed in Asian Folklore Studies 55.1 (1996): 165-166; Bulletin de l’École-Française d’Extrême-Orient 83 (1996): 438-358, esp. 449-454; Journal of the American Academy of Religion 64 (1996): 430-432; Journal of American Oriental Society 115.4 (1995): 704-5; Journal of Chinese Religions 23 (Fall 1995): 187-192; Tōhō Shūkyō 89 (1997): 82-88; and T’oung Pao 82 (1996): 194-97.

Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial

            Kingdom

Study of a non-Chinese regional kingdom (A.D. 303-347), founded upon a Taoist theocratic model.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. 

Reviewed in Asian Folklore Studies 58, no. 1 (1999): 258-259; Journal of Chinese Religions 27 (1999): 159-161; Journal of Religion 80, no. 1 (Jan 2000): 166-167; T’oung Pao 86, no. 4-5 (2000): 414-417.

The Ancient Chinese World

Introduction to the history and civilization of pre-Tang China for grades 6-12, co-written with Tracy Barrett.  The World in Ancient Times series.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

   Edited volumes

Dōkyō to kyōsei shisō 道教と共生思想 [Daoism and the philosophy of co-existence].  Co-edited with B. Tanaka 田中文雄.  Tokyo: Taiga shobō, 2009.

  

   Articles

“Wei, Jin, Nanbeichao zhi wenshi yu Daojiao zhi guanxi (The Relationship of Literati of the Wei, Chin, Nan‑pei Ch’ao Period and  Religious Taoism) by Li Fengmao 李豐楙.”  A review article co‑written with T. Yamada 山田利明.  Tōhō Shūkyō 56 (1980.10): 85‑90. 

“Land Contracts and Related Documents.”  In Makio Ryōkai Hakase Shōju Kinen Ronshū: Chūgoku no Shūkyō, Shisō to Kagaku (Tokyo: Kokusho Kankōkai, 1984), 1‑34.

“Taoist Ethics.”  In John Carman & Mark Juergensmayer, eds.,  A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991), 162-95.

“Sinology in North America: Shang, Zhou, and Han.”  Journal of Intercultural Communications 17-18 (1990-91): 86-94.  In Japanese as Fukui Shigemasa, tr., “Kita America ni okeru Chūgokugaku no genjō—In, Shū, Kan o chūshin ni,” Shakai bunka shigaku [Journal of Social and Cultural History] 31: 103-114.

“The Expansion of the Wen-ch’ang Cult.”  In Patricia Ebrey and Peter N. Gregory, eds. Religion and Society in T’ang and Sung China (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993), 45-73.

“Senshu: Seitōteki na chihō shinkō”  [The Lord(s) of Sichuan: An orthodox local cult].   Tōhō shūkyō 80 (1992): 33-50;  81 (1993): 43-50.

“Shidō teikun shinkō kenkyū no genjō” [The current state of researches into the cult of the Divine Lord of Zitong].  Maruyama Hiroshi, tr.  In Progress towards Taoist Culture: Collected Essays of the Society for Research into Taoist Culture [Dōkyō bunka e no tenbō] (Tokyo: Hirakawa Publishing, 1994), 238-41.

“Mountain Deities in China: The Domestication of the Mountain God and the Subjugation of the Margins.”  Journal of the American Oriental Society 114.2 (April-June 1994): 226-38.

“Licentious Cults and Bloody Victuals: Sacrifice, Reciprocity and Violence in Traditional China.” Asia Major, Third series, 7.1 (1994): 185-211.

“The Lives and Teachings of the Divine Lord of Zitong.”  In Donald S. Lopez, Jr., ed., Religions of China in Practice (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 64-71.

“You jisi kan Zhongguo zongjiao de fenlei” 由祭祀看中國宗教的分類 [A consideration of the typology of Chinese religion from the standpoint of sacrifice].  In Li Fengmao and Zhu Ronggui (Ron-guey Chu), eds., Yishi, Miaohui yu shequ: Daojiao minjian xinyang yu minjian wenhua [Ritual, temple festivals, and communities: Daoist and popular beliefs and popular culture] (Nangang: Academia Sinica, Institute of Literature and Philosophy, 1997), 547-555.

“Religious Practice in Zitong: The Local Aspect of a National Cult.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 10 (1998): 341-355.

“Daoism and the Quest for Order.”  Taoism and Ecology (Cambridge, Mass.: Center for the Study of World Religion, Harvard University, 2001), 61-70.

“Ethnic Identity and Daoist Identity in Traditional China.”  In Livia Kohn and Harold D. Roth, eds., Daoist Identity: History, Lineage, and Ritual (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002), 23-38.

“Reconstructing China’s Religious Past: Textual Criticism and Intellectual History.”  Journal of Chinese Religions 32 (2004): 29-45.

“Feasting without the Victuals: The Evolution of the Daoist Communal Kitchen.”  In Roel Sterckx, ed., Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China (New York and Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), 140-162.

“The Evolution of Daoist Cosmology and the Construction of the Common Sacred Realm.”  Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies 2.1 (June 2005): 89-110.

“Daoism in the Third Century.”  In Florian C. Reiter, ed., Purposes, Means and Convictions in Daoism: A Berlin Symposium, Asien- und Afrika-Studien der Humboldt-Universität su Berlin Band 29 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 11-28.

“Shoki kyōkai shiryō to shite no Dōkyō no rinri kihan ni tsuite” [On Daoist ethical norms as a source for early church history].  Tr. Mori Yuria.  Tōyō no shisō to shūkyō 24 (2007): 1-26.

“Daoism and Co-existence” 道教と共生.  In Research Center for Kyōsei Philosophy, ed.,  Annual Report of Kyosei Studies 2008 (Tokyo: Research Center for Kyosei Philosophy, 2008): 40-44.

“The Ritualized Treatment of Stroke in Early Medieval Daoism and the Secret Incantation of the Northern Thearch.” In Florian Reiter, ed., Foundations of Daoist Ritual, A Berlin Symposium, Asien- und Afrikastudien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Vol. 33 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009),  227-238.

“Michi no kyōkai wo sadameru: shoki Dōkyō kyōdan nin okeru shūkyōteki aidentiti” 「道」の境界を定める — 初期道教教団における宗教的アイデンティティ[Determing the border of the Dao: Religious identity in the early Daoist church].  In F. Tanaka and Terry Kleeman, eds., Dōkyō to kyōsei shisō 道教と共生思想 [Daoism and the philosophy of co-existence], tr. N. Kikuchi (Tokyo: Taiga shobō, 2009), 36-52.

“Community and Daily Life in the Early Daoist Church.”  John Lagerway and Lü Pengzhi, eds., Early Chinese Religion: Part 2, The Period of Division (220-589) (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 395-436.