Recent Publications

Under contract with Bloomsbury “Jack Kerouac, Buddhism, and the American Search for Enlightenment”

2019   “Sad Paradise: Jack Kerouac’s Nostalgic Buddhism,Religions, 10, 2019.

2018   “Ritual and Myth in Moonrise Kingdom,” Journal of Religion & Film, Vol. 22, Issue 2, Article 6.

2017   Review of Ronald L. Grimes. The Craft of Ritual Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. History of Religions, Volume 56, Number 4, May 2017, 454-457.

2014   Haynes, Sarah and Michelle J. Sorenson, Eds. Wading into the Stream of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Leslie Kawamura. Berkeley: Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2014.

2014   “Shaping Images of Tibet: Negotiating the Diaspora through Ritual, Art, and Film,” in Flowers on the Rock. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 287-309.

2014   “Peaceful and Wrathful Manifestations: The Development of Sarasvatī from India to East Asia to Tibet,” in Wading into the Stream of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Leslie Kawamura. Berkeley: Institute for Buddhist Studies, 247-281.

2013   Review of Jacob P. Dalton. The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Journal of Buddhist Ethics. Volume 20, 1-5.

2012   “The Re-Imagination of Tibet: Ritual Adaptation in the Tibetan Diaspora,” in Re-imagining South Asian Religions: A Conversation on Old World Cultures through the 21st Century. Leiden: Brill, 155-170.

2010   “A Relationship of Reciprocity: Globalization, Skillful Means, and Tibetan Buddhism in Canada,” in Wild Geese: Studies of Buddhism in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 321-347.

2009   “With the Help of Sarasvatī: Challenges in Translating and Interpreting Tibetan Buddhist Ritual Texts,” ARC, McGill University Religious Studies Journal. Vol. 37, 49-77.

2005   “An Exploration of Jack Kerouac’s Buddhism: Text and Life,” Journal of Contemporary Buddhism. Vol. 6. No. 2, 171-189.