Books (single author)
2000 Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. Nominated for the 2001 John Whitney Hall Book Prize.
1996 A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine. Seattle: University of Washington Press. (Fourth Printing, March, 2007). Nominated for the Kiriyama Book Prize.
Films
2005 Spirits of the State: Japan's Yasukuni Shrine. Written and produced by J. Nelson.
Articles
2007* Teaching Ritual Propriety and Authority through Japanese Religions. Teaching
Ritual. Catherine Bell, editor. New York: Oxford University Press.
2004 Shinto Ritual. The Encyclopedia of Religious Rites, Rituals, and Festivals. F. Salamone, Editor. New York: Routledge.
2004* Shinto and War. The Encyclopedia of Religion and War. Catherine Cookson, Editor; David Levinson, Editor and Project Director., 2003.
2003 Social Memory as Ritual Practice: Commemorating Spirits of the Military Dead
at Yasukuni Shinto Shrine. Journal of Asian Studies. vol. 62 (2): 443-468.
2003 Shinto and Religious Freedom. The Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom. Catherine Cookson, Editor; David Levinson, Editor and Project Director. London: Berkshire Publishing Group.
2003 Shinto Worship. The New SCM Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship. Paul Bradshaw, Editor. New York: Macmillan.
2003 Myths, Shinto, and Matsuri in the Shaping of Japanese Cultural Identity. Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity: an Introduction. Craig Prentiss, editor. New York: NYU Press.
2002 Myths, Missions, and Mistrust: The Fate of Christianity in 16th and 17th Century Japan. History and Anthropology 13(2): 93-111.
2002* From Battlefield to Atomic Bomb to the Pure Land of Paradise: Employing the Bodhisattva of Compassion to Calm Japan’s Spirits of the Dead. Journal of Contemporary Religion 17 (2):149-164.
2002* Tempest in a Textbook: A Report on the New Middle-School History Textbook
in Japan. Critical Asian Studies 34 (1): 129-148.
2001 Signs of Recovery for Japanese Nationalism? The “Citizen Movement" for Reclaiming Cultural Identity through Textbook and Educational Reform. Pacific Rim Report 15, University of San Francisco, Center for the Pacific Rim.
2000 Ethnographies, Anthropologies, and Histories Within & Beyond Japanese Religions. Society for the Study of Japanese Religions Supplement (23). http://www.wfu.edu/organizations/ssjr/Bulletins.htm
1999 Shifting Paradigms of Religion and the State: Implications of the 1997 Supreme Court Decision for Social, Religious, and Political Change. Modern Asian Studies 33 (3): 797-814.
1997 Warden+Virtuoso+Salaryman=Priest: Paradigms within Japanese Shinto for Religious Specialists and Institutions. Journal of Asian Studies 56(3): 678-707.
1997 Shinkan to Jinja (Priests and Shrines). Ajia no Shukyo to Seishin Bunka (Asian Religion and Spiritual Culture), edited by Noriyoshi Tamaru and Wakimoto Tsuneya. Tokyo: Shinyoshu.
1996 Freedom of Expression: The Very Modern Practice of Visiting a Shinto Shrine.
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 23 (1/2): 117-153.
1994 Land Calming and Claiming Rituals in Contemporary Japan. Journal of Ritual Studies 8(2): 19-40.
1993 Of Flowers and Phalli: Sexual Symbolism at Kamigamo Shrine. Journal of Japanese Religions 18 (1): 2-14. Translated into German as "Von Blumen und Phalli: Sexuelle Symbolik im Kamigamo Schrein." In Müncher Japanischer Anzeiger 4. (trans. by Dr. Norbert Adami)
1992 Shinto Ritual: Managing Chaos in Contemporary Japan. Ethnos 57 (1, 2):77-104.
Multimedia Productions
1996 “Japan’s Rituals of Remembrance: Fifty Years after the Pacific War.” 30 minute documentary film on 1995 war commemoration rituals at Nagasaki’s Peace Park and Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine.
