Chapters & Articles

2009     “Luther’s Wedding – Conviviality, Mimesis and the Return of the Repressed: a photo-essay and short film.” Practical Matters: Religion and the Imagination 1.1 (2009). Online publication. http://www.practicalmattersjournal.org/issue/1/analyzing-matters/luthers-wedding

2009     “What’s at Stake in Torture.” Co-authored with Thomas Driver and Werner Binder. In Ritual, Media, and Conflict, edited by Ronald Grimes, Ute Hüsken, and Eric Venbrux. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming)

2009     “The Carnivalesque in Contemporary Luther Festivity.” In Negotiating Rites, edited by Ute Hüsken and Frank Norbert. University of Heidelberg, Ritualdynamik Sonderforschungsberiech. (Forthcoming)

2008     “Luther’s Thesenportal: a case study of a ‘ritual-architectural event.” Material Religion: a Journal of Objects, Art and Belief 4(1): 54-85. (photo essay)

2008     “Greene’s Quixote, Freud’s Cervantes.” In From Pietism to Catholicism: A Festschrift for Peter Erb, edited by Michel Desjardins and Harold Remus, 261-280. Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press.

2007     “Swaggering Savagery and the New Frontier.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, vol. 16: no pagination. Link

2005     “The Koan as Ritual Performance.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 73.2: 475-496.

2004     “Rites of Passage: An Overview [Further Considerations].” Encyclopedia of Religion, 2^nd edition.

2003     “Therapy and Healing.” In Religion and American Cultures: An Encyclopedia of Traditions, Diversity, and Popular Expressions, vol. 2: 551-553. Edited by Gary Laderman and Luis León. Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-CLIO.

2003     “Ritual Criticism of a Contemporary Rite of Passage.” Journal of Ritual Studies 17(1):32-41, 2003.

2001     “Charcot’s Theatre of Hysteria as Social Drama.” Journal of Ritual Studies 15(1):27-37, 2001.