Theoretical Perspectives and Analytical Categories
*Asad, Talal: "Anthropological Conceptions of Religions: Reflections on Geertz." in : Man 18, pp.237-259.
*Asad, Talal: "The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category" in : Michael Lambek (ed.) : A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, 2002. London: Blackwell Publishing. pp.114-133.
*Barth, Fredrik: Process and Form in Social Life, 1981. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp.1-138.
*Baumann, G.: "Ritual Implicates Others; Rereading Durkheim in a Plural Society" in : D. Coppet (ed.): Understanding Rituals, 1992. London: Routledge. pp.97-116.
*Gellner, David N.: "Part 1" in : The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes, 2001. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. pp.1-83.
*Goddard, Vitoria Ana: "Introduction" in : Victoria Ana Goddard (ed.): Gender, Agency and Change; Anthropological Perspectives, London: Routledge. pp.1-32.
*Kapferer, Bruce: "From the Periphery to the Centre: Ethnography and the Critique of Anthropology in Sri Lanka" in : Fardon, Richard (ed.): Localizing Strategies: Regional Traditions of Ethnographic Writing, 1990. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp.280-303.
*Keesing, Roger M: "Anthropology as Interpretive Quest" in : Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders (eds.): Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, 2006. London: Blackwell. pp.258-267.
*Isomae Jun’ichi: "Deconstructing “Japanese Religion”: A Historical Survey" in : Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 32, 2, pp. 235-248.
Ortner, Sherry B: "Introduction” and “Thick Resistance: Death and the Cultural Construction of Agency in Himalayan Mountaineering" in : Sherry Ortner (ed.): The Fate of “Culture”; Geertz and Beyond, (1997) 1999. Berkeley Press. pp.1-14 and 136-165.
*Ortner, Sherry B.: "Making Gender: Toward a Feminist, Minority, Postcolonial, Subaltern, Etc., Theory of Practice" in Sherry Ortner: Making Gender: the Politics and Erotics of Culture, 1996. Boston: Beacon Press. pp.1-20.
*Rajasingham-Senanayake, Darini: "Identity on the Borderline: Modernity, New Ethnicities, and the Unmaking of Multiculturalism in Sri Lanka" in : The Hybrid Island, 2002. London & New York: Zed Books . pp.41-70.
Sewell, William H: "Geertz, Cultural Systems, and History: From Synchrony to Transformation" in : Sherry Ortner (ed.): The Fate of “Culture”; Geertz and Beyond, (1997) 1999. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp.35-56.
*Shaw, Rosalind and Charles Stewart: "Introduction: Problematizing Syncretism" in : Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis, 1994. London: Routledge . pp.1-27.
Buddhism Localised
*Fardon, Richard: "General Introduction. Localizing Strategies: The Regionalization of Ethnographic Accounts" in : Localizing Strategies: Regional Traditions of Ethnographic Writing, 1990. Washington Press.
Buddhism in China
*Zürcher, Erik: "'Beyond the Jade Gate’: Buddhism in China, Vietnam and Korea" in : Bechert, Heinz and Richard Gombrich (eds.): The World of Buddhism, 1984. London: Thames and Hudson. pp.193-211.
Buddhism in Tibet
*Kv?rne, Per: "Tibet: The Rise and the Fall of a Monastic Tradition" in : Bechert, Heinz and Richard Gombrich (eds.): The World of Buddhism, 1984. London: Thames and Hudson. pp.253-271.
Buddhism and Shinto in Japan
*Teeuwen, Mark and Fabio Rambelli : "Introduction" (ch.1) and "The Interaction Between Buddhist and Shinto Traditions at Suwa Shrine (ch.11)" in : Teeuwen, Mark and Fabio Rambelli (eds.) : Buddhas and Kami in Japan: Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm, 2003. RoutledgeCurzon. pp.1-53 and 287-312.
*Toshio, Kuroda, James C. Dobbins and Suzanne Gay: "Shinto in the History of Japanese Religion" in : Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, Winter 1981. pp.1-21.
The Cult of Kataragama in Sri Lanka
*Obeyesekere, Gananath: "The Fire-walkers of Kataragama: The Rise of Bhakti Religiosity in Buddhist Sri Lanka" in : Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. XXXVII, no. 3, 1978. pp. 457-476.
*Obeyesekere, Gananath: "Social Change and the Deities: Rise of the Kataragama Cult in Modern Sri Lanka" in : Man 12 (Dec. 1977), pp.377-396.
*Pfaffenberger, Bryan: "The Kataragama Pilgrimage: Hindu-Buddhist Interaction and its Significance in Sri Lanka’s Polyethnic Social System" in Journal of Asian Studies, vol. XXXVIII, no. 2. pp. 253-270.
Buddhist Revival in Mongolia
*Bareja-Starzynska, Agata and Hanna Havnevik: "A Preliminary Survey of Buddhism in Present-day Mongolia" in : Mongols from Country to City. Floating Boundaries, Pastoralism and City Life in the Mongol Lands, 2006. K?benhavn: NIAS. pp.212-236.
Translocal Themes in Buddhism
Buddhahood Objectified
*Davis, Richard H.: "Living Images" in : Lives of Indian Images, 1997. Princeton University Press. pp.15-51.
*Martin, Dan: "Pearls from Bones: Relics, Chortens, Tertons and the Signs of Saintly Death in Tibet" in : Numen, Vol. 44, 1994. pp.273-305.
*Rambelli, Fabio: "Secret Buddhas: The Limits of Buddhist Representation" in : Monumenta Nipponica 57:3, 2002. pp.271-306.
*Schopen, Gregory: "On the Buddha and his Bones: the Conception of a Relic in the Inscriptions of Nagarjunikonda" in : Journal of the American Oriental Society, no. 108, 4. pp.527-537.
*Sharf, Robert H: "Introduction: Prolegomenon to the study of Japanese Buddhist icons" in : Sharf, Robert H. and Elizabeth H. Sharf (eds.): Living images: Japanese Buddhist icons in context, 2001. Stanford UP. pp.1-18.
Mountain Cults and Pilgrimage
*Buffetrille, Katia: "One Day the Mountains Will Go Away – Preliminary Remarks on the Flying Mountains of Tibet" in : Blondeau, Anne-Marie and Ernst Steinkellner (eds.): Reflections of the Mountain. Essays on the History and Social Meaning of the Mountain Cult in Tibet and the Himalaya, 1996. pp.77-91.
*Huber, Toni: "A Guide to the La-Phyi Mandala: History, Landscape and Ritual in South-Western Tibet" in : A.W. Macdonald (ed.) : In Mandala and Landscape, 1997. pp.233-287.
*Swanson, Paul L.: "Shugendo and the Yoshino-Kumano Pilgrimage: An Example of Mountain Pilgrimage" in : Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 1981. pp. 55-84.
*Ten Grotenhuis, Elizabeth: "The Kami-Worshiping Tradition: Kunmano" in : Japanese Mandalas; Representations of Sacred Geography, 1999. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. pp.163-183.
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