Theoretical Perspectives and Analytical Categories
*Barth, Fredrik: Process and Form in Social Life, 1981. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. . pp. 97-116.
*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.
*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.
*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: Regionalization of Ethnographic Accounts" in: Localizing Strategies: Regional Traditions of Ethnographic Writing, 1990. Washington Press.
Buddhism in Tibet
Snellgrove, David: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Indian Buddhists and their Tibetan Successors, 1987. London: Serindia Publication. Chapters 3 (pp. 117-305) and 5 (381-529).
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.
Translocal Themes in Buddhism
Buddahood Objectified
*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: Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History of Ojects in Japanese Buddhism, 2007. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Mountain Cults and Pilgrimage
Huber, Toni: The cult of Pure Crystal Mountain. Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in southeast Tibet, 1999. New York: Oxford University Press. 297 s.
*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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