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The following information is meant to be representative, rather than exhaustive.
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PUBLICATIONS AND MAJOR WORKS
"Holes in El Capitan: A Case Study of Ethics and Pilgrimage Culture." Journal of Inquiry and Research. Osaka: Kenkyuronshu vol. 118 (2023): 37-53.
"The Epic Pilgrimage: The Way of the Ascetics of El Capitan." Dublin: International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage. Vol. 10:4 (2022): 78-90.
"The Steepness of the Pilgrim Path: Ascetic Lessons from Japan." In Pilgrimage as Spiritual Practice: A Handbook for Teachers, Wayfarers, and Guides. Edited by Jeffery Bloechl and Andre Brouillette. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. 2022.
Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku. Monograph with Ian Reader. Oxford University Press. 2021.
****NOTE: Introduction can be read through google scholar below***
"Holes in El Capitan: A Case Study of Ethics and Pilgrimage Culture." Journal of Inquiry and Research. Osaka: Kenkyuronshu vol. 118 (2023): 37-53.
"The Epic Pilgrimage: The Way of the Ascetics of El Capitan." Dublin: International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage. Vol. 10:4 (2022): 78-90.
"The Steepness of the Pilgrim Path: Ascetic Lessons from Japan." In Pilgrimage as Spiritual Practice: A Handbook for Teachers, Wayfarers, and Guides. Edited by Jeffery Bloechl and Andre Brouillette. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. 2022.
Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku. Monograph with Ian Reader. Oxford University Press. 2021.
****NOTE: Introduction can be read through google scholar below***
"Heart Sutra Pop: Religious Textual Democratization by a Sexy Vocal Android." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Vol. 33.1. March 2021.
"Vertical Pilgrimage: Japanese Mountain Religious Experience and American Big Wall Climbing" Journal of Inquiry and Research. Osaka: Kenkyuronshu vol. 112 (2020): 91-108.
"Pilgrimaging Through Time: The Theoretical Implications of Continuing Journeys on the Shikoku Henro." Dublin: International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage. Vol. 8:1 (2020), 51-59.
"The 'Gaijin Henro': Outliers, Discrimination and Time Variability with Pilgrimage in Shikoku." Journal of Inquiry and Research. Osaka: Kenkyuronshu vol. 107 (2018): 1-12.
"The Way to Gyō: Priestly Asceticism on the Shikoku Henro." The Journal of Japanese Religious Studies. Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture 43/2: 275-305.
"Review: Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion by Tullio Federico Lobetti," Religious Studies Review vol. 38(2015): 127-128.
"Black Swans in White Clothing: Outliers and Social Scientific Theory Considered Through a Case Study of the Shikoku Henro." Journal of Inquiry and Research. Osaka: Kenkyuronshu vol. 100 (2014): 153-165.
"Shock Treatment on an Inpatient Island: Finding Anxious Cures on Pilgrimage in Shikoku." The Journal of Intercultural Studies. Osaka: Intercultural Research Institute vol. 38(2013): 27-41.
“Review: Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity by David A. Palmer and Xun Liu,” Religious Studies Review vol. 38(2012): 259.
"Review of Jun'ichi Isomae's Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture." Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception (available online here) vol. 2 (2011): 371-383.
"Media Transformation, Evangelical Continuity: Enticement for a Japanese Pilgrimage from Woodblocks to Homepages." In Japan and the Internet: Perspectives and Practices. Edited by Yutaka Tsujinaka and Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki. Tsukuba: Center for International, Comparative, and Advanced Japanese Studies (University of Tsukuba). 2011.
"Pilgrim Leadership Rendered in HTML: Bloggers and the Shikoku Henro." In Japanese Religions and the Internet: Innovation, Representation, and Authority ( volume link here). Edited by Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader, and Birgit Staemmler. New York: Routeledge. 2011.
"Characters on a Page, Characters on a Pilgrimage: Contemporary Memoirs of the Shikoku Henro." Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD (University of Manchester). 2009.
"White Garments, Gray Notions: Issues of Identity and Motivation in Regard to the Japanese Buddhist Pilgrim." Thesis submitted for the degree of MA (University of Hawaii). 2004.
NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
"A Gumby's Guide to Three Person Big-Wall Technique (more than 11,000 views!)"

This image collage, constructed with Wordle, demonstrates the frequency of occurrence for certain terms in my PhD thesis.