America Popular Religion; Ritual, Theory, and Identity; Gender and Religion; U.S. Motherhood/Stepmotherhood
Selected
Publications:
“Clergy
Discipline and the Salem-Witch Hunt: Popular Stereotypes
vs. 17th Century Ecclesiology.” It examines two
types of unconventional excommunications performed in
1692: the jailhouse excommunication by the Salem Village
Church's minister and voluntary excommunication by three
petitioning church members. Puritan disciplinary processes
in fact
led to the exoneration and restitution of excommunicated
church members. Journal of Religion and Abuse,
Vol. VII, No. 2, 2005.
"Ritual
Studies” 4300 word essay chronicling the history,
scope, and content of the interdisciplinary field of ritual
studies in both the U.S. and Europe, in the multivolume The Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition,
, ed. Lindsay Jones, et al., Vol. 11, 7856-7861 (Macmillan
Reference USA, 2005).
“Public
Voice, Politics, and Religion: Japanese American Commemorative
Spiritual Autobiography of the 1970s” examines the
role of Japanese American testimonial lifestories in shaping
ethnic and religious identity, in Revealing the Sacred
in Asian and Pacific America, ed. by Paul Spickard
and Jane Iwamura, (Routledge, 2003:291-308).
“Identity
and Marginalization” contribution to a symposium
in response to Leslie Woodcock Tentler’s “On
the Margins: The State of American Catholic History”
in U.S. Catholic Historian, (Vol. 21, No. 2,
Spring 2003:96-126).
“Civic
and Political Ritual Performances” 2000 word essay
on varieties of public ritual performative activism in
the 1960s, and 1990s, ranging from Catholic anti-nuclear
and anti-abortion protests, to “family values”
marches on Washington of both the Promise-Keepers and
Nation of Islam, in Encyclopedia of Religion and American
Cultures, ed. Gary Laderman and Luis Leon, (CLIO
Publications, 2003:533-536).
“Japanese
and Filipino Together: The Transethnic Vision of Our Lady
Queen of Martyrs Parish” an article examining unity
and dissension within an interethnic Asian Catholic congregation
from 1920-1953, U.S. Catholic Historian, for
a thematic issue on Asian American Catholics (Winter,
2000, Vol. 18, No. 1: 74-98 ).
“James
Sakamoto’s Report on Religion at Minidoka Internment
Camp” an edited short autobiography of the war time
spiritual experience of the founder of the Japanese American
Citizens League, in Keeping Faith: A Documentary History
of European and Asian Catholic Immigrants, edited
by Jeffrey M. Burns, et al. (Orbis Books, 2000:256-262).
"Heritage,
Ritual and Translation: Seattle's Japanese Presbyterian
Church" a fieldwork-based article charting the collective
memory and ceremonial ritual in a Japanese-American church
in inner city Seattle, for The Gods of the City: Religion
and the Contemporary Urban Landscape, ed. Robert
A. Orsi (Indiana University Press, 1999:289-309).
"More
than an Ethnic Club: Religion & Identity in Seattle's
Historic Japanese-American Churches," a special edition
on US immigration and religion, in Listening: Journal
of Religion and Culture (Fall 1998, Vol. 33, No.
3:199-210).
“Seattle,
the Internment, and the Church: Inside and Outside Minidoka
1942-1948” explores Japanese American Christian
autobiographical testaments from the WWII incarceration
in Hunt, Idaho, in Theological Research Exchange Network,
1997 [microfilm series].
"Ritual
in the United States," an essay on ritual theory
and the study of American religion & culture for Anthropology
of Religion: A Handbook of Method and Theory, ed.
Stephen Glazier, (Greenwood Press, 1996;Reissued with
Praeger, 1999:257-275).
"Observing
Meaning: Ritual Criticism, Interpretation, and Anthropological
Fieldwork" an article applying insights from aesthetics,
the humanities, and ritual studies to anthropological
fieldwork approaches, for Celebrations of Identity:
Multiple Voices in American Ritual Performance, ed.
Pamela R. Frese, (Bergin & Garvey Press, 1993:1-13). |
