Faculty Publications
"Rebirth and Perfection in Ordinary Lives: Biographical Writing and Vernacular Religious Ethics in Twentieth Century Myanmar." Journal of Religious Ethics (May 2026). https://doi.org/10.1111/jore.70020
"Reconsidering Renunciation: Shifting Subjectivities and Models of Practice in the Biography of a Buddhist Woman." Journal of Burma Studies 27, no. 1 (2023): 101-137. doi:10.1353/jbs.2023.0003.
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Maturity, Marriage, Motherhood, and Mortality: Women's Life-Cycle Rituals in Ancient Israel (2025)
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Evangelicalism in America (2016)
West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (November 2016). Finalist for Albert J. Raboteau Prize in Africana Religions.
Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Winner of the American Academy of Religion Award, "Best First Book in the History of Religions," 2000.
“Jewish Ethics in a Pluralistic World,” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy , 5:2 (1996) 219-236.
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"Wildman's Eff'ing Symbology," in Religion in Multidisciplinary Perspective, a volume on the philosophy of religion of Wesley Wildman, eds. Robert C. Neville and LeRon Shults (Albany: SUNY Press, 2022).
"Contingency After Nagarjuna and Rorty," 2017 Presidential Address, Metaphysical Society of America. Review of Metaphysics (March 2019): 563-86.
"Map is Not Territory, Menu is Not Meal," Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 31 (2019): 3-13.
"The Fate of Radical Empiricism and the Future of Pragmatic Naturalism," Pragmatism and Naturalism: Scientific and Social Inquiry After Representationalism, edited by Matthew C. Bagger (Columbia University Press, 2018).
"Naturalisms, Ineffability Claims, and Symbolic Meanings," The Question of Methodological Naturalism, edited by Jason N. Blum (Leiden: E. J. Brill Academic Publishers, 2018).
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- My most recent major publication is “Head, Proportional, or Progressive: An Evaluation Based on Jewish and Christian Ethics,” in Ethics and Taxation, Robert van Brederode, ed. (Singapore: Springer Publishing, 2019), pp. 115-144.
- On May 30, 2015, Dartmouth's Religion Department hosted a conference celebrating my retirement and that of my colleague Nancy Frankenberry. For that conference, Karen Lebacqz and Stephen R. Palmquist delivered papers examining my writings in the areas of bioethics and philosophy of religion. Karen Lebacqz's paper, entitled "On Hope and Hard Choices: Ronald M. Green and Bioethics" now appears in the December issue of The Journal of Religious Ethics [Vol. 44, no. 4, (2016), pp. 722-737], where it is followed by the published version of Stephen R. Palmquist's paper, entitled, "The Paradox of Inwardness in Kant and Kierkegaard: Ronald Green’s Legacy in Philosophy of Religion" [The Journal of Religious Ethics [Vol. 44, no. 4, (2016), pp. 738-751].
My own "Response to Karen Lebacqz and Stephen Palmquist," delivered at the conference, follows their papers in the journal [The Journal of Religious Ethics [Vol. 44, no. 4, (2016), pp. 752-759]. As an author, I am permitted to share this essay with interested readers. It can be read here: response-to-kl-sp
- “From Genome to Brainome: Charting the Lessons Learned,” in Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice, and Policy , J Illes (ed.), (2006), 105-121.
- “Kant and Kierkegaard on the Need for Historical Faith: An Imaginary Dialogue,” in Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion , C L Firestone and S R Palmquist (eds.), (2006), 157-175.
- The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy , (2001).
- The Ethical Manager , (1994).
- Kierkegaard and Kant: the Hidden Debt , (1992).
- “Toward a Copernican Revolution in Our Thinking about Life’s Beginning and Life’s End,” Soundings 66/2 (Summer 1983), 152-173. This, essay, which I regard as one of my early and more important contributions to the our debates about personhood, is available online at:https://www.jstor.org/stable/41178251?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton University Press, 2008; paperback 2010).
Jüdischer Islam: Islam und jüdisch-deutsche Selbstbestimmung, trans. Dirk Hartwig (Berlin: Mathes und Seitz, 2018).
The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism, ed. Susannah Heschel and Umar Ryad (New York: Routledge Press, 2018).
Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations, ed. Christopher Browning, Susannah Heschel, Michael R. Marrus and Milton Shain (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan Books, 2015).
Editor and Introductions, Essential Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2011).
Redefining First-Century Jewish and Christian Identities: Essays in Honor of Ed Parish Sanders, co-edited with Fabian Udoh et. al. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008).
Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism, edited with David Biale and Michael Galchinsky (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion, editor, sections on Ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, Judaism. Edited with Serinity Young, E. Ann Matter, et. al. (New York: Macmillan Reference, 1998)
Betrayal: The German Churches and the Holocaust, edited with Robert P. Ericksen (Minneapolis: Augsburg-Fortress Press, 1999)
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays by Abraham Joshua Heschel Edited and with Introduction. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996)
On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader. Edited and with Introductions. (Schocken Books, 1983; second edition with new introduction, 1995)
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Remembering Eden: The Reception History of Genesis 3:22-24 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)
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The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance, (2008).
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Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2017).
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"Imbibing the Universe: Methods of Ingesting the Five Sprouts," Asian Medicine, Tradition and Modernity 7 (2013).
"The Way of the Yellow and the Red: Sexual Practice in Early Daoism," Nan Nü, Men, Women and Gender in China 10 (2008).
"Time Manipulation in Early Daoist Ritual: The East Well Chart and the Eight Archivists," Asia Major 18 (2005)
Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition Cambridge UP 2020
"Jump Nyabinghi: Black Radical Militancy, Rastafarianism, and Jamaican Cultural Influence on Black America," Journal of Black Studies 55, no. 2 (February 2024): 117-138, https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934723121337.
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Books:
2025. Near Light We Shine: Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam (Oxford University Press).
2024. "The Life and Legacies of Thích Nhất Hạnh." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 19 (1): 1–8.
2018. "Mixed-Reality: Social Media as Ethnographic Method." Journal of Theta Alpha Kappa National Honor Society for Religious Studies and Theology 42 (1): 1–15.
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2025 Processing Into the Past: The Chaco South Road as a Multi-Century Religious Corridor. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 33(20).
2025 (lead author with Scott G. Ortman) Landscapes, Religion, and Social Change in Pueblo History. American Antiquity 90(3):530-554.
2025 (lead author with Richard A. Friedman and John R. Stein) Parallel Roads, Solstice, and Sacred Geography at the Gasco Site: A Chacoan Ritual Landscape. Antiquity 99(404): 500–516.
2024 (with Felipe Rojas) Choreographic Empathy Beyond the Human. World Archaeology 56(4):440-458.
2021 (lead author with Klara Kelley) Asdzáán Náhodidáhí (Lady Picker-Up) at Fajada Butte: Astronomy, Landscape, and the Basketmaker III Origins of Chacoan Ceremonialism. Kiva 87(3):268-294.
2018 Socio-Political, Ceremonial, and Economic Aspects of Gambling in Ancient North America: The Case Study of Chaco Canyon. American Antiquity 83(1):34-53.
2017 (with Richard A. Friedman and Anna Sofaer) Remote Sensing of Chaco Roads Revisited: LiDAR Documentation of the Great North Road and Aztec Airport Mesa Road. Advances in Archaeological Practice 5(4):365-381.
2015 A Sensory Approach to Exotica, Ritual Practice, and Cosmology at Chaco Canyon. Kiva 81(3-4):220-246.