"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.
Gods, Goddesses, and the Women Who Serve Them (2022)
Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel (2022)
When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David (2005).
Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel (1998).
Under Every Green Tree: Popular Religion in Sixth-Century Judah (1992).
"Authority and Epistemology in Islamic Medical Ethics of Women's Reproductive Health" Journal of Religious Ethics. 49: 2, 249-269, 2021.
"De-Universalizing Male Normativity: Feminist Methodologies for Studying Masculinity in Premodern Islamic Ethics Texts" Journal of Islamic Ethics. 4 (2020) 66-97. doi:10.1163/24685542-12340044
"Rearing Gendered Souls: Childhood and the Making of Muslim Manhood in Pre-Modern Islamic Ethics." Journal of the American Academy of Religion. December 2019, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 1178–1208 doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfz072
"Thinking of Divorce" in Half of Faith: A Reader on American Muslim Marriage and Divorce in the Twenty-First Century. Kecia Ali, Ed. Boston: OpenBU, 2021. 129-134.
"Pre-Marital Counseling and Nikah Contract Writing Guide" in Tying the Knot: A Womanist/Feminist Guide to Muslim Marriage in America. Kecia Ali, Ed. Boston: Open BU, 2022. 55-66.
"Specific Issues in Muslim Divorce." The Family Law Review: Family Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia. December 2006. 1-5.
"Rereading Islamic Medieval Philosophy for Ethical Gender Relations in Modernity" Proceedings of the Religious and Philosophical Texts Symposium. Faculty of Theology, Istanbul University. 2012.
Evangelicalism in America (2016)
Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter (2014)
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, 5th ed. (2014)
First Freedom: The Fight for Religious Liberty (2012)
The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivialism to Politics and Beyond (2010)
God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush (2008)
Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America (2006)
Religion in American Life: A Short History (with Jon Butler and Grant Wacker), 2nd ed. (2011)
Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism (2004)
Grant Us Courage: Travels Along the Mainline of American Protestantism (1996)
A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in Middle Colonies (1989)
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.
Worship of the Heart: A Study in Maimonides’ Philosophy of Religion , (1995).
“Meaning and Reference in Maimonides’ Negative Theology,” Harvard Theological Review , 88:3 (1995) 339-360.
“Petition and Contemplation in Maimonides’ Concept of Prayer,” Religion , 24:1 (January 1994) 59-66.
“Perspectives on Maimonides,” Religious Studies Review , 20:3 (July 1994) 189a-195b.
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
“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
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)
"Being Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf as Antisemitic Bildungsroman," in: Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide, ed. John J. Michalczyk, Michael S. Bryant and Susan A. Michalczyk (NY: Bloomsbury, 2022), 185-96.
"Sacrament versus Racism: Converted Jews in Nazi Germany," in: On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence, ed. Irene Kacandes (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022), 136-172.
"What Manner of Man is the Prophet? Cornel West, Abraham Heschel, and the Hebrew Prophets" in: Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope: New Essays on the Work of Cornel West, ed. Barbara Will (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), 107-134.
"Meir Kahane and Racism as Incarnational Theology," Journal of Religious Ethics (June 2022), 293-302.
"Das Studium der Vergangenheit kann die Zukunft inspirieren," Machloket (Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2022), 51-69.
"Geleitwort," in: Berndt Schaller, Christlich-akademische Judentumsforschung im Dienst der NS-Rassenideologie und –Politik: Der Fall des Karl Georg Kuhn (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021), 13-27.
"Die Historiographie des Instituts zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben," in: Das Eisenacher 'Entjudungsinstitut'. Kirche und Antisemitismus in der NS-Zeit, ed. Christopher Spehr und Harry Oelke (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021), 331-358.
"The Pharisees in Historical Scholarship: The German Theological Tradition," with Deborah Forger, in: Jesus and the Pharisees: An Interdisciplinary Reappraisal, ed. Joseph Sievers and A.J. Levine (Grand Rapids: William Eerdmans, 2021), 361-383.
"Race, Gender and the Constraints on Prophetic Poesis: A Response to George Shulman in Light of Jewish Thought," Political Theology Network: https://politicaltheology.com/response-to-george-shulman/
Susannah Heschel and Shannon Quigley, "The Fate of John's Gospel in Nazi Germany," in: Religion and Ethno-nationalism in the Era of the Two World Wars, ed. Kevin Spicer and Rebecca Carter-Chand (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021), 121-50.
"Heschel and Niebuhr," The Oxford Handbook of Reinhold Niebuhr, ed. Robin W. Lovin and Joshua Mauldin (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021), 199-216.
"Foreword," The New Diaspora and the Global Prophetic, ed. Susanne Scholz and Santiago Slabodsky (Landham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021)
"לקראת היסטוריוגרפיה ארוטית: חקר הממדים החושיים והרגשיים של האנטישמיות," ציון 85:1-4 (2020), 73-94.
["Erotohistoriography: Sensory and Emotional Dimensions in the Study of Antisemitism," Zion (Hebrew)]
"In the Color Line: The Tenacity of Racism and its Challenge to Ethicists," Judaism, Race and Ethics, ed. Jonathan K. Crane (Penn State University Press, 2020), 17-39.
"A Different Kind of Theo-Politics: Abraham Joshua Heschel, the Prophets and the Civil Rights Movement," Journal of Political Theology (Winter 2020)
"A Friendship in the Prophetic Tradition: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr.," in: Friendship, ed. Lawrence Fine (Penn State University Press, 2021; revised version of article in Telos)
"The Novominsker Rebbe," Tablet (May 2020)
"A Wedding in a Cemetery: Judaism, Terror and Pandemic," Immanent Frame (June 2020)
"Zeit für eine Rückbesinnung auf die Propheten," Aufbau (June 2020)
"Introduction," Thunder in the Soul (London: Plough Publishing House, 2021), xxii-xxxiv.
"Ending Exile with the Prophetic Voice of the Diasporic Jew," Contending Modernities (September 2020)
"Theological Ghosts and Goblins: Martin Luther's Haunting of Liberal Judaism," Polyphonie der Theologie: Verantwortung und Widerstand in Kirche und Politik, ed. Matthias Grebe (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2019)
"Ecstasy versus Ethics: The Impact of World War I on German Biblical Scholarship on the Hebrew Prophets," in: The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship, ed. Andrew Mein, Nathan MacDonald and Matthew A. Collins (London: T&T Clark, 2019), 187-206.
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance, (2008).
The Martyrdom of the Franciscans: Islam, the Papacy, and an Order in Conflict (2020).
"What was Crusader about the Crusader States?" Al-Masāq 30 (2018): 317-330.
"True Romans: Remembering the Crusades among Eastern Christians." Journal of Medieval History 40 (2014): 260-75.
"Martyrdom and the Muslim World through Franciscan Eyes." The Catholic History Review 97 (2011): 1-23.
"The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa: Apocalypse, the First Crusade and the Armenian Diaspora," Dumbarton Oaks Papers , 61 (2007) 157-81.
"Christian Authority in the Latin East: Edessa in Crusader History," in The Medieval Crusade , S Ridyard (ed.), (2004) 71-84.
Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Ties That Bind: Maternal Imagery and Discourse in Indian Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood: Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature (Columbia University Press, 2007).
"Animal Doubles of the Buddha," Humanimalia 7:2 (2016) 1-34.
"Buddhism and the Family," Oxford Bibliographies in Buddhism, ed. Richard Payne (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
"Bad Nun: Thullanandā in Pāli Canonical and Commentarial Sources," Journal of Buddhist Ethics 20 (2013) 18-66.
"An Elephant Good to Think: The Buddha in Pārileyyaka Forest," Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 35:1-2 (2012) 259-293.
"Mother-Love and Mother-Grief: South Asian Buddhist Variations on a Theme," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 23:1 (2007) 95-116.
"Debt to the Mother: A Neglected Aspect of the Founding of the Buddhist Nuns' Order," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74:4 (2006) 861-901.
“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)
The Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition. (London: Routledge Press, 2012).
Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition Cambridge UP 2020
“The Origins of Islamic Ethics,” in The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics , W Schweicker (ed.), (2005) 244-253.
“Afterward: The Past in the Future of Islamic Ethics,” in Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War, and Euthanasia , J E Brockopp (ed.), (2003).
“Late Ottoman Religion,” Archivum Ottomanicum , Special Issue, with H Kayali, 19 (2001) 193-303.
“Musa Kazim: from ’ilm to Polemics,” Archivum Ottomanicum , 19 (2001) 281-306.
Before Revelation: The Boundaries of Muslim Moral Knowledge , (1995).
Books:
Articles and essays:
"Religion, Economics, and the Stories We Tell." Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn/Winter 2021
"Defaced Coins in a Utopian Market" Political Theology Network, July 9, 2020.
"Exceptional Economy: Sovereign Exchanges in Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben" Telos 191 (Summer 2020): 115-136
"Sovereign Debt." Journal of Religious Ethics 46:2 (2018): 239-266.
"Speculating the Subject of Money: Georg Simmel on Human Value." Religions 7.80 (2016): 1-15.
"Irrational Exuberance: Hope, Expectation, and Cool Market Logic." Political Theology 17.2 (2016): 120-136.
"Anarchy, Void, Signature: Agamben's Trinity Among Orthodoxy's Remains." Political Theology
17:1 (2016): 27-46.
"Debt Cancellation as Sovereign Crisis Management," Cosmologics Magazine, Jan 18, 2016.
"Eusebius as Political Theologian: The Legend Continues." Harvard Theological Review 108:1 (2015): 129-154.
"Iconicity of the Photographic Image: Theodore of Stoudios and André Bazin." In Byzantium/Modernism, edited by Roland Betancourt and Maria Taroutina, 237-53. Visualizing the Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
2024. "The Merit of Meat: Karma as Social Fact among Buddhist Food Charities in Vietnam." Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 22 (7): 5829. https://apjjf.org/2024/2/swenson
2024. "The Life and Legacies of Thích Nhất Hạnh." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 19 (1): 1–8.
2024. "Religion, Food Charity, and Care in Vietnam." Co-authored with Le Hoang Anh Thu. Introduction to a Special Issue of Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 22 (4): 5826. https://apjjf.org/2024/2/food-charity-religion-care-vietnam
2023. "Buddhist Moral Emotions." Co-authored with Jessica Starling. Introduction to a Special Issue of Journal of Religious Ethics 51 (4): 691–700. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jore.12454
2023. "An Uncouth Monk: The Moral Aesthetics of Buddhist Para-Charisma." Journal of Religious Ethics 51 (4): 761–781. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jore.12456
2022. "'Three Trees Make a Mountain': Women and Contramodern Buddhist Volunteerism in Vietnam." Asian Ethnology 81 (1–2): 3–22. Web: https://asianethnology.org/articles/2377
2021. "The Political Spirituality of Buddhist Volunteerism in Contemporary Vietnam." Political Theology 22 (1): 68–74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2020.1866815
2020. "The Affective Politics of Karma among Buddhist Cancer Charities in Vietnam." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 15 (4): 33–62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2020.15.4.33
2020. "Following Feeling: Karma and the Senses in Buddhist Nuns' Ordination Narratives." Journal of Global Buddhism 21: 71–86. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/4030985
2020. "Compassion without pity: Buddhist dana as charity, humanitarianism, and altruism." Religion Compass 14 (9): 1–10. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12371
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.
2017. "Religious Wonderlands: Eros, Madness, and Ethics in Religious Studies through the work of Lynne Huffer." Journal of Theology & Sexuality 22 (3): 133–142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2017.1329885
2015 A Sensory Approach to Exotica, Ritual Practice, and Cosmology at Chaco Canyon. Kiva 81(3-4):220-246.
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.
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.
2021 (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.
2023 Ritual Roadways and Places of Power in the Chaco World (ca. AD 850-1150). Review of International American Studies 16(1):49-86. (special issue on Sacred Spaces in North America)