"Introduction," "When Arguments are Not Enough: A Kinesthetic Intervention," in Dancing on Earth, a Special Issue of the Journal of Dance, Movement, and Spiritualities, 4.2. 2017

"Transformation: An ecokinetic approach to the study of ritual dance," in Journal of Dance, Movement, and Spiritualities, 1:1, January 2014, pp. 57-72.

"'Can They Dance?' Towards a philosophy of bodily becoming," in Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Volume 4, Number 1, 93-107, 2012.

“I am the Dance: Towards an Earthed Christianity,” in Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Conversations with the Work of David Brown. Eds. Robert MacSwain & Tracey Worley. Oxford University Press, September 2012.

“Ruth St. Denis,” “Ted Shawn,” Leonide Massine,” “Jose Limon,” and “Kurt Joos,” in New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2011, volume 2.

"What Bodies Know About Religion and the Study of It," in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Sep 2008, Vol.76, No.3, 573-601.

“Expressing Life: Dancing towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion,” in The Subjective Eye: Essays on Art, Religion and Gender. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2006.

“Book Review: Mark Franko’s The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s,” Dance Research Journal. 37/1, Summer 2005, 128-132.

“Why Dance?: Towards a Theory of Religion as Practice and Performance.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. 17(2): 101-133.

“A God Dances Through Me: Isadora Duncan on Friedrich Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Values,” The Journal of Religion. April 2005, 241-266. WINNER 2006 Lippincott Award.

“Reason, Religion, and Sexual Difference: Resources for a Feminist Philosophy of Religion in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter 2005, 120-149.

“Giving Birth to a Dancing Star: Reading Nietzsche’s Maternal Rhetoric via Isadora Duncan’s Dance,” Soundings 86.3-4. Fall/Winter 2003, 501-23.

“Sacred Dance: A Glimpse Around the World,” Dance Magazine. December 2001.

“Passionate Madonna: The Christian Turn of American Dancer Ruth St. Denis, ” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 66/4. Winter 1998, 747-769.

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