Authority

Construction and Corrosion

1995

Death, War, and Sacrifice

Studies in Ideology & Practice

1991

Discourse and the Construction of Society

Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification

1989

Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars

Critical Explorations in the History of Religions

2012

Holy Terrors

Thinking about Religion after September 11

2002

Myth, Cosmos, and Society

1986

Religion, Empire, and Torture

The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib

2007

Secrets, Lies, and Consequences

A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder

2023

The Conquest of a Continent

Siberia and the Russians

1993

Theorizing Myth

Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship

2000