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PUBLICATIONS BOOKS The
Wedding of Arjuna and Subhadra: The Kutiyattam Drama "Subhadra-Dhananjaya"
Historical Dictionary of
Hinduism. |
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The Sun God's
Daughter and King Samvarana: "Tapati-Samvaranam" and the Kutiyattam Drama Tradition.
N. P. Unni, coauthor. (Delhi: Nag Publishers, 1995).
Krsna Dvaipayana
Vyasa and the Mahabharata: A New Interpretation.
(Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1990).
2nd edition: Seer of the
Fifth Veda (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1999).
ARTICLES & CHAPTERS
“Experiencing Sanskrit Dramas in Kerala: Epic Performances and Performers,” forthcoming in Studying Hinduism in Practice, Hillary Rodrigues, editor. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2011.
“Doing and Being: Mindfulness, Health, and Quiet Ego Characteristics among Buddhist Practitioners.” Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Subjective Well-Being (2010). Lead author: Heidi Wayment. Coauthors: Bruce M. Sullivan, Bill Wiist, Meghan Warren. Online DOI: 10.1007/s10902-010-9218-6. Forthcoming in print.
“Buddhists’ Religious and Health Practices.” Journal of Religion and Health (2010).
Lead author: William H. Wiist. Coauthors: Bruce M. Sullivan, Diane Marie St. George, Heidi A. Wayment. Online DOI 10.1007/s10943-010-9348-5. Forthcoming in print.
“The Buddhist Health Study:
Meditation on Love and Compassion as Features of Religious Practice.”
Bruce M. Sullivan, with coauthors Bill Wiist and Heidi Wayment. CrossCurrents 60 (summer 2010): 185-207.
“Kerala’s Mahābhārata on Stage: Texts and Performative Practices in Kūtiyāttam Drama.” Journal of Hindu Studies 3 (2010): 1-19.
“Skirting the Issue: Gender and Identity in Kutiyattam Sanskrit Drama,” in Notes from a Mandala: Essays in the History of Indian Religions in Honor of Wendy Doniger. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2010), pp. 265-75.
“How Does one Study a ‘Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity’? Ethnographic Reflections on Kerala’s Kutiyattam.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 21 (2009): 78-86.
“A Web-based Survey on the Relationship Between Buddhist Practices, Health, and Psychological Characteristics: Research methodology and preliminary results.” Wiist, W.H., Sullivan, B.M., Wayment, H. & Warren, M. Journal of Religion & Health (2008).
Entries in Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre, 2 vols. Samuel L. Leiter, editor. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007). “Sanskrit Theatre” (article), “Bhasa (playwright),” Kalidasa (playwright),” “Mahabharata” & “Ramayana.”
“Dying on the Stage in the Natyashastra and Kutiyattam: Perspectives from the Sanskrit Theatre Tradition.” Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 24, no. 2 (Fall, 2007): 422-39.
“Tantroid Phenomena in Early Indic Literature.” Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies. Special issue: Festschrift in honor of James Sanford. Third Series (no. 8): 9-20.
“The Ideology of Self-Willed Death in the Epic Mahabharata,” Journal of Vaishnava Studies, 14, no. 2 (Spring, 2006): 61-79.
"Representing the Ramayana on the Kutiyattam Stage," in The Ramayana Revisited. Mandakranta Bose, editor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Pp. 243-57.
"The Whale Avatar of the Hindoos in Melville's Moby Dick," Literature and Theology 15, no. 4 (2001): 358-72. With a contribution from P.W. Hall.
"Ecology and Theology at the Birthplace of Krsna," pp. 247-67 in Purifying the Earthly Body of God: Religion & Ecology in Hindu India, ed. by L. E. Nelson (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1998). Reprinted in Worldviews, Religion, & the Environment: A Global Anthology, R.C. Foltz, editor (Belmont: Wadsworth, 2003).
"Temple Rites and Temple Servants: The Role of Religion in the Survival of Kerala's Kutiyattam Drama Tradition," International Journal of Hindu Studies 1 (1997): 97-115.
"The Unworshipped Avatar: Vyasa's Relationships with Visnu and Brahma," Journal of Vaisnava Studies 4, no. 3 (Summer, 1996): 57-64.
"Tapati-Samvaranam, a Kutiyattam Drama by Kulasekhara Varman. Introduced by Bruce M. Sullivan. Translated, with notes, by Bruce M. Sullivan and N. P. Unni." Asian Theatre Journal 13, no. 1 (Spring, 1996): 26-53.
"Paradise Polluted: Religious Dimensions of the Vrindavana Ecology Movement," in This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment, pp. 565-71. Edited by Roger Gottlieb (London: Routledge, 1995).
"Author and Authority in the Epic," in Modern Evaluation of the Mahabharata: The Professor R. K. Sharma Felicitation Volume, pp. 19-23. Edited by S. P. Narang (Delhi: Nag Pubs., 1995).
"The Religious Authority of the Mahabharata: Vyasa and Brahma in the Hindu Scriptural Tradition," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 62, 2 (Summer, 1994): 377-401.
"The Epic's Two Grandfathers, Bhisma and Vyasa," in Essays on the Mahabharata, pp. 204-11. Edited by Arvind Sharma (Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1991).
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