Publications

““Little Tibet” Positioning Ladakh as a Homeland for Tibetan Buddhism in India.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 43 (1): 10-25 (2023).

Buddhism and Waste: The Excess, Discard, and Afterlife of Buddhist Consumption, co-edited with Trine Brox. Bloomsbury Publishing (2022).

“Something Rotten in Shangri-La: Green Buddhism, Brown Buddhism, and the Problem of Waste in Ladakh, India” in Brox and Williams-Oerberg (ed), Buddhism and Waste: The Excess, Discard, and Afterlife of Buddhist Consumption, co-edited with Trine Brox. Bloomsbury Publishing (2022).

“Buddhist Ritual as ‘Connectionwork’: Aesthetics and Technologies of Mediating Religious Belonging”. numen, 68(5-6): 488-512 (2021).

“Multiple Buddhisms in Ladakh: Strategic Secularities and Missionaries Fighting Decline,” co-authored with Brooke Schedneck and Ann Gleig. Religions 12 (11): 932 (2021).

“Economics of Buddhism” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion (2021).

“Buddhist Business and Benevolence in Leh, Ladakh” in special issue “On Business and Benevolence”, Human Values 27 (1): 60-71 (2021).

Buddhism and Business: Merit, Material Wealth and Morality in the Global Market Economy, co-edited with Trine Brox. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai’I Press (2021).

“Introduction: Buddhist Encounters with the Global Market Economy and Consumer Society”, co-authored with Trine Brox, in Brox and Williams-Oerberg (ed.) Buddhism and Business: Merit, Material Wealth and Morality in the Global Market Economy. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai’I Press (2020).

“Buddhism: A Unique Selling Point (USP) in Ladakh” in Buddhist Tourism in Asia: Imagining, Secularizing, and Commodifying the Sacred. Ed. Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck. University of Hawai’I Press (2020).

““How can we learn about our culture while away from Ladakhi?”: Ladakhi Buddhist educational migrants’ negotiation of education, modernization and identification in India” in Emerging Ladakh: Identity and Belonging in the Context of Increasing Changes. Ed. Alfred Schäfer and Kati Illmann. Halle (Saale), Germany: Halle University Press (2020).

“When Buddhism meets Bollywood: The Spectacular Naropa 2016 festival in Ladakh, India”, in special issue “Religion in Ladakh” Himalaya 39(2): 104-118 (2020).

“Introduction: Religion and Social Change in Ladakh” co-authored with John Bray and Rafal Beszterda. Himalaya 39(2): 70-73 (2020). 

Special issue on “Religion in Ladakh”, co-edited with John Bray and Rafal Beszterda. Himalaya 39(2), (2020).

Special issue on “Buddhism and Economics”, co-edited with Trine Brox. Journal of Global Buddhism, Vol. 20 (2019). http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/issue/view/32

“Introduction: Buddhism and Economics,” Journal of Global Buddhism, Vol. 20 (2019). http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/283/244

“Young Buddhism: Analyzing Transnational Currents of Religion through ‘Youth’” in EASTSPIRIT: Transnational Spirituality and Religious Circulation in East and West, Ed. Jørn Borup, Marianne Q. Fibiger and Katarina Plank, Brill Publications (2017).

“Buddhism, Business, and Economics”, co-authored with Trine Brox, in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism. Ed. M. Jerryson. Oxford, Oxford University Press (2016).

“Educational Migration Among Ladakhi Youth” in Internal Migration in Contemporary India, Ed. Deepak Kumar Mishra, Sage India Publications (2015).

Young Buddhism: Ladakhi Youth Engagements with Modernity, Morality and Migration in India, PhD thesis, Aarhus University (2014).

“Moderne uddannelse i et moralsk udkantsområde” in Jordens Folk 48(3), (2014).

“Buddhism in the Modern World” Book Review in Ethnos 77(4), 566-569, (2012).

“Migrantbuddhisme i Indien” in Religion. Tidsskriftet for                        Religionslærerforeningen for Gymnasiet og HF, Vol. 1, 03 (2012).