Publications

I’ve published 13 books (2020) and a large number of articles in my career,  This page begins with a list of the book publications.  It is followed by writings electronically published that are mostly incidentals that I didn’t think should be printed.  Following these are a few little pieces written as blogs (when that seemed to be popular) that I thought worth saving, if not publishing.  The final section is a fairly complete list of published articles (around 40) in alphabetical order; they are listed in date published order on my CV.  My intent is to make all of these writings, other than the books, available here via the PDF links.  Some items are not yet linked, but I’ll get to this linking asap.

Post-Apocalyptic Stories with Hope

3/28/2020.  In these dark days of shelter in place I offer chapters from my 2018 book Religion and Technology into the Future.  These hopefully offer perspective on the current moment and also a longer view.  They are academic, yet I think readable.  The most immediate way to make these available is in manuscript form as I submitted them to the press.  Thus there may be errors, yet they should be minor.

Chapter 2 – “Little Green Sprout”

Chapter 3 – “Fury Road”

Book Publications

  • Songs of Life: An Introduction to Navajo Religious Culture.  Leiden:  J.Brill, 1979
  • Sacred Words: A Study of Navajo Religion and Prayer.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, Inc., 1981
  • Beyond “The Primitive:” The Religions of Nonliterate Peoples.  World Religions Series, Robert Ellwood, Jr., editor.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1982
  • Native American Religions: An Introduction.  Religious Life of Man Series, Frederick Streng, editor.  Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1982, revised ed. 2004
  • Native American Traditions: Sources and Interpretations.  Religious Life of Man Series, Frederick Streng, editor.  Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1983
  • Mother Earth: An American Story.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1987, paper 1991
  • Native American Religious Action: A Performance Approach to Religion.  Columbia:  University of South Carolina Press, 1987
  • Dictionary of Native American Mythology with Irene Sullivan. Santa Barbara:  ABC-CLIO, 1992.  Paperback edition by Oxford University Press, 1994
  • Storytracking: Texts, Stories, and Histories in Central Australia. Oxford University Press, 1998
  • Dancing Culture Religion. Lexington Books, 2012
  • Religion and Technology Into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow’s Eve. Lanham, MD: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2018
  • Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference: Perspectives and Strategies. Lanham, MD: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2019
  • The Proper Study of Religion: Building on Jonathan Z. Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020
  • Looking Forward in the Rearview Mirror: Travel Journal Selections with Reflection. 2021
  • Travel Writing: The full Travel Journals 1993-’94 Australia, Bali, Java, Thailand, and Nepal; 1997 Ghana West Africa, 2021

E-Publications Not Previously Published

“Gesture Posture Prosthesis: Religious Studies in the Digital Age” Spring 2013  PDF

“Myth and the Impossibles”  Spring 2013   PDF

“Dead Man” 2007,2009 poetryPDF

“The Look” 2005,2009 fiction PDF

“’Afro-Brazilian Dance’ or better ‘Euro-American-Afro-Brazilian Dance’” 1995, 2009 essayPDF

“The Glory, Jest, and Riddle: Stephen Hawking and A Brief History of Time” 1988, 2009 academic essay PDF

“Dancing and the Poetics of Place” 2009 academic essay PDF

“Dancing as Making” 2009 academic essay PDF

“Dancing the Rhythms of Life” 2009 book precis PDF

“Go Up Into the Gaps:  The Play of Native American Religions”  2009 academic essay PDF

“Encore-Life: An Introduction” 2009 essay PDF

“The Salsa Connection” 2008 – 2009 12-part blog series PDF

“Brain Body Movement” 2009 Lecture Series Select Passages from E-Book PDF

“Charles Sanders Pierce:  Play and the Logic of Discovery” 2009 academic essay PDF

“Play and the Future of the Study of Religion … and the Academy”  2009    PDF

“The Powerful Play Goes On: Friedrich Schiller to Jacque Derrida on Play” 2009 academic essay PDF

Blogs (Selected; see “Blog” tab for other writings)

“The New Education: Digital Media Enables Whole Bodies” August 2009 Post

“Children, Imagination, and Philosophy”  August 2009 Post

“Crises and Opportunities”  August 2009 Post

“The Example:  The Implications of Exemplification”  November 2009 Post

“Bias is Interest”  November 2009 Post

              “The Canceling Experiences of a Middle-class Old White Guy” Feb 2020 POST

    Publications About Sam Gill

   Urban, Hugh, “Scholartracking: The Ethics and Politics of Studying ‘Others’ in the     Works of Sam D. Gill”  article 2001 PDF.

Janine Gastineau, “Sam Gill: Bringing the World to Boulder,” The Arts Paper, vol. 3, no. 2, April/May, 2002, pp. 16 – 17. PDF

Periodical Publications Published

“The Academic Study of Religion” 1994 academic article PDF

“And He Took Away Their Wings: Story and History in American Folk Tradition”  1987 academic article PDF

“Approaches to the Study of Religion” 1999 essay on academic teaching PDF

“The Color of Navajo Ritual Symbolism: An Evaluation of Methods”  1976 academic article PDF

    “The Continuity of Research and Classroom Teaching”  article on teaching 1987        PDF

“Dance” 2003 encyclopedia article PDF

“Dancing Creative Healthy Teen Activity” article 2014 PDF

“Dancing Ritual, Ritual Dancing: Experiential Teaching” 2006 essay on teaching ritual PDF

“Disenchantment”  1976  academic article PDF

“Embodied Theology” 2002 academic article PDF

“Hopi Kachina Cult Initiation: The Shocking Beginning to the Hopi’s Religious Life” 1977 academic article PDF

“Its Where You Put Your Eyes”  1979 academic article PDF

“Linking Human Beings to Nature: Australian Arrarnta Religion” 1996 academic article PDF

    “Making Them Speak: Colonialism and the Study of Mythology” 1998 academic            article PDF

“Mother Earth: An American Myth” 1990 academic article PDF

“Mother Earth Mythology” 1987 academic article PDF

“North American Religions: Mythic Themes”  1987  encyclopedia article PDF

“Native Americans and their Religions” 1994, 2003, 2009 academic article PDF

“Native American Religions” 1993 encyclopedia article PDF

“Navajo Views of their Origin” 1983 encyclopedia article PDF

“No Place to Stand: Jonathan Z. Smith as homo ludens, the Academic Study of Religion sub specie ludi” 1998 academic article PDF

  “North American Shamanism”  encyclopedia entry 1987 PDF

“Nonliterate Traditions and Holy Book: Toward a New Model” 1985 academic article PDF

    “North American Shamanism” 1987  dictionary entry PDF

“One, Two, Three: The Interpretation of Religious Action” 1987 academic article PDF

“Play” 2000 academic article PDF

“The Power of Story” 1988 academic essay PDF

“Prayer” 1987 encyclopedia article PDF

“Prayer as Performance: A Navajo Contribution to the Study of Prayer” 1987 academic article PDF

“Prayer as Person: Navajo Conceptions of Prayer Acts” 1977 academic article PDF

“The Prayer of the Navajo Carved Figurine” 1974 academic article PDF

“Religion in America in 1492” 1992 academic article PDF

“The Religions of Traditional Peoples” 1995 encyclopedia article PDF

“Religious Forms and Themes” 1992 academic article PDF

“A Rumor is Afield:  Fieldwork Leads to Spreading Rumors” 1988 academic article PDF

“The Shadow of a Vision Yonder”  1976 academic article PDF

“Territory” 1998 academic article PDF

“Time” 1981  dictionary entry PDF

“The Trees Stood Deep Rooted”  1977  academic article PDF

“Walking with Spirits” 1991 travel article PDF

“Whirling Logs and Colored Sands”  1979  academic article PDF