Publications

Books

Geary, David. 2017. The Rebirth of Bodh Gaya: Buddhism and the Making of a World Heritage Site. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press (Global South Asia Series), 264 pp., 22 bandw illus., 1 map, 6 x 9 in. 

http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/GEAREB.html

Geary, D., M. R. Sayers and A.S. Amar (eds.) 2012. Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site: Bodh Gaya Jataka. London: Routledge South Asian Religion Series. 

Articles

David Geary and Manish Kumar. 2023 “‘We are descendants of the Buddha:’ Youth Buddhist Society and Return Globalization in Sankisa, Uttar Pradesh” Social Sciences and Missions, Vol. 36 (1-2): 17-42.

 Marston, John and David Geary. 2023. “Nalanda rising: Buddhism, heritage diplomacy and the politics of revival,” as part of Special Issue (see below). Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 43 (1): 26-42.

Douglas F. Ober and David Geary. 2023. “Placing the Past, Envisioning the Future: Memory, Material Traces and the Politics of Reinvention in Modern India," Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 43 (1): 3-9. Introduction to Special Issue.

Geary, David and Douglas F. Ober 2022. "Buddhist homeland (s), memory and the politics of belonging in South Asia." South Asian History and Culture, Vol .14 (1): 1-8. Introduction to Special Issue. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19472498.2022.2142897

Geary, David, and Kiran Shinde. 2021. "Buddhist Pilgrimage and the Ritual Ecology of Sacred Sites in the Indo-Gangetic Region. Religions 12: 385." Special Issue: Sacred Sites, Rituals, and Performances: New Perspective for Religious Tourism Development: 99-119. file:///Users/davgeary/Downloads/Sacred_Sites_Rituals_and_Performances.pdf

Geary, David. 2018. “India’s Buddhist circuit(s): A new investment market for a “rising” Asia,” Special Issue: Religion, Pilgrimage and Tourism in India and China, edited by Knut Aukland and Michal Strasbourg, International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, Vol. 6. No. 1: 47-57. 

https://arrow.dit.ie/ijrtp/vol6/iss1/6

Geary, David and Doug Mason. 2016. “Walking in the Valley of the Buddha: Buddhist Revival and Tourism Development in Bihar” Journal of Global Buddhism, Vol. 17: 57-63 (Photo Essay)

http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/183/195

Geary, David. 2014. “Putting the Buddha in Jail: Bodh Gaya Blasts” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 49, No. 9, March 1: 21-23. 

Geary, David. 2014. “Rebuilding the Navel of the Earth: Buddhist pilgrimage and transnational religious networks,” Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 48, No. 3: 645-692. 

Geary, David. 2013. “The Decline of the Bodh Gaya Math and the Afterlife of Zamindari”, South Asia History and Culture, Vol. 4, No 3: 366-383. 

Geary, David. 2013. “Incredible India in a global age: the cultural politics of image branding in tourism,” Tourist Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1: 36-61. 

Geary, David. 2008. “Destination Enlightenment: branding Buddhism and spiritual tourism in Bodh Gaya, Bihar.” Anthropology Today Vol. 24, No. 3: 11-14. 

Chapters

Geary, David. 2020. “Peace and the Buddhist Imaginary in Bodh Gaya.” In Buddhist Tourism in Asia: Sacred Sites within Global Networks, edited by Brooke Schedneck and Courtney Brunz, University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 27-43.

Geary, David. 2018. “Transnational Courting through Shakyamuni Buddha: Japanese Pilgrims and Geographical Dowries in Bodh Gaya,” Translating the Sacred: Pilgrimage and Political Economy in Transnational Contexts, edited by Simon Coleman and John Eade, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Press, pp. 40-58.

Geary, David. 2017. “From Bieber to the Buddha: ‘Friendly Guides’ and Cosmopolitanism from Below in Bodh Gaya, India.” In Cosmopolitanism and Tourism: Rethinking Theory and Practice, edited by Robert Shepherd. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp. 97-114.

Geary, David and Sraman Mukherjee. 2017. “Buddhism in Contemporary India” In The Oxford Handbook on Contemporary Buddhism, edited by Michael Jerryson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 36-60. 

Geary, David. 2014. “Buddhist circuits and worlding practices in North India”, In The Making of Heritage: Seduction and Disenchantment, edited by Camila Del Marmol, Marc A. Morell, and Jasper Chalcraft, London: Routledge, pp. 44-58.

Geary, D., M. R. Sayers and A.S. Amar. 2012. “The Multiple Lives of Bodh Gaya: Defining Views and Changing Perspectives.” With Matthew R. Sayers and Abhishek Singh Amar, in Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site: Bodh Gaya Jataka. London: Routledge, pp. 1-9 

Geary, David. 2012. “World Heritage in the shadow of zamindari.” In Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site: Bodh Gaya Jataka.  Edited by Geary, D., M. R. Sayers and A.S. Amar. London: Routledge, pp. 141-152.

Book Reviews

Geary, David. 2019. “Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built.” Reading Religion, a publication of the American Academy of Religion,

http://readingreligion.org/books/battling-buddha-love

Geary, David. 2012. “In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India.” By Alpa Shah. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 35: 3, pp. 757-758. 

Geary, David. 2011. “The Shifting Terrain of the Buddha: A review of The Holy Land Reborn by Toni Huber.” Contemporary Buddhism. Vol. 12, No. 2, pg. 363-366.