Books:

The Search for a Nonviolent Future: a Promise of Peace for Ourselves, Our Families, and Our World.  Makawao, Maui, HI: Inner Ocean Publishing (2004).  Original edition: Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Hills Books, 2001  (Winner of American Book Award, 2002)

The Steps of Nonviolence. Nyack, NY: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1999

The Upanishads (with Eknath Easwaran).  Petaluma, CA: Nilgiri Press (1987)

America Without Violence: Why Violence Persists and How You Can Stop It.  Island Press, Covelo CA (1982).

Spontaneity and Tradition: A Study of Homer's Oral Art.  University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles (1974).

 

Forthcoming: Our Spiritual Crisis: New World or None. Open Court, 2004

 

Articles and Pamphlets (Peace Studies):

“Spirit Rising,” Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, (Winter, 2006) 12-17

“Spinning Wheel Birthday,” The Acorn xii:2 (Spring-Summer, 2004) 36-38

 “Es ist Zeit für die Gewaltfreiheit,” http://www.telepolis.de/deutsch/inhalt/co/18642/1.html (With Marcel Baumann)

“Building a New Force,” Yes! (Fall, 2002: reprinted in McConnell and van Gelder, Making Peace: Healing a Violent World (Bainbridge Island, WA: Positive Futures Network, 2003

“Compassion: the Radicalism of This Age,” Yes! (Fall, 1998: reprinted in McConnell and van Gelder, op. cit.)

“The Challenge of Nonviolence,” afterword to Catherine Ingram, In the Footsteps of Gandhi (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 2003)255-258

“Out of Darkness, a Strange Hope,” Tikkun, January/February, 2002, 23-26

“The Logic of Nonviolence,” Fellowship 65:7-8 (July-August, 1999) 10

“What is Peace Culture,” in Ho-Won Jeong, Ed., A New Agenda for Peace Research (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1999) 233-258

“Unity in Diversity: From Paradox to Paradigm,” Ahimsa Voices 4:1 (1997) 1-2

“Is There a Tradition of Nonviolence in Islam?,” in J. Patout Burns, Ed., War and its Discontents: Pacifism and Quietism in the Abrahamic Traditions (Washington, D. C., Georgetown University Press, 1996) 161-166

“Forget the Past,” Fellowship 60:7/8 (July/August, 1994) 13

Meditation for Peacemakers Metta Publication (1994)

Peacemaking Through Nonviolence Metta (1994: testimony for U.S. Commission on the Effectiveness of the U. N.; excerpted in World Without Violence, Ed. Arun Gandhi, New Delhi, 1994: 189-199).

“Ideas of World Order and the Map of Peace,” in Thompson et al., Edd., Approaches to Peace: An Intellectual Map (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace, 1991) 371-392

“Nonviolence,” in Lazlo and Yoo, Edd., World Encyclopedia of Peace,” (Oxford: Pergamon, 1986) Vol. I. 72-78

“Comment” on R. J. Rummel, “Social Field Theory, Libertarianism, and Violence,” International Journal on World Peace 3:4 (1986) 44-46 (with Barry Zellen)

“Redefining Peace,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1984) 36-38.  Reprinted: Donna U. Gregory, Ed., The Nuclear Predicament (New York: St. Martin's, 1986) 330-334; Don Carlson and Craig Comstock, Edd., Citizen Summitry (New York: St. Martin's, 1986) 238-245

“Education as a Five-Letter Word.”  Teachers College Record, 84:1 (1982), 102-114.  Reprinted in Douglas Sloan, Ed., Education for Peace and Disarmament (New York: Columbia Teachers College Press, 1983)

“Peace as a Paradigm Shift,”  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (December, 1981).  Translations: “Friede als Paradigmenwechsel,” in Rüdiger Lutz, Ed., Bewusstseins (R)evolution (Weinheim: Beltz, 1983); “La Pace come cambiamento di paradigma,” University of Naples history of physics brochure, 1983

“Berkeley: the Demonstrations,” Studies on the Left 5:1 (1965) 55-62.

 

 

Articles (Classics and Comparative Literature):

“Penelope’s Male Hand: Gender and Violence in the Odyssey,” Colby Quarterly 29:3 (1993) 241-257

“Discourse and Conflict in Hesiod: Eris and the Erides,” Ramus 21:1(1992) 79-96

“Odysseus: The Proem and the Problem,” Classical Antiquity 9:2 (1990) 158-178

“Ethical Anxiety and Artistic Inconsistency: The Case of Oral Epic,” in M. Griffith and D. J. Mastronarde, Cabinet of the Muses (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990) 225-239

“The Traditional Phrase: Theory of Production,” in John Miles Foley, Ed., Oral Formulaic Theory: a Folklore Casebook (New York: Garland, 1990) 283-312

“Toward a Semantics of Ancient Conflict: Eris in the Iliad,” Classical World 82:2 (1988) 81-90

“Priams Kiss: Toward a Peace Concept in Western Culture,” in Ulrich Goebel and Otto M. Nelson, Eds., War and Peace: Perspectives in the Nuclear Age (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1988) 125-136

“On Almost Killing Your Friends: Aspects of Violence in Early Epic and Ritual,” in John Miles Foley, Ed. Current Issues in Oral Literature Research: a Memorial for Milman Parry (Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1987) 395-433

“Homeric Epic and the Social Order,” in K. Myrsiades, Ed., Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (New York: Modern Language Association, 1987) 57-62

“Foreign Languages and World Community,” Foreign Language Newsletter 34:125 (1984) 3

“Beowulf in the Context of Myth,” J. Niles, Ed. in Old English Literature in Context (Cambridge, England, 1980) 143-156

“Entretiens avec Tirésias,” Classical World 74 (1980) 89-108

“Dread Goddess Endowed with Speech: A Study of Womankind in the Odyssey,” Archaeological News VI: (1977) 77-83

“Towards a Generative View of the Oral Formula,” TAPhA 98 (1967) 269-311

“Oral Poetry and the Question of Originality in Literature,” Actes du V^e Congres de l'Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, ed. by N. Banasevic (Belgrade, 1966); German tr. in: J. Latacz (ed.), Homer - Tradition und Neuerung (Darmstadt, 1977)

“Dread Goddess Revisited,” in Seth L. Schein, Ed., Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays (Princeton University Press: revision of  “Dread Goddess Endowed with Speech,” above).

 

Forewords and Afterwords:

Catherine Ingram, In the Footsteps of Gandhi. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 2003.

M.K. Gandhi, Prayer (Berkeley Hills Books, 2000)

__________,The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi (2000)

__________, The Book of Prayer (1999)

__________, The Way to God (1999)

__________,Vows and Observances (1999)

Eknath Easwaran, Gandhi the Man (Nilgiri Press, 1978)

 

Articles (Religious Studies):

“Words and the Mind: Thoughts on an Ancient and a Contemporary Technique of Meditation,” Religion East and West 3 (June, 2003) 79-90

“The Upanishads,” Sufi 32 (Winter 1996-97) 26-33

“Mysticism: A Hardheaded Definition for a Romantic Age,” Studia Mystica I:1 (1978) 36-57.

“St. Augustine’s Sadhana,” The Mountain Path 14 (1977) 11-12

“Blessed are the Poor,” (Tr. and commentary on Mathew V:4-16), The Mountain Path 8 (1971)

“Paul’s Hymn to Love,”  The Mountain Path 7 (1970) 121-123.

 

Forthcoming: “All That We Are: Insights on Passage Meditation,” Yoga Journal (2004)

 

Review Articles:

Discussion of Alan Dundes, “The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus,” along with article in Colloquy 25: Center for Hermeneutical Studies (Berkeley, 1977) 44-48

“How Does an Oral Poem Mean?,” review of: Berkeley Peabody, The Winged Word (Albany, 1975) in Arion n.s. 3:365-77 (1976).

 

Reviews (selection):

B. R. Nanda, In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections (Oxford, 2002), in International Journal on World Peace 22:2 (June, 2005) 99-92

Stanley Wolpert, Gandhi’s Passion (Oxford, 2001), in Yoga Journal (October, 2001) 159-161

Murray Polner and Jim O’Grady, Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan (New York: Basic Books, 1997), in Peace & Change 24:3 (1999) 437-440

Thomas Weber, Gandhi’s Peace Army: The Shanti Sena and International Peacekeeping (Syracuse University, 1996), in Gardenia 4:2 (Winter, 1997) 1

Michael True, An Energy Field More Intense than War (Syracuse University, 1996), in Fellowship (January/February, 1997) 18

Per Herngren: Path of Resistance: The Practice of Civil Disobedience (New Society, 1993), in Peace and Change 20:2 (1995) 285f.

Robert Bauslaugh, The Concept of Neutrality in Classical Greece, (University of California, 1991) in Religious Studies Review

M.S. Silk, Homer: The Iliad (Landmarks of World Literature: Cambridge U.P., 1987) in Journal of Hellenic Studies

Charles Segal, Pindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode (Princeton U.P., 1986) in Religious Studies Review

Friedrich Solmsen, Isis Among the Greeks and Romans, in Classical Philology 78:1 (1983) 81-83

Eknath Easwaran, Dialogue with Death (Petaluma, Ca.: Nilgiri Press, 1980) in Studia Mystica 5:2 (1982) 74-77

Harald Patzer, Dichterische Kunst und poetisches Handwerk im homerischen Epos (Wiesbaden, 1972) in Classical World 68 (1974) 187ff.

Patricia Merivale, Pan the Goat-God: His Myth in Modern Times, (Cambridge, Mass., 1969), in Western Folklore (1971) 297ff.

Albrecht Dihle, Homer Probleme (Opladen, 1970), in Classical World 65:131ff (1971)

P.L. Henry, The Early English and Celtic Lyric (London, 1966) in English Studies 52 (1971)

Brian Wilkie, Romantic Poets and Epic Tradition, (Wisconsin, 1965) in Comparative Literature 19:380-1 (1967)

 

Journalistic and Occasional Writings (selection):

“What would the world be like if we followed Gandhi,” Santa Rosa Press Democrat (November 27, 2004)

“‘Constructive work’ toward peace,” Santa Rosa Press Democrat (February 28, 2003)

“Give peace workers a chance,” San Jose Mercury News (Wed., May 12, 1993)

“Nonviolence Can Prevent War,” single-issue newspaper edited by Glenn Smiley, 1993

“Trivializing War,” Los Angeles Times (Sunday, November 11, 1990)

“Meditation and the Challenge of Peace,” Pax Christi (March 12, 1986) 11-13

“Taboos,” San Francisco Chronicle (June 24, 1984) 8

“Toward Abolishing War,” Christianity and Crisis 40:20 (December 8, 1980) 349-352.

 

Fiction:

“Strength Through Peace,” in Foell and Nenneman (Edd.), How Peace Came to the World (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986) 151-159 (Winning entries of Christian Science Monitor 2010 international essay contest)

Poem: “For Roberta,” Love Letter 7 (1969).

 

Published Interviews (brief selection):

“A passionate voice for peace – and nonviolence,” San Francisco Chronicle (February 28, 2003)

“Self-contained country spells national tragedy,” Jakarta Post (April 17, 2003)

“Choosing a nonviolent Path,” Petaluma Argus Courrier (April 24, 2002)

“Peace and a Nonviolent Future,” Pacific Sun (December, 2002 – cover story)

“Michael Nagler: Search for Truth,” Sequoia: Newsletter of Religion and Society (SF: Fall, 2002)

“A conversation with Michael Nagler,” California Monthly (December, 2001)

“O.J. Mania: American Tragedy,” by Shann Nix, in La Guardia and Guth, Ameriican Voices (1995), 440-446

“Author plans nonviolent video game,” Santa Rosa Press Democrat (Sunday, March 26, 1995)

Joan O'Connell, Religion Editor, San Jose Mercury News (Sunday, March 2, 1991)

“Dreaming the Dream: UC Professor Wins MacArthur Grant,” Shann Nix, Berkeley Beat (August 29, 1988) 23 & 34

Dennis Paulson, Ed. Voices of Survival (Santa Barbara: Capra, 1986) 253-255

“Can Violence be Outgrown?,” The Tarrytown Letter (May, 1984) 3-6

“‘Peace Armies’ being trained in non-violence,”  Santa Rosa Press Democrat (May 16, 1983).