| Critical Buddhism: engaging with modern Japanese Buddhist thought JM Shields Routledge, 2016 | 55 | 2016 |
| The Oxford handbook of Buddhist ethics D Cozort, JM Shields Oxford University Press, 2018 | 48 | 2018 |
| Against harmony: progressive and radical Buddhism in modern Japan JM Shields Oxford university press, 2017 | 46 | 2017 |
| The Art of Aidagara: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Quest for an Ontology of Social Existence in Watsuji Tetsurō's Rinrigaku JM Shields Asian Philosophy 19 (3), 265-283, 2009 | 33 | 2009 |
| A Blueprint for Buddhist Revolution: The Radical Buddhism of Seno'o Girō (1889–1961) and the Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism JM Shields Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 333-351, 2012 | 26 | 2012 |
| Liberation as Revolutionary Praxis: Rethinking Buddhism Materialism J Shields Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Special 20th Anniversary Issue 20, 461, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| Beyond belief: Japanese approaches to the meaning of religion JM Shields Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 39 (2), 133-149, 2010 | 14 | 2010 |
| Teaching Buddhism in the West: From the wheel to the web VS Hori, RP Hayes, JM Shields Psychology Press, 2002 | 13 | 2002 |
| Immanent Frames: Meiji New Buddhism, Pantheism, and the" Religious Secular" JM Shields Japan review, 79-95, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
| Smashing the mirror of Yamato: Sakaguchi Ango, decadence and a (post-metaphysical) Buddhist critique of culture JM Shields Nichibunken Japan Review, 225-246, 2011 | 10 | 2011 |
| Sexuality, blasphemy, and iconoclasm in the media age: The strange case of the Buddha bikini JM Shields God in the Details, 98-120, 2010 | 9 | 2010 |
| Future perfect: Tolstoy and the structures of agrarian-Buddhist utopianism in Taishō Japan JM Shields Religions 9 (5), 161, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| Political Interpretations of the Lotus Sūtra JM Shields A companion to Buddhist Philosophy, 512-523, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
| Zange and Sorge: Models of “Concern” in Comparative Philosophy of Religion JM Shields Polyphonic thinking and the divine, 89-96, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| Buddhist Economics JM Shields The Oxford handbook of Buddhist ethics, 407, 2018 | 6 | 2018 |
| Opium eaters: Buddhism as revolutionary politics JM Shields Buddhism and the Political Process, 213-234, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| Zen and the Art of Treason: Radical Buddhism in Meiji Era (1868–1912) Japan JM Shields Politics, religion & ideology 15 (2), 205-223, 2014 | 6 | 2014 |
| Introduction to Against Harmony: Radical Buddhism in Thought and Practice J Shields Politics, Religion & Ideology 15 (2), 187, 2014 | 6 | 2014 |
| Revisioning a Japanese Spiritual Recovery through Manga: Yasukuni and the Aesthetics and Ideology of Kobayashi Yoshinori’s “Gomanism” JM Shields The Asia-Pacific Journal [online] 11, 47, 2013 | 5 | 2013 |
| Awakening between Science, Art and Ethics: Variations of Japanese Buddhist Modernism, 1890–1945 JM Shields Rethinking Japanese Modernism, 105-124, 2012 | 5 | 2012 |
