Books
Works Righteousness: Material Practice in Ethical Theory. Oxford University Press, 2020. 
Cats and Conservationists: The Debate Over Who Owns the Outdoors. With Dara Wald. Purdue University Press, 2020. In the series “New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond.”
Religion and Ecological Crisis: The “Lynn White Thesis” At 50. Co-edited with Todd LeVasseur. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. In the series “Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law.”
Working Toward Sustainability: Ethical Decision Making in a Technological World. With Charles Kibert, Martha Monroe, Richard Plate, and Leslie Paul Thiele. Hoboken: John Wiley, 2011.
Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
* A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2010.
Latin American Religions: Histories and Documents in Context. Edited and with introductions, with Manuel Vásquez. New York: New York University Press, 2008.
Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas. Co-edited with Manuel Vásquez and Philip Williams. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion: Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador’s Civil War. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. Second printing, October 2001.
* A Choice outstanding academic book of 1997
Selected articles and book chapters
(Please visit my academia.edu site for links to many articles and chapters.)
“Problem Animals.” Environmental Ethics, 41, no. 2 (2020): 129-141.
“Material Religion, Materialism, and Non-Human Animals.” In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality, ed. Vasudha Narayanan. Cambridge: Blackwell Press, 2020.
“Religion and Animals.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality, ed. Vasudha Narayanan. Cambridge: Blackwell Press, 2020).
“Canine Rescue as a Social Movement: The Politics of Love.” Society & Animals 26 (2018).
“Progressive Catholicism.” With Manuel Vasquez. In The Cambridge History of Latin America, ed. Stephen Dove and Virginia Garrard-Burnett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
“Latin America’s Religious Landscape.” In The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology, eds. John Grim, Willis Jenkins, and Mary Evelyn Tucker ( Routledge, 2016).
“Religion, Local Community, and Sustainable Agriculture.” In Sustainable Agriculture and the World’s Religious Traditions, ed. Todd LeVasseur, Pramod Parajuli, and Norman Wirzba. University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
“Climate Change and the Right to Hope.” Invited article for special issue on “The Place of Hope in an Age of Climate Disaster.” Tikkun, Spring 2015.
“Foundations of Conduct: A Theory of Values and Its Implications for Environmentalism.” With William Jordan III, Nathaniel F. Barrett, Kip Curtis, Liam Henneghan, Randall Honold, Todd LeVasseur, Leslie Paul Thiele, and Gretel Van Wieren. Environmental Ethics 34 (2012): 291-312.
“Recreate, Relate, Decenter: Environmental Ethics and Domestic Animals.” In “Placing” Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics, ed. Mark Dixon and Forrest Clingerman. Ashgate Press, 2011.
“Ordinary and Extraordinary Sacrifices: Religion, Everyday Life, and Environmental Practice.” In The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice, ed. Michael Maniates and John Meyer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010.
“Oscar Romero and the Politics of Sainthood.” With Manuel A. Vásquez. Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, 5, no. 3 (2009) 265–291.
“Ignorance and Ethics.” In The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge, ed. Wes Jackson and Bill Vitek. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
“Martyrdom, Sacrifice, and Political Memory in Central America.” With Brandt G. Peterson. Social Research 75 (Summer 2008): 511-542.
