| Tantra: Sex, secrecy, politics, and power in the study of religion HB Urban Univ of California Press, 2003 | 491 | 2003 |
| Magia sexualis: sex, magic, and liberation in modern Western esotericism HB Urban Univ of California Press, 2006 | 276 | 2006 |
| The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion HB Urban Princeton University Press, 2011 | 237 | 2011 |
| The power of Tantra: Religion, sexuality and the politics of South Asian studies HB Urban Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009 | 162 | 2009 |
| The torment of secrecy: Ethical and epistemological problems in the study of esoteric traditions HB Urban History of religions 37 (3), 209-248, 1998 | 158 | 1998 |
| The economics of ecstasy: tantra, secrecy, and power in colonial Bengal HB Urban Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 | 134 | 2001 |
| New Age, Neopagan and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Modern America" HB Urban University of California Press, 2015 | 131 | 2015 |
| Sacred capital: Pierre Bourdieu and the study of religion H Urban Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 15 (4), 354-389, 2003 | 119 | 2003 |
| The cult of ecstasy: Tantrism, the new age, and the spiritual logic of late capitalism HB Urban History of Religions 39 (3), 268-304, 2000 | 102 | 2000 |
| Zorba the Buddha: sex, spirituality, and capitalism in the global Osho movement HB Urban University of California Press, 2016 | 88 | 2016 |
| Fair game: Secrecy, security, and the Church of Scientology in cold war America HB Urban Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74 (2), 356-389, 2006 | 86 | 2006 |
| The extreme orient: the construction of ‘tantrism’as a category in the orientalist imagination HB Urban Religion 29 (2), 123-146, 1999 | 63 | 1999 |
| Songs of ecstasy: tantric and devotional songs from colonial Bengal HB Urban Oxford University Press, 2001 | 62 | 2001 |
| Elitism and esotericism: Strategies of secrecy and power in South Indian Tantra and French freemasonry H Urban Numen 44 (1), 1-38, 1997 | 62 | 1997 |
| The path of power: Impurity, kingship, and sacrifice in Assamese Tantra HB Urban Journal of the American Academy of Religion 69 (4), 777-816, 2001 | 59 | 2001 |
| The Occult Roots of Scientology? L. Ron Hubbard, Aleister Crowley, and the Origins of a Controversial New Religion HB Urban Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 15 (3), 91-116, 2012 | 54 | 2012 |
| The power of the impure: transgression, violence and secrecy in Bengali Śākta Tantra and modern Western magic H Urban Numen 50 (3), 269-308, 2003 | 52 | 2003 |
| Osho, from sex guru to guru of the rich HB Urban, TA Forsthoefel, H Cynthia Gurus in America, 169-92, 2005 | 49 | 2005 |
| The marketplace and the temple: Economic metaphors and religious meanings in the folk songs of colonial Bengal HB Urban The Journal of Asian Studies 60 (4), 1085-1114, 2001 | 45 | 2001 |
| Zorba the Buddha: capitalism, charisma and the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh HB Urban Religion 26 (2), 161-182, 1996 | 44 | 1996 |
Paul J. GriffithsDuke Divinity SchoolVerified email at div.duke.edu
Paul J. GriffithsDuke Divinity SchoolVerified email at div.duke.edu