| Worshipping the great moderniser: King Chulalongkorn, patron saint of the Thai middle class I Stengs Nus Press, 2009 | 110 | 2009 |
| Sacred waste I Stengs Material Religion 10 (2), 235-238, 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| Carnavalesk taalgebruik en de constructie van lokale identiteiten: Een pleidooi voor taalcultuur als onderzoeksveld LMEA Cornips, V de Rooij, I Stengs Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 1 (1), 15-40, 2012 | 30 | 2012 |
| Ephemeral Memorials Against'Senseless Violence': Materialisations of Public Outcry I Stengs Etnofoor, 26-40, 2003 | 23 | 2003 |
| The Secular sacred: Emotions of belonging and the perils of nation and religion M Balkenhol, E van den Hemel, I Stengs Springer Nature, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| Emerging ritual in secular societies: A transdisciplinary conversation E Dissanayake, M Smyth, RC Scaer, AA Smaller, C Behrend, I Russo, ... Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017 | 20 | 2017 |
| Carnivalesque language use and the construction of local identities: A plea for languageculture as a field of research L Cornips, V de Rooij, I Stengs Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie Dritte Folge 12–2017, 61-89, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
| Dialect and local media: Reproducing the multi-dialectal hierarchical space in Limburg (the Netherlands) L Cornips, V de Rooij, I Stengs, L Thissen Style, media and language ideologies, 189-216, 2016 | 18 | 2016 |
| Death and disposal of the people's singer: The body and bodily practices in commemorative ritual I Stengs Mortality 14 (2), 102-118, 2009 | 16 | 2009 |
| Managing Sacralities: Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage E Van den Hemel, O Salemink, I Stengs Berghahn Books, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| A Kingly Cult: Thailand's Guiding Lights in a Dark Era I Stengs Etnofoor 12 (2), 41-75, 1999 | 15 | 1999 |
| Commemorating Victims of ‘Senseless Violence': Negotiating Ethnic Inclusion and Exclusion1 I Stengs Reframing Dutch Culture, 159-179, 2016 | 14 | 2016 |
| Introduction: Emotional Entanglements of Sacrality and Secularity—Engaging the Paradox M Balkenhol, E van den Hemel, I Stengs The Secular Sacred: Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and …, 2020 | 13 | 2020 |
| Introduction: Management of Religion, Sacralisation of Heritage E Van den Hemel, O Salemink, IL Stengs Managing Sacralities at Religious Heritage Sites in Contemporary Europe, 1-21, 2022 | 12 | 2022 |
| Nieuw in Nederland. Feesten en rituelen in verandering I Stengs Amsterdam University Press, 2012 | 12 | 2012 |
| Ritual Mediations of Violent Death I Stengs Grassroots memorials: The politics of memorializing traumatic death 12, 71, 2011 | 12 | 2011 |
| Dutch mourning politics. The Theo van Gogh memorial space IL Stengs Quotidian: Journal for the Study of Everyday Life 1 (1), 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| Worshipping the great moderniser: the cult of king Chulalongkorn, patron saint of the Thai middle class IL Stengs Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2003 | 11 | 2003 |
| Ascertaining the future memory of our time: Dutch institutions collecting relics of national tragedy IL Stengs Sense and Essence: Heritage and the Cultural Construction of the Real, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Modern Thai encounters with the sublime: the powerful presence of a great King of Siam through his portraits I Stengs Material Religion 4 (2), 160-170, 2008 | 9 | 2008 |
