| Religions in the modern world: Traditions and transformations L Woodhead, C Partridge, H Kawanami Routledge, 2003 | 314 | 2003 |
| Renunciation and empowerment of Buddhist nuns in Myanmar-Burma: Building a community of female faithful H Kawanami Brill, 2013 | 86 | 2013 |
| The Bhikkhunī Ordination Debate: Global Aspirations, Local Concerns, with special emphasis on the views of the monastic community in Burma H Kawanami | 62 | 2007 |
| The religious standing of Burmese Buddhist nuns (thila-shin): The ten precepts and religious respect words H Kawanami Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 17-39, 1990 | 56 | 1990 |
| Charisma, power (s), and the Arahant ideal in Burmese-Myanmar Buddhism H Kawanami Asian Ethnology, 211-237, 2009 | 40 | 2009 |
| Patterns of renunciation: The changing world of Burmese nuns H Kawanami Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women: Tradition, Revision, Renewal, 159-71, 2000 | 26 | 2000 |
| Buddhism and the political process H Kawanami Springer, 2016 | 22 | 2016 |
| Can women be celibate? Sexuality and abstinence in Theravada Buddhism H Kawanami Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence, 137-56, 2001 | 19 | 2001 |
| The culture of giving in Myanmar: Buddhist offerings, reciprocity and interdependence H Kawanami Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| U Nu’s liberal democracy and Buddhist communalism in modern Burma H Kawanami Buddhism and the Political Process, 31-55, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Japanese nationalism and the universal Dharma H Kawanami Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth-Century Asia, 105-26, 1999 | 13 | 1999 |
| Buddhism, international relief work, and civil society H Kawanami, G Samuel Springer, 2013 | 9 | 2013 |
| Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations C Partridge, L Woodhead, H Kawanami Routledge, 2003 | 9 | 2003 |
| Introduction: Power, Authority, and Contested Hegemony in Burmese-Myanmar Religion H Kawanami Asian ethnology, 177-183, 2009 | 8 | 2009 |
| Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's Women: Tradition, Revision, Renewal H Kawanami, EB Findly Wisdom Publications, 2000 | 8 | 2000 |
| Monastic Discipline and Communal Rules for Buddhist Nuns in Myanmar and Thailand ML Falk, H Kawanami Buddhism, Law & Society 3, 39-68, 2017 | 7 | 2017 |
| Implications of International relief work and civil society for Japanese Buddhists affiliated with traditional denominations H Kawanami Buddhism, International Relief Work, and Civil Society, 101-121, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| Women in buddhism revisited H Kawanami Women. Power, and Resistance: An Introduction to Women’s Studies. Eds. Tess …, 1996 | 6 | 1996 |
| Religion in the Modern World P Fletcher, H Kawanami, D Smith London and New, 2001 | 5 | 2001 |
| The position and role of women in Burmese Buddhism: a case study of Buddhist nuns in Burma H Kawanami (No Title), 1991 | 5 | 1991 |
