| The life of a text: performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas P Lutgendorf Univ of California Press, 1991 | 449 | 1991 |
| Hanuman's tale: the messages of a divine monkey P Lutgendorf Oxford University Press, 2007 | 219 | 2007 |
| Ramayan: the video P Lutgendorf TDR (1988-) 34 (2), 127-176, 1990 | 132 | 1990 |
| All in the Raghu Family P Lutgendorf To be continued... Soap operas around the world, 321-53, 1995 | 127 | 1995 |
| Is there an Indian way of filmmaking? P Lutgendorf International Journal of Hindu Studies 10 (3), 227-256, 2006 | 105 | 2006 |
| My Hanuman is bigger than yours P Lutgendorf History of religions 33 (3), 211-245, 1994 | 73 | 1994 |
| Making tea in India: Chai, capitalism, culture P Lutgendorf Thesis Eleven 113 (1), 11-31, 2012 | 47 | 2012 |
| Monkey in the middle: The status of Hanuman in popular Hinduism P Lutgendorf Religion 27 (4), 311-332, 1997 | 47 | 1997 |
| City, forest, and cosmos: Ecological perspectives from the Sanskrit epics P Lutgendorf Hinduism and ecology, 269-290, 2000 | 43 | 2000 |
| Interpreting Rāmrāj: Reflections on the Rāmāyaṇa, Bhakti, and Hindu Nationalism P Lutgendorf Bhakti Religion in North India, 253-287, 1995 | 40 | 1995 |
| Ram’s story in Shiva’s city: public arenas and private patronage P Lutgendorf Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and Environment 1980 …, 1800 | 40 | 1800 |
| Jai Santoshi Maa Revisited: On Seeing a Hindu “Mythological” Film P Lutgendorf Representing religion in world cinema: filmmaking, mythmaking, culture …, 2003 | 37 | 2003 |
| Evolving a monkey: Hanuman, poster art and postcolonial anxiety P Lutgendorf Contributions to Indian sociology 36 (1-2), 71-112, 2002 | 29 | 2002 |
| The Quest for Legendary Tulsīdās P Lutgendorf According to Tradition. Hagiographical writing in India, 65-85, 1994 | 27 | 1994 |
| Five heads and no tale: Hanumān and the popularization of Tantra P Lutgendorf International Journal of Hindu Studies, 269-296, 2001 | 25 | 2001 |
| A Superhit Goddess Jai Santoshi Maa and Caste Hierarchy in Indian Films P Lutgendorf Manushi, 10-16, 2002 | 22 | 2002 |
| Imagining Ayodhyā: Utopia and its shadows in a Hindu landscape P Lutgendorf International journal of Hindu studies, 19-54, 1997 | 22 | 1997 |
| The view from the ghats: traditional exegesis of a hindu epic P Lutgendorf The Journal of Asian Studies 48 (2), 272-288, 1989 | 22 | 1989 |
| Sex in the snow: The Himalayas as erotic topos in popular Hindi cinema P Lutgendorf HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies 25 …, 2005 | 19 | 2005 |
| Dining out at lake Pampa: the Shabari episode in multiple Ramayanas P Lutgendorf Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asian Tradition, 119-136, 2001 | 18 | 2001 |
