中文：
2023，宗树人、史來佳：《夢道華山：全球道教與现代灵性的困境》。香港：香港大学出版社；
2022，宗树人：《葛兰言的中国文明研究对法国人类学理论的影响》，《人类学研究》第17辑；
2022，郭慧雯、周思博、安蔚、孙嘉玥、宗树人：《〈老挝蓝靛瑶文库〉：文本收集、编目、分类与评估方法问题》，《華人宗教研究》第19辑：25–64；
2016，蔡德贵、卓新平、宗树人、于维雅、雷雨田（合编）：《巴哈伊文献集成》（五册）。济南：山东大学出版社；
2015，宗树人：《中国宗教的社会组合体结构》，《河北学刊》第6期：108–113；
2014，宗樹人、夏龍、魏克利（合编）：《中國人的宗教生活》。香港：香港大学出版社；
2013，宗树人：《中国宗教的现实图景及其问题》，《文化纵横》（2013-03-13）；
2013，李向平、赵广明、宗树人、赵法生、郑筱筠：〈对话神圣与世俗〉，《世界宗教文化》第5期：45–51；
2012，宗树人：《民国救世团体与中国救度宗教：历史现象还是社会学类别？》，《宗教人类学》第3辑：3–28；
2011，舒萌梦、宗树人：《志愿者组织“参与行动研究”与能力建设——以四川地震后大学生志愿者为例》，《广东青年干部学院学报》第25卷第85期；
2011，王见川、宗树人、康豹：《导言：救世团体——“乡村宗教”还是“邪教”？》，《民俗曲艺》第173期；
2011，王见川、宗树人、康豹：《导言：救世团体研究的回顾》，《民俗曲艺》第172期：13–20；
英文：
专著
Palmer, David A. and Elijah Siegler. 2017. Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality. University of Chicago Press.
Palmer, David A. and Vincent Goossaert. 2011. The Religious Question in Modern China. University of Chicago Press.
Palmer, David A. 2007. Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia in China. Columbia University Press. Paperback edition 2020.
论文
2025，Man, Chun-Yin, David A. Palmer, and Junxi Qian. "Community Dynamics and Echo Chambers: A Longitudinal Study of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Twittersphere During COVID-19 Pandemic". Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. Published online 28 Aug 2025;
2025，Estevez, Joseba, and David A. Palmer. "Ritual, War, and Opium: Infrastructural Sedimentations in the Ethnohistory of the Mun (Lanten Yao) of Laos". Modern Asian Studies. Published online 9 Jun 2025;
2025，Woods, Orlando and David A. Palmer. "The Sacred Dimensions of the BRI’s Infrastructural Commons". Modern Asian Studies. (in press);
2025，Estévez, Joseba and David A. Palmer. "Ritual, War, and Opium: Infrastructural Sedimentations in the Ethnohistory of the Mun (Lanten Yao) of Laos". Modern Asian Studies. (in press);
2025，Pazhoor, Shehanas, Swastik Pandey, David A. Palmer, Biraj Timilsina, Yanyan Huang, Yangcheng Zhang, Bikas Gaire, Bikram Timilsina, Rajesh Marasini, and Marie K. Harder. "Towards Making EIA more Human-Centric: Demonstration in Nepal of a Values Crystallization Approach to Capture Local Shared Values for Scoping Use". Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Vol. 110;
2024，Ning, Rundong and David A. Palmer. "Intimate Utopias: Anti-politics in Chinese Civil Society". American Journal of Cultural Sociology;
2024，Palmer, David A. "Warriors of the City State: Chin Wan, Chinese Religion, and Hong Kong Localism". Journal of Asian Studies, 83(2): 347–359;
2022，Man, Chun-Yin, David A. Palmer, and Junxi Qian. "The Belt and Road on Twitter: An Annotated Dataset". Data in Brief, Vol. 45;
2022，Palmer, David A. "Ethnography and Manuscripts: New Approaches to the Study of Yao Religion". Studies in Chinese Religions, 19: 1-11;
2022，Tavangar, Temily and David A. Palmer. "Nurturing Inherent Nobility: Insights on Human Dignity from a Bahá’í Perspective". Religions, 14(2): 250;
2021，Palmer, David A. and Temily Tavangar. "The Bahá’í Faith and Covenantal Pluralism: Promoting Oneness, Respecting Difference". Review of Faith & International Affairs, 19(2): 29-39;
2021，Liu, Qing and David A. Palmer. "Chinese NGOs at the Interface between Governmentality and Local Society: An Actor-Oriented Perspective". China Information, 35(2): 158-178;
2020，Palmer, David A. "Black Bloc against Red China: Tears and Revenge in the Trenches of the New Cold War". Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 10(2): 325–332;
2020，Ning, Rundong and David A. Palmer. "Ethics of the Heart: Moral Breakdown and the Aporia of Chinese Volunteers". Current Anthropology, 61(4): 395-417;
2019，Wan, Zhaoyuan and David A. Palmer. "The Cosmopolitan Moment in Colonial Modernity: The Bahá’í Faith, Spiritual Networks and Universalist Movements in early Twentieth Century China". Modern Asian Studies, 54(6): 1-41;
2019，Palmer, David A. and Fabian Winiger. "Neo-Socialist Governmentality: Managing Freedom in the Peoples’ Republic of China". Economy and Society, 48(4): 554-578;
2019，Palmer, David A. "Cosmology, Gender, Structure and Rhythm: Marcel Granet and Chinese Religion in the History of Social Theory". Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 6(2): 160-187. Revised version published as “Granet, Mauss, and China in the History of Social Theory” in MAUSS: Anti-Utilitarian Interventions in the Social Sciences, no. 2 (2022);
2019，Palmer, David A., Martin Tse, and Chip Colwell. "Guanyin’s Limbo: Icons as Demi-Persons and Dividuating Objects". American Anthropologist, 121(4): 897-910;
2018，Jammes, Jérémy and David A. Palmer. "Occulting the Dao: Daoist Inner Alchemy, French Spiritism and Translingual Practice in Vietnamese Colonial Modernity". Journal of Asian Studies, 77(2): 405–428;
2018，Palmer, David A. "Spirituality, Transcendence, and the Circulatory History of Modern Asian Religion". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 78(1): 171-180;
2017，Palmer, David A. and Elijah Siegler. "Healing Tao USA and the History of American Spiritual Individualism". Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie, 25: 245-265;
2014，Palmer, David A. "Transnational Sacralizations: When Daoist Monks Meet Spiritual Tourists". Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 79(2): 169-192;
2013，Palmer, David A. "From ‘Congregations’ to ‘Small Group Community Building’: Localizing the Bahá’í Faith in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China". Chinese Sociological Review, 45(2): 78-98;
2011，Palmer, David A. "Gift and Market in the Chinese Religious Economy". Religion, 41(4): 1-26;
2011，Palmer, David A. "Chinese Redemptive Societies and Salvationist Religion: Historical Phenomenon or Sociological Category?". Journal of Chinese Theatre, Ritual and Folklore / Minsu Quyi, 172: 21-72. Anthologized in Critical Readings on Chinese Religion, Boston: Brill, 2013, pp. 209-246;
2011，Palmer, David A., Katz, Paul and Wang, Chien-chuan. "Redemptive Societies in Cultural and Historical Context". Journal of Chinese Theatre, Ritual and Folklore / Minsu Quyi, 173: 1-12;
2011，Palmer, David A.*, Katz, Paul and Wang, Chien-chuan. "Redemptive Societies as Confucian NRMs?". Journal of Chinese Theatre, Ritual and Folklore / Minsu Quyi, 172: 1-12;
2009，Palmer, David A. "China’s Religious Danwei: Institutionalizing Religion in the Peoples’ Republic". China Perspectives, 2009/4: 17-31. French version published in Perspectives Chinoises, 2009/4: 19-33. German version published in China heute, 2011(1): 169;
2008，Palmer, David A. "Embodying Utopia: Charisma in the post-Mao Qigong Craze". Nova Religio, 12(2): 69-89;
2004，Palmer, David A. "The Body at the Junction of Religion and Scientism: Modernization of Meditative Traditions in Contemporary China". Chinese Cross Currents, 1(1): 54-87. Reprinted in Macau Ricci Institute (ed.), Religion and Culture: Past Approaches, Present Globalisation, Future Challenges. Macau: Macau Ricci Institute, pp. 313-333;
2003，Palmer, David A. "Modernity and Millenialism in China: Qigong and the Birth of Falun Gong". Asian Anthropology, 2: 79-110;
法文：
2012, Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer, La question religieuse en Chine. Paris: Editions du CNRS. French edition of The Religious Question in Modern China;
2009, David A. Palmer and Sébastien Billioud (eds.), Special issue on “Formes de recomposition du religieux en Chine populaire.” Perspectives chinoises 2009/4. English version: China Perspectives 2009/4;
2009, David A. Palmer, “Les danwei religieuses: l’institutionalisation de la religion en République populaire de Chine.” Perspectives chinoises 2009/4, pp. 19-33. French edition of Palmer, “China’s Religious Danwei” (2009);
2008, Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer (eds.), Special issue on “Catégories et politiques du religieux en Chine”. Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 144;
2008, David A. Palmer, “Les mutations du discours sur les sectes en Chine moderne”. Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions no. 144, pp. 31-50. French edition of Palmer, “Heretical Doctrines…” (2008);
2007, Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer, “Affirmations religieuses en Chine”. Esprit no. 333, pp. 222-230;
2005, David A. Palmer, La fièvre du qigong: guérison, religion et politique en Chine. Paris: Editions de l’EHESS. French edition of Qigong Fever;
2003, David A. Palmer, “Le qigong et la tradition sectaire chinoise”. Externally reviewed. Social Compass 50(4), pp. 471-480;
2002, David A. Palmer, “Le qigong au carrefour des discours anti: de l’anticléricalisme communiste au fondamentalisme du Falun Gong”. Extrême Orient Extrême Occident 24, pp. 153-166. Externally reviewed;
1996, David A. Palmer, “Méandres idéographiques: Ecriture chinoise et ethnopsychiatrie”. Nouvelle Revue d’Ethnopsychiatrie no. 32, pp. 149-164.