| Sociology of Religion A Dawson SCM Press, 2011 | 140 | 2011 |
| New Era – New Religions: Religious Transformation in Contemporary Brazil A Dawson Ashgate, 2007 | 127* | 2007 |
| Santo Daime: A New World Religion A Dawson Bloomsbury, 2013 | 104 | 2013 |
| Consuming the Self: New Spirituality as 'Mystified Consumption' A Dawson Social Compass 58 (3), 309–15, 2011 | 55 | 2011 |
| Statement on ayahuasca. BT Anderson, BC Labate, M Meyer, KW Tupper, PC Barbosa, CS Grob, ... The International journal on drug policy 23 (3), 173-175, 2012 | 52 | 2012 |
| The Origins and Character of The Base Ecclesial Community: A Brazilian Perspective A Dawson The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology, 139–58, 2007 | 48 | 2007 |
| Positionality and Role-Identity in a New Religious Context A Dawson Religion 40, 173–81, 2010 | 46 | 2010 |
| East is East, Except When It’s West: The Easternization Thesis and the Western Habitus A Dawson Journal of Religion and Society 8, 2006 | 45 | 2006 |
| Entangled Modernity and Commodified Religion: Alternative Spirituality and the ‘New Middle Class’ A Dawson Religion in Consumer Society: Brands, Consumers and Markets, 127–42, 2013 | 32 | 2013 |
| Summoning the spirits A Dawson IB Tauris, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| If Tradition Did Not Exist, It Would Have to be Invented: Retraditionalization and The World Ayahuasca Diaspora A Dawson The World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Reinventions and Controversies, 19-37, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
| The politics and practice of religious diversity: national contexts, global issues A Dawson The Politics and Practice of Religious Diversity, 1-26, 2016 | 22 | 2016 |
| The Birth and Impact of the Base Ecclesial Community and Liberative Theological Discourse in Brazil A Dawson International Scholars Publications, 1998 | 19 | 1998 |
| Religion, globalization and modernity: From macro-processes to micro-dynamics A Dawson Estudos de religiao 28 (2), 31-58, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| Religious Identity and Millenarian Belief in Santo Daime A Dawson Religion and the Individual: Belief, Practice, Identity, 183–95, 2008 | 18* | 2008 |
| Interfaith activity and the governance of religious diversity in the United Kingdom M Prideaux, A Dawson Social Compass 65 (3), 363-377, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| Spirit Possession in a New Religious Context A Dawson Nova Religio 15 (4), 60–84, 2012 | 13* | 2012 |
| Taking Possession of Santo Daime: The Growth of Umbanda within a Brazilian New Religion A Dawson Spirit Possession and Trance: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 134–50, 2009 | 13* | 2009 |
| Mystical Experience as Universal Connectedness A Dawson Journal of Contemporary Religion 19 (2), 155–69, 2004 | 12 | 2004 |
| Putting baby back in the bath: Theorising modernity for the contemporary sociology of religion A Dawson Sociological theory and the question of religion, 151-176, 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
