Alexander Henn

Alexander Henn is a German anthropologist and Professor for Religious Studies at the School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. He is also known for his research done on religion in Goa, India.

Education[]

He has done his habilitation in Cultural Anthropology, , Heidelberg, 2000. He also holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, which he completed in 1988.

Positions held[]

Since 2005 Henn is Associate Professor for Religious Studies, Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. From 2000-2005, he was an adjunct professor at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Anthropology. Between 2000-2001, he was also a visiting professor at Goa University, India, Department of Sociology. From 2000-2001 he held the post of adjunct professor, Ruprecht-Karls University at Heidelberg, Germany, in the Department of Anthropology. From 1988-1999, he was an assistant professor at the same university's South Asia Institute and between 1990–91, a visiting lecturer and research fellow at the University of Delhi's Department of Sociology.

Publications[]

His publications include:

Books[]

Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa. Religion, Colonialism and Modernity, Indiana University Press, 2014
Rituals in an Unstable World: Contingency – Embodiment - Hybridity, (eds. Alexander Henn and Klaus-Peter Koepping) Frankfurt, Oxford, New York 2008: Peter Lang
Wachheit der Wesen: Politik, Ritual und Kunst der Akkulturation in Goa, Münster, Hamburg, London 2003: LIT-Verlag
Reisen in vergangene Gegenwart. Geschichte und Geschichtlichkeit der Nicht-Europäer im Denken des 19. Jahrhunderts: die Erforschung des Sudan, Berlin 1988: Dietrich Reimer

Chapters and articles[]

Ritual, Emotion and Healing in Post-Colonial Settings, in: Christian Wulff and Axel Michaels, eds. Ritual and Emotion, 2000 words, New Delhi 2011: Routledge
Pictorial Encounter. Iconoclasm and Syncretism at India’s Western Coast in: Christiane Brosius and Roland Wenzlhuemer (eds.), Transcultural Turbulences: Interdisciplinary Ex-plorations of Flows of Images and Media, Vienna 2011: Springer,
Jesuit Rhetorics: Translation and Conversion in Early-Modern Goa, in: Ivo Strecker, Christian Meyer, Felix Girke, The Constitutive Interplay Between Rhetoric and Culture, 6000 words, Oxford / New York 2011: Berghahn
Hindu Traditions in Goa, in: Encyclopedia of Hinduism, vol. I, ed. Knut A. Jacobson, Leyden 2009: Brill
Crossroads of Religions: Shrines, Mobility, and Urban Space in Goa, in: International Journal for Urban and Regional Research, special issue (eds. Smirti Srinivas and Mary Hancock) 2008/32.3 S 658–70
The Lord of Mapusa: Genesis of an Urban God in Goa, in: Purusartha 2006/25, pgs. 31-47
Gods and Saints in Goa: Cultural Diversity and Local Religion, in: Malik, A., Feldhaus, A., Brueckner, H. (eds): In the Company of Gods. In Memoriam Guenther-Dietz Sontheimer, Delhi: 2005: Manohar, pgs. 83-104
Incorporando o divino: iconografia religiosa, espaço sociologico e história política em Goa, in: Oriente. Revista Quadrimestral da Fundação Oriente, Lisboa 2003/4: 26-34
The Becoming of Goa. Space and Culture in the Emergence of a Multicultural Lifeworld, in: Lusotopie: Lusophonies asiatiques, Asiatiques en lusophonies, Paris 2000/1, pgs.333-339

Films[]

Staying Awake for God. Introducing the Jagor. Documentary with Alito Siqueira and Gasper D’Souza 15 min., 2010, http://www.vimeo.com/12507263