ALEXANDER HENN  is an Associate Professor of Religion in India, with special interests in processes of religious and cultural encounter and post-colonialism. He holds a joint appointment with the School of Global Studies.

Cultural Anthropology and Anthropology of Religion; PhD, 1988 at University of Mainz, thesis on ‘History and Historicity of Africans in Post-Enlightenment European Thought’ with a case study on the Sudan; Habilitation 2000 at University of Heidelberg, thesis on ‘Politics, Rituals and Art of Acculturation in Goa / India’.

He was visiting professor at the Department of Anthropology, Delhi School of Economics and the Department of Sociology, Goa University.

Rituals in an Unstable World: Contingency – Embodiment - Hybridity, (eds. Alexander Henn and Klaus-Peter Koepping) Peter Lang, forthcoming

Wachheit der Wesen: Politik, Ritual und Kunst der Akkulturation in Goa, Münster 2003: LIT-Verlag, 253 S.

Jesuit Rhetorics: Translation and Conversion in Early-Modern Goa, in: Ivo Strecker, Christian Meyer, Felix Girke: The Constitutive Interplay Between Rhetoric and Culture, Berghahn Books, forthcoming

The Lord of Mapusa: Genesis of an Urban God in Goa, in: Purusarth 2006/25, pgs. 31-47 

Between Meaning and Significance: Reflections on Ritual and Mimesis, in: Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk (eds.) Celebrating Transgression As Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Culture, New York: Peter Lang 2005, pgs. 145-152

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