Alexander Henn

Books

• Alexander Henn. Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa. Religion, Colonialism and Modernity. University of Indiana Press (2014).
• Alexander Henn and Klaus Peter Koepping (eds). Rituals In an Unstable World: Contingency, Hybridity, Embodiment. Peter Lang (2008).
• Alexander Henn. Wachheit der Wesen. Politik, Ritual und Kunst der Akkulturation in Goa. LIT (2003).
• Alexander Henn. Reisen in Vergangene Gegenwart. Geschichte und Geschichtlichkeit der Nicht-Europaer im 19.Jahrhundert. Reimer (1988).

Chapters and Articles

• Roberto de Nobili and the Myth of the Modern Conceptualization of Religion in Seventeenth-Century India, History of Religions 2022, 62/2
• Gods Mediated: Religious Images, Televised Mythologies, and National Politics in Hindu India, digital chapter in Asia Mediated. Course Reader, ASU, Centre for Asian Research, 2019/4  https://scalar.usc.edu/works/asiamediatedtoc/index
• Shrines of Goa: Iconographic Formation and Popular Appeal in: Wayside Shrines: Everyday Religion in Urban India, edited by Larios, Borayin and Raphaël Voix, Samaj. South Asian Academic Journal 2018/18, https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4523
• Kristapurana. Translating the Name of God in Early Modern Goa, in: South Asian Academic Journal 2015/12, special issue edited by Jacop Copeman and Veena Das http://samaj.revues.org/4038
• Moving the World — Moving the Self: The Gaude Jagor in Goa in: Huesken, Ute and Axel Michaels (eds). South Asian Festivals on the Move, Wiesbaden 2013: Harassowitz, pp. 83-98
• Jesuit Rhetorics: Translation and Conversion in Early-Modern Goa, in: The Constitutive Interplay Between Rhetoric and Culture, edited by Ivo Strecker, Christian Meyer, Felix Girke, Oxford / New York 2011: Berghahn, pp.210-24 
• Pictorial Encounter. Iconoclasm and Syncretism at India’s Western Coast in: Transcultural Turbulences: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Flows of Images and Media, edited by Christiane Brosius and Roland Wenzlhuemer, Vienna 2011: Springer, pp.153-69
• Ritual, Mimesis, and Emotion: A Post Colonial Case, in: Emotions in Rituals and Performances. South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity, edited by Christian Wulff and Axel Michaels, New Delhi 2011: Routledge, pp.444-452 
• Ritual, History and Identity in Goa, in: World Christianity, vol. III, edited by Elizabeth Köpping, London 2010: Routledge  
• Hindu Traditions in: Encyclopedia of Hinduism, vol. I, ed. Knut A. Jacobson, Leyden 2009: Brill, pp.249-254
• Crossroads of Religions: Shrines, Mobility, and Urban Space in Goa, in: International Journal for Urban and Regional Research, 2008/ 32.3, pp.658–70 
• Introduction. Beyond Norm, Text and Dialectics: Ritual as Social Praxis, in: Rituals in an Unstable World: Contingency – Embodiment - Hybridity, edited volume with Klaus-Peter Köpping, Frankfurt 2008: Peter Lang, pp.9-30
• The Lord of Mapusa: Genesis of an Urban God in Goa, in: Purusartha 2006/25, pp. 31-47  
• Between Meaning and Significance: Reflections on Ritual and Mimesis, in: Celebrating Transgression As Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Culture, edited by Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk, Frankfurt, Oxford, New York 2005: Peter Lang, pp. 145-52 (reprint in translation of Zwischen Gehalt und Gestalt, 2003)
• Gods and Saints in Goa: Cultural Diversity and Local Religion, in: In the Company of Gods. In Memoriam Guenther-Dietz Sontheimer, edited by Aditya Malik, Anne Feldhaus, Heidrun Brueckner, Delhi: 2005: Manohar, pp. 83-104
• Politics of Acculturation. The Dynamics of Hindu-Christian Ritual in Goa, in: The Dynamics of Changing Rituals, edited by Jens Kreinath, Anette Deschner, Constance Hartung, Frankfurt 2004: Peter Lang, pp. 155-66
• Incorporando o divino: iconografia religiosa, espaço sociológico e história política em Goa, Embodying the Divine: Religious Iconography, Societal Space and Political History in Goa in: Oriente, Revista Quadrimestral da Fundação Oriente, 2003/15:26-33 (bi-lingual publication)
• Zwischen Gehalt und Gestalt: Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Ritual und Mimesis, in: Paragrana. Internationale Zeitschrift für historische Anthropologie 2003/12,1-2, pp.67-78 
• Interpretatio, Exercicium, Mimesis - Ritual und Bedeutung in Goa, in: Im Rausch des Rituals. Gestaltung und Transformation der Wirklichkeit in köperlicher Performanz, edited by Klaus-Peter Köpping and Ursula Rao, Münster 2000: LIT-Verlag, pp.125-38
• Anthropology and Temporality. A Criticism of Theory and Discourse in the History of Anthropological Writing. (1995).
• Diffusion / Diffusionismus. Handbuch Religionswissenschaftlicher Grundbegriffe (1990).
• Wie Tag und Nacht: Zur Metaphorik der Ungleichzeitigkeit im anthropologischen Diskurs des 19. Jahrhunderts. (1990).

Book Reviews

• Vanita Seth. Europe’s Indians. Producing Racial Difference, 1500-1900, Durham 2010: Duke University Press, in Asian Studies Review 2012
• Arun Saldanha. Psychedelic White. Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2007, in Cultural Geographies, 2011/ 18.1: 134
• Alf Hiltebeitel and Kathleen Erndl (eds.): Is the Goddess a Feminist? The Politics of South Asian Goddesses, New Delhi 2002: Oxford University Press, in: Sociological Bulletin 2003
• John Burton. An Introduction to Evans-Pritchard, Fribourg 1992: University Press, in: Tribus 1994/43:179-180
• Alf Lüdtke (ed.) Herrschaft als soziale Praxis: Historische und sozial-anthropologische Studien, Göttingen 1991: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, in: Man 1993/28: 189-190 

Films

• Alexander Henn and Alito Siqueira. Staying Awake for God. Introducing the Jagor. (2010).http://www.vimeo.com/12507263