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Abstract

Johanna Kühn is a lecturer and research assistant at the Institute of Anthropology. She has a regional focus on the Middle East, in particular Lebanon, Israel and Palestine. She conducted research on contemporary spiritual practices, self and identity, muslim religiosities and constructions of femininities and masculinities in the context of conflict, violence and protest.

Professional career

  • 10/2016 - 10/2021
    Research Associate and Academic Coordinator in the ERC-Project "Private Pieties, Mundane Islam and New Forms of Muslim Religiosity" at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Göttingen

Education

  • 04/2017 - 08/2023
    PhD at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Göttingen
  • 10/2012 - 08/2015
    Master of Arts in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Göttingen
  • 08/2013 - 01/2014
    Visiting student at the University of Haifa, Israel
  • 10/2008 - 03/2012
    Bachelor of Arts in Applied African Studies and Economics, University of Bayreuth

Contemporary spiritual practices, self and identity, constructions of femininities and masculinities in the context of conflict, violence and protest


regional focus: Middle East, in particular Lebanon, Israel and Palestine

  • Föllmer, K.; Franke, L. M.; Kühn, J.; Loimeier, R.; Sieveking, N. (Eds.)
    Religiöser Wandel in muslimischen Gesellschaften: Individualisierung, Geschlecht und soziale Milieus
    Göttingen: Universitätsverlag. 2022.
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  • Kühn, J.
    Gendered Agency – Das Engagement der Frauen von MachsomWatch in Israel und dem Westjordanland (2016)
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.3249/2363-894X-gisca-4
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  • Kühn, J.
    Seeing Lights. Healing in a Meditation Class in Beirut
    Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology. 2019. 42 (3 und 4). pp. 65–78.
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more publications

Anthropology of Gender, Anthropology of the Body, Anthropology of Religion and Spiritual Practices, Anthropological Methods, Anthropology of Kinship

  • Anthropology of the Middle East

  • Anthropology of Religion, Ritual and Performance

  • New Age-Practices and Contemporary Spiritualities

  • Anthropology of Body, Kinship and Gender