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  1. Saint Veneration Rituals among Muslims in Hatay, Turkey

    Article • Anthropological Theory, September 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  2. Play and ritual: Rhythm, pulsation, and fractal dynamics

    Article • Anthropological Theory, September 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  3. “Finding” the Eucharist in Central Australia: Intichiuma Ceremonies and the Study of Ritual Sacrifice as a Sacrament of Communion

    Article • History of Religions, February 2019, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  4. Dynamics of Ritual Reflexivity in the Alevi Cem of Istanbul

    Article • Religion and Society, September 2018, Berghahn Journals

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  5. Implications of Micro-Scale Comparisons for the Study of Entangled Religious Traditions: Reflecting on the Comparative Method in the Study of the Dynamics of Christian-Muslim Relations at a Shared Sacred Site

    Article • Religions, February 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  6. Aesthetic Dimensions and Transformative Dynamics of Mimetic Acts: The Veneration of Habib-i Neccar Among Muslims and Christians in Antakya, Turkey

    Article • December 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  7. Intertextualität und Interritualität als Mimesis

    Article • Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  8. intertextulity

    Article • Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Prof. Hubert Seiwert, Dr. Jens Kreinath, Anna Neumaier

  9. Yaron Friedman The Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in SyriaThe Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria. By Yaron Friedman. Is...

    Article • History of Religions, November 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  10. Imaginationsgeschichte

    Article • December 2014, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, KG

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  11. Imagination – Visualität – Repräsentation Religionsästhetische Konstruktion der Kategorie der zentralaustralischen Aborigines und das Paradigma der Fotografie

    Article • December 2014, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, KG

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  12. Marriage, Kinship, and Transnational Identity: The “Community of the House” of the Turkish Alawis/Nusairis in GermanyDie “Gemeinschaft des Hauses”: Religion, Heiratsstrategien und transnationale Identität türkischer Alawi-/Nusairi-Migranten in Deutschl...

    Article • Current Anthropology, December 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  13. Review of Gisela Procházka-Eisl and Stephan Procházka, The Plain of Saints and Prophets: The Nusayri-Alawi Community of Cilicia (Southern Turkey) and its Sacred Places

    Article • Contemporary Islam, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  14. Virtual encounters with Hızır and other Muslim saints: Dreaming and healing at local pilgrimage sites in Hatay, Turkey

    Article • Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, September 2014, Sean Kingston Publishing

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  15. Book review: Ritual, Media, and Conflict, written by Ronald L. Grimes, Ute Hüsken, Udo Simon, and Eric Venbrux

    Article • Numen, March 2014, Brill

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  16. Transformations of a ‘religious’ nation in a global world: Politics, Protestantism and ethnic identity in South Korea

    Article • Culture and Religion, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  17. Introduction: Politics of faith in Asia: Local and global perspectives of Christianity in Asia

    Article • Culture and Religion, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  18. Discursive Formation, Ethnographic Encounter, Photographic Evidence: The Centenary of Durkheim'sBasic Forms of Religious Lifeand the Anthropological Study of Australian Aboriginal Religion in His Time

    Article • Visual Anthropology, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  19. Ideologues of Martyrdom in Postwar Iran and the Culture of Mourning the DeadPlastic Flowers Never Die. Film. Directed by Roxanne Varzi, 35 min. Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown, MA. 2008.

    Article • Current Anthropology, August 2011, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  20. Of Death and Birth

    Article • Visual Anthropology, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  21. The Anthropology of Islam

    Article • Religion, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  22. (Un)veiled: Muslim Women Talk about Hijab by Ines Hofmann Kanna

    Article • American Anthropologist, November 2010, Wiley

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  23. Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in IslamBy Brannon Wheeler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xi+333.

    Article • History of Religions, February 2010, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  24. Commemorating Adolf Bastian and the Foundation of the Royal Museum of Ethnology in BerlinAdolf Bastian and His Universal Archive of Humanity: The Origins of German Anthropology. Edited by Manuela  Fischer, Peter  Bolz, and Susan  Kamel. Hildesheim: Geo...

    Article • Current Anthropology, October 2009, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  25. Theorizing Rituals, Volume 2: Annotated Bibliography of Ritual Theory, 1966-2005

    Article • September 2007, Brill

    Dr. Jens Kreinath

  26. Imagining Religious WeepingHoly Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination. Edited by KimberleyChristine Patton and JohnStratton Hawley. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. 317 pp.

    Article • Current Anthropology, October 2006, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Jens Kreinath