Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection

Dr. Johanna Kühn

Johanna Kühn studied Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociology and Economics at the University of Bayreuth, the University of Haifa (Israel) and the University of Goettingen. In her dissertation she analysed the construction of the female self and the privatization of religiosities in the context of contemporary spiritual practices in Lebanon.


Globalized Spiritual Practices, Alternative Healing Methods, Gender Studies, Construction of Femininities and Masculinities in Zones of Conflict


Middle East (in particular Lebanon, Israel and Palestine)


2017 and 2018
 Research in Lebanon for doctoral dissertation on contemporary spiritual practices (ERC-Project "Private Pieties, Mundane Islam and New Forms of Muslim Religiosity: Impact on Contemporary Social and Political Dynamics")

2013 and 2014
 Research in Israel and Palestine for master thesis on the impact of ideas of femininitiy for political protest in the West Bank