Dr Alex Henley

• A Practical Guide to Critical Religion, ed. Alexander Henley (London: Bloomsbury, 2026).

Book chapters:

• “Mashyakhat al-‘Aql: The making of a modern Lebanese DruzeA religious community that arose as an offshoot of the Fatimid Ismailis around 408 AH/1017 CE. institution”, in The Druze Millennium, ed. A. Abu-Husayn and M. Rabah (American University of Beirut Press, forthcoming).
• “‘Religion’ and the Study of ‘Religious Leadership’”, in the Critical Religion Reader, ed. M. Barbato, C. Montgomery and R. Nadadur Kannan (Studio Dreamshare Press, 2020).
• “Who Defines Religion in the Colony?”, in the Critical Religion Reader, ed. M. Barbato, C. Montgomery and R. Nadadur Kannan (Studio Dreamshare Press, 2020).
• “The Maronites”, in the Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East, ed. P. Rowe (Routledge, 2018).
• “Religious Authority and Sectarianism in Lebanon”, in Beyond Sunni and Shia: The roots of sectarianism in a changing Middle East, ed. F. Wehrey (Oxford University Press, 2017).
• “Religious Nationalism in the Official Culture of Multi-Confessional Lebanon”, in The Struggle to Define a Nation: Rethinking religious nationalism in the contemporary Islamic World, ed. M. Demichelis and P. Maggiolini (Gorgias Press, Modern Muslim World series, 2017).

Journal articles:

• “Why is it so difficult to get Critical Religion into the mainstream? Reflections on Horii’s book ‘Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology”, Critical Research on Religion 11/1 (2023).
• “Normalisation through religious representation: A Lebanese Druze response to the ‘Muslim Question’”, Implicit Religion (forthcoming in 2021), special issue “The ‘Muslim Question’: The Micropolitics of Normalizing Islam and Muslims”.
• “Islam as a Challenge to the Ideology of Religious Studies: Failures of Religious Studies in the Middle East”, Implicit Religion 22/3-4 (2020), special issue “Twenty Years After: The Ideology of Religious Studies”.
• “Between Sect and State in Lebanon: Religious leaders at the interface”, Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 1/1 (2016), special inaugural issue on sectarianism.
• “Remaking the Mosaic: Religious leaders and secular borders in the colonial Levant“, Religion and Society: Advances in Research 6 (2015), special issue “Religion and Borderlands”.
• “Politics of a Church at War: Maronite Catholicism in the Lebanese Civil War”, Mediterranean Politics 13/3 (2008).

• Review of Mashyakhat ‘Aql al-Duruz fi Lubnan, in Contemporary Levant 7/2 (2022).
• Review of Understanding ‘Sectarianism’, in The Middle East Journal 74/3 (2020).
• “Islamic Authorities and Mosques in Jordan during the Corona Crisis”, Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant (2020).
• “Religious Authority and Sectarianism in Lebanon”, policy report for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2016).
• “How Sectarian Conflicts Overtook the Arab Spring”, Contemporary Arab Studies Magazine (Georgetown University, Summer 2016).
• Review of Leaders et Partisans au Liban, in Mediterranean Politics 18/1 (2013).
• Review of Christian Religious Leadership in the Middle East, in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 39/2 (2012).
• Review of In the Shadow of Sectarianism, in New Middle Eastern Studies 1 (2011).