Tengan, Alexis B.

Alexis B. Tengan has been for some time associated with the Catholic University of Louvain where he obtained his Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology and with Lumen Vitae Institute in Brussels where he has continued to teach a course on Rites of Initiation in Traditional and Modern Socieites. Besides now working as an independent scholar, he teaches Religious Education at St John's International School. His current research interests include mythology, initiation rituals, religion and society, ritual literature, and cultural and development studies.