Johannes Quack, M.A.

Mitarbeiter Teilprojekt C2


Abteilung Ethnologie

Südasien-Institut

Im Neuenheimer Feld 330

69120 Heidelberg


E-Mail: JohannesQuack@web.de


Forschungsschwerpunkte und laufende Projekte

Thematic Fields of Interest:
Rationalist / Humanist / Atheist Movements in India - Post-colonial Theory - Anthropology of Religion - Medical Anthropology (Mental Health) - Ritual Theory - Aesthetics of Religion - Theory of Practice

Current Research:
“Disenchanting India” – Rationalist / Humanist / Atheist Movements in India (PhD thesis) 

Curriculum Vitae

Johannes Quack studied Religious Studies, Philosophy and Anthropology (Magister Artium) at the Universities of Bayreuth and Edinburgh and graduated at Heidelberg University with honours in May 2006. In his M.A.-thesis "Ritual Sense – On Dichotomies, Dynamics and how ‘Spiritual Seekers’ from the West Ritualize Indian Pujas in Sacha Ashram, Rishikesh" he analysed the transformation of puja ceremonies on the basis of critical engagement with the ritual theories of Tambiah, Humphrey & Laidlaw and Catherine Bell. Currently he is working as a lecturer at the Department of Religious Studies as well as at the Department of Anthropology of the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg.

Wichtigste Publikationen

Bücher

Mitherausgeber
with William Sax and Jan Weinhold (2009), The Problem of Ritual Efficacy. New York, OUP – in Press.

with William Sax (2010), “Ritual Efficacy” Special Issue of Journal of Ritual Studies, volume 24 – forthcoming.

Aufsätze
Quack, Johannes and Paul Töbelmann (2010), “Questioning Ritual Efficacy” in Journal of Ritual Studies, volume 24 – forthcoming.

Quack, Johannes (2009) “Bell, Bourdieu and Wittgenstein on Ritual Sense” in Sax, Quack, and Weinhold, The Problem of Ritual Efficacy. New York, OUP – in Press.

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