Johannes Quack
{{Short description|German social anthropologist}}
{{Notability|Academics|date=August 2020}}
Johannes Quack (born 1959) is a German ethnologist at the Goethe University Frankfurt whose primary field of study is religion.{{cite web|title=Dr. Johannes Quack|url=http://www2.uni-frankfurt.de/43722704/quack|publisher=Goethe University Frankfurt|language=German|accessdate=4 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005023203/http://www2.uni-frankfurt.de/43722704/quack|archive-date=5 October 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Johannes Quack, Dr.|url=http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/people/person/persdetail/quack-1.html|publisher=Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University|language=German|accessdate=4 October 2013}} He is also the head of the Emmy Noether Research Group “Diversity of Non-Religiosity” at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
He has researched non-religious and rationalist organisations in India.{{cite news|title=Die Vielfalt der Nicht-Religion lässt sich schon auf nationalem Level feststellen|url=http://www.diesseits.de/perspektiven/saekulare-gesellschaft/1378764000/vielfalt-nicht-religion-laesst-sich-schon-nationalem|accessdate=4 October 2013|newspaper=Diesseits|date=10 September 2010|author=Arik Platzek|language=German}} He received the Max Weber Award from the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt for his work Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism on Religion in India.{{cite web|title=Max Weber Prize for Johannes Quack |url=http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/news-events/news/detail/m/max-weber-prize-for-johannes-quack.html |publisher=Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University |accessdate=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004221839/http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/news-events/news/detail/m/max-weber-prize-for-johannes-quack.html |archivedate= 4 October 2013 }} Max Weber's concept of disenchantment was applied to the discussion of secularism in India in his book.{{Cite web |last=Simeon |first=Dilip |date=November 2012 |title=Review of Quack, Johannes, Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India |url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=34722 |access-date=2025-01-10 |publisher=H-Asia, H-Review |language=en}}
Life and work
Quack was born in 1959 in Anrath.{{cite web |title=Kantor Kirchenmusikdirektor Johannes Quack von der AntoniterCityKirche Köln |url=https://www.antonitercitykirche.de/kantor-kmd-johannes-quack.aspx |website=AntoniterCityKirche |access-date=7 September 2021 |language=de}}{{cite web |title=Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Johannes Quack! |url=https://www.kirche-koeln.de/herzlichen-glueckwunsch-johannes-quack/ |website=Evangelischer Kirchenverband Köln und Region |access-date=7 September 2021 |language=de |date=30 January 2011}} He studied religious studies, anthropology and philosophy at the University of Bayreuth. Later, he taught anthropology and religious studies at the University of Heidelberg, Lucerne, Münster, Tübingen and Munich. He used to work at the Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University as a post-doctoral researcher and McGill University in Montreal as a research fellow.
His field of research includes religion, Hindu traditions, ritual theory, criticism of religion, and mental illness. He has done field work in India about religious tourism, non-religious group and psychosocial problems.
Published works
Books
- {{cite book|author=Johannes Quack|title=Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TNbxUwhS5RUC|date=22 November 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-981260-8}}
- {{cite book|author1=William Sax |author2= Johannes Quack|author3=Jan Weinhold|title=The Problem of Ritual Efficacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1hrXs9wr0zYC|date=14 December 2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-974236-3}}
Peer-reviewed papers
- {{cite journal|last1=Quack|first1=Johannes|title='What do I know?' Scholastic fallacies and pragmatic religiosity in mental health-seeking behaviour in India|journal=Mental Health, Religion & Culture|volume=16|issue=4|year=2013|pages=403–418|issn=1367-4676|doi=10.1080/13674676.2012.679358|s2cid=144400501}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Quack|first1=Johannes|title=Ignorance and utilization: mental health care outside the purview of the Indian state|journal=Anthropology & Medicine|volume=19|issue=3|year=2012|pages=277–290|issn=1364-8470|doi=10.1080/13648470.2012.692357|pmid=22870866|s2cid=20015220}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Quack|first1=Johannes|title=Organised Atheism in India: An Overview|journal=Journal of Contemporary Religion|volume=27|issue=1|year=2012|pages=67–85|issn=1353-7903|doi=10.1080/13537903.2012.642729|s2cid=143798025}}
- {{cite journal|last=Quack|first=Johannes|author2=P. Tobelman |title=Questioning 'Ritual Efficacy'|journal=Journal of Ritual Studies|year=2010|volume=24|issue=1|pages=13–28}}
Articles
- {{cite journal|last=Quack|first=Johannes|title=Modes of Non-religiosity|journal=Virtual Conference: Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network.|year=2011|url=http://nonreligionandsecularity.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/nsrn-terminology-conference-5-may-2011-johannes-quack-nonreligion-stream1.pdf}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.johannes-quack.net/ Official website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005023203/http://www2.uni-frankfurt.de/43722704/quack Faculty page] at the Goethe University Frankfurt
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Category:21st-century German anthropologists
Category:Social anthropologists
Category:Cultural anthropologists