Johannes Quack (born 1959) is a German
ethnologist
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at the
Goethe University Frankfurt whose primary field of study is religion.
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. He received the Max Weber Award from the
Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the
University of Erfurt
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for his work ''Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism on Religion in India''.
Life and work
Quack was born in 1959 in
Anrath.
He studied
religious studies,
anthropology
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and
philosophy at the
University of Bayreuth. Later, he taught anthropology and religious studies at the
University of Heidelberg
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,
Lucerne
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,
Münster
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,
Tübingen
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and
Munich
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. He used to work at the Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
Heidelberg University
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as a post-doctoral researcher and
McGill University
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in
Montreal
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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
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Peer-reviewed papers
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References
External links
Official websiteFaculty pageat the
Goethe University Frankfurt
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Living people
1959 births
Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt
German anthropologists
Social anthropologists
Cultural anthropologists
Robert Schumann Hochschule alumni