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Lectures

087987	"Shamans, Mystics and Doctors" - Pluralistic Mental Health Care in India
	Date, 11.04.11, Mo 12pm-14pm, STU 102 (2.4)
	Date, 13.05.11, Mo 10am-18pm, STU 102 (2.4)
	Date, 14.05.11, Mo 10am-18pm, STU 102 (2.4)
	Date, 01.07.11, Mo 9am-16pm, STU 102 (2.4)
	Date, 02.07.11, Mo 9am-16pm, STU 102 (2.4)

 

Publications

Monographs

Quack, Johannes (2011 – forthcoming), Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India, New York, Oxford University Press.
Doctoral Thesis

Quack, Johannes (2009). Disenchanting India: An Ethnography of the Rationalist Organisation Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti (Organisation for the Eradication of Superstition) and Their Mode of Unbelief, Department of Anthropology, Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg. Ph.D. (submitted 27.08.2009).

Edited

Sax, William, Johannes Quack and Jan Weinhold (2010), The Problem of Ritual Efficacy, New York, Oxford University Press.

Sax, William and Johannes Quack (2010), "Ritual Efficacy" Special Issue of Journal of Ritual Studies, volume 24:1.

Sax, William and Johannes Quack (2010), "Ritual Efficacy" Special Issue of Journal of Ritual Studies, volume 24:2.

Articles

Quack, Johannes (2010) "Bell, Bourdieu and Wittgenstein on Ritual Sense" in Sax, Quack, and Weinhold (ed) The Problem of Ritual Efficacy?, New York, Oxford University Press.

Quack, Johannes and Paul Töbelmann (2010), "Questioning Ritual Efficacy" in Journal of Ritual Studies, volume 24:1.

Quack, Johannes and William Sax (2010) “Introduction: The Efficacy of Rituals” Special Issue of Journal of Ritual Studies, volume 24:1.

Quack, Johannes (2011- in print) "Reflexive Remarks on Science, Ritual and Neutrality in the Social Sciences" in Udo Simon (ed) Reflexivity and Discourse on Ritual, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Quack, Johannes (2011 – in print) “Is to ignore to deny? Säkularisierung, Säkularität und Säkularismus in Indien“ in Martin Bauman und Frank Neubert, Religionspolitik - Öffentlichkeit - Wissenschaft: Studien zur Neuformierung von Religion in der Gegenwart (= CultURel ; 1). Zürich: PANO-Verlag.
 
Kugele, Jens, Maud Jahn and Johannes Quack (2011 – forthcoming) “Memory, Museality and the Aesthetics of Religion” in Journal for the Study of European Religions, Special Edition.

Curriculum vitae

since Nov. 2009: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at Heidelberg University

April 2006 - Oct. 2009: Ph.D. in Anthropology, Heidelberg University 

Oct. 2009 - March 2010: Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Tübingen 

April 2008 - Sep. 2009: Lecturer in Anthropology as well as Religious Studies at Heidelberg University 

Oct. 2003 - May 2006: Magister/ (M.A. equivalent) in Religious Studies, Philosophy & Anthropology at Heidelberg University  

July 2005 - July 2006, June - Aug. 2008: Research Assistant at Heidelberg University, Collaborative Research Centre "Dynamics of Ritual"

May 2004 - Dec. 2006: Research Assistant at Heidelberg University, Religious Studies

Sept. 2002 - July 2003: Visiting Student at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland

April 2001 - Aug. 2002:  Zwischenprüfung/ (B. A. equivalent) at the University of Bayreuth

Nov. 2001 - July 2002: Research Assistant at the University of Bayreuth, Collaborative Research Centre "Local Action in Africa in the Context of Global
Influences" and in Religious Studies as well as Philosophy

Field Research 

Ethnographic fieldwork (postdoc) on mental health providers with focus on a private hospital in Uttarakhand, India (Feb. – Oct. 2010).

Ethnographic fieldwork (dissertation) on rationalist movements and traditional healing in Delhi and Maharashtra, India (Jan. – May & July – Dec. 2007).

Ethnographic fieldwork (dissertation) on traditional healing at Balaji temple, Mehandipur, India (Oct. – Nov. 2006).

Ethnographic fieldwork (M.A.) on religious tourism in Sacha Dham Ashram, Rishikesh, India (March – May 2005).

Research on Kathak-Dance in the context of a Hindi language course in Jaipur, India (Feb. – March 2004).

Research/Projects

• C3 Mind and Body