Autore: Johannes Quack

Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient’s gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socializ …

This book provides a conceptually and empirically rich introduction to religious indifference on the basis of original anthropological, historical and sociological research. Religious indifference …

Menschen, die die Existenz eines Gottes verneinen, sahen sich in der gesamten Geschichte Europas Verfolgungen ausgesetzt. Atheismus war hier vor allem eine Konfrontation mit der christlichen Lehre. …

Menschen, die die Existenz eines Gottes verneinen, sahen sich in der gesamten Geschichte Europas Verfolgungen ausgesetzt. Atheismus war hier vor allem eine Konfrontation mit der christlichen Lehre. …

When scholarship presents the histories, belief systems, and ritual patterns of specific religious groups, it often privileges victori­ous and élite fractions of those communities to the detriment …

How do rituals work? Although this is one of the first questions that people everywhere ask about rituals, little has been written explicitly on the topic. In The Problem of Ritual Efficacy, nine …

India is frequently represented as the quintessential land of religion. Johannes Quack challenges this representation through an examination of the contemporary Indian rationalist organizations: …

This book explores the relational dynamic of religious and nonreligious positions as well as the tensions between competing modes of nonreligion. Across the globe, individuals and communities are …

This book explores the relational dynamic of religious and nonreligious positions as well as the tensions between competing modes of nonreligion. Across the globe, individuals and communities are …

Das Erforschen kultureller Vielfalt ist zentraler Gegenstand der Ethnologie. 25 Autor_innen aus Instituten in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz bieten Einblick in das Fach, seine Inhalte und …

How do rituals work? Although this is one of the first questions that people everywhere ask about rituals, little has been written explicitly on the topic. In The Problem of Ritual Efficacy, nine …