Johannes Quack

Johannes Quack is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Zurich, specializing in Religious Anthropology and Medical Anthropology. His research explores Hindu traditions, secularism, non-religion, therapeutic pluralism, and caste systems in South Asia and Europe.

• Major affiliations: European Research Council (ERC) Project "Religion and its Others," Non-Religion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN), South Asia Forum (SAF).
• Research themes include secularization, ethical frameworks, biographical methods, and postcolonial knowledge structures.

His publications analyze nonreligious identities (e.g., The Diversity of Nonreligion, 2020) and ritual efficacy (e.g., The Problem of Ritual Efficacy, 2010). He supervises PhD projects on topics like Philippine secularism and Bangladeshi secular politics.

Regional focus: South Asia (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) and Europe, examined through colonial and postcolonial lenses. Methodologically, he combines ethnographic and biographical approaches.

He has held research fellowships at institutions including the University of Leipzig, McGill University, and the Max Weber Kolleg.