Peter van der Veer

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Peter van der Veer (* 1953 in Groningen ) is a Dutch anthropologist, director at the Göttingen Max Planck Institute for Research on Multi-Religious and Multi-Ethnic Societies and, since June 2010, honorary professor for ethnology and cultural sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen .

Peter van der Veer studied in Groningen and Utrecht and obtained his doctorate in anthropology in 1986. He then worked at the Free University of Amsterdam, the University of Utrecht and the University of Pennsylvania . In 1992, the Free University of Amsterdam appointed him Professor of Comparative Religious Studies and Director of the Research Center Religion and Society. Since November 2008 Peter van der Veer has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Multi-Religious and Multi-Ethnic Societies. There he heads the department for religious diversity. Peter van der Veer works on religion and nationalism in Asia and Europe. He has recently completed a monograph on the comparative study of religion and nationalism in India and China,  The Modern Spirit of Asia. The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India  (Princeton University Press, 2013). Other major publications include  Gods on Earth  (LSE Monographs, 1988),  Religious Nationalism  (University of California Press, 1994), and  Imperial Encounters  (Princeton University Press, 2001). He was editor or co-editor of  Orientalism and Post-Colonial Predicament  (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993),  Nation and Migration  (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995),  Conversion to Modernities  (Routledge, 1997),  Nation and Religion  (Princeton University Press , 1999 ), Media, War, and Terrorism (Routledge-Curzon, 2003),  Patterns of Middle-Class Consumption in India and China (Sage, 2007). Most recently he gave the  Handbook of Religion and the Asian City. Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century  (University of California Press). Professor van der Veer is a member of the advisory boards of  China in Comparative Perspective ,  Political Theology  and the  Journal of Religious and Political Practice  and has just launched a new journal:  Cultural Diversity in China .

He is the editor of the Routledge Zones of Religion series and is the co-editor of several academic journals including Eastern Anthropologist , Public Culture , Cultural Dynamics , Ethnos , and MERA-Journal .

Works (selection)

  • Books
    • The Value of Comparison . Durham: Duke University Press 2016.
    • The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Secular and the Spiriual in India and China , Princeton: Princeton University Press (also Chinese translation forthcoming 2014).
    • Religious Networks in Asia and Beyond . Book Issue Encounters.London: IB Tauris and New York: MacMillan 2011.
    • Patterns of Middle Class Consumption in India and China  (with Christophe Jaffrelot). New Delhi: Sage 2008.
    • Media, War and Terrorism: Responses from the Middle East and Asia  (with Shoma Munshi). London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
    • Islam en het "good" West . Amsterdam, Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2002.
    • Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
    • Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia  (with Hartmut Lehmann). Princeton University Press, 1999.
    • Conversion to Modernities. The Globalization of Christianity . New York: Routledge 1996.
    • Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora , 1995.
    • Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India . University of California Press, 1994.
    • (edited with Carol Breckenridge)  Orientalism and the Post-Colonial Predicament. Perspectives on Orientalism and South Asia . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1993.
    • Gods on Earth: Religious Experience and Identity in Ayodhya . Oxford University Press, 1989

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personal data
SURNAME Veer, Peter van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Groningen