Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen and University Professor at Large at Utrecht University. He is the author of The Modern Spirit of Asia, Gods on Earth, Religious Nationalism, and Imperial Encounters, among other publications.
17 E-böcker av Peter van der Veer
Peter van der Veer: Handbook of Religion and the Asian City
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. It does not assume that religion is of the past and that the urban is s …
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€149.99
Peter van der Veer: The Modern Spirit of Asia
A comparative look at religion and spirituality in postcolonial China and India The Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West …
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€33.99
Kenneth Dean & Peter van der Veer: The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia
This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West. Its au …
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€90.94
Shoma Munshi & Peter van der Veer: Media, War and Terrorism
This collection of essays covers the media and public debate dimension of the events of 9/11 and beyond, from the point of view of Middle Eastern and Asian countries. The first part of the book deals …
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€48.27
Shoma Munshi & Peter van der Veer: Media, War and Terrorism
This collection of essays covers the media and public debate dimension of the events of 9/11 and beyond, from the point of view of Middle Eastern and Asian countries. The first part of the book deals …
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€48.57
James Miller & Peter van der Veer: Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China
This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the worl …
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€59.06
James Miller & Peter van der Veer: Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China
This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the worl …
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€59.06
Peter van der Veer: Conversion to Modernities
Peter van der Veer has gathered together a groundbreaking collection of essays that suggests that conversion to forms of Christianity in the modern period is not only a conversion to modern forms of …
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€48.79
Peter van der Veer: Conversion to Modernities
Peter van der Veer has gathered together a groundbreaking collection of essays that suggests that conversion to forms of Christianity in the modern period is not only a conversion to modern forms of …
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€48.27
Peter van der Veer: Prayer and Politics
Prayer is an important religious practice that is rarely studied from the perspective of politics – and yet it should be. Though some forms of Protestantism teach that prayer should be individual and …
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€56.49
Peter van der Veer: Prayer and Politics
Prayer is an important religious practice that is rarely studied from the perspective of politics – and yet it should be. Though some forms of Protestantism teach that prayer should be individual and …
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€56.55
Peter van der Veer: Imperial Encounters
Picking up on Edward Said’s claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impac …
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€49.99
Peter van der Veer & Hartmut Lehmann: Nation and Religion
Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom says that it does. The prevailing view assumes that the onset of western modernity–characterized by the …
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€49.99
Peter van der Veer: Nation and Migration
Peter van der Veer and the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between South Asian nationalism, migration, ethnicity, and the construction of religious identity. Although nationality …
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€94.99
Peter van der Veer: Gods on Earth
This book is the result of the long interest in Hindu pilgrimage which was encouraged during his study of Sanskrit and Hinduism It provided a detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues …
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€47.24
Peter van der Veer: Gods on Earth
This book is the result of the long interest in Hindu pilgrimage which was encouraged during his study of Sanskrit and Hinduism It provided a detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues …
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€46.86
Peter van der Veer: Value of Comparison
In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives popula …
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€33.15
