Prof. Dr. Peter van der Veer - Publications
Journal Article (67)
2021
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Introduction. Archives de sciences sociales des religions 193, pp. 11 - 24 (2021)
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Minority rights and Hindu nationalism in India. Asian Journal of Law and Society (2021)
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What transcends the nation? Asian Ethnology 80 (1), pp. 19 - 30 (2021)
2018
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Vanishing worlds. Anthropology of this century October 2018 (23) (2018)
2017
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Resisting general models: Response to comments on van der Veer, Peter. 2016. The value of comparison. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (1), pp. 533 - 536 (2017)
2016
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Urban aspirations in Seoul: Guest editors’ introduction. Journal of Korean Religions 7 (2), pp. 5 - 9 (2016)
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Introduction to special issue: Prayer and Politics. Journal of Religious and Political Practice 2 (1), pp. 1 - 5 (2016)
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The Future of Utopia. History and Anthropology 27 (3), pp. 251 - 262 (2016)
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Introduction: The sacred and the urban in Asia. International Sociology 31 (4), pp. 367 - 374 (2016)
2015
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The bitter pleasures of tea and opium. Cultural Diversity in China 1 (1), pp. 1 - 7 (2015)
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Nation, politics, religion. Journal of Religious and Political Practice 1 (1), pp. 7 - 21 (2015)
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Introduction to the Modern Spirit of Asia /《亚洲的现代灵性》之 导论. Cultural Diversity in China 1 (2), pp. 115 - 140 (2015)
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Introduction: Doing Asian cities. Ethnography 16 (3), pp. 287 - 294 (2015)
2014
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Unterwegs: Die Anthropologie als holistitsche Erkundung fremder Lebenswelten. Georgia Augusta: Wissenschaftsmagazin der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2014 (9), pp. 100 - 111 (2014)
2013
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Mission Statement Responses. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 33 (2), pp. 156 - 158 (2013)
2012
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Smash temples, burn books: comparing secularist projects in India and China. The world religious cultures 73 (Spring), pp. 17 - 26 (2012)
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Spirituality in modern society = 现代社会中的灵性. N.W. ethno-national studies = Xibei-minzu-yanjiu 72 (Spring), pp. 115 - 124 (2012)
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Religion, secularism and national development in India and China. Third world quarterly 33 (4), pp. 719 - 732 (2012)
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Market and Money: a critique of rational choice theory. Social compass 59 (2), pp. 183 - 193 (2012)
2011
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Introduction. Encounters 4, pp. 9 - 15 (2011)
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Spirit. Material religion 7 (1), pp. 124 - 130 (2011)
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包容多样：以比较促进宗教间和谐 = Compassion as a way of enhancing harmony. 中国民族报 宗教周刊论坛 = Weekly Forum on Religion, China Minzu News 6, - (2011)
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9.11之后：世界更加需要尊重伊斯兰教 = After 9 11: the world needs more respect for Islam. 中国民族报 = China’s Nationality News 07, - (2011)
2010
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Body and Mind in Qi Gong and Yoga. A Comparative Perspective on India and China. Eranos Yearbook 69, pp. 128 - 141 (2010)
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Spirituality: East and West. Eranos Yearbook 69, pp. 45 - 61 (2010)
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The value of comparison. The Newsletter 54, p. 19 (2010)
2009
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The comparative sociology of India and China. Social Anthropology 17 (1), pp. 90 - 108 (2009)
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Spirituality in Modern Society. Social Research 76 (4), pp. 1 - 24 (2009)
2007
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Global breathing: religious utopias in India and China. Anthropological Theory 7 (3), pp. 315 - 328 (2007)
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The imperial encounter with Asian religions. Radical History Review 2007 (99), pp. 253 - 261 (2007)
2004
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South Asian Islam in Britain. Ethnicities 4 (1), pp. 135 - 146 (2004)
2003
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Religious radicalism in South Asia. South Asian Journal (Quarterly Magazine of South Asian Journalists and Scholars) 2, pp. 1 - 5 (2003)
2002
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Religion in South Asia. Annual Review of Anthropology 31, pp. 173 - 187 (2002)
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Cosmopolitan options. Etnografica VI (1), pp. 15 - 26 (2002)
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Transnational religion: Hindu and Muslim movements. Global Networks 2 (2), pp. 95 - 109 (2002)
2001
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Nederland en de Islam. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 28 (4), pp. 513 - 524 (2001)
1999
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Hindus: a superior race. Nations and nationalism 5 (3), pp. 419 - 430 (1999)
1998
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The global history of “modernity”. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 41 (3), pp. 285 - 294 (1998)
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Religion, secularity and tolerance. Eastern Anthropologist 50 (3-4), pp. 381 - 395 (1998)
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Cultural politics and the state. Cultural Dynamics 10 (3), pp. 281 - 287 (1998)
1997
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L'État moral: religion, nation et Empire dans la Grande-Bretagne victorienne et l'Inde britannique. Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire 26, pp. 77 - 102 (1997)
1996
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Religion and mass politics in India. Journal of International Affairs 50 (1), pp. 254 - 277 (1996)
1995
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The modernity of religion. Social history 20 (3), pp. 365 - 371 (1995)
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The secular production of religion. Etnofoor 8 (2), pp. 5 - 14 (1995)
1993
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No nations, but classes. Public Culture 6 (1), pp. 77 - 82 (1993)
1992
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Een echte Indier is hindoe. Theoretische Geschiedenis 20 (4), pp. 402 - 413 (1992)
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Ayodhya and Somnath: eternal shrines, contested histores. Social Research 59 (1), pp. 85 - 109 (1992)
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Invited view: body and gender in Hindu and Muslim nationalist discourse. Committee on Women in Asian Studies Newsletter 10 (2), pp. 2 - 4 (1992)
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Playing or praying: a Sufi saint's day in Surat. Journal of Asian Studies 51 (3), pp. 545 - 564 (1992)
1991
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Brahmanism abroad: on Caribbean Hinduism as an ethnic religion. Ethnology 30, pp. 149 - 166 (1991)
1989
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The power of detachment: disciplines of body and mind in the Ramanandi order. American Ethnologist 16 (3), pp. 40 - 52 (1989)
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The power of detachment: disciplines of body and mind in the Ramanandi order. American Ethnologist 16 (3), pp. 458 - 470 (1989)
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Satanic or angelic? The politics of religious and literary inspiration. Public Culture 2 (1), pp. 100 - 105 (1989)
1988
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‘Echte’ en ‘onechte’ Brahmanen: de effecten van het Britse kaste-bewustzijn. Sociologische Gids XXXV (2), pp. 199 - 280 (1988)
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Frits Staal in de provincie. Hollands Maandblad 30, pp. 16 - 25 (1988)
1987
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'God must be liberated!' A Hindu liberation movement in Ayodhya. Modern Asian Studies 21 (2), pp. 283 - 301 (1987)
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De illusie van een oude beschaving. Sociologisch Tijdschrift 14 (1), pp. 62 - 83 (1987)
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Communalisme en nationalisme in Zuid-Azie. Internationale Spectator 41 (11), pp. 570 - 578 (1987)
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Taming the ascetic: devotionalism in a Hindu monastic order. Man 22 (4), pp. 680 - 695 (1987)
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Antropologie en de feministische ontwikkelingssociologie. Sociologische Gids XXXIV (4), pp. 296 - 308 (1987)
1986
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Pandits, power and profit: religious organization and the construction of identity among Surinamese Hindus. Ethnic and Racial Studies 9 (4), pp. 514 - 528 (1986)
1985
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Brahmans: their purity and their poverty on the changing values of Brahman priests in Ayodhya. Contributions to Indian Sociology 19 (2), pp. 303 - 321 (1985)
1983
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Religie en politiek: de Khalistan-beweging onder de Indiase Sikhs. Internationale Spectator XXX (1), pp. 43 - 48 (1983)
1982
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Ideologie en verandering. Antropologische Verkenningen 1, pp. 105 - 121 (1982)
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Naakt geweld en zoete devotie. De veranderende machtskansen van de Ramanandis in Noord-India. Antropologische Verkenningen 2, pp. 59 - 84 (1982)
1980
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Karnen voor onsterfelijkheid. Structuur en interpretatie van een mythe. Forum der Letteren 21 (3), pp. 196 - 204 (1980)
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Reizen naar reinheid en verlossing. Pelgrimage in India. Intermediair 16 (41), pp. 37 - 43 (1980)
Book (9)
2020
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Zongjiao minzu zhuyi—yindu jiaotu yu musilin zai yindu. Minzu chubanshe, Beijing (2020)
2016
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The value of comparison. Duke University Press, Durham (2016)
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亚洲的精神性. 印度与中国的灵性与世俗 (yazhou de jingshenxing. yindu yu zhongguo de lingxing yu shisu) = The modern spirit of Asia: The spiritual and the secular in China and India. Social Sciences Academic Press (China), Beijing (2016)
2013
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The modern spirit of Asia: The spiritual and the secular in China and India. Princeton University Press, Princeton (2013), 296 pp.
2002
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Islam en het "beschaafde" Westen: essays over de "achterlijkheid" van religies. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam (2002)
2001
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Imperial encounters. Religion and modernity in India and Britain. Princeton University Press, Princeton (2001)
1995
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Modern oriëntalisme. Essays over de westerse beschavingsdrang. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam (1995)
1994
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Religious nationalism: Hindus and muslims in India. University of California Press, Berkeley (1994)
1988
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Gods on earth: the management of religious experience and identity in a North Indian pilgrimage centre. The Athlone Press, London (1988)
Talk (4)
2012
Talk
Religion and place in East and South-East Asia. DORISEA-Workshop: Religion, Place and Modernity in East and Southeast Asia, Universität Göttingen (2012)
Talk
Coping with diversity in Europe, India and China. 4th Annual Asian Dynamics Initiative Conference: "Rising Asia - Anxious Europe" , University of Copenhagen (2012)
2011
Talk
Does China have a civil society? 5th Annual Conference: International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham (2011)
Talk
Secrecy, uncertainty, and transcendence in the market economy. Conference: Religion and economy in a global world, International Society for the Study of Religion, Aix en Provence (2011)
Working Paper (4)
2017
Working Paper
Dumont’s hierarchy among the Nuosu of China. MMG Working Paper (17-04) (2017), 22 pp.
2012
Working Paper
Market and Money: a critique of rational choice theory. MMG Working Paper (12-01) (2012), 18 pp.
2009
Working Paper
The visible and the invisible in South Asia. MMG Working Paper 09-09 (2009)
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Spirituality in Modern Society. MMG Working Paper 09-10 (2009)
Journal (1)
Journal
Cultural diversity in China. De Gruyter, Berlin
Issue (6)
2021
Issue
Réguler les pluralités religieuses: Mondes indiens et chinois comparés (Special issue). Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 193 (2021), 251 pp.
2016
Issue
Urban aspirations in Seoul (Special issue). Journal of Korean Religions 7, (2) (2016)
Issue
Prayer and Politics (Special issue). Journal of Religious and Political Practice 2, (1) (2016)
Issue
The sacred and the urban in Asia (Special issue). International Sociology 31, (4) (2016)
2015
Issue
Doing Asian cities (Special issue). Ethnography 16, (3) (2015)
2011
Issue
Religious networks in Asia and beyond (Special issue). Encounters 4 (2011)
Series (1)
2014
Series
Global diversities. Springer Internat. Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Book Review (17)
1998
Book Review
Review essay: Fundamentalism and the secular state. Contributions to Indian Sociology 32 (2), pp. 551 - 557 (1998)
Book Review
Review of Thomas Trautmann, “Aryans and British India”. Journal of Asian Studies 57 (1), pp. 266 - 268 (1998)
1997
Book Review
Review of Katy Gardner, “Global migrants, local lives: travel and transformation in rural Bangladesh”. American Ethnologist 24 (1), p. 257 (1997)
1995
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Review of Sarvepalli Gopal, “Anatomy of a confrontation: Ayodhya and the rise of communal politics in India”. Journal of Asian Studies 54 (3), pp. 874 - 875 (1995)
1994
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Review of John D. Kelly, “A politics of virtue: Hinduism, sexuality, and countercolonial discourse in Fiji”. American Ethnologist 21 (4), pp. 1031 - 1032 (1994)
1993
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Review of Richard G. Fox, “Recapturing anthropology: working in the present”. Man 28 (1), pp. 179 - 180 (1993)
Book Review
Review of Lee Siegel, “Net of magic: wonders and deceptions in India”. American Ethnologist 20 (3), p. 638 (1993)