Prof. Dr. Peter van der Veer - Publications
Book (9)
2020
Book
Zongjiao minzu zhuyi—yindu jiaotu yu musilin zai yindu. Minzu chubanshe, Beijing (2020)
2016
Book
The value of comparison. Duke University Press, Durham (2016)
Book
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
Book
The modern spirit of Asia: The spiritual and the secular in China and India. Princeton University Press, Princeton (2013), 296 pp.
2002
Book
Islam en het "beschaafde" Westen: essays over de "achterlijkheid" van religies. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam (2002)
2001
Book
Imperial encounters. Religion and modernity in India and Britain. Princeton University Press, Princeton (2001)
1995
Book
Modern oriëntalisme. Essays over de westerse beschavingsdrang. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam (1995)
1994
Book
Religious nationalism: Hindus and muslims in India. University of California Press, Berkeley (1994)
1988
Book
Gods on earth: the management of religious experience and identity in a North Indian pilgrimage centre. The Athlone Press, London (1988)
Collected Edition (12)
2021
Collected Edition
Refugees and religion: Ethnographic studies of global trajectories. Bloomsbury, London (2021), 352 pp.
2019
Collected Edition
The secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia. Palgrave Macmilllan, Cham (2019), xvii, 325 pp.
2017
Collected Edition
Prayer and politics. Routledge, London (2017), x, 133 pp.
2015
Collected Edition
Handbook of religion and the Asian city: Aspiration and urbanization in the twenty-first century. University of California Press, California (2015), 488 pp.
2014
Collected Edition
Religion and ecological sustainability in China. Routledge, London (2014), 248 pp.
2004
Collected Edition
Media, war, and terrorism. Responses from the Middle East and Asia. Routledge, London (2004)
1999
Collected Edition
Nation and religion. Perspectives on Europe and Asia. Princeton University Press, Princeton (1999)
1996
Collected Edition
Conversion to modernities. The globalization of christianity. Routledge, New York (1996)
1995
Collected Edition
Nation and migration: the politics of space in the South Asian diaspora. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia (1995)
1993
Collected Edition
Orientalism and the postcolonial predicament. Perspectives on South Asia. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia (1993)
1984
Collected Edition
Conversion, competition, and conflict: essays on the role of religion in Asia. Free University Press, Amsterdam (1984)
Collected Edition
Bonoeman, Rasta's en andere Surinamers (Bonoeman, Rastas and other Surinamese - on the religion of Surinamese immigrants in the Netherlands). AWIC, Amsterdam (1984)
Issue (6)
2021
Issue
193 (2021), 251 pp.
Réguler les pluralités religieuses: Mondes indiens et chinois comparés (Special issue). Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 2016
Issue
7, (2) (2016)
Urban aspirations in Seoul (Special issue). Journal of Korean Religions
Issue
2, (1) (2016)
Prayer and Politics (Special issue). Journal of Religious and Political Practice
Issue
31, (4) (2016)
The sacred and the urban in Asia (Special issue). International Sociology 2015
Issue
16, (3) (2015)
Doing Asian cities (Special issue). Ethnography 2011
Issue
4 (2011)
Religious networks in Asia and beyond (Special issue). Encounters Journal Article (67)
2021
Journal Article
193, pp. 11 - 24 (2021)
Introduction. Archives de sciences sociales des religions
Journal Article
Minority rights and Hindu nationalism in India. Asian Journal of Law and Society (2021)
Journal Article
80 (1), pp. 19 - 30 (2021)
What transcends the nation? Asian Ethnology 2018
Journal Article
October 2018 (23) (2018)
Vanishing worlds. Anthropology of this century 2017
Journal Article
7 (1), pp. 533 - 536 (2017)
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 2016
Journal Article
7 (2), pp. 5 - 9 (2016)
Urban aspirations in Seoul: Guest editors’ introduction. Journal of Korean Religions
Journal Article
Introduction to special issue: Prayer and Politics. Journal of Religious and Political Practice 2 (1), pp. 1 - 5 (2016)
Journal Article
27 (3), pp. 251 - 262 (2016)
The Future of Utopia. History and Anthropology
Journal Article
31 (4), pp. 367 - 374 (2016)
Introduction: The sacred and the urban in Asia. International Sociology 2015
Journal Article
1 (1), pp. 1 - 7 (2015)
The bitter pleasures of tea and opium. Cultural Diversity in China
Journal Article
1 (1), pp. 7 - 21 (2015)
Nation, politics, religion. Journal of Religious and Political Practice
Journal Article
1 (2), pp. 115 - 140 (2015)
Introduction to the Modern Spirit of Asia /《亚洲的现代灵性》之 导论. Cultural Diversity in China
Journal Article
16 (3), pp. 287 - 294 (2015)
Introduction: Doing Asian cities. Ethnography 2014
Journal Article
2014 (9), pp. 100 - 111 (2014)
Unterwegs: Die Anthropologie als holistitsche Erkundung fremder Lebenswelten. Georgia Augusta: Wissenschaftsmagazin der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2013
Journal Article
33 (2), pp. 156 - 158 (2013)
Mission Statement Responses. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2012
Journal Article
73 (Spring), pp. 17 - 26 (2012)
Smash temples, burn books: comparing secularist projects in India and China. The world religious cultures
Journal Article
72 (Spring), pp. 115 - 124 (2012)
Spirituality in modern society = 现代社会中的灵性. N.W. ethno-national studies = Xibei-minzu-yanjiu
Journal Article
33 (4), pp. 719 - 732 (2012)
Religion, secularism and national development in India and China. Third world quarterly
Journal Article
59 (2), pp. 183 - 193 (2012)
Market and Money: a critique of rational choice theory. Social compass 2011
Journal Article
4, pp. 9 - 15 (2011)
Introduction. Encounters
Journal Article
7 (1), pp. 124 - 130 (2011)
Spirit. Material religion
Journal Article
6, - (2011)
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
Journal Article
07, - (2011)
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 2010
Journal Article
69, pp. 128 - 141 (2010)
Body and Mind in Qi Gong and Yoga. A Comparative Perspective on India and China. Eranos Yearbook
Journal Article
69, pp. 45 - 61 (2010)
Spirituality: East and West. Eranos Yearbook
Journal Article
54, p. 19 (2010)
The value of comparison. The Newsletter 2009
Journal Article
17 (1), pp. 90 - 108 (2009)
The comparative sociology of India and China. Social Anthropology
Journal Article
76 (4), pp. 1 - 24 (2009)
Spirituality in Modern Society. Social Research 2007
Journal Article
7 (3), pp. 315 - 328 (2007)
Global breathing: religious utopias in India and China. Anthropological Theory
Journal Article
2007 (99), pp. 253 - 261 (2007)
The imperial encounter with Asian religions. Radical History Review 2004
Journal Article
4 (1), pp. 135 - 146 (2004)
South Asian Islam in Britain. Ethnicities 2003
Journal Article
2, pp. 1 - 5 (2003)
Religious radicalism in South Asia. South Asian Journal (Quarterly Magazine of South Asian Journalists and Scholars) 2002
Journal Article
31, pp. 173 - 187 (2002)
Religion in South Asia. Annual Review of Anthropology
Journal Article
VI (1), pp. 15 - 26 (2002)
Cosmopolitan options. Etnografica
Journal Article
2 (2), pp. 95 - 109 (2002)
Transnational religion: Hindu and Muslim movements. Global Networks 2001
Journal Article
28 (4), pp. 513 - 524 (2001)
Nederland en de Islam. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 1999
Journal Article
5 (3), pp. 419 - 430 (1999)
Hindus: a superior race. Nations and nationalism 1998
Journal Article
41 (3), pp. 285 - 294 (1998)
The global history of “modernity”. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Journal Article
50 (3-4), pp. 381 - 395 (1998)
Religion, secularity and tolerance. Eastern Anthropologist
Journal Article
10 (3), pp. 281 - 287 (1998)
Cultural politics and the state. Cultural Dynamics 1997
Journal Article
26, pp. 77 - 102 (1997)
L'État moral: religion, nation et Empire dans la Grande-Bretagne victorienne et l'Inde britannique. Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire 1996
Journal Article
50 (1), pp. 254 - 277 (1996)
Religion and mass politics in India. Journal of International Affairs 1995
Journal Article
20 (3), pp. 365 - 371 (1995)
The modernity of religion. Social history
Journal Article
8 (2), pp. 5 - 14 (1995)
The secular production of religion. Etnofoor 1993
Journal Article
6 (1), pp. 77 - 82 (1993)
No nations, but classes. Public Culture 1992
Journal Article
20 (4), pp. 402 - 413 (1992)
Een echte Indier is hindoe. Theoretische Geschiedenis
Journal Article
59 (1), pp. 85 - 109 (1992)
Ayodhya and Somnath: eternal shrines, contested histores. Social Research
Journal Article
10 (2), pp. 2 - 4 (1992)
Invited view: body and gender in Hindu and Muslim nationalist discourse. Committee on Women in Asian Studies Newsletter
Journal Article
51 (3), pp. 545 - 564 (1992)
Playing or praying: a Sufi saint's day in Surat. Journal of Asian Studies 1991
Journal Article
30, pp. 149 - 166 (1991)
Brahmanism abroad: on Caribbean Hinduism as an ethnic religion. Ethnology 1989
Journal Article
16 (3), pp. 40 - 52 (1989)
The power of detachment: disciplines of body and mind in the Ramanandi order. American Ethnologist
Journal Article
16 (3), pp. 458 - 470 (1989)
The power of detachment: disciplines of body and mind in the Ramanandi order. American Ethnologist
Journal Article
2 (1), pp. 100 - 105 (1989)
Satanic or angelic? The politics of religious and literary inspiration. Public Culture 1988
Journal Article
XXXV (2), pp. 199 - 280 (1988)
‘Echte’ en ‘onechte’ Brahmanen: de effecten van het Britse kaste-bewustzijn. Sociologische Gids
Journal Article
30, pp. 16 - 25 (1988)
Frits Staal in de provincie. Hollands Maandblad 1987
Journal Article
21 (2), pp. 283 - 301 (1987)
'God must be liberated!' A Hindu liberation movement in Ayodhya. Modern Asian Studies
Journal Article
14 (1), pp. 62 - 83 (1987)
De illusie van een oude beschaving. Sociologisch Tijdschrift
Journal Article
41 (11), pp. 570 - 578 (1987)
Communalisme en nationalisme in Zuid-Azie. Internationale Spectator
Journal Article
22 (4), pp. 680 - 695 (1987)
Taming the ascetic: devotionalism in a Hindu monastic order. Man
Journal Article
XXXIV (4), pp. 296 - 308 (1987)
Antropologie en de feministische ontwikkelingssociologie. Sociologische Gids 1986
Journal Article
9 (4), pp. 514 - 528 (1986)
Pandits, power and profit: religious organization and the construction of identity among Surinamese Hindus. Ethnic and Racial Studies 1985
Journal Article
19 (2), pp. 303 - 321 (1985)
Brahmans: their purity and their poverty on the changing values of Brahman priests in Ayodhya. Contributions to Indian Sociology 1983
Journal Article
XXX (1), pp. 43 - 48 (1983)
Religie en politiek: de Khalistan-beweging onder de Indiase Sikhs. Internationale Spectator 1982
Journal Article
1, pp. 105 - 121 (1982)
Ideologie en verandering. Antropologische Verkenningen
Journal Article
2, pp. 59 - 84 (1982)
Naakt geweld en zoete devotie. De veranderende machtskansen van de Ramanandis in Noord-India. Antropologische Verkenningen 1980
Journal Article
21 (3), pp. 196 - 204 (1980)
Karnen voor onsterfelijkheid. Structuur en interpretatie van een mythe. Forum der Letteren
Journal Article
16 (41), pp. 37 - 43 (1980)
Reizen naar reinheid en verlossing. Pelgrimage in India. Intermediair Magazine Article (2)
2017
Magazine Article
Tempel, Rituale und die Transformation transnationaler Netzwerke in Südostasien. (2017)
2010
Magazine Article
Städtische Religion in Mumbai und Singapur. (2010)
Book Review (17)
1998
Book Review
32 (2), pp. 551 - 557 (1998)
Review essay: Fundamentalism and the secular state. Contributions to Indian Sociology
Book Review
57 (1), pp. 266 - 268 (1998)
Review of Thomas Trautmann, “Aryans and British India”. Journal of Asian Studies 1997
Book Review
24 (1), p. 257 (1997)
Review of Katy Gardner, “Global migrants, local lives: travel and transformation in rural Bangladesh”. American Ethnologist