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