Publications of Peter van der Veer
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Book Review (17)
1994
Book Review
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
Book Review
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)
Book Review
Review of Pnina Werbner, “The migration process: capital, gifts and offerings among British Pakistanis”. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 525, pp. 178 - 179 (1993)
1992
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Review of Ronald Inden, “Imagining India”. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 522, pp. 161 - 162 (1992)
Book Review
Review of Charles Lindholm, “Charisma”. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 521, pp. 219 - 220 (1992)
Book Review
Review of Michael Carrithers, Caroline Humphrey, “The assembly of listeners: Jains in society”. The Journal of Asian Studies 51 (3), pp. 682 - 683 (1992)
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Review of Olivier Herrenschmidt, “Les meilleurs dieux sont Hindous”. Anthropos 87 (4./6.), p. 589 (1992)
1991
Book Review
Review of James C. Scott, “Domination and the arts of resistance. Hidden transcripts”. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 518 (1), pp. 215 - 216 (1991)
1990
Book Review
Review of John van Maanen, “Tales of the field: on writing ethnography”. Man 25 (4), p. 739 (1990)
Book Review
Review of Sandria B. Freitag, “Culture and power in Banaras: community, performance and environment, 1800–1980”. The Journal of Asian Studies 49 (4), pp. 968 - 969 (1990)
1988
Book Review
Review of Richard Burghart, “Hinduism in Great Britain: the perpetuation of religion in an alien cultural milieu”. Man 23 (4), p. 767 (1988)
Book Review
Review of Daniel Gold, “The lord as guru: Hindi sants in the northern Indian tradition”. The Journal of Asian Studies 47 (3), pp. 678 - 679 (1988)
Blog Post (3)
2020
Blog Post
[Blog Post:] Global breathing. (2020)
Blog Post
[Blog Post:] Globales Atmen. (2020)
2019
Blog Post
[Blog Post:] Spirit. (2019)
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)
Working Paper
Spirituality in Modern Society. MMG Working Paper 09-10 (2009)
Journal (1)
Journal
Cultural diversity in China. De Gruyter, Berlin
Series (1)
2014
Series
Global diversities. Springer Internat. Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Contribution to a Collected edition (83)
2022
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Indian and Chinese global networks. In: New perspectives on the Indian diaspora, pp. 17 - 26 (Ed. Gowricharn, R.). Taylor & Francis, Imprint: Routledge India, London (2022)
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Secularism in Asia. In: Asia and the secular: Francophone perspectives in a global age (Eds. Bourdeaux, P.; Dufourmont, E.; Laliberté, A.; Madinier, R.). De Gruyter, Berlin (2022)
2021
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Introduction: Refugees and religion. In: Refugees and religion: Ethnographic studies of global trajectories, pp. 1 - 11 (Eds. Meyer, B.; van der Veer, P.). Bloomsbury Academic, London (2021)
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German refugees and refugees in Germany. In: Refugees and religion: Ethnographic studies of global trajectories, pp. 34 - 47 (Eds. Meyer, B.; van der Veer, P.). Bloomsbury Academic, London (2021)
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The comparative advantage of cultural anthropology. In: Comparative methods in law, humanities and social sciences, pp. 121 - 134 (Eds. Adams, M.; Van Hoecke, M.). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK (2021)
2019
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The secular in India and China. In: The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia, pp. 37 - 50 (Eds. van der Veer, P.; Dean, K.). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham (2019)
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Introduction. In: The secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia, pp. 1 - 12 (Eds. van der Veer, P.; Dean, K.). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham (2019)
2018
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Planetary or cosmic? Reflections on the urban and the religious in Asia. In: Urban Asias: Essays on futurity past and present, pp. 277 - 287 (Eds. Bunnell, T.; Goh, D. P. S.). Jovis, Berlin (2018)
2017
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Urban planning and secular atheism in Shanghai, Beijing, and Singapore. In: Religion and the global city, pp. 47 - 61 (Eds. Garbin, D.; Strhan, A.). Bloomsbury Academic, New York (2017)
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Spirituality: East and West. In: On the paths of enlightenment. The myth of India in western culture 1808-2017, pp. 30 - 39 (Ed. Schenini, E.). Skira, Milano (2017)
2016
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The construction of world Buddhism. In: Buddhism in Asia: Revival and Reinvention, pp. 387 - 396 (Eds. Lahiri, N.; Singh, U.). Manohar (2016)
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Is confucianism secular? In: Beyond the Secular West, pp. 117 - 134 (Ed. Bilgrami, A.). Columbia University Press, New York (2016)
2015
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Religion since 1750. In: The Cambridge world history; Volume 7: Production, destruction, and connection, 1750–present; Part 2: Shared transformations?, pp. 160 - 180 (Eds. McNeill, J.; Pomeranz, K.). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge (2015)
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"Smash temples, build schools": comparing secularism in India and China. In: Religious rights, pp. 181 - 211 (Ed. Zucca, L.). Ashgate, Farnham (2015)
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Introduction: Urban theory, Asia, and religion. In: Handbook of religion and the Asian city: Aspiration and urbanization in the twenty-first century, pp. 1 - 17 (Ed. van der Veer, P.). University of California Press, California (2015)
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Spirit. In: Key terms in material religion, pp. 231 - 236 (Ed. Plate, B.). Bloomsbury, London (2015)
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Religion and peace in Asia. In: Oxford handbook of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding, pp. 407 - 429 (Eds. Appleby, R. S.; Little, D.; Omer, A.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2015)
2014
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Introduction: The diversity of eco-religious practice in China. In: Religion and ecological sustainability in China, pp. 1 - 16 (Eds. van der Veer, P.; Smyer Yu, D.; Miller, J.). Routledge, London (2014)
2013
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Introduction: Diversity of belief systems and ecological practices in China = 中国信仰与生态实践的多元性. In: Religious diversity and ecological sustainability in China = 中国宗教多元与生态可持续性 (Eds. Smyer Yu, D.; Faxiang, S.). Minzu University Press, Beijing (2013)
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Religion and nationalism. In: Oxford handbook of the history of nationalism, pp. 655 - 671 (Ed. Breuilly, J.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2013)
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Urban aspirations in Mumbai and Singapore. In: Topographies of faith: religion in urban spaces, pp. 61 - 72 (Eds. Becci, I.; Burchardt, M.; Casanova, J.). Brill, Leiden (2013)
2012
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Culture and religion. In: Oxford textbook of spirituality in healthcare, 25, pp. 169 - 176 (Eds. Cobb, M. R.; Puchlaski, C. M.; Rumbold, B.). Oxford Univ. Pr., Oxford (2012)
2011
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Religion and education in a secular age: a comparative perspective. In: Religion, éducation et politique en Chine moderne = Religion, education and politics in modern China, Vol. 33, pp. 235 - 245 (Ed. Zhe, J.). Presses Univ. Vincennes, Saint Denis (2011)
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Secularisering. In: Wat iedereen moet weten van de menswetenschappen: de Gammacanon, pp. 198 - 202 (Eds. Schnabel, P.; Giesen, P.). Meulenhoff, Amsterdam (2011)
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Smash temples, burn books: comparing secularist projects in India and China. In: Rethinking Secularism, pp. 270 - 281 (Eds. Calhoun, C.; Juergensmeyer, M.). Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford (2011)
2010
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Nationalism and Christianity. In: The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, pp. 855 - 856 (Ed. Patte, D.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2010)
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Religions in India and China today. In: World Religions and Multiculturalism, pp. 257 - 276 (Eds. Ben-Rafael, E.; Sternberg, Y.). Brill, Leiden (2010)
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The Visible and the Invisible in South Asia. In: Powers. Religion as a Social and Spiritual Force, pp. 103 - 115 (Eds. Meerten ter Borg, B.; van Henten, J. W.). Fordham University Press, New York (2010)
2009
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The religious origins of democracy. In: Religion and Democracy in Contemporary Europe, pp. 75 - 82 (Eds. Gabriel, M.; Fischer, Y.). VVB Laufersweiler Verlag, Gießen (2009)
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Pain and Power. Reflections on Ascetic Agency. In: The Anthropologist and the Native. Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere, pp. 201 - 216 (Ed. Seneviratne, H.L.). Studio Editoriale Fiorentino, Florence (2009)
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Global Breathing. Religious Utopias in India and China. In: Transnational Transcendence; Essays on Religion and Globalization, pp. 263 - 279 (Ed. Csordas, T. J.). University of California Press, Berkeley (2009)
2007
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Contesting traditions: religion and violence in South Asia. In: Women and the contested state. Religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia, pp. 7 - 25 (Eds. Skidmore, M.; Lawrence, P.). University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame (2007)
2006
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Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh, and the politics of tolerance in the Netherlands. In: Political theologies: public religions in a post-secular world, pp. 527 - 538 (Eds. de Vries, H.; Sullivan, L. E.). Fordham University Press, New York (2006)
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Conversion and coercion: the politics of sincerity and authenticity. In: Cultures of conversion, pp. 1 - 15 (Eds. Bremmer, J. N.; van Bekkum, W. J.; Molendijk, A. L.). Peeters, Leuven (2006)
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The secularity of the state. In: The state in India, pp. 257 - 270 (Eds. Kimura, M.; Tanabe, A.). Oxford University Press, New Delhi (2006)
2005
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Afterword: global conversions. In: Mixed messages: materiality, textuality, missions, pp. 221 - 233 (Eds. Scott, J. S.; Griffiths, G.). Palgrave, New York (2005)
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Religion, nation, and the public sphere. In: Civil society, religion, and the nation. Modernization in intercultural context: Russia, Japan, Turkey, pp. 243 - 259 (Eds. Steunebrink, G.; van der Zweede, E.). Rodopi, Amsterdam (2005)
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Indian IT labor and the nation-state. In: Sovereign bodies, citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolonial world, pp. 267 - 291 (Eds. Blom Hansen, T.; Stepputat, F.). Princeton University Press, Princeton (2005)
2004
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Introduction. In: Media, war, and terrorism, pp. 1 - 8 (Eds. van der Veer, P.; Munshi, S.). Routledge, London (2004)
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War propaganda and the liberal public sphere. In: Media, war, and terrorism, pp. 9 - 21 (Eds. van der Veer, P.; Munshi, S.). Routledge, London (2004)
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Cosmopolitan options. In: Worlds on the move: globalization, migration and cultural security, pp. 167 - 179 (Eds. Friedman, J.; Randeria, S.). I.B. Tauris, London (2004)
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Secrecy and publicity in the South Asian public arena. In: Public Islam and the common good, pp. 29 - 53 (Eds. Salvatore, A.; Eickelman, D. F.). Brill, Leiden (2004)
2002
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The victims' tale: memory and forgetting in the story of violence. In: Religion between violence and reconciliation, pp. 229 - 242 (Ed. Scheffler, T.). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg (2002)
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Colonial cosmopolitanism. In: Conceiving cosmopolitanism: theory, context, and practice, pp. 165 - 180 (Eds. Vertovec, S.; Cohen, R.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2002)
2001
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Nederland bestaat niet meer. In: Naar een Europese islam?: Essays, pp. 117 - 135 (Ed. Douwes, D.). Mets en Schilt, Amsterdam (2001)
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Religions of India. In: International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences, pp. 7279 - 7282 (Eds. Baltes, P. B.; Smelser, N. J.). Elsevier, Amsterdam (2001)
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Communalism. In: International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences, pp. 2286 - 2288 (Eds. Baltes, P. B.; Smelser, N. J.). Elsevier, Amsterdam (2001)
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Nationalism in India and global fundamentalism. In: Identity, locality, and globalization: experiences of India and Indonesia, pp. 155 - 181 (Ed. John, M. E.). Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi (2001)
2000
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Religious nationalism in India and global fundamentalism. In: Globalizations and social movements: culture, power, and the transnational public sphere, pp. 315 - 339 (Eds. Guidry, J. A.; Kennedy, M. D.; Zald, M. N.). University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor (2000)
1999
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The moral state. Religion, nation, and empire in victorian Britain and British India. In: Nation and religion, pp. 15 - 44 (Eds. van der Veer, P.; Lehmann, H.). Princeton University Press, Princeton (1999)
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Religious mediation. In: Media and social perception, pp. 345 - 356 (Eds. Rodríguez Larreta, E.; Mendes, C.). UNESCO.ISSC.EDUCAM, Rio de Janeiro (1999)
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Monumental texts: the critical edition of India's national heritage. In: Invoking the past: the uses of history in South Asia, pp. 134 - 155 (Ed. Ali, D.). Oxford University Press, New Delhi (1999)
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Monumental texts: the critical edition of India's national heritage. In: The resources of history: tradition, narration and nation in South Asia, pp. 113 - 127 (Ed. Assayag, J.). École Française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris (1999)
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Political religion in the twenty-first century. In: International order and the future of world politics, pp. 311 - 328 (Eds. Paul, T.V.; Hall, J. A.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1999)
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Globalisering en de transnationale samenleving. In: Uit de zevende: vijftig jaar politieke en sociaal-culturele wetenschappen aan de universiteit van Amsterdam, pp. 271 - 276 (Ed. Gevers, A.). Het Spinhuis, Amsterdam (1999)
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Introduction. In: Nation and religion, pp. 3 - 15 (Eds. van der Veer, P.; Lehmann, H.). Princeton University Press, Princeton (1999)
1997
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The victim's tale: memory and forgetting in the story of violence. In: Violence, identity, and self-determination, pp. 186 - 200 (Eds. de Vries, H.; Weber, S.). Stanford University Press, Standford (1997)
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The enigma of arrival: hybridity and authenticity in the global space. In: Debating cultural hybridity: multicultural identities and the politics of anti-racism, pp. 90 - 106 (Eds. Werbner, P.; Modood, T.). Zed Books, London (1997)
1996
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Riots and rituals: the construction of violence and public space in Hindu nationalism. In: Riots and pogroms, pp. 154 - 176 (Ed. Brass, P. R.). Palgrave Macmillan, London (1996)
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Gender and nation in Hindu nationalism. In: Asian forms of the nation, pp. 131 - 150 (Eds. Tønnesson, S.; Antlöv, H.). Curzon Press, Richmond (1996)
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Religion. In: Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, pp. 482 - 486 (Eds. Spencer, J.; Barnard, A.). Routledge, London (1996)
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Writing violence. In: Contesting the nation: religion, community, and the politics of democracy in India, pp. 250 - 269 (Ed. Ludden, D.). University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia (1996)
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Introduction. In: Conversion to modernities, pp. 1 - 23 (Ed. van der Veer, P.). Routledge, New York (1996)
1995
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The diasporic imagination. In: Nation and migration, pp. 1 - 16 (Ed. van der Veer, P.). University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia (1995)
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Proceedings summer school 1994. Popular culture. Africa, Asia & Europe. In: Popular culture: Africa, Asia & Europe, pp. 79 - 80 (Ed. van der Klei, J.). Ceres, Utrecht (1995)
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Radical Hinduism and modernity. In: The limits of pluralism. Proceedings of the Erasmus ascension conference, pp. 83 - 91. Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, Amsterdam (1995)
1994
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Sati and Sanskrit: the move from orientalism to Hinduism. In: The point of theory: practices of cultural analysis, pp. 161 - 168 (Eds. Bal, M.; Boer, I. E.). Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam (1994)
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Hindu nationalism and the discourse of modernity: the Vishva Hindu Parishad. In: Accounting for fundamentalisms: the dynamic character of movements, pp. 653 - 669 (Eds. Appleby, R. S.; Marty, M. E.). Chicago University Press, Chicago (1994)
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The politics of devotion to Rama. In: Bhakti religion in North India: community identity and political action, pp. 288 - 305 (Ed. Lorenzen, D. N.). State University of New York Press, Albany (1994)
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Syncretism, multiculturalism and the discourse of tolerance. In: Syncretism and anti-syncretism: the politics of religious synthesis, pp. 196 - 212 (Eds. Shaw, R.; Stewart, C.). Routledge, London (1994)
1993
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De bien dangereuses passions: comment les ascètes de l'ordre ramanandi gerent leur sexualité. In: Ascèse et renoncement en Inde. Ou la solitude bien ordonnée, pp. 155 - 166 (Ed. Bouez, S.). l'Harmattan, Paris (1993)
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The foreign hand: orientalist discourse in sociology and communalism. In: Orientalism and the postcolonial predicament: perspectives on South Asia, pp. 23 - 45 (Eds. van der Veer, P.; Breckenridge, C. A.). University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia (1993)