Publications of Peter van der Veer

Journal Article (67)

2021
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Goossaert, V., & van der Veer, P. (2021). Introduction. Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, 193, 11–24. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-4792-3
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van der Veer, P. (2021). Minority rights and Hindu nationalism in India. Asian Journal of Law and Society. https://doi.org/10.1017/als.2020.51
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van der Veer, P. (2021). What transcends the nation? Asian Ethnology, 80(1), 19–30. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-E124-1
2018
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van der Veer, P. (2018). Vanishing worlds. Anthropology of this Century, October 2018(23). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-721D-E
2017
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van der Veer, P. (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, 7(1), 533–536. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau7.1.039
2016
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Jung, J.-H., & van der Veer, P. (2016). Urban aspirations in Seoul: Guest editors’ introduction. Journal of Korean Religions, 7(2), 5–9. https://doi.org/10.1353/jkr.2016.0008
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van der Veer, P. (Ed.). (2016). Introduction to special issue: Prayer and Politics. Journal of Religious and Political Practice, 2(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/20566093.2016.1085233
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van der Veer, P. (2016). The Future of Utopia. History and Anthropology, 27(3), 251–262. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02757206.2016.1167051
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van der Veer, P., & Goh, D. (2016). Introduction: The sacred and the urban in Asia. International Sociology, 31(4), 367–374. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580916643088
2015
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van der Veer, P. (2015). The bitter pleasures of tea and opium. Cultural Diversity in China, 1(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.2478/cdc-2015-0001
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van der Veer, P. (2015). Nation, politics, religion. Journal of Religious and Political Practice, 1(1), 7–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/20566093.2015.1047696
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van der Veer, P. (2015). 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. https://doi.org/10.1515/cdc-2015-0011
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van der Veer, P., Goh, D. P. S., & Bunnell, T. (2015). Introduction: Doing Asian cities. Ethnography, 16(3), 287–294. Retrieved from http://eth.sagepub.com/content/16/3/287.abstract
2014
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van der Veer, P. (2014). Unterwegs: Die Anthropologie als holistitsche Erkundung fremder Lebenswelten. Georgia Augusta: Wissenschaftsmagazin der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2014(9), 100–111. Retrieved from http://www.uni-goettingen.de/downloads/FlippingBook/ForschungsmagazinSep14/index.html#100
2013
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van der Veer, P. (2013). Mission Statement Responses. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 33(2), 156–158. Retrieved from https://www.dukeupress.edu/Politics-of-Dying/index.html
2012
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van der Veer, P. (2012). Smash temples, burn books: comparing secularist projects in India and China. The World Religious Cultures, 73(Spring), 17–26. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-AAB7-D
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van der Veer, P. (2012). Spirituality in modern society = 现代社会中的灵性. N.W. Ethno-National Studies = Xibei-Minzu-Yanjiu, 72(Spring), 115–124. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-AABF-E
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van der Veer, P. (2012). Religion, secularism and national development in India and China. Third World Quarterly, 33(4), 719–732. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2012.657429?queryID=%24%7BresultBean.queryID%7D#.U6l09KPwAdU
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van der Veer, P. (2012). Market and Money: a critique of rational choice theory. Social Compass, 59(2), 183–193. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768612440960
2011
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van der Veer, P. (2011). Introduction. Encounters, 4, 9–15. Retrieved from http://us.macmillan.com/engagingotherness/RafaelReyesRuiz
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van der Veer, P. (2011). Spirit. Material Religion, 7(1), 124–130. https://doi.org/10.2752/175183411X12968355482330
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van der Veer, P. (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, 6. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-4342-5
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van der Veer, P. (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, 07. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-4346-E
2010
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van der Veer, P. (2010). Body and Mind in Qi Gong and Yoga. A Comparative Perspective on India and China. Eranos Yearbook, 69, 128–141. Retrieved from http://www.eranosfoundation.org/publications.htm
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van der Veer, P. (2010). Spirituality: East and West. Eranos Yearbook, 69, 45–61. Retrieved from http://www.eranosfoundation.org/publications.htm
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van der Veer, P. (2010). The value of comparison. The Newsletter, 54, 19. Retrieved from http://www.iias.nl/the-newsletter/article/value-comparison
2009
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van der Veer, P. (2009). The comparative sociology of India and China. Social Anthropology, 17(1), 90–108. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2008.00059_1.x/abstract
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van der Veer, P. (2009). Spirituality in Modern Society. Social Research, 76(4), 1–24. Retrieved from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_research/summary/v076/76.4.van-der-veer.html
2007
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van der Veer, P. (2007). Global breathing: religious utopias in India and China. Anthropological Theory, 7(3), 315–328. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499607080193
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van der Veer, P. (2007). The imperial encounter with Asian religions. Radical History Review, 2007(99), 253–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2007-015
2004
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van der Veer, P. (2004). South Asian Islam in Britain. Ethnicities, 4(1), 135–146. https://doi.org/10.117/1468796804038581
2003
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van der Veer, P. (2003). Religious radicalism in South Asia. South Asian Journal (Quarterly Magazine of South Asian Journalists and Scholars), 2, 1–5. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-0453-B
2002
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van der Veer, P. (2002). Religion in South Asia. Annual Review of Anthropology, 31, 173–187. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085347
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van der Veer, P. (2002). Cosmopolitan options. Etnografica, VI(1), 15–26. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-E29D-E
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van der Veer, P. (2002). Transnational religion: Hindu and Muslim movements. Global Networks, 2(2), 95–109. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0374.00030
2001
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van der Veer, P. (2001). Nederland en de Islam. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, 28(4), 513–524. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-E3B6-0
1999
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van der Veer, P. (1999). Hindus: a superior race. Nations and Nationalism, 5(3), 419–430. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1354-5078.1999.00419.x
1998
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van der Veer, P. (1998). The global history of “modernity.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 41(3), 285–294. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568520981436228
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van der Veer, P. (1998). Religion, secularity and tolerance. Eastern Anthropologist, 50(3-4), 381–395. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-E445-F
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van der Veer, P. (1998). Cultural politics and the state. Cultural Dynamics, 10(3), 281–287. https://doi.org/10.1177/092137409801000303
1997
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van der Veer, P., & Bach, S. (1997). L'État moral: religion, nation et Empire dans la Grande-Bretagne victorienne et l'Inde britannique. Genèses. Sciences Sociales et Histoire, 26, 77–102. https://doi.org/10.3406/genes.1997.1433
1996
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van der Veer, P. (1996). Religion and mass politics in India. Journal of International Affairs, 50(1), 254–277. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-E479-5
1995
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van der Veer, P. (1995). The modernity of religion. Social History, 20(3), 365–371. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-EA6D-D
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van der Veer, P. (1995). The secular production of religion. Etnofoor, 8(2), 5–14. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-EA72-6
1993
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van der Veer, P. (1993). No nations, but classes. Public Culture, 6(1), 77–82. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-EDF8-C
1992
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van der Veer, P. (1992). Een echte Indier is hindoe. Theoretische Geschiedenis, 20(4), 402–413. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-EE07-B
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van der Veer, P. (1992). Ayodhya and Somnath: eternal shrines, contested histores. Social Research, 59(1), 85–109. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-EE0B-7
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van der Veer, P. (1992). Invited view: body and gender in Hindu and Muslim nationalist discourse. Committee on Women in Asian Studies Newsletter, 10(2), 2–4. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-EE1B-5
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van der Veer, P. (1992). Playing or praying: a Sufi saint's day in Surat. Journal of Asian Studies, 51(3), 545–564. https://doi.org/10.2307/2057949
1991
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Vertovec, S., & van der Veer, P. (1991). Brahmanism abroad: on Caribbean Hinduism as an ethnic religion. Ethnology, 30, 149–166. https://doi.org/10.2307/3773407
1989
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van der Veer, P. (1989). The power of detachment: disciplines of body and mind in the Ramanandi order. American Ethnologist, 16(3), 40–52. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1989.16.3.02a00030
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van der Veer, P. (1989). The power of detachment: disciplines of body and mind in the Ramanandi order. American Ethnologist, 16(3), 458–470. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1989.16.3.02a00030
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van der Veer, P. (1989). Satanic or angelic? The politics of religious and literary inspiration. Public Culture, 2(1), 100–105. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-FDFA-8
1988
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van der Veer, P. (1988). ‘Echte’ en ‘onechte’ Brahmanen: de effecten van het Britse kaste-bewustzijn. Sociologische Gids, XXXV(2), 199–280. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-FDFE-4
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van der Veer, P. (1988). Frits Staal in de provincie. Hollands Maandblad, 30, 16–25. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-FE03-D
1987
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van der Veer, P. (1987). 'God must be liberated!' A Hindu liberation movement in Ayodhya. Modern Asian Studies, 21(2), 283–301. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00013810
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van der Veer, P. (1987). De illusie van een oude beschaving. Sociologisch Tijdschrift, 14(1), 62–83. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-FE10-E
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van der Veer, P. (1987). Communalisme en nationalisme in Zuid-Azie. Internationale Spectator, 41(11), 570–578. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-FEEE-5
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van der Veer, P. (1987). Taming the ascetic: devotionalism in a Hindu monastic order. Man, 22(4), 680–695. https://doi.org/10.2307/2803358
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van der Veer, P., & Dissel, C. (1987). Antropologie en de feministische ontwikkelingssociologie. Sociologische Gids, XXXIV(4), 296–308. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-FE13-B
1986
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van der Veer, P., & van der Burg, C. (1986). Pandits, power and profit: religious organization and the construction of identity among Surinamese Hindus. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 9(4), 514–528. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.1986.9993549
1985
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van der Veer, P. (1985). Brahmans: their purity and their poverty on the changing values of Brahman priests in Ayodhya. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 19(2), 303–321. https://doi.org/10.1177/006996685019002004
1983
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van der Veer, P. (1983). Religie en politiek: de Khalistan-beweging onder de Indiase Sikhs. Internationale Spectator, XXX(1), 43–48. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-FF4F-8
1982
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van der Veer, P. (1982). Ideologie en verandering. Antropologische Verkenningen, 1, 105–121. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-FF54-1
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van der Veer, P. (1982). Naakt geweld en zoete devotie. De veranderende machtskansen van de Ramanandis in Noord-India. Antropologische Verkenningen, 2, 59–84. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-FF56-F
1980
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van der Veer, P. (1980). Karnen voor onsterfelijkheid. Structuur en interpretatie van een mythe. Forum der Letteren, 21(3), 196–204. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-FF5D-8
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van der Veer, P. (1980). Reizen naar reinheid en verlossing. Pelgrimage in India. Intermediair, 16(41), 37–43. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-FF63-0

Book (9)

2020
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van der Veer, P. (2020). Zongjiao minzu zhuyi—yindu jiaotu yu musilin zai yindu. Beijing: Minzu chubanshe. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-F350-D
2016
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van der Veer, P. (2016). The value of comparison. Durham: Duke University Press. Retrieved from https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-value-of-comparison
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van der Veer, P. (2016). 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. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press (China). Retrieved from http://www.ssap.com.cn/c/2016-11-10/1043949.shtml
2013
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van der Veer, P. (2013). The modern spirit of Asia: The spiritual and the secular in China and India. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10128.html
2002
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van der Veer, P. (2002). Islam en het "beschaafde" Westen: essays over de "achterlijkheid" van religies. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-DF36-7
2001
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van der Veer, P. (2001). Imperial encounters. Religion and modernity in India and Britain. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-DF38-5
1995
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van der Veer, P. (1995). Modern oriëntalisme. Essays over de westerse beschavingsdrang. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-DF47-4
1994
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van der Veer, P. (1994). Religious nationalism: Hindus and muslims in India. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-DF4A-1
1988
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van der Veer, P. (1988). Gods on earth: the management of religious experience and identity in a North Indian pilgrimage centre (Vol. 59). London: The Athlone Press. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-DF6D-A

Working Paper (4)

2017
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van der Veer, P., & Wu, D. (2017). Dumont’s hierarchy among the Nuosu of China. Retrieved from https://www.mmg.mpg.de/61870/wp-17-04
2012
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van der Veer, P. (2012, January). Market and Money: a critique of rational choice theory. Retrieved from https://www.mmg.mpg.de/59653/wp-12-01
2009
Working Paper
van der Veer, P. (2009). The visible and the invisible in South Asia. Retrieved from http://www.mmg.mpg.de/de/publikationen/working-papers/2009/wp-09-09/
Working Paper
van der Veer, P. (2009). Spirituality in Modern Society. Retrieved from http://www.mmg.mpg.de/publications/working-papers/2009/wp-09-10/

Issue (6)

2021
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Goossaert , V., & van der Veer, P. (Eds.). (2021). Réguler les pluralités religieuses: Mondes indiens et chinois comparés. Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions (Vol. 193). Prais: Ed. de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-4772-8
2016
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Jung, J.-H., & van der Veer, P. (Eds.). (2016). Urban aspirations in Seoul. Journal of Korean Religions (Vol. 7). Retrieved from http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35453
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van der Veer, P. (Ed.). (2016). Prayer and Politics. Journal of Religious and Political Practice (Vol. 2). New York: Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfrp20/2/1
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van der Veer, P., & Goh, D. (Eds.). (2016). The sacred and the urban in Asia. International Sociology (Vol. 31). Sage. Retrieved from http://iss.sagepub.com/content/current
2015
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van der Veer, P., Goh, D. P. S., & Bunnell, T. (Eds.). (2015). Doing Asian cities. Ethnography (Vol. 16). Sage. Retrieved from http://eth.sagepub.com/content/16/3.toc
2011
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van der Veer, P. (Ed.). (2011). Religious networks in Asia and beyond. Encounters (Vol. 4). Dubai: Zayed Univ. Press. Retrieved from http://us.macmillan.com/religiousnetworksinasiaandbeyond/PetervanderVeer

Book Review (17)

1998
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van der Veer, P. (1998). Review essay: Fundamentalism and the secular state. Contributions to Indian Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/006996679803200217
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van der Veer, P. (1998). Review of Thomas Trautmann, “Aryans and British India.” Journal of Asian Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-FF88-6
1997
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van der Veer, P. (1997). Review of Katy Gardner, “Global migrants, local lives: travel and transformation in rural Bangladesh.” American Ethnologist. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1997.24.1.257.1
1995
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van der Veer, P. (1995). Review of Sarvepalli Gopal, “Anatomy of a confrontation: Ayodhya and the rise of communal politics in India.” Journal of Asian Studies. https://doi.org/10.2307/2059488
1994
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van der Veer, P. (1994). Review of John D. Kelly, “A politics of virtue: Hinduism, sexuality, and countercolonial discourse in Fiji.” American Ethnologist. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1994.21.4.02a01450
1993
Book Review
van der Veer, P. (1993). Review of Richard G. Fox, “Recapturing anthropology: working in the present.” Man. https://doi.org/10.2307/2804454
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van der Veer, P. (1993). Review of Lee Siegel, “Net of magic: wonders and deceptions in India.” American Ethnologist. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1993.20.3.02a00230
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van der Veer, P. (1993). 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. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-0015-5
1992
Book Review
van der Veer, P. (1992). Review of Ronald Inden, “Imagining India.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-001F-B
Book Review
van der Veer, P. (1992). Review of Charles Lindholm, “Charisma.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-0027-1
Book Review
van der Veer, P. (1992). Review of Michael Carrithers, Caroline Humphrey, “The assembly of listeners: Jains in society.” The Journal of Asian Studies. https://doi.org/10.2307/2057996
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van der Veer, P. (1992). Review of Olivier Herrenschmidt, “Les meilleurs dieux sont Hindous.” Anthropos. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-0045-F
1991
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van der Veer, P. (1991). Review of James C. Scott, “Domination and the arts of resistance. Hidden transcripts.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716291518001040
1990
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van der Veer, P. (1990). Review of John van Maanen, “Tales of the field: on writing ethnography.” Man. https://doi.org/10.2307/2803704
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