Peter van der Veer
Peter van der Veer is a Dutch anthropologist who has made important contributions to the study of Indian religion and society.[1] Formerly Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of the Religion and Society Research Centre at the University of Amsterdam, van der Veer is currently University Professor at Utrecht University.
He is Editor of the Routledge series "Zones of Religion" and holds editorial positions at several scholarly journals including Eastern Anthropologist, Public Culture, Cultural Dynamics, Ethnos, and MERA-Journal.
Van der Veer was born in 1953, in Groningen, Netherlands, and received his doctorate from the Utrecht University in 1986. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), from which he received the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize for Behavioural and Social Sciences in 2001.
Representative publications
- Ed. with Shoma Munshi. Media, War and Terrorism: Responses from the Middle East and Asia. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
- Islam en het "beschaafde" Westen. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2002.
- Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
- Ed., with Hartmut Lehmann. Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia. Princeton University Press, 1999.
- Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. University of California Press, 1994.
- ed., Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora, 1995.
- Gods on Earth: Religious Experience and Identity in Ayodhya. Oxford University Press, 1989.
