Peter van der Veer

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According to Wikipedia, Peter van der Veer is a Dutch academic who is the Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen in Germany. He has taught anthropology at the Free University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University and the University of Pennsylvania. Van der Veer works on religion and nationalism in Asia and Europe.

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Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present (1991) (602)
Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India (1994) (530)
Spirit (2011) (487)
Conversion to Modernities. The Globalization of Christianity (1996) (207)
Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (2002) (202)
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia (1993) (196)
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament (1993) (165)
Study of onychomycosis: prevailing fungi and pattern of infection. (2007) (141)
Nation and Religion. Perspectives on Europe and Asia (2000) (125)
Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora . Edited by Peter van der Veer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. vii, 256 pp. $32.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). (1995) (124)
Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh, and the Politics of Tolerance in the Netherlands (2006) (116)
Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre (1990) (107)
Neural Network Method for Solving Partial Differential Equations (2001) (107)
Analytical solution for steady interface flow in a coastal aquifer involving a phreatic surface with precipitation (1977) (95)
Patterns of middle class consumption in India and China (2008) (87)
The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India (2013) (86)
Culture and religion (2012) (79)
Brahmanism Abroad : On Caribbean Hinduism as an Ethnic Religion (1991) (71)
The Role of Ethylene in Interorgan Signaling during Flower Senescence (1995) (62)
Transnational religion: Hindu and Muslim Movements (2002) (59)
Syncretism, multiculturalism and the discourse of tolerance (1994) (57)
Spirituality in Modern Society (2014) (56)
‘God must be Liberated!’ A Hindu Liberation Movement in Ayodhya (1987) (50)
The global history of “modernity” (1998) (48)
Handbook of religion and the Asian city: Aspiration and urbanization in the twenty-first century (2015) (48)
Playing or Praying: A Sufi Saint's Day in Surat (1992) (45)
Sand exchange between groyne‐field beaches and the navigation channel of the Dutch Rhine: the impact of navigation versus river flow (2004) (43)
The Value of Comparison (2016) (40)
RELIGION IN SOUTH ASIA (2002) (37)
Taming the Ascetic : Devotionalism in a Hindu monastic order (1987) (36)
'The Enigma of Arrival': Hybridity and Authenticity in the Global Space (1997) (36)
Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination (1995) (34)
Global breathing Religious utopias in India and China (2007) (33)
The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (2004) (32)
Nation and Migration (1995) (31)
Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in integrated water management: fiction or future? (2005) (31)
The Foreign Hand: Orientalist Discourse in Sociology and Communalism (1993) (30)
Analytical solution for a two-fluid flow in a coastal aquifer involving a phreatic surface with precipitation (1977) (28)
1. A Sikh Diaspora? Contested Identities and Constructed Realities (1995) (27)
Rewriting the Code: Software Professionals and the Reconstitution of Indian Middle Class Identity (2008) (25)
Pandits, power and profit: Religious organization and the construction of identity among Surinamese Hindus (1986) (24)
Nineteenth-Century Representations of Missionary Conversion and the Transformation of Western Christianity (1996) (22)
The moral state. Religion, nation, and empire in victorian Britain and British India (1999) (22)
9. New Cultural Forms and Transnational South Asian Women: Culture, Class, and Consumption among British South Asian Women in the Diaspora (1995) (22)
Smash temples, burn books : comparing secularist projects in India and China (2012) (21)
The role of ICT as a partner in Architectural Design Education (1998) (21)
Urban aspirations in Mumbai and Singapore (2013) (19)
The Modern Spirit of Asia (2013) (19)
Ayodhya and Somnath: eternal shrines, contested histores (1992) (19)
8. Gendering Diaspora: Space, Politics, and South Asian Masculinities in Britain (1995) (19)
Riots and Rituals: The Construction of Violence and Public Space in Hindu Nationalism (1996) (19)
Hindu Nationalism and the Discourse of Modernity: The Vishva Hindu Parishad (1994) (19)
Market and Money : a critique of rational choice theory (2012) (16)
the power of detachment: disciplines of body and mind in the Ramanandi order (1989) (16)
The secular production of religion (1995) (16)
Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance and Environment, 1800–1980 . Edited by Sandria B. Freitag. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 308 pp. $35.00. (1990) (16)
Religious Nationalism in India and Global Fundamentalism (2000) (15)
Introduction: The sacred and the urban in Asia (2016) (15)
Anatomy of a Confrontation: Ayodhya and the Rise of Communal Politics in India (1992) (15)
Religion, Secularism and National Development in India and China (2012) (15)
7. Indian Immigrants in Queens, New York City: Patterns of Spatial Concentration and Distribution, 1965–1990 (1995) (15)
Embodiment, Materiality, and Power. A Review Essay (2008) (15)
Media, War and Terrorism: Responses from the Middle East and Asia (2004) (15)
Religion and ecological sustainability in China (2014) (14)
Evaluation of on-site hydrogen generation via steam reforming of biodiesel: Process optimization and heat integration (2016) (14)
Exact solutions for two-dimensional groundwater flow problems involving a semi-pervious boundary (1978) (13)
Virtual India: Indian IT Labor and the Nation-State (2016) (12)
The Victims Tale: Memory and Forgetting in the Story of Violence (2002) (11)
Secrecy and Publicity in the South Asian Public Arena (2004) (11)
Hindus: a superior race (1999) (11)
Gods on Earth. Religious Experience and Identity in Ayodhya (1997) (11)
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City (2015) (11)
Introduction Urban Theory, Asia, and Religion (2015) (10)
Imperial Encounters: Religion, Nation, and Empire (2001) (10)
The Diasporic Imagination (1995) (10)
Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh [Review of: K. Gardner (1997) -] (1997) (10)
The Ruined Center: Religion and Mass Politics in India (1996) (10)
Introduction: Doing Asian cities (2015) (9)
3. Projecting Identities: Empire and Indentured Labor Migration from India to Trinidad and British Guiana, 1836–1885 (1995) (9)
Structure and anti-structure in Hindu pilgrimage to Ayodhya (1984) (9)
Christian aliens in the Jewish State: undocumented migrants from Latin America striving for practical national belonging in Israel (2000) (8)
The Concept of the Ideal Brahman as an Indological Construct (1989) (8)
Conversion to Modernities (2014) (8)
Mission statement responses (2013) (8)
4. Homeland, Motherland: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Ideologies of Place among Muslims in Trinidad (1995) (8)
HydroWeb: 'WWW based collaborative engineering in hydroscience'—a European education experiment in the Internet (2001) (7)
Monumental Texts : the critical edition of India's national heritage (1999) (7)
Religious Nationalism : Hindus and Muslims in South Asia (1994) (7)
Satanic or Angelic: the Politics of Religious and Literary Inspiration (1989) (7)
Exact solutions for two-dimensional groundwater flow in a semiconfined aquifer (1994) (7)
All That is Solid Melts Into (Thin) Air (1999) (6)
Solving Nonlinear Differential Equations by a Neural Network Method (2001) (6)
Calculation Methods for Two-dimensional Groundwater Flow (1978) (6)
The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia (2018) (6)
USABILITY OF INTELLIGENT AGENT SYSTEMS IN URBAN TRAFFIC CONTROL (1998) (6)
The Future of Utopia (2016) (6)
Religious Therapies and their Valuation among Surinamese Hindustani in the Netherlands (1991) (5)
Religion, Secularism and National Development in India and China (2012) (5)
Review of Daniel Gold, “The lord as guru: Hindi sants in the northern Indian tradition” (1988) (5)
Towards the development of an Integrated Building Management System (1997) (5)
The comparative sociology of India and China (2009) (5)
Conversion, competition, and conflict : essays on the role of religion in Asia (1984) (5)
Conversion and coercion: the politics of sincerity and authenticity (2006) (5)
The Netherlands and Islam (2002) (5)
2. Bhakti and Postcolonial Politics: Hindu Missions to Fiji (1995) (5)
Gender and Nation in Hindu Nationalism (1996) (5)
South Asian Islam in Britain (2004) (4)
Nation and Migration. The South Asian Diaspora (1995) (4)
Political religion in the Twenty-First century (1999) (4)
War propaganda and the liberal public sphere (2004) (4)
The Modernity of Religion (1995) (4)
Gods on Earth (2020) (4)
Brahmans: their purity and their poverty on the changing values of Brahman priests in Ayodhya (1985) (4)
Mission Statement Responses (2013) (4)
The comparative sociology of India and China: THE COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY OF INDIA AND CHINA (2009) (4)
Nation, Politics, Religion (2015) (4)
Religion and Education in a Secular Age: A Comparative Perspective (2011) (3)
Information Ordering for decision support in building design (1998) (3)
Comment on 'Asymptote of the Ineffable: Embodiment, Alterity, and the Theory of Religion' Csordas, T.J. (2004) (3)
The Future of Utopia† (2016) (3)
:The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas. (2008) (3)
The Politics of Devotion to Rama (1994) (3)
Afterword: Global Conversions (2005) (3)
6. New York City's Muslim World Day Parade (1995) (3)
Information logistics in the building industry (1997) (2)
Integrated Building Design Decision SupportSystems (1970) (2)
Who Cares?: Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India and Elsewhere (2016) (2)
Nation, Politics, Religion (2015) (2)
Refugees and Religion (2021) (2)
The Visible and the Invisible in South Asia (2009) (2)
The Imperial Encounter with Asian Religions (2007) (2)
Sati and Sanskrit : The Move from Orientalism to Hinduism (1994) (2)
Religion, Secularism, and the Nation (2008) (2)
Religion, Secularity and Tolerance' in India and Europe (1998) (2)
Empathy or Empire (2002) (2)
The Victim's Tale (1997) (2)
Nationalism and Christianity (2010) (2)
The religious origins of democracy (2009) (1)
German Refugees and Refugees in Germany (2021) (1)
The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society . Edited by Michael Carrithers and Caroline Humphrey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii, 328 pp. $54.50. (1992) (1)
Research Centre Religion and Society (1999) (1)
A Unified Approach For Complex ProblemSolving: Method Integration (1970) (1)
Does Sanskrit Knowledge Exist? (2008) (1)
Introduction: The diversity of eco-religious practice in China (2014) (1)
Planetary or cosmic? Reflections on the urban and the religious in Asia (2018) (1)
The secularity of the state (2006) (1)
Urban planning and secular atheism in Shanghai, Beijing, and Singapore (2017) (1)
Integrated Building Design Decision SupportWith Fuzzy Logic (1970) (1)
Cultural Politics and the State (1998) (1)
Body and Mind in Qi Gong and Yoga. A Comparative Perspective on India and China (2010) (1)
Smriti Srinivas: Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001 (2003) (1)
Review of James C. Scott, “Domination and the arts of resistance. Hidden transcripts” (1991) (1)
Life as theatre: performing the Ramayana in Ayodhya (1991) (1)
Peter Van Der Veer: Imperial Encounters (2001) (1)
Radical Hinduism and Modernity (1995) (1)
Indian IT labor and the nation-state (2005) (1)
NEURAL NETWORKS AND MODEL TREES IN SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELLING OF GROUNDWATER HEAD (2004) (1)
Religion and peace in Asia (2015) (1)
Erratum to: The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia (2018) (1)
Religious utopias in India and China1 (2007) (1)
Review of John van Maanen, “Tales of the field: on writing ethnography” (1990) (1)
Pain and Power. Reflections on Ascetic Agency (2009) (1)
Lost in the Mountains: Notes on Diversity in the Southeast Asian Mainland Massif (2016) (1)
[Review of: Asutosh Varshney. Etnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India] (2002) (1)
Introduction to special issue: Prayer and Politics (2016) (1)
Prayer and Politics (2018) (1)
Keeping the Muslims Out: Concepts of Civilization, Civility, and Civil Society in India, China, and Western Europe (2016) (1)
Is confucianism secular (2016) (1)
Mediation and Immediacy the Semiotic Turn in the Study of Religion an international conference 8-9-10 June 2016 (2016) (1)
Brahmans: Their Purity and their Poverty on the Changing Values of Brahman Priests in Ayodhya (1985) (1)
An incentive to build an intelligent system to cope with complexity derived from systems' interaction-through the case of water management (1993) (1)
Minority Rights and Hindu Nationalism in India (2021) (1)
Imperial Encounters (2020) (1)
South Asian Islam in Britain (2004) (1)
Introduction to the Modern Spirit of Asia / 《亚洲的现代灵性》之导论 (2015) (1)
Market and money: a critique of rational choice theory (2012) (1)
Review essay : Fundamentalism and the secular state (1998) (0)
Bonoeman, Rasta's en andere Surinamers (Bonoeman, Rastas and Other Surinamese - on the religion of Surinamese immigrants in the Netherlands) (1984) (0)
The Moral State: (2020) (0)
The Bitter Pleasures of Tea and Opium / 苦乐情之茶叶与鸦片 (2015) (0)
Sociology (1991) (0)
The Bitter Pleasures of Tea and Opium (2014) (0)
Behavior of Semi-Rigid Steel Connection For G+3 Symmetrical Structures Under Consideration of Seismic Forces Civil Engineering Department (2018) (0)
Is Confucianism a Religion or a Secular Moral System (2017) (0)
Nonlinear Reduced Models For RapidAssessment Of Effects (1970) (0)
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 (2016) (0)
Chapter 6. “Smash Temples, Build Schools”: Comparing Secularism in India and China (2013) (0)
Clifford Geertz: A Memory (2007) (0)
Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power, 1818–1940. By Jeffrey Cox. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix+357. $55.00. (2004) (0)
The secular in India and China (2019) (0)
Secrecy, uncertainty, and transcendence in the market economy (2011) (0)
Pilgrimage to Ayodhya (1980) (0)
The Lord as Guru: Hindi Sants in the Northern Indian Tradition. By Daniel Gold. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. x, 256 pp. $29.95. (1988) (0)
The Emergence of the Science of Religion in the Netherlands. By Arie L. Molendijk. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. xii+311. $139.00 (cloth). (2007) (0)
Religion and place in East and South-East Asia (2012) (0)
India-China Comparisons: state and society (2004) (0)
Religions of India and Communalism (2001) (0)
JRPP’s Forthcoming Special Issue titled “Prayer and Politics” (2015) (0)
Communalisme en Nationalisme in Zuid-Azie (Communalism and Nationalism in South Asia) (1987) (0)
Ayodhya: Time and Place (2020) (0)
Contesting traditions: religion and violence in South Asia (2007) (0)
Chapter 3. The Making of Oriental Religion (2013) (0)
包容多样：以比较促进宗教间和谐 = Compassion as a way of enhancing harmony (2011) (0)
Proceedings summer school 1994. Popular culture. Africa, Asia & Europe (1995) (0)
Review of Thomas Trautmann, “Aryans and British India” (1998) (0)
Devotion and asceticism (2020) (0)
Cosmopolitan option (2002) (0)
USABILITY OF INTELLIGENT AGENTSYSTEMS IN URBAN TRAFFIC CONTROL (1970) (0)
The Anthropologist and the Native: Pain and Power: Reflections on Ascetic Agency (2011) (0)
Gap Repair In Water Level Measurement DataUsing Neural Networks (1970) (0)
Chapter 8. Muslims in India and China (2013) (0)
Aviel Roshwald. The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 349. Cloth $75.00, paper $29.99 (2008) (0)
Book reviews (1995) (0)
Chapter 5. Secularism’s Magic (2013) (0)
Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India. LEE SIEGEL (1993) (0)
History and Culture in Hindu Nationalism (1992) (0)
Behavior of Semi-Rigid Steel Connection For G+ 3 Unsymmetrical Structures Under Consideration of Seismic Forces (2018) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1992) (0)
Review of Ronald Inden, “Imagining India” (1992) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire (2001) (0)
The construction of world Buddhism (2016) (0)
Muslim Bare Life in Contemporary India (2022) (0)
The capacity of the state to control information and communication: the Gulf Area and Indonesia. (2001) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. Secularity and Religion (2001) (0)
The Secular in India and China (2018) (0)
Invited View: Body and Gender in Hindu and Muslim Nationalist Discourse (1992) (0)
Religious networks in Asia and beyond (2011) (0)
Chapter 7. The Spiritual Body (2013) (0)
Twenty Days into the War (1991) (0)
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 (2011) (0)
Cultural Politics and the State (1998) (0)
Coping with diversity in Europe, India and China (2012) (0)
Strathern, Alan. Unearthly powers: religious and political change in world history. xvi, 391 pp., illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2019. £22.99 (paper) (2021) (0)
Chapter 4. Conversion to Indian and Chinese Modernities (2013) (0)
Afterword: Reflections on Nationalism (2022) (0)
Nationalism in India and Global Fundamentalism (2001) (0)
Doing Asian cities (2015) (0)
Ayodhya: Time and Place (2020) (0)
A Politics of Virtue: Hinduism, Sexuality, and Countercolonial Discourse in Fiji. JOHN D. KELLY (1994) (0)
Review of Pnina Werbner, “The migration process: capital, gifts and offerings among British Pakistanis” (1993) (0)
Nationalism and Religion (2013) (0)
Chapter 9. Conclusion (2013) (0)
[Blog Post:] Global breathing (2020) (0)
Anatomy of a Confrontation [Review of: S. Gopal (1995) -] (1995) (0)
[Blog Post:] Globales Atmen (2020) (0)
Transnational society, media and citizenship (2000) (0)
India, Religions of (2001) (0)
The Sacred and the Secular: Genealogies of Self, State, and Society in the Contemporary Islamic World (2006) (0)
Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation In Rural Bangladesh:Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation In Rural Bangladesh. (1997) (0)
Integrated Prediction Support Tool For WaterTide Predictions (1970) (0)
Introduction: Refugees and Religion (2021) (0)
Resisting general models (2017) (0)
Notes on calculation methods for groundwater flow. (1980) (0)
Oesophageal cancer: Etiological heterogeneity in low and high risk areas of Jiangsu Province, China (2003) (0)
Smash temples, build schools’: comparing secularism in India and China (2015) (0)
The sacred and the urban in Asia (2016) (0)
Acknowledgments (2020) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
Europe (1993) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Oriëntalisme: Kennis en macht in Leiden, Mekka en Atjeh (2021) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Religion since 1750 (2015) (0)
Language, Blood and History: The Visceral and the Secular in India and China (2015) (0)
Introduction (2016) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Religion after 1750 (2015) (0)
Using a simple protocol for cord prolapse. (1990) (0)
Secularity in the East (2019) (0)
The sacred as a profession (2020) (0)
The Comparative Advantage of Anthropology (2016) (0)
Resisting general models (2017) (0)
Religious Radicalism in South Asia (2003) (0)
Sociology (1992) (0)
Review of Charles Lindholm, “Charisma” (1992) (0)
The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (2004) (0)
The Value of Comparison (2020) (0)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East: Mission Statement (2013) (0)
William R. Pinch. Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires. (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society 12.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 280. $90.00 (2007) (0)
Religion, nation, and the public sphere (2005) (0)
The sacred as a profession (2020) (0)
Problems and perspectives (2020) (0)
The Bitter Pleasures of Tea and Opium / 苦乐情之茶叶与鸦片 (2015) (0)
Problems and perspectives (2020) (0)
Religions of India (2015) (0)
Devotion and asceticism (2020) (0)
DOES CHINA HAVE A CIVIL SOCIETY? (2011) (0)
IV Book Reviews (2007) (0)
[Blog post:] Spirit (2019) (0)
Dumont’s hierarchy among the Nuosu of China (2017) (0)
Studiegroep glooiingen: 1e voortgangsrapport (1974) (0)
Reviews: Social theory (2018) (0)
Language, Blood and History: The Visceral and the Secular in India and China (2006) (0)
Religion and nationalism (2013) (0)
A Short Conclusion (2016) (0)
Urban Aspirations in Seoul: Guest Editors’ Introduction (2016) (0)
Chapter 2. Spirituality in Modern Society (2013) (0)
Book Review:The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict Sudhir Kakar (1998) (0)
Fundamentalism and the Secular State (1998) (0)
Brief Communications - Study of onychomycosis: Prevailing fungi andpattern of infection (2007) (0)
Spirituality: East and West (2010) (0)
The Afterlife of Images (2016) (0)
Antropologie en de feministische ontwikkelingssociologie' (Anthropology and the Feminist Sociology of Development) (1987) (0)
No nations, but Classes (1993) (0)
Religions in India and China today (2010) (0)
Introduction: Diversity of belief systems and ecological practices in China = 中国信仰与生态实践的多元性 (2013) (0)
Reizen naar Reinheid en Verlossing. Pelgrimage in India' (Travelling to Purity and Liberation. Pilgrimage in India) (1980) (0)

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