Peter van der Veer

Patterns of Middle Class Consumption in India and China ()

Peter van der Veer

ISBN:9788178299976

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Religious Nationalism (Book)

Peter van der Veer

ISBN:9780520082564

This study of the relationship between religion and politics in India uses an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on anthropology, history and social theory...more details
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Conversion to Modernities (Book)

Peter van Der Veer

ISBN:9780415912747

Peter van der Veer has gathered together a ground-breaking collection of essays that suggests that conversion to forms of Christianity in the modern period is not only a conversion to modern forms of these religions...more details
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Conversion to Modernities (Book)

Peter van Der Veer

ISBN:9780415912730

Peter van der Veer has gathered together a ground-breaking collection of essays that suggests that conversion to forms of Christianity in the modern period is not only a conversion to modern forms of these religions...more details
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Gods on Earth (Book)

Peter Van Der Veer

ISBN:9781845203023

A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values "can" reflect political and economic processes....more details
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Imperial Encounters: Religion & Modernity in India & Britain (Book)

Peter Van Der Veer

ISBN:9780691074788

Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture...more details
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Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (Book)

Peter Van Der Veer

ISBN:9780691074771

Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture...more details
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Nation & Religion: Perspectives on Europe & Asia (Book)

Peter Van Der Veer;Hartmut Lehmann

ISBN:9780691012322

Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom says that it does. The prevailing view assumes that the onset of western modernity--characterized by the rise of nationalism...more details
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Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora (Book)

Peter Van Der Veer

ISBN:9780812232592

Peter van der Veer and the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between South Asian nationalism, migration, ethnicity, and the construction of religious identity. Although nationality and diaspora seem to represent opposite ideas and values...more details
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Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia (Book)

Peter Van Der Veer;Hartmut Lehmann

ISBN:9780691012339

Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom says that it does. The prevailing view assumes that the onset of western modernity--characterized by the rise of nationalism...more details
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Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia (Book)

Carol A Breckenridge;Peter Van Der Veer

ISBN:9780812214369

In his extraordinarily influential book "Orientalism," Edward Said argued that Western knowledge about the Orient in the Post-Enlightenment period has been "a systematic discourse by which Europe was able to manage-even produce-the Orient politically...more details
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Patterns of Middle Class Consumption in India and China (Book)

Christophe Jaffrelot;Peter Van Der Veer

ISBN:9780761936237

This is a book about the emerging patterns of consumption among the middle classes of India and China. The book compares cultural shifts as a result of liberalization and globalization in these two emerging Asian powers. This volume does not compare India and China to the West...more details
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