Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer (* 1953 in Groningen) is a Dutch anthropologist, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and since June 2010, Honorary Professor of Ethnology and Cultural Sociology at Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Göttingen.

Peter van der Veer studied in Groningen and Utrecht and acquired in 1986, the doctorate in anthropology. Subsequently, he worked at the Free University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University and at the University of Pennsylvania. The Free University of Amsterdam appointed him in 1992 as Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of the " Research Centre Religion and Society ." Since November 2008, Peter van der Veer, his position at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity true., Where he heads the Department of Religious diversity. His scientific work is concerned primarily with the relationship between religion and politics in the Indian subcontinent.

He edited by Routledge in the series " Zones of Religion " and is co- editor of several scientific journals, such as Eastern Anthropologist, Public Culture, Cultural Dynamics, Ethnos, and MERA -Journal.

Works (selection)

• Islam en het " beschaafde " West. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2002.
• Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
• With Hartmut Lehmann ( Hg): Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia. Princeton University Press, 1999.
• Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. University of California Press, 1994.
• (Hg) 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.