Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer is a Dutch historian credited with making important contributions to the study of Indian history and society. [ [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7074.html Barbara Metcalf review on Princeton University Press Web site] ] 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 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 in 2001 the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize for Behavioural and Social Sciences.

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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.

External Links

* [http://www.uu.nl/uupublish/homeuu/deuniversiteit/cijfersenfeiten/eregalerij/universiteitshoo/11027main.html Van der Veer's Utrecht University Faculty Profile (in Dutch)]