In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative appro...

This book is the result of the long interest in Hindu pilgrimage which was encouraged during his ...

This collection of essays covers the media and public debate dimension of the events of 9 11 and ...

I Handbook of Religion and the Asian CityIhighlights the creative and innovative role of urb...

Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the ...

Peter van der Veer and the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between South Asi...

This collection of essays covers the media and public debate dimension of the events of 9 11 and ...

Peter van der Veer has gathered together a groundbreaking collection of essays that suggests that...

This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. ...

A comparative look at religion and spirituality in postcolonial China and IndiaThe Modern Spirit ...

Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom sa...

Prayer is an important religious practice that is rarely studied from the perspective of politics...