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  • The Modern Spirit of Asia

    The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India

    by Peter van der Veer ...
    A comparative look at religion and spirituality in postcolonial China and IndiaThe Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in unique and distinctive ways. Peter van der Veer begins with nineteenth-century imperial history, exploring how Western ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nation and Religion

    Perspectives on Europe and Asia

    Edited by Peter van der Veer, Hartmut Lehmann ...
    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, the dominance of capitalism, and the emergence of powerful state institutions--favors secularism and relegates religion to the purely private realm. This collection of essays on ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Gods on Earth

    The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre

    by Peter van der Veer ...
    Series series LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    This book is the result of the long interest in Hindu pilgrimage which was encouraged during his study of Sanskrit and Hinduism It provided a detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. This is Volume 59 of the London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Value of Comparison

    by Peter van der Veer ...
    Series series The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives popular in public discourse and some social theory. He takes the quantitative social sciences and the broad social theories they rely on to task for their inability to question Western cultural ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Imperial Encounters

    Religion and Modernity in India and Britain

    by Peter van der Veer ...
    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. He shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Handbook of Religion and the Asian City

    Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Peter van der Veer ...
    Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. It does not assume that religion is of the past and that the urban is secular, but instead points out that urban politics and governance often manifest religious boundaries and sensibilities—in short, that public religion is politics. The essays in this book show how ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia

    Edited by Kenneth Dean, Peter van der Veer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West. Its authors highlight that terms like ‘secular’, ‘secularization’, and ‘secularism’ do not carry the same meanings in the very different historical and cultural contexts of Asia. Critiquing Charles Taylor’s ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China

    Edited by James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu, Peter van der Veer ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world’s most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who live in ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Prayer and Politics

    Edited by Peter van der Veer ...
    Prayer is an important religious practice that is rarely studied from the perspective of politics – and yet it should be. Though some forms of Protestantism teach that prayer should be individual and private, this is an exception rather than a rule. In many other religions and cultures, the regulation of collective and public prayer cannot be separated from the complex world of politics. Where is ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Media, War and Terrorism

    Responses from the Middle East and Asia

    Edited by Shoma Munshi, Peter van der Veer ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This collection of essays covers the media and public debate dimension of the events of 9/11 and beyond, from the point of view of Middle Eastern and Asian countries. The first part of the book deals with the use of the media as an instrument of warfare, the growing significance of religion, the emergence of transnational media and a transnational public sphere and the relationship between the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Conversion to Modernities

    Edited by Peter van der Veer ...
    Series series Zones of Religion
    Peter van der Veer has gathered together a groundbreaking 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, but also to religious forms of modernity. Religious perceptions of the self, of community, and of the state are transformed when Western discourses of modernity become dominant in the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    by David L. McMahan ...
    Series series Religions in the Modern World
    Buddhism in the Modern World explores the challenges faced by Buddhism today, the distinctive forms that it has taken and the individuals and movements that have shaped it. Part One discusses the modern history of Buddhism in different geographical regions, from Southeast Asia to North America. Part Two examines key themes including globalization, gender issues, and the ways in which Buddhism has ... Read more

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