Author: Peter van der Veer

Religious nationalism is a subject of critical importance in much of the world today. Peter van der Veer's timely study on the relationship between...

A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values CAN reflect political and economic processes.

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 ta...

A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values CAN reflect political and economic processes.

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 ...