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40 produkter
Prayer and Politics
Häftad, 2018
748 kr
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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 …
Gods on Earth
The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre
Häftad, 2021
634 kr
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A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values CAN reflect political and economic processes.
Media, War and Terrorism
Responses from the Middle East and Asia
Av Shoma Munshi, Peter van der Veer
Inbunden, 2004
2516 kr
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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 …
Media, War and Terrorism
Responses from the Middle East and Asia
Av Shoma Munshi, Peter van der Veer
Häftad, 2004
649 kr
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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 …
Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China
Av James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2516 kr
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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 …
Conversion to Modernities
Inbunden, 1995
2516 kr
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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 …
Conversion to Modernities
Häftad, 1995
649 kr
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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 …
Religious Nationalism
Hindus and Muslims in India
Häftad, 1994
400 kr
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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 religion and politics in India goes well beyond other books on this subject. He brings together several disciplines - anthropology, history, social …
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City
Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century
E-bok, 2015
2165 kr
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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 …
Nation and Religion
Perspectives on Europe and Asia
Av Peter van der Veer, Hartmut Lehmann
Häftad, 1999
456 kr
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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 …
Imperial Encounters
Religion and Modernity in India and Britain
Häftad, 2001
456 kr
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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 …
Modern Spirit of Asia
The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India
Häftad, 2013
312 kr
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The 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, …
Nation and Religion
Perspectives on Europe and Asia
Av Hartmut Lehmann, Peter van der Veer
E-bok, 2020
642 kr
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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 …
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament
Perspectives on South Asia
Av Carol A. Breckenridge, Peter van der Veer
Häftad, 1993
401 kr
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In his extraordinarily influential book Orientalism, Edward Said argued that Western knowledge about the Orient in the Post-Enlightenment period has been "a systematic discourse by which Europe was able to manage-even produce-the Orient politically, sociologically, militarily, ideologically, …
Nation and Migration
The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora
Inbunden, 1995
913 kr
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Peter van der Veer and the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between South Asian nationalism, migration, ethnicity, and the construction of religious identity. Although nationality and diaspora seem to represent opposite ideas and values, the authors argue that nationalism is …
Value of Comparison
Inbunden, 2016
1278 kr
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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 …
Value of Comparison
Häftad, 2016
354 kr
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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 …
Value of Comparison
E-bok, 2016
509 kr
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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 …
Gods on Earth
The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre
E-bok, 2020
745 kr
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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 …
Gods on Earth
The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre
E-bok, 2020
745 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Media, War and Terrorism
Responses from the Middle East and Asia
Av Peter van der Veer, Shoma Munshi
E-bok, 2004
762 kr
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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 …
Media, War and Terrorism
Responses from the Middle East and Asia
Av Peter van der Veer, Shoma Munshi
E-bok, 2004
762 kr
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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 …
Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China
Av Peter van der Veer, Dan Smyer Yu m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
915 kr
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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 …
Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China
Av Peter van der Veer, Dan Smyer Yu m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
935 kr
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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 …
Conversion to Modernities
E-bok, 2014
762 kr
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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 …
Conversion to Modernities
E-bok, 2014
762 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China
Av James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
795 kr
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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 …
Prayer and Politics
Inbunden, 2017
2516 kr
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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 …
Refugees and Religion
Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories
Av Birgit Meyer, Peter van der Veer
Inbunden, 2021
1422 kr
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Understanding religion from a material and corporeal angle, this open access book addresses the ways in which refugees practice their religions and convert or develop new faiths. It also evaluates how secular institutions in Europe frame and determine what is classified as religion according to the …
Refugees and Religion
Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories
Av Birgit Meyer, Peter van der Veer
Häftad, 2022
460 kr
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Understanding religion from a material and corporeal angle, this open access book addresses the ways in which refugees practice their religions and convert or develop new faiths. It also evaluates how secular institutions in Europe frame and determine what is classified as religion according to the …
