Peter van der Veer is director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and a Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His books include Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (Princeton) and Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India.

Peter van der Veer is director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and a Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His books include Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (Princeton) and Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India.

A collection of papers on the history of Christianity along the Silk Road and in pre-modern China, pushing back the frontier of knowledge in a fast developing new area of research. The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the premodern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Mon...(展开全部)

The “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of the...(展开全部)

The “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of the...(展开全部)

為英國約克大學社會學教授，除了消費社會學，亦多有著述針對宗教社會學與社會學理論進行探討。其著作包括《非宗教社會學》（Toward A Sociology of Irreligion）（Macmillan, 1971）、《社會行為的迷思》（The Myth of Social Action）（Cambridge University Press, 1996）、《血拼經驗》（The Shopping Experience）（Sage, 1997：與帕西‧福克（Pasi Falk）同為編者）等等。其他以消費為主題之書目資訊，詳見本書附錄。

為英國約克大學社會學教授，除了消費社會學，亦多有著述針對宗教社會學與社會學理論進行探討。其著作包括《非宗教社會學》（Toward A Sociology of Irreligion）（Macmillan, 1971）、《社會行為的迷思》（The Myth of Social Action）（Cambridge University Press, 1996）、《血拼經驗》（The Shopping Experience）（Sage, 1997：與帕西‧福克（Pasi Falk）同為編者）等等。其他以消費為主題之書目資訊，詳見本書附錄。

為英國約克大學社會學教授，除了消費社會學，亦多有著述針對宗教社會學與社會學理論進行探討。其著作包括《非宗教社會學》（Toward A Sociology of Irreligion）（Macmillan, 1971）、《社會行為的迷思》（The Myth of Social Action）（Cambridge University Press, 1996）、《血拼經驗》（The Shopping Experience）（Sage, 1997：與帕西‧福克（Pasi Falk）同為編者）等等。其他以消費為主題之書目資訊，詳見本書附錄。

為英國約克大學社會學教授，除了消費社會學，亦多有著述針對宗教社會學與社會學理論進行探討。其著作包括《非宗教社會學》（Toward A Sociology of Irreligion）（Macmillan, 1971）、《社會行為的迷思》（The Myth of Social Action）（Cambridge University Press, 1996）、《血拼經驗》（The Shopping Experience）（Sage, 1997：與帕西‧福克（Pasi Falk）同為編者）等等。其他以消費為主題之書目資訊，詳見本書附錄。