Peter van der Veer

Who is Peter van der Veer?

Peter van der Veer is a Dutch anthropologist who has made important contributions to the study of Indian religion and society. Formerly Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of the Religion and Society Research Centre at the University of Amsterdam, van der Veer is currently University Professor at Utrecht University.

He is Editor of the Routledge series "Zones of Religion" and holds editorial positions at several scholarly journals including Eastern Anthropologist, Public Culture, Cultural Dynamics, Ethnos, and MERA-Journal.

Van der Veer was born in 1953, in Groningen, Netherlands, and received his doctorate from the Utrecht University in 1986. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, from which he received the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize for Behavioural and Social Sciences in 2001.