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Spirituality, Religion and Society Lecture Series
Nationalism and Religion in India and China
Professor Peter van der Veer
(Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany; Distinguished University Professor, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Date: October 24, 2018 (Wednesday)
Time: 16:30 – 18:00
Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong
Enquiry: (852) 3917-5007, ihss@hku.hk
Spirituality, Religion and Society Lecture Series
Nationalism and Religion in India and China
Professor Peter van der Veer
(Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany; Distinguished University Professor, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Date: October 24, 2018 (Wednesday)
Time: 16:30 – 18:00
Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong
Enquiry: (852) 3917-5007, ihss@hku.hk
Title:
Nationalism and Religion in India and China
Speaker:
Professor Peter van der Veer (Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany; Distinguished University Professor, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Date:
October 24, 2018
Time:
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Venue:
Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong (Map)
Language:
English
Enquiry:
(Tel) (852) 3917-5007
(Email) ihss@hku.hk
In the late nineteenth century, intellectuals in India and China (and elsewhere in Asia) had to formulate their response to European imperialism. These responses in India and China are quite different while the challenges are rather similar. A major element in these responses is to determine the desirable location of religion in a modernizing society. The paper examines some of the historical interactions with imperialism in India and China as a background to a discussion of the current state of nationalism, secularism, and religion in these societies.
Professor Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India and most recently The Value of Comparison. He works currently on the topic of refugees in Germany and directs a comparative project on Death and Mourning together with Tam Ngo at the Radboud University in Nijmegen as well as a comparative project on Chinese networks in South-East Asia together with Kenneth Dean at the National University of Singapore.
This is an event organized by the “Rethinking Spirituality and Religion in Asia” Cluster.
