- Language: English
- Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong
- October 24, 2018 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
- (Tel) (852) 3917-5007
- Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk
ABSTRACT
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.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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.
ORGANIZER
This is an event organized by the “Rethinking Spirituality and Religion in Asia” Cluster.
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