P. (Peter) Berger, Dr
new program: Anthropology: What it means to be human (Four-Field Approach in Anthropology, 30 ECTS)
coordinator: Minor "Religion in the modern world"
current courses (2022/23):
Inhabiting Cultural Worlds
Anthropology of Religion
Religion in South Asia
Rituals in Theory and Practice
Global Dynamics and Local Cosmologies: Studying Religious Change
for details see: https://rooster.rug.nl/
summer and winter schools
Performing Religion: theory and practice, 17-21 Feb. 2020, co-organized with Sarbeswar Sahoo (IIT Delhi) and Roland Hardenberg (Goethe University Frankfurt), taught with several international colleagues. http://hss.iitd.ac.in/event/winter-school-performing-religion-theory-and-practice
Changing Grounds: Dynamics of Culture and Livelihood, 11-15 February 2019, IIT Delhi, co-organized with Sarbeswar Sahoo (IIT Delhi) and Roland Hardenberg (Goethe University Frankfurt), taught with several international colleagues. http://hss.iitd.ac.in/event/winter-school-changing-grounds-dynamics-culture-and-livelihood
Religions of India: Transformations of Values, Practices & Identities, 19-21 March 2018, IIT Delhi, co-organized with Sarbeswar Sahoo, taught with several international colleagues. http://hss.iitd.ac.in/event/winter-school-workshop-religions-india-transformations-values-practices-and-identities
Indian Tribal Cultures - Studying their life-worlds, doing fieldwork & writing ethnographies, 29 June - 3 July 2015, Faculty Theology and Religious Studies, RUG (coordinator and teacher); link to website.
Transformations of Religion and Culture in Contemporary India: Views From the Periphery, 18-23 August 2014, Faculty Theology and Religious Studies, RUG (coordinator and teacher); link to program.
other courses taught at the University of Groningen (2007-2019):
Anthropology, an Introduction (Minor)
Rituals in Theory and Practice (with Anja Visser-Nieraeth and Joram Tarusarira)(BA)
Hinduism and Buddhism (with Stefania Travagnin)(BA)
Anthropology and Sociology of Religion (with Kim Knibbe)(BA)
Hinduism in Context (BA)
Ritual Practices (BA)
Anthropology, an Introduction (BA)
Global Dynamics and Local Religious Systems (coordinator; with Kim Knibbe) (MA)
Anthropology of Religion (BA, 2nd year)
Theories of Religion and Culture (coordinator; with several colleagues)(ReMa)
Indian Religions I (Hinduism and Buddhism) (BA first year)
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (AVV, open for all faculties)
Anthropology of Indian Religions. Ideology and practice of death in different social configurations
Indian Religion and Society in Theoretical Perspective (MA course)
Hindus and Moslems in Europe (with Marjo Buitelaar) (BA third year)
Study Skills (coordinator; taught by student assistant)(BA first year)
Methodology seminar: Ethnographic fieldwork (MA)
courses taught at the University of Zürich (Dept. of Socio-cultural Anthropology) (2012):
Introduction to the Anthropology of Religion (lecture, BA)
Religion and Society in India (BA)
Death and Burial in India
courses taught at the Institute of Ethnology, Free University of Berlin (2001-2007):
Theory and History of Anthropology
Social Structure and Economy in Anthropology
Anthropology of Sacrifice
Anthropological Theories of Ritual
Food for Thought: Anthropological Perspectives on Food
Ritual Food in India
Tribal Societies in Orissa, India
Brahmans in India
Cinema in India (with Roland Beer and Elisabeth Conzelmann, in collaboration with the
Arsenal Cinema Berlin)
Anthropology of Food and Eating. Part I: theoretical perspectives
Anthropology of Food and Eating. Part II: topics of culinary ethnology
Anthropology of Food and Eating. Part III: discussing empirical enquiries of students
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