%0 Journal Article %A van Dijk, A.M.G. %T Het ethos van de beoefenaar van de godsdienstwetenschap ten aanzien van nieuwe religieuze bewegingen %D 1991 %J NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, %V 45 %N 4 %P 265-278 %@ 2590-3268 %R https://doi.org/10.5117/NTT1991.4.001.DIJK %I Amsterdam University Press, %X Abstract Studies in the History of Religions have had some impact on the development of religious phenomena. This was never questioned, but also hardly mentioned as a legitimate aim. Does there implicitly exist a ‘practical’ or ‘adapted’ Religionswissenschaft? Or do scholars still favour the traditional ‘epochè’? Many studies of new religious movements in our society often do not show such a scholarly distance, even when they themselves suppose to do so. Is an author in the field of religious studies a ‘defensor religionis’ or should he continue in the footsteps of the Enlightenment? The question concerns such different issues as a scholarly relation with the Unification Church and the study of the search for identity of hinduism in the Netherlands. %U https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/NTT1991.4.001.DIJK