RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 van Dijk, A.M.G.YR 1991 T1 Het ethos van de beoefenaar van de godsdienstwetenschap ten aanzien van nieuwe religieuze bewegingen JF NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, VO 45 IS 4 SP 265 OP 278 DO https://doi.org/10.5117/NTT1991.4.001.DIJK PB Amsterdam University Press, SN 2590-3268, AB 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., UL https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/NTT1991.4.001.DIJK