oa Afterword. Towards Religious Studies ‘New Style’

Reflecting on the contributions to this special issue, in this afterword I argue that the current fragmented state of religious studies in the Netherlands may well be taken as a laboratory to develop a study of religion for the future. Religious studies ‘new style’ can break with all sorts of path-dependent constraints, including the religious studies/theology binary, and should conduct research and teaching about religion against a global, postcolonial horizon in the broader context of the humanities.