Theo van Baaren’s Systematic Science of Religion Revisited: the current crisis in Dutch study of religion and a way out.

摘要: This article revisits Theo van Baaren’s (1912-1989) call for a ‘systematic science of religion’. With this Van Baaren urged Dutch scholars religion to do away with the religionist biases phenomenology religion, while retaining comparison as cornerstone discipline. Unfortunately, programme was never realized in Netherlands, and study became dominated instead by particularist paradigm that, producing eminent studies individual religions, lacked an interest theorizing general. Deprived common object aim, scholarship on has become fragmented, have been no good position fend themselves face institutional restructurings, budget cuts, general hostility towards humanities. eye Nordic countries I propose reorientation systematic la way out academic crisis.