Preface -- Abbreviations -- I. Introduction -- 1. The Rise of the Scientific Study of Religion -- 2. The Historiography of the Sciences of Religion -- II. Reputation -- 1. The Standing of Early Dutch Science of Religion -- 2. Phenomenology of Religion Revisited -- III. Institutionalization -- 1. Early Dutch Scholars of Religion -- 2. The Principal Religions -- 3. Changing Perspectives on Method -- 4. The Higher Education Act of 1876 -- 5. Disciplines and Boundaries -- IV. Conceptualizing Science of Religion -- 1. Cornelis Petrus Tiele (1830-1902) -- 2. Tiele's View on the Science of Religion -- 3. Pierre Daniël Chantepie de la Saussaye (1848-1920) -- 4. Chantepie de la Saussaye's Early View on the Science of Religion -- 5. The First Edition of Chantepie de la Saussaye's Manual -- 6. Chantepie de la Saussaye's Phenomenology -- V. Tiele on Religion -- 1. The Location of Religion -- 2. Outside-Inside -- 3. The Definition of Religion -- 4. The Manifestations and Constituents of Religion -- 5. The Essence, Origin, and Place of Religion -- 6. Conclusion -- VI. Religious Development: Tiele's Paradigm of the Science of Religion -- 1. The Concept of Development in Nineteenth-Century Thought -- 2. Basic Assumptions -- 3. Polemics: Doedes, Pfleiderer, and the Laws of Development -- 4. Development and Classification (Gifford Lectures) -- 5. Conclusion -- VII. Ethnology and Religion -- 1. Sciences of Religion -- 2. The Chair of Ethnology -- 3. Surveys of Colonial Texts -- 4. Missionaries and Museums -- 5. Sociology and Psychology -- 6. Conclusion -- VIII. Representation: The 1883 Colonial and Export Trade Exhibition in Amsterdam -- 1. World Exhibitions -- 2. The Design of the Amsterdam Exhibition -- 3. The Dutch Colonial Building: Discussing Cultural-Religious Identity -- 4. The Exhibition of Religious Artefacts -- 5. The Ethnographical Department.

6. Conferences -- 7. Heterotopias -- IX. Conclusion -- 1. Internationalization -- 2. Afterthoughts -- Bibliography -- Index.