Frederik (Freek) Lambertus Bakker (Baarn, June 17, 1951) is a Dutch dominee, theologian, Indonesian and Surinamist. biography

In November 1951, he traveled to Java with his parents in Indonesia. He first lived in Magelang, since 1958 in Yogyakarta. In 1963, when he returned to the Netherlands with his parents, he visited a high school in Amsterdam. In 1970, he began his studies at The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He married Hanneke Atsma in 1976. Together they received three children, including sports journalist Rypke Bakker.

In 1977 he graduated from a doctrine script entitled The Road to God in Bali. He deals with the philosophy of some ancient texts from Bali's religion, which he then compares with the content of modern publications from this religion. In 1993, he graduated from the Free University on a thesis entitled The Struggle of the Hindu Balinese Intellectuals. Developments in Modern Hindu Thinking in Independent Indonesia. The book is about the views of four Balinese Hindu memorials and the ideas laid down in publications of the Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia, the country's leading Hindu organization. In 1999, he published a second book, now in Dutch, about Hinduism in Suriname. During this period, he also made various trips to India, Indonesia and Suriname.

From 1977 to 2003 he was a minister in various municipalities of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. In 2003, he was appointed as a researcher at the Center IIMO, an institute of intercultural theology and interdisciplinary dialogue at Utrecht University. He also became Associate Professor of Intercultural Theology and Indian Religions at the Faculty of Theology of this university.

He is also chairman of the Hindus-Christian Contact Group of the Council of Churches in the Netherlands and editor of the Oso magazine. In addition to Caribbean Hinduism, research has focused on the images of important religious figures in the film in recent years.

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