Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East
Title | Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East PDF eBook |
Author | Arie L. Molendijk |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 247 |
Release | 2016-07-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 019108705X |
This volume offers a critical analysis of one the most ambitious editorial projects of late Victorian Britain: the edition of the fifty substantial volumes of the Sacred Books of the East (1879-1910). The series was edited and conceptualized by Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900), a world-famous German-born philologist, orientalist, and religious scholar. Müller and his influential Oxford colleagues secured financial support from the India Office of the British Empire and from Oxford University Press. Arie L. Molendijk documents how the series has become a landmark in the development of the humanities-especially the study of religion and language-in the second half of the nineteenth century. The edition also contributed significantly to the Western perception of the 'religious' or even 'mystic' East, which was textually represented in English translations. The series was a token of the rise of 'big science' and textualized the East, by selecting their 'sacred books' and bringing them under the power of western scholarship.
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East
Title | The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Francis Horne |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 432 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
The Sacred Books of China
Title | The Sacred Books of China PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 538 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Confucianism |
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The Sacred Books of the East: The Laws of Manu
Title | The Sacred Books of the East: The Laws of Manu PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 772 |
Release | 1886 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
The Texts of Taoism
Title | The Texts of Taoism PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 790 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Satapatha-Brahmana, According to the Text of the Madhyandina School
Title | The Satapatha-Brahmana, According to the Text of the Madhyandina School PDF eBook |
Author | Julius Eggeling |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 466 |
Release | 2023-12-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368635972 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1891.
The Sacred Books of the East: Buddhist Suttas
Title | The Sacred Books of the East: Buddhist Suttas PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 426 |
Release | 1881 |
Genre | English literature |
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