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Friedrich Max Muller and the Sacred Books of the East
Arie L. Molendijk
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Description for Friedrich Max Muller and the Sacred Books of the East
hardcover. A study of The Sacred Books of the East, a fifty-volume series of translations of Asian religious writings edited by the German-born philologist and scholar of religions, Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900), and published by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; HRAB; HRCM; HRKN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198784234
SKU
V9780198784234
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About Arie L. Molendijk
Arie L. Molendijk is Professor of History of Christianity and Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He studied Theology, Philosophy, and Drama at the University of Leiden. Professor Molendijk has extensively published in the history of ideas, in particular Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Theology, Religious studies, and Philosophy.
Reviews for Friedrich Max Muller and the Sacred Books of the East
This is an important and eminently readable book.
Lukas Pokorny, University of Vienna, Religious Studies Review
This book is primarily useful in providing some of the background that informed the making of the SBE series.
Reading Religion
[T]here are real rewards to be found in [Molendijk's book]...Above all, it is good to see an entire volume ... Read more
Lukas Pokorny, University of Vienna, Religious Studies Review
This book is primarily useful in providing some of the background that informed the making of the SBE series.
Reading Religion
[T]here are real rewards to be found in [Molendijk's book]...Above all, it is good to see an entire volume ... Read more