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The essential Max Müller : on language, mythology, and religion / F. Max Müller; edited by Jon R. Stone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Religious aspects.
- Language and languages.
- Religion.
- Mythology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XX, 367 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York State : Palgrave MacMillan, 2002.
- Summary:
- Max Müller is often referred to as the 'father of Religious Studies', having himself coined the term 'science of religion' (or religionswissenschaft) in 1873. It was he who encouraged the comparative study of myth and ritual, and it was he who introduced the oft-quoted dictum: 'He who knows one [religion], knows none'. Though a German-born and German-educated philologist, he spent the greater part of his career at Oxford, becoming one of the most famous of the Victorian arm-chair scholars. Müller wrote extensively on Indian philosophy and Vedic religion, translated major sections of the Vedas, the Upanisads, and all of the Dhammapada, yet never visited India. To be sure, his work bears the stamp of late Nineteenth-Century sensibilities, but as artifacts of Victorian era scholarship, Müller's essays are helpful in reconstructing and comprehending the intellectual concerns of this highly enlightened though highly imperialistic age.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137084507
- 1137084502
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