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Author:  Arie L. Molendijk 

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.

Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East 1st Table of contents:

1. The Right Honourable Max Müller
Entitled
Sources
Early Life
The Edition of the Rig-Veda
Career in Oxford, 1850–74
Personal Life in Oxford
Pride and Prejudice
Collected Works and Areas of Research
Most Controversial Theories
In Disrepute
Meeting Criticism
2. The Making of a Series
Inception
Plans to Leave Oxford
Inspiration
The Contract
The Prospectus
Getting the Series off the Ground
Dedication and Motto
The Preface to the Series
Continuation of the Series
Selection
Difficult to Translate
Translators and Collaborators
German and British Contributors
Contributors Concluded
The Index
Aftermath
3. Concepts and Ideas
Texts, Sacred Books, and Bibles
Translating
‘Not Only Unmeaning, Artificial, and Silly, but Even Hideous and Repellent’
East and West
‘Aryan’
Origins, ‘Walking Manuscripts’, and Orientalism With Kid Gloves
4. Methods
Historical Versus Theoretical: a Grand Distinction
Comparison
Forms of Comparison
Areas of Comparison
Comparison as a Human Calling
Classification
Conclusion
5. Religion of Humanity
Max Müller’s Religion
Oxford
A Missionary Perspective
View of Religion
The Future Religion of Humanity
6. Intellectual Impact
Big Science and Grand Projects
The Sacred Books of the East: a Specimen of Big Science?
Textualization of Religion
World Religions
The Comparative Way
Power, Texts, and Language—Translations for Whom?
Conclusion
Afterthoughts
Ancient and Modern and the Need for Interpretation
Time and Authority
The Textualization of Religion
Bibliography

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