A General Index to the Names and Subject-matter of the Sacred Books of the East
A General Index to the Names and Subject-matter of the Sacred Books of the East

Author: F. Max Müller

Publisher: Sacred Books of the East

Published:

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781646798285

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The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. Translated into English by authorities in their respective fields, these sacred texts have been edited by F. Max Muller and have profoundly influenced civilization. A General Index-The Sacred Books of the East (1910) is volume L of The Sacred Books of the East, a series available from Cosimo Classics, and was compiled by M. Winternitz and contains an index of the names and subject matter found in the previous forty-nine volumes.

Sacred Books of the East
Sacred Books of the East

Author: F. Max Muller

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001-10-26

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 9780700706006

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This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The works have been translated by leading authorities in their field.

Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East
Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East

Author: Arie L. Molendijk

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-07-21

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 019108705X

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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.