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The Essential Max Müller

On Language, Mythology, and Religion

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  • © 2002

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. Introduction

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 1-23

  3. Semitic Monotheism (1860)

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 25-42

  4. Lecture on the Vedas, or the Sacred Books of the Brahmans (1865)

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 43-67

  5. Preface to Chips from a German Workshop (1867)

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 69-80

  6. Buddhist Nihilism (1869)

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 81-89

  7. On False Analogies in Comparative Theology (1870)

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 91-108

  8. The Science of Religion: Lecture One

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 109-121

  9. On the Migration of Fables

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 123-144

  10. On the Philosophy of Mythology

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 145-166

  11. The Perception of the Infinite

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 167-191

  12. Is Fetishism a Primitive Form of Religion?

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 193-229

  13. The Ideas of Infinity and Law

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 231-248

  14. Forgotten Bibles (1884)

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 249-264

  15. Physical Religion

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 265-278

  16. Religion, Myth, and Custom

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 279-291

  17. Discovery of the Soul in Man and Nature

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 293-306

  18. What Was Thought about the Departed

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 307-320

  19. The Divine and the Human

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 321-341

  20. The Parliament of Religions in Chicago, 1893 (1894)

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 343-352
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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.

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JON R. STONE is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the California University in Bakersfield. Stone is the author and editor of numerous books, including Latin for the Illiterati, Expecting Armageddon, On the Boundaries of American Evangelicalism (Palgrave), and The Craft of Religious Studies (Palgrave).

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