Forgotten Bibles: Friedrich Max Müller’s Edition of the Sacred Books of the East
| Autor: | Arie Molendijk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Literature and Literary Theory
media_common.quotation_subject 0507 social and economic geography Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900) The Sacred Books of the East (1879-1910) ‘big science’ textualization of religion method of comparison 050701 cultural studies textualization of religion Taxonomy (general) The Sacred Books of the East (1879-1910) 0601 history and archaeology Conversation method of comparison media_common Literature 060101 anthropology ‘big science’ business.industry Hebrew Philosophy 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts language.human_language Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900) Scholarship language Orientalism business Classics |
| Zdroj: | Publications of the English Goethe Society, 85(2-3), 159-169. Taylor & Francis Group |
| ISSN: | 1749-6284 0959-3683 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09593683.2016.1224507 |
| Popis: | Max Muller’s edition of the Sacred Books of the East (1879–1910) is doubtless one of the most ambitious and daring editorial projects of late Victorian scholarship. This essay examines the claim that these translations ratified a whole taxonomy of concepts and procedures that would characterize the academic study of religion well into the twentieth century. I argue that it is more appropriate to see the edition as a monument of the emerging comparative study of the religious Orient. The series textualized and religionized (if this word is permitted) the East. The edition also promoted the idea that religious oriental texts function as scriptures in ways analogous to the Hebrew and Christian Bible. This type of orientalism was no one-way street, but the conditions of the conversation were determined by the discursivity of a textualized understanding of religion. |
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