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 Muller (1823-1900), a world-famous German-born philologist,
orientalist, and religious scholar. Muller 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.
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