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The essential Max Müller : on language, mythology, and religion /

Max Muller 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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Stone, Jon R., 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave MacMillan, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Semitic monotheism (1860)
  • 2. Lecture on the Vedas, or the sacred books of the Brahmans (1865)
  • 3. Preface to "Chips from a German Workshop" (1867)
  • 4. Buddhist nihilism (1869)
  • 5. On false analogies in comparative theology (1870)
  • 6. The science of religion : lecture one
  • 7. On the migration of fables" (1870)
  • 8. On the philosophy of mythology (1871)
  • 9. The perception of the infinite (1878)
  • 10. Is fetishism a primitive form of religion? (1878)
  • 11. The ideas of infinity and law (1878)
  • 12. Forgotten Bibles (1884)
  • 13. Physical religion (1890)
  • 14. Religion, myth, and custom (1890)
  • 15. Discovery of the soul in man and nature (1891)
  • 16. What was thought about the departed (1891)
  • 17. The divine and the human (1891)
  • 18. The parliament of religions in Chicago, 1893 (1894)
  • 19. Science of religion : a retrospect (1898)
  • Index.