A study of The Sacred Books of the East, a fifty-volume series of translations of Asian religious writings edited by the German-born philologist and scholar of religions, Friedrich Max M¿ller (1823-1900), and published by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910.

• Introduction


• 1: The Right Honourable Max Müller


• 2: The Making of a Series


• 3: Concepts and Ideas


• 4: Methods


• 5: Religion of Humanity


• 6: Intellectual Impact


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

Arie L. Molendijk is Professor of History of Christianity and Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He studied Theology, Philosophy, and Drama at the University of Leiden. Professor Molendijk has extensively published in the history of ideas, in particular Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Theology, Religious studies, and Philosophy.