The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East
Author : Charles Francis Horne
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 1917
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East
Author : Arie L. Molendijk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019108705X
Book Description
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 Müller (1823-1900), a world-famous German-born philologist, orientalist, and religious scholar. Müller 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.
The Sacred Books of China
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Confucianism
ISBN :
Book Description
The Satapatha-Brahmana, According to the Text of the Madhyandina School
Author : Julius Eggeling
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368635972
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1891.
100 Books You Must Read Before You Die - volume 1 [Emma; Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; Heart of Darkness;Frankenstein ...]
Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Oregan Publishing
Page : 25112 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Book Description
This book,contains now several HTML tables of contents The first table of contents lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC. This 1st volume of "100 Books You Must Read Before You Die" contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice, Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cather, Willa: My Ántonia Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote Chopin, Kate: The Awakening Cleland, John: Fanny Hill Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans Cummings, E. E: The Enormous Room Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders Dickens, Charles: Bleak House, Great Expectations Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo Eliot, George: Middlemarch Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View, Howards End Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls Gorky, Maxim: The Mother Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon's Mines Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D'Urbervilles Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady Lovecraf H.P: The Call of Cthulhu Shelley Mary: Frankenstein
Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings
Author : James W. Watts
Publisher : Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 9781781798843
Book Description
In this volume an international team of scholars address the theme of books as sacred beings from an impressively diverse range of primary material and perspectives. Yet, as a group, they meld to engage and advance previous research to solidify the conclusion that human cultures, especially religious groups, often ritualize bodies as sacred books and books as divine beings. The studies collected here not only increase the range of examples of this phenomenon. They also show the wide variety of ways in which the identity of books, bodies and beings gets both ritualized and theorized. The articles are bracketed by an introduction to the collection, and then by a concluding essay that extrapolates the theme of books as sacred beings on a more general level.
Sensing Sacred Texts
Author : James Washington Watts
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781781795767
Book Description
All the human senses become engaged in ritualizing sacred texts. These essays focus especially on ritualizing the iconic dimension of texts through the senses of sight, touch, kiss, and taste, both directly and in the imagination. Ritualized display of books engages the sense of sight very differently than does reading. Touching gets associated with reading scriptures, but touching also enables using the scripture as an amulet. Eating and consuming texts is a ubiquitous analogy for internalizing the contents of texts by reading and memorization. The idea of textual consumption reflects a widespread tendency to equate humans and written texts by their interiority and exteriority: books and people both have material bodies, yet both seem to contain immaterial ideas. Books thus physically incarnate cultural and religious values, doctrines, beliefs, and ideas. These essays bring theories of comparative scriptures and affect theory to bear on the topic as well as rich ethnographic descriptions of scriptural practices with Jewish, Sikh, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and modern art and historical accounts of changing practices with sacred texts in ancient and medieval China and Korea, and in ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures.
The Upanishads
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 1989
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East
Author : Arie L. Molendijk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191087068
Book Description
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 Müller (1823-1900), a world-famous German-born philologist, orientalist, and religious scholar. Müller 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.
The Sacred Books of the East
Author : F. Max Müller
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 336866154X
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1879.
