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Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands

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Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands

By: Arie L. Molendijk

Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Netherlands examines how Dutch Protestant thinkers and theologicans met the challenges of the rapidly modernizing world around them. It shows that the nineteenth-century saw theology fundamentally transformed and reinvented in a variety of ways. Enlightenment values were fiercely attacked by orthodox Pietists but embraced by 'modern' theologians. Positions were not fixed and theologians had to work hard to maintain their intellectual integrity. Jewish Isaac da Costa converted to Christianity and fulminated against the Zeitgeist. Allard Pierson, who in his youth had been under the spell of Da Costa, resigned from his ministry and adopted an 'agnostic' stance. Abraham Kuyper modernized theology and politics, by laying the foundations of 'pillarization' (the segmented social structures based on differences in religion and worldview) of Dutch society. Abraham Kuenen revolutionized the study of the Old Testament, and Protestant theologians made ground-breaking contributions to the emerging science of religion. This book used in-depth studies of a small number of significant and influential Protestant thinkers to analyse how they addressed specific modern transformation processes such as political modernization, the pluralization of world views, and the emergence of critical historical scholarship. It also considers the significant Dutch contribution to the historical-critical study of the Bible, and the emergence of the modern comparative study of religion.

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Oxford University Press

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0192652885

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Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East

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Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East

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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 Muller (1823-1900), and published by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910.

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Oxford University Press

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0198784236

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The Emergence of the Science of Religion in the Netherlands

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The Emergence of the Science of Religion in the Netherlands

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This book explores the emergence of the science of religion in the Netherlands in the second half of the nineteenth century. The emphasis is on processes of institutionalization, professionalization, and internationalization on the one hand, and on contemporary discussions about method and conceptualization on the other.

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9047407334

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9789047407331

Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East

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Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East

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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.

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0191087068

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Book's by Arie L. Molendijk

Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands

Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands

Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East

Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East

The Emergence of the Science of Religion in the Netherlands

The Emergence of the Science of Religion in the Netherlands

Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East

Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East

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