TY - BOOK ID - 66225987 TI - Theosophy or psychological religion : the Gifford lectures delivered before the University of Glasgow in 1892 PY - 2011 SN - 0511978383 1108073263 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Religions. KW - Religion KW - Psychology, Religious. KW - Theism. KW - Philosophy KW - Atheism KW - God KW - Misotheism KW - Panentheism KW - Psychology of religion KW - Religions KW - Religious psychology KW - Psychology and religion KW - Comparative religion KW - Denominations, Religious KW - Religion, Comparative KW - Religions, Comparative KW - Religious denominations KW - World religions KW - Civilization KW - Gods KW - Philosophy. KW - Psychological aspects KW - Psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66225987 AB - German-born Sanskritist and philologist Max Müller (1823-1900) was a pioneer in the field of comparative mythology and religion. Settling in England in 1846, during his distinguished career he served as Taylorian professor of modern European languages, curator of the Bodleian Library and Oxford's first professor of comparative philology. The content of this book was originally presented as part of a lecture series delivered at the University of Glasgow in 1893, where Müller was serving as the Gifford Lecturer. Müller's aim in presenting these lectures was to show that the only way of properly understanding religious phenomena was through utilising historical method. The three volumes preceding this one focused on 'physical religion', 'natural religion' and 'anthropological religion'; this fourth book, on theosophy, contains fifteen lectures, the subject matter ranging from Alexandrian Christianity and the eschatology of Plato to the journey of the soul after death. ER -