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In this pioneering work of discourse analysis, Tomoko Masuzawa observes that the modern study of religion is peculiarly ambivalent toward the question of origin. Today's historians of religion maintain that they have abandoned speculative quests for the origin of religionat the same time, they allege that concepts of absolute beginnings are fundamental to religion itself. By renouncing the desire for origins that they claim religious peoples embrace, historians can vicariously participate in the forbidden quest--so it seems--without forfeiting the authority accruing from their objectivist position. This ambivalence of contemporary scholars echoes their ambivalence toward the ancestral "giants" of the discipline: Durkheim, Muller, and Freud. Masuzawa shows that the speculations of these three men on the origins of religion render the very notion of time and history problematic and contain powerful instruments for dislodging the position of "Western man" as the keeper of knowledge. Her critical rereading of these forefathers is framed by a compelling discussion of the postmodernist subversion of absolute origins in the works of Walter Benjamin and Rosalind Krauss and a comparison of Mircea Eliade and Nancy Munn's accounts of the Australian aboriginal "dreamtime." Engaging a number of critical issues within the burgeoning field of cultural studies, Masuzawa's book will have far-reaching implications not only for religious studies but throughout the human sciences.

Religion --- Historiography. --- Durkheim, Emile, --- Freud, Sigmund, --- Muller, F. Max, --- Muller, F. Max --- Godsdienst:--oorsprong; ontwikkeling; natuur --- 291.11 Godsdienst:--oorsprong; ontwikkeling; natuur --- 291.11 --- Historiography --- Müller, F. Max --- Müller, Friedrich Max, --- Myūrā, Makusu, --- Mi︠u︡ller, Maks, --- Max Müller, Friedrich, --- Mueller, Friedrich Max, --- Müller, Max, --- Myūreru, Makusu, --- Myurā, Makkusu, --- Mullar, Māks, --- مولر، ف. مكس --- Freud, Sigmund --- Tʻu-erh-kan, --- Di︠u︡rkem, E., --- Durkheim, David Émile, --- Di︠u︡rkgeĭm, Ėmilʹ, --- Dyurukēmu, Emīru, --- Durkheim, Emilio, --- Dirkem, Emil, --- Müller, Max F., --- Religion - Historiography.

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Friedrich Max Müller was one of the great scholars of the nineteenth century. His studies on the history and nature of religion were of great interest to both scholarly and more popular circles, and he was for a long time an influential figure in the cultural life of Victorian Britain. Therefore, a new study of his life and especially of his works needs no apology. The book gives a survey of Müller’s life and his main ideas on language, mythology, religion, Christianity and the missions, as well as his philosophy of religion. The last chapter deals with the legacy of Müller’s ideas in the twentieth century. The book is particularly useful for historians of religion interested in the origin of the science of religion and for historians specialized in the history of ideas.

Orientalists --- Oriental philology --- Religions --- Orientalistes --- Philologie orientale --- Biography --- Historiography --- History --- Biographies --- Historiographie --- Histoire --- Müller, F. Max --- Orient --- India --- Inde --- Religion. --- Religion --- Historiography. --- 929 MULLER, FRIEDRICH MAX --- 291 --- -Oriental philology --- -Orient --- Philology, Oriental --- Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--MULLER, FRIEDRICH MAX --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- Muller, F. Max --- 929 MULLER, FRIEDRICH MAX Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--MULLER, FRIEDRICH MAX --- Müller, Friedrich Maximillian --- Müller, Friedrich Max --- Müller-Oxford, Max --- Oxford, Max M. --- Muller, Max --- Müller, Friedrich M. --- Müller, F. M. Max --- Müller, Friedrich --- Müller, Max --- Müller, Max F. --- Müller, Frederick M. --- Mueller, Frederick Max --- Mwillŏ, Maksŭ --- Myūreru, Makusu --- Myurā, Makkusu --- Myurā, Makusu --- Mullar, Māks --- Müller, Max Friedrich --- Müllar, F. Max --- Muller, Fredrich Max --- Müller, F. Max --- Asianists --- Asia scholars --- Asian studies specialists --- Area specialists --- Middle East specialists --- Müller, Friedrich Max, --- Myūrā, Makusu, --- Mi︠u︡ller, Maks, --- Max Müller, Friedrich, --- Mueller, Friedrich Max, --- Müller, Max, --- Myūreru, Makusu, --- Myurā, Makkusu, --- Mullar, Māks, --- مولر، ف. مكس --- Müller, Max F., --- Orientalists - Germany - Biography. --- Oriental philology - Historiography. --- Orient - Historiography. --- Müller, F. Max - (Friedrich Max), - 1823-1900. --- India - Religion.