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(1823–1900) Linguist, translator, editor,
and ardent student of comparative
religion and mythology. Mueller was
an important figure in nineteenthcentury intellectual history. His primary
contribution was introducing Indian
ideas to Western audiences by translating primary texts into the Sacred Books
of the East series. His work allowed
Hindu and other Asian religious
traditions to show the sophisticated
thought often concealed by popular
religious practice. Mueller began
developing a “science of religion”—
a field of knowledge that could be
pursued as any other. As a professor
at Oxford, he helped to change scholarly
views on Hinduism and other Asian
religions, moving Western minds from
simply dismissing them as polytheistic
“idolatry” to taking them seriously
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as coherent and compelling pictures of
the world.