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The Settlement of Scientific Controversies The Settlement of Scientific Controversies
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Boundary Work in the Formation of Disciplines Boundary Work in the Formation of Disciplines
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The Extraordinary Career of Friedrich Max Müller The Extraordinary Career of Friedrich Max Müller
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The Settlement of the Term Controversy: The Collaboration of Max Müller and Legge The Settlement of the Term Controversy: The Collaboration of Max Müller and Legge
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The Birth of the Sacred Books of the East The Birth of the Sacred Books of the East
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“The White Elephant”: Oxford University Press and the Sacred Books of the East “The White Elephant”: Oxford University Press and the Sacred Books of the East
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“For the Internationally Religious”: The Emergence of a New Discipline “For the Internationally Religious”: The Emergence of a New Discipline
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Institutionalizing Pluralism: Confucianism and Comparative Religion Institutionalizing Pluralism: Confucianism and Comparative Religion
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The Dissenting Academies, the Gifford Lectures, and the Hibbert Trust: Allies for a New Understanding of Religion The Dissenting Academies, the Gifford Lectures, and the Hibbert Trust: Allies for a New Understanding of Religion
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The Establishment of a New Discipline in Great Britain and Beyond The Establishment of a New Discipline in Great Britain and Beyond
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The Full Disciplinarity of Comparative Religion The Full Disciplinarity of Comparative Religion
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2 The Making of a World Religion: Confucianism and the Emergence of Comparative Religion as a Discipline in the Nineteenth Century
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Published:April 2013
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This chapter analyzes the connection between the making of Confucianism as a religion and the emergence of comparative religion as a discipline, based primarily on extensive archival research conducted in the Max Müller Archive at Bodleian Library in Oxford, the British India Office Archive at the British Library, and the Archive at the Oxford University Press. It shows that by allying himself with Max Müller and the emerging discipline, professor James Legge moved the controversy over the religious nature of Confucianism from the small circle of missionaries in China to a new arena. Through innovative boundary work, Müller and Legge helped establish a legitimate intellectual field to promote the discourse of world religions of which Confucianism was an essential part.
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