Was Friedrich Max Müller a Vedāntist? This paper considers the significance for our view of Müller’s scholarly and personal beliefs of his sympathetic and sustained engagement with the Hindu philosophical tradition of Vedānta. Müller’s interest in the Upanishads as a student in the 1840s was rekindled in the last few decades of his life as he adjusted his personal and professional understanding of religion in response to a perceived crisis of religious doubt in late Victorian society. He looked to Vedānta as a possible source of inspiration for the adjustments he believed Christianity would have to make to survive in the modern world and to return at the same time to its ‘pure’ origins.

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“吠陀主义者的吠陀主义者”？弗里德里希·马克斯·穆勒的宗教身份问题

弗里德里希·马克斯·穆勒（Friedrich MaxMüller）是吠陀主义者吗？本文认为，对于我们对穆勒的学术和个人信仰的看法，穆勒具有同情心并持续参与韦达塔的印度哲学传统，对于我们的观点具有重要意义。穆勒（Müller）在人生的最后几十年重新燃起了对1840年代学生对奥义书的兴趣，因为他调整了对宗教的个人和专业知识，以响应维多利亚时代晚期社会对宗教怀疑的危机。他认为韦达（Vedānta）是可能的灵感来源，他认为基督教必须做出调整才能在现代世界中生存并同时回到其“纯粹”起源。