breaking free from religion, a scholar pursues the truth through self-analysis and the scientific observation of the universe. As such, Goethe, says Wilson, was the first modern man, but no other ...

Max Mueller (1823-1900), a German philologist and Indologist who taught at the University of Oxford, remains a crucial figure in the development of comparative religion as an academic field. He is ...

In contrast to many countries where the majority of citizens belong to Islam, Muslims in Germany are part of a religious minority in the midst of a secular society. The Goethe-Institut Indonesien ...