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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460537103321

Autore

James William

Titolo

The Varieties of Religious Experience [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newburyport, : Philosophical Library/Open Road, 2015

ISBN

1-4976-6568-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (760 p.)

Disciplina

291.4

291.42

Soggetti

Conversion

Philosophy and religion

Psychology, Religious

Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Preface.; Lecture I. Religion and Neurology.; Lecture II. Circumscription of the Topic.; Lecture III. The Reality of the Unseen.; Lectures IV and V. The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness.; Appendix; Lectures VI And VII. The Sick Soul.; Lecture VIII. The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification.; Lecture IX. Conversion.; Lecture X. Conversion-Concluded.; Lectures XI, XII, And XIII. Saintliness.; Lectures XIV And XV. The Value of Saintliness.; Lectures XVI And XVII. Mysticism.; Lecture XVIII. Philosophy.; Lecture XIX. Other Characteristics.

Lecture XX. Conclusions.Postscript.; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

Harvard philosopher William James's compiled lectures on religion, considered to be among the most brilliant studies of mankind's relation to the divine William James's Varieties of Religious Experience brings together twenty lectures on the nature of religion, delivered at the University of Edinburgh between 1901 and 1902. Renowned at the time for their practical and even-handed approach to the human experience of religion, the lectures form a sympathetic and analytical portrait not of the church, but of the personalized experiences of religious life. James examines the words of writers and p