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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464591603321

Autore

James William

Titolo

The Varieties of Religious Experience [[electronic resource] ] : A Study in Human Nature

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, : The Floating Press, 1902

ISBN

1-77556-548-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (824 p.)

Disciplina

191

215

248.2

291.4

Soggetti

Conversion

Experience (Religion)

James, William, 1842-1910

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

Title; Contents; 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; 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

A Note on the Author of ""The Varieties of Religious Experience""Endnotes

Sommario/riassunto

Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when



studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. ""Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the...