Varieties of Religious Experience : A Study in Human Nature.
by
 
James, William.

Title
Varieties of Religious Experience : A Study in Human Nature.

Author
James, William.

ISBN
9781775565482

Personal Author
James, William.

Physical Description
1 online resource (824 pages)

Contents
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.

Abstract
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...

Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term
Conversion.
 
Philosophy and religion.
 
Psychology.
 
Religion.

Genre
Electronic books.

Electronic Access
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LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberStatus
IYTE LibraryE-Book1200121-1001BR110 -- .J364 1902 EBEbrary E-Books