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Varieties of Religious Experience : A Study in Human Nature.
Title:
Varieties of Religious Experience : A Study in Human Nature.
Author:
James, William.
ISBN:
9781775565482
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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...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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