The varieties of religious experience : a study in human nature / William James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, William, 1842-1910, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experience (Religion).

Psychology, Religious.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (760 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., [1982]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781497665682

149766568X

OCLC:

903317315