Varieties of Religious Experience

A Study In Human Nature

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781877527463
• Topic: Psicología
• Subtopic: Historia y teoría en psicología

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. "e;Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."e;

Table of 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