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- English
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About this book
'Is life worth living? Yes, a thousand times yes when the world still holds such spirits as Professor James.' - Gertrude Stein
A classic of American thought, William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience is an extraordinary study of human spirituality in all its forms and one of the most profound works of Psychology ever written. When the book was published in 1902 the study of the human mind was a thrillingly new field of scientific enquiry: James was one of the first to seriously examine the psychology of religious faith and where he led, both Jung and Freud would follow. Yet for all its historical significance, this is a book full of humanity, wit and some deeply personal stories of revelation, religious devotion and mystical experience.
The Routledge Classics edition of The Varieties of Religious Experience makes available in paperback for the first time the Centenary Edition published by Routledge in 2002 with new introductions on the historical and contemporary significance of James' work and a foreword by the author's grandson, Micky James.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Editors' Preface
- Introduction: Section One
- Introduction: Section Two
- 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
- Lecture 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
- Lectures XVIII Philosophy
- Lecture XIX Other Characteristics
- Lecture XX Conclusions
- Postscript
- Index