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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature Paperback - 1982

by William James; Martin E. Marty (Editor); Introduction by Martin E. Marty


Summary

This collection defining documents from one of America's most influential thinkers presents Pragmatism in its entirety, James's seminal set of lectures in which he argues in his witty and limpid style for the "reasonableness of ordinary experience." Also gathered here are selections from James's other formative works, including The Meaning of Truth, Psychology, The Will to Believe, and Talks to Teachers on Psychology.

From the publisher

Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious experiences, rather than the precepts of organized religions, were the backbone of the world's religious life. His discussions of conversion, repentance, mysticism and saintliness, and his observations on actual, personal religious experiences - all support this thesis. In his introduction, Martin E. Marty discusses how James's pluralistic view of religion led to his remarkable tolerance of extreme forms of religious behaviour, his challenging, highly original theories, and his welcome lack of pretension in all of his observations on the individual and the divine.

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'The Varieties of Religious Experience is certainly the most notable of all books in the field of the psychology of religion and probably destined to be the most influential one written on religion in the twentieth century.'- Walter Houston Clark in Psychology Today

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  • Title The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
  • Author William James; Martin E. Marty (Editor); Introduction by Martin E. Marty
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, New York
  • Date 1982-12-16
  • ISBN 9780140390346 / 0140390340
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5 x 1.1 in (19.81 x 12.70 x 2.79 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1360
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Theometrics: Secular
    • Topical: New Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Religion, Conversion
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 82015068
  • Dewey Decimal Code 204.2

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Citations

  • Newsweek, 12/01/2008, Page 12

About the author

Older brother of novelist Henry James, William James (1842-1910) was a philosopher, psychologist, physiologist, and professor at Harvard. James has influenced such twentieth-century thinkers as Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermans, Michel Foucault, and Julia Kristeva.
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