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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature Hardcover - 2002 - 2nd Edition

by William James


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First published in 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experience initiated the psychological study of religion, paving the way for Freud and Jung as well as for clinical and paranormal branches of psychology. Written with humour and erudition, its theories of conversion, saintliness, ecstasy and mysticism continue to provoke controversy and inquiry. The book remains the best introduction to James's thought, demonstrating his characteristic insistence upon the importance of personal experience and his almost devotional respect for the mysteries of the human mind. Richly illustrated with personal accounts of belief and possession, intoxication and near-death experience, it is of central importance not simply to an understanding of religions, but to modern psychology and psychiatric medicine.
The Routledge Centenary Edition, entirely reset from the original 1902 edition, is prefaced with a specially commissioned foreword by the author's grandson, Micky James, and with new introductions from James specialists Eugene Taylor and Jeremy Carrette. It also includes a new and expanded index.

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  • Title The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
  • Author William James
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, Independence, Kentucky, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002-08
  • ISBN 9780415278096 / 0415278090
  • Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.72 x 5.68 x 1.25 in (22.15 x 14.43 x 3.18 cm)
  • Reading level 1360
  • Library of Congress subjects Religion, Conversion
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002026869
  • Dewey Decimal Code 204

About the author

William James (1842-1910), the brother of the novelist Henry James, was the founder of experimental psychology in America, and of the philosophy of pragmatism. The Varieties of Religious Experience is his best-known work.
Eugene Taylor of the Harvard Medical School is an internationally recognised expert on the life and work of William James, and is the author of William James on Consciousness beyond the Margin (Princeton, 1996) and William James on Exceptional Mental States (Scribner's, 1982).
Jeremy Carrette lectures on the psychology of religion at the University of Stirling, and is the author of Foucault and Religion (Routledge, 2000)
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