William James On Religion
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The Varieties Of Religious Experience
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Author : William James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
The Varieties Of Religious Experience written by William James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Conversion categories.
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' 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 one the individual and the divine.
The Varieties Of Religious Experience
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Author : William James
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-12-15
The Varieties Of Religious Experience written by William James and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-15 with Religion categories.
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James. It comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which were delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 1901 and 1902. The lectures concerned the nature of religion and the neglect of science in the academic study of religion.
William James On Religion
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Author : H. Rydenfelt
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-06-13
William James On Religion written by H. Rydenfelt and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-13 with Philosophy categories.
A team of international experts present a collection of articles on William James's philosophy of religion and its current relevance. A new look at his philosophy of religion is crucially important for the development of this field of inquiry today.
The Varieties Of Religious Experience
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Author : William James
language : en
Publisher: The Floating Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
The Varieties Of Religious Experience written by William James and has been published by The Floating Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Psychology categories.
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. "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."
Varieties Of Religious Experience
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Author : William James
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Varieties Of Religious Experience written by William James and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Religion categories.
William James' series of lectures on religion as it is is apprehended by, and affect, the individual.
Religion In The Philosophy Of William James
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Author : Julius Seelye Bixler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-07-01
Religion In The Philosophy Of William James written by Julius Seelye Bixler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-01 with Religion categories.
Submitting To Freedom
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Author : Bennett Ramsey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1993-01-14
Submitting To Freedom written by Bennett Ramsey and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-14 with Religion categories.
Ramsey presents a new analysis and interpretation of the religious views of the nineteenth-century American philosopher William James. He argues that James was primarily motivated by religious concerns in his writings and that this fact has been obscured by the artificial scholarly division of his "philosophy," "psychology," and "religion"--a symptom of the professionalization which James himself strenuously resisted in his own time. Ramsey believes that James is best understood in his historical context, as a representative of a society and culture struggling to come to terms with modernity. Much of James's religious work is a direct reflection of what has been called "the spiritual crisis of the Gilded Age," a crisis which Ramsey examines in illuminating detail. James's religious vision, in Ramsey's view, hinges on the recognition and acceptance of "contingency"--the knowledge that we are at the mercy of change and chance. With so little else to rely on, James believed, people must learn to submit freely and responsibly into one another's care. Ramsey reintroduces James's thought into the contemporary discussion, and puts forward the kind of religious alternative that James was pointing to in his work: not worship, but acquiescence in a world of mutual relations; not obedience to authority, but conversion to the freedom of responsibility.
Essays In Religion And Morality
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Author : William James
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1982
Essays In Religion And Morality written by William James and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Philosophy categories.
Essays in Religion and Morality brings together a dozen papers of varying length to these two themes so crucial to the life and thought of William James. Reflections on the two subjects permeate, first, James's presentation of his father's Literary Remains; second, his writings on human immortality and the relation between reason and faith; third, his two memorial pieces, one on Robert Gould Shaw and the other on Emerson; fourth, his consideration of the energies and powers of human life; and last, his writings on the possibilities of peace, especially as found in his famous essay "The Moral Equivalent of War." These speeches and essays were written over a period of twenty-four years. The fact that James did not collect and publish them himself in a single volume does not reflect on their intrinsic worth or on their importance in James's philosophical work, since they include some of the best known and most influential of his writings. All the essays, throughout their varied subject matter, are consistently and characteristically Jamesian in the freshness of their attack on the problems and failings of humankind and in their steady faith in human powers.
Varieties Of Religion Today
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Author : Charles Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2003-11-30
Varieties Of Religion Today written by Charles Taylor and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-30 with Philosophy categories.
A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers in the English-speaking world returns to the questions posed in James's masterpiece to clarify the circumstances and conditions of religion in our day. An elegant mix of the philosophy and sociology of religion, Charles Taylor's powerful book maintains a clear perspective on James's work in its historical and cultural contexts, while casting a new and revealing light upon the present. Lucid, readable, and dense with ideas that promise to transform current debates about religion and secularism, Varieties of Religion Today is much more than a revisiting of James's classic. Rather, it places James's analysis of religious experience and the dilemmas of doubt and belief in an unfamiliar but illuminating context, namely the social horizon in which questions of religion come to be presented to individuals in the first place. Taylor begins with questions about the way in which James conceives his subject, and shows how these questions arise out of different ways of understanding religion that confronted one another in James's time and continue to do so today. Evaluating James's treatment of the ethics of belief, he goes on to develop an innovative and provocative reading of the public and cultural conditions in which questions of belief or unbelief are perceived to be individual questions. What emerges is a remarkable and penetrating view of the relation between religion and social order and, ultimately, of what "religion" means.
William James S Hidden Religious Imagination
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Author : Jeremy Carrette
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-29
William James S Hidden Religious Imagination written by Jeremy Carrette and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-29 with Religion categories.
This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion.’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpretations, it uncovers a dynamic, imaginative, and critical use of the category of religion. This work argues that we can only fully understand James’s work on religion by returning to the ground of his metaphysics of relations and by incorporating literary and historical themes. Author Jeremy Carette develops original perspectives on the influence of James’s father and Calvinism, on the place of the body and sex in James, on the significance of George Eliot’s novels, and Herbert Spencer’s ‘unknown,’ revealing a social and political discourse of civil religion and republicanism and a poetic imagination at the heart of James understanding of religion. These diverse themes are brought together through a post-structural sensitivity and a recovery of the importance of the French philosopher Charles Renouvier to James’s work. This study pushes new boundaries in Jamesian scholarship by reading James with pluralism and from the French tradition. It will be a benchmark text in the reshaping of James and the nineteenth-century foundations of the modern study of ‘religion.’