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The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James
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Description for The Varieties of Religious Experience
Paperback. Drawing on psychology, philosophy, and literature, William James's classic survey of religious belief gathers testimony from a huge range of diverse sources to construct a defence of the individual religious experience. It speaks powerfully to the modern debate on atheism and faith, in the most critically up-to-date edition available. Editor(s): Bradley, Matthew. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HRAB; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 326.
'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.' The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we define evil to ourselves, the difference between a healthy and a divided mind, the value of saintly behaviour, and what animates and characterizes the mental landscape of sudden conversion, James's masterpiece stands at a unique moment in the relationship between belief and culture. Faith in institutional religion and dogmatic theology was fading away, and the search for an ... Read more
'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.' The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we define evil to ourselves, the difference between a healthy and a divided mind, the value of saintly behaviour, and what animates and characterizes the mental landscape of sudden conversion, James's masterpiece stands at a unique moment in the relationship between belief and culture. Faith in institutional religion and dogmatic theology was fading away, and the search for an ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
331g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199691647
SKU
V9780199691647
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About William James
Matthew Bradley was postdoctoral research fellow for the University of Liverpool's AHRC funded project on the library of William Ewart Gladstone. He is the author of a number of articles and essays on literature and religion, including 'Religion and the Canon' for Oxford Handbook of Victorian Culture.
Reviews for The Varieties of Religious Experience
One of the seminal works of philosophy and theology.
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