Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature

Author: (American) William James
Translator: Tang You
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This is a work that discusses the role of religion from the perspective of personal experience. The author is a renowned American philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910). This book is based on the lectures he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. It consists of twenty lectures:
Lecture 1: On Religion and Neurology; Lecture 2: Explaining the Scope of This Book, Which Is Limited to the Religious Psychology of the Individual; Lecture 3: Discussing, Based on Many People's Experiences, the Existence of an Invisible Being (the Spiritual Realm); Lecture 4 and 5: On the Religious Experience of Mentally Healthy Individuals; Lecture 6 and 7: On the Religious Experience of Individuals with a Diseased "Soul"; Lecture 8: On How Such a Divided Personality Can Be Reunited; Lecture 9 and 10: On the Psychological Process of Non-believers Turning to Religion; Lecture 11, 12, and 13: On the Nature of Saints; Lecture 14 and 15: On the Value of Sanctity; Lecture 16 and 17: On Mystical Experiences; Lecture 18: On Religious Philosophy; Lecture 19: On Other Characteristics of Religion; Lecture 20: Conclusion.