The Varieties of Religious Experience

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Signet Classic, 2003 - Philosophy - 452 pages
One of America's greatest philosophers, William James was "original, exciting, and cosmopolitan...a major philosophical planet who...drew all...other pragmatic luminaries into his powerful field" (Morton Hunt). In this still timely classic, James examines the range of religious phenomena: conversion, repentance, mysticism, saintliness, the hopes of reward and the fears of punishment.

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About the author (2003)

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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TitleThe Varieties of Religious Experience
AuthorWilliam James
ContributorPeter Gomes
Editionreprint
PublisherSignet Classic, 2003
ISBN0451528786, 9780451528780
Length452 pages
Subjects › 

Philosophy / General
Religion / General
Religion / Psychology of Religion
Religion / Spirituality
  
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