to our ordinary worldly way of judging, we find ourselves compelled to acknowledge religion's value and treat it with ... and you will remember that this was our definition — will prove to be both a helpless and a sacrificial attitude.
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.
Harvard philosopher William James’s compiled lectures on religion, considered to be among the most brilliant studies of mankind’s relation to the divine William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience brings together twenty lectures ...
Soon after its publication, the book entered the canon of psychology and philosophy, and has remained in print for over a century.
He doesn’t even make a case for atheism and the scientific approach. The book is in fact about human nature and how we experience religion at a psychological level. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher.
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The Varieties Of Religious Experience: A Study In Human Nature, written by legendary author William James, is widely considered to be one of the greatest classic texts of all time.
本书内容包括:宗教与神经病学,论题的范围,看不见的实在,健全心灵的宗教,病态的灵魂,分裂的自我及其统一过程.
In The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Dr. William James takes aim at the nature of religion from a scientific/academic point of view-something that had, until this landmark work, been sorely missed.
James's masterful treatise on the psychology of individual religious experience was originally composed for the prestigious Gifford Lectures delivered at Edinburgh University in 1901-1902.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
American pastoral counseling movement, and beyond its role in spawning the psychology of religion, it remains a book that empowers individuals and inspires readers with erudition, insight, and kindness. No...