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The Varieties of Religious Experience

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"Philosopher and psychologist William James championed the value of individual experience with an eloquence and zeal that places him beside Emerson and Whitman as a classic exponent of American democratic culture. Regarded by theologian Reinhold Niebuhr as “a milestone in religious thought,” The Varieties of Religious Experience takes on “the very inner citadel of human life” by focusing on intensely religious individuals from different cultures and eras, in order to explore from within how ...
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Let me now pass from these abstracter statements to some more concrete accounts of experience with the mind cure religion. I have many answers from correspondents the only difficulty is to choose. The first two whom I shall quote are my personal friends. One of them, a woman, writing as follows, expresses well the feeling of continuity with the Inf…
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Note: Lectures 4 & 5 are combined in the text; this is approximately half of that combined chapter. “Philosopher and psychologist William James championed the value of individual experience with an eloquence and zeal that places him beside Emerson and Whitman as a classic exponent of American democratic culture. Regarded by theologian Reinhold Nieb…
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LECTURE III. THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN. Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto. This belief and this adjustment are the religious attitud…
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LECTURE II. CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC. Most books on the philosophy of religion try to begin with a precise definition of what its essence consists of. Some of these would‐be definitions may possibly come before us in later portions of this course, and I shall not be pedantic enough to enumerate any of them to you now. Meanwhile the very fact th…
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LECTURE I. RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY. It is with no small amount of trepidation that I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned audience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, as well as from the books, of European scholars, is very familiar. At my own University of Harvard, not a winter passes wi…
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