William James and the Varieties of Religious Experience: A Centenary Celebration
by Carrette, JeremyPub. Date: 2004-11-05
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
This new companion to William James The Varieties of Religious Experience offers contemporary responses to James's seminal book from key international experts.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : the centenary and the varieties of interpretation | p. 1 |
| Metaphysics and consciousness in James's Varieties : a centenary lecture | p. 11 |
| Psychologies as ontology-making practices : William James and the pluralities of psychological experience | p. 27 |
| Listening to James a century later : the Varieties as a resource for renewing the psychology of religion | p. 47 |
| The Varieties, the principles and the psychology of religion : unremitting inspiration from a different source | p. 58 |
| Passionate belief : William James, emotion and religious experience | p. 79 |
| For an engaged reading : William James and the varieties of postmodern religious experience | p. 97 |
| Asian religions and mysticism : the legacy of William James in the study of religions | p. 106 |
| James and Freud on mysticism | p. 124 |
| Mystical assessments : Jamesian reflections on spiritual judgments | p. 133 |
| Varieties of experience and pluralities of perspective | p. 149 |
| The ecumenicalism of William James | p. 161 |
| James on truth (again) | p. 172 |
| Pragmatism and religious belief in William James | p. 183 |
| William James as a religious realist | p. 191 |
| James's non-rationality and its religious extremum in the light of the concept of pure experience | p. 203 |
| James and the question of truth : a response to Hilary Putnam | p. 221 |
| Conclusion : experience and the value of religion - overview and analysis | p. 235 |
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