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020			_a9781497665682 (E-book)
060			_aWM 61.
100	1		_aJames, William
245	1	4	_aThe varieties of religious experience : _ba study in human nature _h[E-book]
260			_aNew York : _bPhilosophical Library/Open Road Integrated Media, _c2015
300			_a755p.
490			_aGifford Lectures
500			_aDigital reprint edition. Originally published 1902.
520			_aThis text presents a collection of the 20 lectures written by the author for the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion which were delivered at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, from 1901 to 1902. The lectures attempt to provide a summary of man's various religious characteristics and experiences. Major topics of discussion include: religion and neurology; the reality of the unseen; the religion of healthy-mindedness; the sick soul; the divided self, and the process of its unification; conversion; saintliness; mysticism; philosophy; and various other elements of religion. The author warns that, in his belief that a large acquaintance with particulars often makes us wiser than the possession of abstract formulas, however deep, these lectures have been loaded with concrete examples chosen from the extremer expressions of the religious temperament. However, these religious impulses are, in the end, combined with other principles of common sense which serve as correctives of exaggeration, and allow the individual reader to draw as moderate conclusions as he will.
650			_aReligion
650			_aSpirituality _97970
650			_aPhilosophy _97411
650			_aMysticism _97071
650			_aPsychology
650			_aIdentity
650			_aNeurology
856			_u#gotoholdings _yAccess resource
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