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The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 498 pages

The Varieties of Religious Experience is a collection of William James’s lectures on religion, written as descriptive essays. It explores personal religious feeling, conversion, mysticism, and saintliness through many concrete examples. It is worth listening to for its humane, psychological approach to how faith is actually lived and felt.

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Opening of the book

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С. Р. G.
IN FILIAL GRATITUDE AND LOVE

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Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Preface
  3. Postscript
  4. Endnotes

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