The Varieties of Religious Experience
Subtitle: Centenary Essays
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Published: October 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780907845263
Subjects: Christian religious experience; Philosophy & theory of psychology; Philosophy of religion; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Comparative Religion; Psychology of Religion; Conversion; General Interest/Other Religions/Comparative Religion; Philosophy and religion; Religion / Comparative Religion; Religion / World Religions; Religion/Psychology of Religion; Experience (Religion); Psychology, Religious
First sentence: William James is best known for his Pragmatism (1907), his Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), and his Principles of Psychology (1890), but little is known about his excursions into depth psychology, meaning a dynamic psychology of inner experience, despite the fact that he claimed in The Varieties that the subconscious was the primary avenue through which ultimately transforming mystical experiences occur.