William James and a Science of Religions
Subtitle: Reexperiencing  <I>The Varieties of Religious Experience</I> (Columbia Series in Science and Religion)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780231132046
Subjects: Philosophy of religion; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Religion; Religion & Science; Sociology of Religion; Religion / Philosophy; General; 1842-1910; Experience (Religion); James, William,; Psychology, Religious; Varieties of religious experie
First sentence: When William James died in 1910, his lifelong friend, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., remarked that when James dealt with religion, he had tried "to turn the lights down low so as to give miracle a chance."