The varieties of religious experience
Subtitle: a study in human nature.
Edition: Enlarged ed., with appendices and introd. by Joseph Ratner.
Series: Gifford lectures on natural religion,; 1901-02
Publisher: University Books
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New Hyde Park, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 626
Subjects: Religion.; Philosophy and religion.; Conversion.; Psychology, Religious.
Description: The renowned psychologist and philosopher argues that individual religious experiences, rather than the tenets of organized religions, form the backbone of religious life; discussing conversion, repentance, mysticism, and hope of reward and fears of punishment in the hereafter, as well as his observations on the religious experiences of such diverse thinkers as Voltaire, Emerson, and Luther.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.