| Chapter number | Reading status | Chapter | |
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1 | Dedication | 3 days ago | |
2 | Preface | 3 days ago | |
3 | The Varieties of Religious Experience | 3 days ago | |
4 | Lecture I: Religion and Neurology | 3 days ago | |
5 | Lecture II: Circumscription of the Topic | 3 days ago | |
6 | Lecture III: The Reality of the Unseen | 3 days ago | |
7 | Lectures IV and V: The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness | 3 days ago | |
8 | Lectures VI and VII: The Sick Soul | 3 days ago | |
9 | Lecture VIII: The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification | 3 days ago | |
10 | Lecture IX: Conversion | 3 days ago | |
11 | Lecture X: Conversion—Concluded | 3 days ago | |
12 | Lectures XI, XII and XIII: Saintliness | 3 days ago | |
13 | Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness | 3 days ago | |
14 | Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism | 3 days ago | |
15 | Lecture XVIII: Philosophy | 3 days ago | |
16 | Lecture XIX: Other Characteristics | 3 days ago | |
17 | Lecture XX: Conclusions | 3 days ago | |
18 | Postscript | 3 days ago |
The Varieties of Religious Experience is the edited form of William James’s Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which he delivered at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, between 1901 and 1902. James intended these lectures to more completely assess religion through a philosophical lens, but health problems forced him to curtail that goal, leaving the lectures largely a description of the many different ways people directly and immediately experience religion. These include ways like healthy-mindedness, saintliness, conversion, and mysticism.
This work is one of the foundational texts of the field of psychology of religion, which developed alongside modern approaches to experimental psychology dating to the 1890s. The Varieties of Religious Experience has been in print since its publication and has an established place in the western canon.
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