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The Varieties of Religious Experience
Author | : William James |
Publsiher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781877527463 |
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Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."
The Neuroscience of Religious Experience
Author | : Patrick McNamara |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2009-11-06 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781139483568 |
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Technical advances in the life and medical sciences have revolutionised our understanding of the brain, while the emerging disciplines of social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience continue to reveal the connections of the higher cognitive functions and emotional states associated with religious experience to underlying brain states. At the same time, a host of developing theories in psychology and anthropology posit evolutionary explanations for the ubiquity and persistence of religious beliefs and the reports of religious experiences across human cultures, while gesturing toward physical bases for these behaviours. What is missing from this literature is a strong voice speaking to these behavioural and social scientists - as well as to the intellectually curious in the religious studies community - from the perspective of a brain scientist.
Religious Experience
Author | : Wayne Proudfoot |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1987-09-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520908505 |
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How is religious experience to be identified, described, analyzed and explained? Is it independent of concepts, beliefs, and practices? How can we account for its authority? Under what conditions might a person identify his or her experience as religious? Wayne Proudfoot shows that concepts, beliefs, and linguistic practices are presupposed by the rules governing this identification of an experience as religious. Some of these characteristics can be understood by attending to the conditions of experience, among which are beliefs about how experience is to be explained.
The Study of Religious Experience
Author | : Bettina E. Schmidt |
Publsiher | : Equinox Publishing (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Experience (Religion) |
ISBN | : 1781792569 |
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The renowned scientist Sir Alister Hardy approached the complex field of religious and spiritual experience in a similar disciplined and scientific manner in which he approached natural science. Asking people from the public to send him accounts of first-hand experiences with spiritual or religious powers, he established the Religious Experience Research Centre that has remained at the forefront of the academic study of religious experiences. This book will take his work forward and show how to study religious and spiritual experiences in the 21st century. The Study of Religious Experience aims to show how a range of disciplines - including anthropology, philosophy, religious studies, theology, biblical studies and history - approach the topic of religious experience, how this approach is applied and what contributions they make to the study of religious experience.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Author | : William James |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780191627323 |
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'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.' The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we define evil to ourselves, the difference between a healthy and a divided mind, the value of saintly behaviour, and what animates and characterizes the mental landscape of sudden conversion, James's masterpiece stands at a unique moment in the relationship between belief and culture. Faith in institutional religion and dogmatic theology was fading away, and the search for an authentic religion rooted in personality and subjectivity was a project conducted as an urgent necessity. With psychological insight, philosophical rigour, and a determination not to jump to the conclusion that in tracing religion's mental causes we necessarily diminish its truth or value, in the Varieties James wrote a truly foundational text for modern belief. Matthew Bradley's wide-ranging new edition examines the ideas that continue to fuel modern debates on atheism and faith. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Religious Experience and the Knowledge of God
Author | : Harold A. Netland |
Publsiher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781493434893 |
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For many Christians, personal experiences of God provide an important ground or justification for accepting the truth of the gospel. But we are sometimes mistaken about our experiences, and followers of other religions also provide impressive testimonies to support their religious beliefs. This book explores from a philosophical and theological perspective the viability of divine encounters as support for belief in God, arguing that some religious experiences can be accepted as genuine experiences of God and can provide evidence for Christian beliefs.
Thoughts on Religious Experience
Author | : Archibald Alexander |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : Conversion |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105041294302 |
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Religious Experience Reconsidered
Author | : Ann Taves |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2011-10-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780691140889 |
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Annotation Ann Taves addresses the subject of religious experience directly and the problems of reductionism and humanistic fears of the sciences indirectly and by example. The orientation of this book is practical more than philosophical.