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James, William

 
9780140390346: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Penguin American Library)
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ISBN 10: 0140390340 ISBN 13: 9780140390346
Editorial: Penguin Publishing Group, 1982

Sinopsis

Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious experiences, rather than the precepts of organized religions, were the backbone of the world's religious life. His discussions of conversion, repentance, mysticism and saintliness, and his observations on actual, personal religious experiences - all support this thesis. In his introduction, Martin E. Marty discusses how James's pluralistic view of religion led to his remarkable tolerance of extreme forms of religious behaviour, his challenging, highly original theories, and his welcome lack of pretension in all of his observations on the individual and the divine.

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Acerca del autor

Older brother of novelist Henry James, William James (1842-1910) was a philosopher, psychologist, physiologist, and professor at Harvard. James has influenced such twentieth-century thinkers as Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermans, Michel Foucault, and Julia Kristeva.

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'The Varieties of Religious Experience is certainly the most notable of all books in the field of the psychology of religion and probably destined to be the most influential one written on religion in the twentieth century.'- Walter Houston Clark in Psychology Today

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Editorial
Penguin Publishing Group
Año de publicación
1982
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0140390340
ISBN 13 
9780140390346
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
576
Editor
Marty Martin E.
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