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William James and "The varieties of religious experience" : a centenary celebration / edited by Jeremy Carrette.

Contributor(s): Carrette, Jeremy R
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005Description: xvi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415333458 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): James, William, 1842-1910. Varieties of religious experience | Psychology, Religious | Philosophy and religion | Religion -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 204/.2 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Section I: James and the history of psychology -- Metaphysics and consciousness in James's varieties : a centenary lecture / Eugene Taylor -- Psychologies as ontology-making practices : William James and the pluralities of psychological experience / Sonu Shamdasani -- Section II: James, psychology and religion -- Listening to James a century later : the varieties as a resource for renewing the psychology of religion / David Wulff -- The varieties, the principles and psychology of religion : unremitting inspiration from a different source / Jacob A. Belzen -- Passionate belief : William James, emotion and religious experience / Jeremy Carrette -- Section III: James and mysticism -- For an engaged reading : William James and the varieties of postmodern religious experience / Grace Jantzen -- Asian religions and mysticism : the legacy of William James in the history of religions / Richard King -- James and Freud on mysticism / Robert Segal -- Mystical assessments : Jamesian reflections on spiritual judgements / G. William Barnard -- Section IV: James and philosophy -- Varieties of experience and pluralities of perspectives / Ruth Anna Putnam -- The ecumenicalism of William James / Richard Gale -- James on truth (again) / Hilary Putnam -- Pragmatism and religious belief in William James / Graham Bird -- William James as a religious realist / T.L.S. Sprigge -- James' rationality and its religious extremum in the light of the concept of pure experience / Michel Weber -- James and the question of truth : a response to Hilary Putnam / David C. Lamberth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I: James and the history of psychology -- Metaphysics and consciousness in James's varieties : a centenary lecture / Eugene Taylor -- Psychologies as ontology-making practices : William James and the pluralities of psychological experience / Sonu Shamdasani -- Section II: James, psychology and religion -- Listening to James a century later : the varieties as a resource for renewing the psychology of religion / David Wulff -- The varieties, the principles and psychology of religion : unremitting inspiration from a different source / Jacob A. Belzen -- Passionate belief : William James, emotion and religious experience / Jeremy Carrette -- Section III: James and mysticism -- For an engaged reading : William James and the varieties of postmodern religious experience / Grace Jantzen -- Asian religions and mysticism : the legacy of William James in the history of religions / Richard King -- James and Freud on mysticism / Robert Segal -- Mystical assessments : Jamesian reflections on spiritual judgements / G. William Barnard -- Section IV: James and philosophy -- Varieties of experience and pluralities of perspectives / Ruth Anna Putnam -- The ecumenicalism of William James / Richard Gale -- James on truth (again) / Hilary Putnam -- Pragmatism and religious belief in William James / Graham Bird -- William James as a religious realist / T.L.S. Sprigge -- James' rationality and its religious extremum in the light of the concept of pure experience / Michel Weber -- James and the question of truth : a response to Hilary Putnam / David C. Lamberth.

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