Manuscript material has been used to recover the form in which the last two lectures were originally delivered. This book would never have been written had I not been honored with an appointment as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh.
These and other phenomena are vividly documented by individual case histories-recorded in autobiographies, diaries, confessions, and similar writings-drawn from the whole range of world literature.Ĭonstantly reprinted over the years, Varieties here appears for the first time in an edition prepared and annotated according to modern standards of textual scholarship. His broad topics include the religion of healthy-mindedness the sick soul the divided self and its unification conversion saintliness and mysticism. Its subtitle is “A Study in Human Nature,” and James defines his subject as the feelings, acts, and experiences of individuals in relation to what they consider to be divine. The book is not concerned with institutional religion. It ranks with its great predecessor, The Principles of Psychology, as one of William James’s masterworks. The Varieties of Religious Experience, first delivered as the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh, was published in 1902 and quickly established itself as a.
The Varieties of Religious Experience, first delivered as the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh, was published in 1902 and quickly established itself as a classic.
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