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The Varieties of Religious Experience

A work by William James, first published in 1902

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  • What korrents draws from it

    Explaining religious experience away as a symptom of bodily disorder is a too simple-minded 'medical materialism', Religion, as a working definition, means individuals' solitary feelings, acts and experiences in relation to whatever they consider divine, In the broadest terms, religious life may be described as belief in an unseen order and in adjusting ourselves to it as our supreme good …

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First published
19022
Claims on korrents
171

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Explaining religious experience away as a symptom of bodily disorder is a too simple-minded 'medical materialism' (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Religion, as a working definition, means individuals' solitary feelings, acts and experiences in relation to whatever they consider divine (opens korrents.com)1

  3. In the broadest terms, religious life may be described as belief in an unseen order and in adjusting ourselves to it as our supreme good (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Healthy-minded optimism is inadequate as a philosophy, because the evil it ignores is part of reality and may be the key to life's meaning (opens korrents.com)1

  5. The most complete religions seem to be those that most fully develop their pessimistic elements, such as Buddhism and Christianity (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Conversion is the process by which a divided, unhappy self becomes unified and happy through a firmer hold on religious realities (opens korrents.com)1

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  1. The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. The Varieties of Religious Experience, Q2605035 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)

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