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| Title: | Fringes of Religious Experience
: Cross-perspectives on William James' 'The Varieties of Religious Experience' |
| Series: | (Process Thought, Volume 12) |
| Author: | Sergio Franzese & Felicitas Kraemer (eds) |
| ISBN: | 3938793570 : 9783938793572 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 150x210mm |
| Pages: | 210 |
| Weight: | .44 Kg. |
| Published: | Ontos Verlag - May 2007 |
| List Price: | 71.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | PHILOSOPHY: Philosophy of religion |
William James's Varieties of Religious Experience is one of the most renowned works of the famous psychologist and founder of pragmatism, and a fully accomplished anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of religion. In this book a selection of 10 papers from international scholars, previously presented at the International Centennary Conference in Celebration of The Gifford Lectures at University of Edinburgh in 2002, explore the theoretical and historical 'fringes' of James's work in the attempt to provide new insights into some major issues involved therein. The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with important philosophical and psychological issues related to James's account of religious experience. A second shorter section lays a focus a on the historical sources and reception of James's ideas in American and European culture.
James's Mystical Body In the Light of the Transmarginal Field of Consciousness; Acategoriality as Mental Instability -- A Dynamical Systems Approach to James's Account of Mental Activity; The Unifying Moment: Toward a Theory of Complexity -- Whitehead On Universe's Responsibility and the Role of God; Education and Conversion -- The Plasticity of the Plasticity of the Self; The Glass Prison -- Emerson, James and the Religion of the Individual; Science as a Religious Experience: The James-Kuhn Perspective; Is Religious Experience the Experience of Something? -- 'Truth', Belief and 'Overbelief' in the Varieties of Religious Experience; Unamuno's Reading of the Varieties of Religious Experience and its Context; A Chronicle of Pragmatism in France Before 1907 -- William James in Renouvier's Crltique Philosophique; N Nlkolova: The Early Bulgarian Reception of William James -- A Brief Survey.
