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The Varieties of Religious Experience

其他書名	Great Classics
出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018-10-24
主題	Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Religion
ISBN	17295614709781729561478
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=m6DWvgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. ."" Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance--indeed, respect--the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades.