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The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Publisher's Summary
Psychologist and philosopher William James (brother of Henry) is regarded by most psychologists of religion as the founder of the field. He was president of the American Psychological Association and wrote one of the first psychology textbooks. In the psychology of religion, James' influence endures to this day.
The Varieties of Religious Experience is considered to be the classic work in the field. To quote Wikipedia, "James was most interested in understanding personal religious experience. The importance of James to the psychology of religion - and to psychology more generally - is difficult to overstate. He discussed many essential issues that remain of vital concern today. What makes James writing so special is that he could take a very complex subject and, without watering it down, make it understandable to 'the rest of us.'"
This is a must listen for anyone interested in religon and man's search for the spritual. It is written for laymen, thus easy to understand, but remains penetrating and brilliant.
Critic Reviews
"Believers and unbelievers (and semi-believers) will continue to find in it both a resource and a challenge. Quaint though some of it may seem at first in language and approach, The Varities of Religious Experience, can itself become for the contemporary reader not only an intellectual exercise but a religious experience." (Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University)
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- Empowerment
- 09-05-09
Profound stuff
This is an amazing book. Profound yet understandable. James uses lots of 1st person quotes to demonstrate religious types and that really helps. Read like lectures but...that's what they are so style fits. I got some incredible insights about religion..and the human mind from this book.
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- LaPortaMA
- 06-28-18
puts a whole different spin on the idea of religio
you should know that William James, the brother of Henry James, was an American academic who acquired his education, as different was it was back then, at Harvard and stayed to teach. It was rare even unheard of for a American academic to be invited to Europe to lecture. Edinburgh was one of the capitals of Academia and knowledge and scholarship at the time. this is a nearly unredacted transcript of 20 lectures. I had to go over parts of it several times not only is it easy to be distracted with such heaviness, but some of the concepts were hard to believe, until they weren't. New line this is probably one of the most important documents and Revelations and modern Western learning. This is an empirical psychologist writing about how religion makes sense, not trying to convince anyone how to believe or what to believe, but rather there are statements about religion that can be proven Beyond academic dispute. New line one of the most important statements he makes is that knowledge of a thing is not the thing itself. He explains why most religions have their own views of the nature of the godhead and the universe and the more, and even though participants in those religions might not agree with each other, there are common threads that do agree with each other. New line for me this is important because later came Joseph Campbell professor of mythology who looked to see what religion and myths had in common rather than in contrast, the new thought movement which for me was spearheaded by dr. Emmet Fox providing a simplified plain English 1937 any seven-year-old can understand it Rosetta Stone for Spiritual reading and understanding. Last week, several of the important non-sectarian non denominational groups of the early 20th century either new of this work or took parts right from it semicolon I happen to be referring specifically to they will have the paper William Foster Wilson, Chief author of one of the most important how-to books of the 20th century, the main text about Go Alex anonymous. The varieties of religious experience is referred to explicitly in several places, especially regarding conversion. Version is when the low activities of Life are somehow mysteriously withdrawn and placed with a higher level of understanding. You have to hear the whole thing in order to understand the how and why. New line My only criticism is that while the vocabulary is not so lofty, the grammatical and some tactical structures can be, and the narrator makes what I'm aware of as Evers semicolon not important enough to be comical. Just enough to let you know that you're paying attention. New line Thank You Professor James for having given these lectures. By the way the paper book is in the public domain and I recently gave away several copies. They can also be found on PDF, searchable. Good luck
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- Eugene Carpenter, Jr.
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Not much more that can be said. After forty years of religious study and zillions of hours of meditation I finally listen to this, and I’m completely happy and satisfied. Good open minded science can be so yummy.
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- Patrick J. Oconnor
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Always wanted to read this, and very worth the effort.
This classic is an illuminating book with many insights, mostly derived from case histories or reports on selected individuals. I learned a great deal. Although a more scientific approach might involve the study of a larger numbers of people in a systematic way, an individual person’s perspective has intrinsic interest and validity—and can often be quite an eye opener!
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- Morgan
- 08-28-16
Terrible Narration
The narrator has the most monotone and boring delivery. Please find another person to narrate and rerelease this audible book. I would like my money back.
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- Richard Jansen
- 08-08-16
Great ideas...
...but a punishing twenty-plus hours ahead of you. I imagine William James a powerful orator (this is from his lecture series in Scotland), but the narrator's Brooklyn-sounding delivery makes for a monotonous listen.
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