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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Studying religious experience illuminates otherwise mysterious aspects of human psychology.
Chapter 3: There is institutional religion and personal religion, and the latter forms the core of religious experience.
Chapter 4: The unseen can be as real as the visible – and it can shape the way we think.
Chapter 5: Religion can foster a happy, healthy mind that may even help cure its own illnesses.
Chapter 6: A sickly soul can give rise to depression, but religious experience can help relieve it.
Chapter 7: The twice-born soul is divided, and religious experience can heal that division.
Chapter 8: Conversion occurs in two primary ways and opens the door to new religious experiences.
Chapter 9: One outcome of religious experience is the emergence of traits we associate with saints.
Chapter 10: We confer value on saintliness, and that value shifts with time and culture.
Chapter 11: Mysticism and mystical experiences are essential elements of personal religion.
Chapter 12: Religious philosophy is subordinate to religious experience.
Chapter 13: Prayer and access to the subconscious are vital dimensions of religion.
Description
Based on a series of lectures given by William James between 1901 and 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is an in-depth exploration of how we experience religion and how a personal approach to religion can be profoundly useful to us.
Who Should Listen
- People interested in psychology
- Students of philosophy and religion