William James

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Introduction: the course is not anthropological, but deals with personal documents- Questions of fact and questions of value- In point of fact, the religious are often neurotic- Criticism of medical materialism, which condemns religion on that account- Theory...

Drawing on psychology, philosophy, and literature, William James's classic survey of religious belief gathers testimony from a huge range of diverse sources to construct a defence of the individual religious experience. It speaks powerfully to the modern debate on atheism and faith, in the most critically up-to-date edition available....