ABSTRACT
The centenary edition of William James’ classic account of religious experience, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, was first published by Routledge in 2002 with a new forward as well as the preface of the original 1902 edition. This paper reviews aspects of James’ work and briefly considers its later development.
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Notes
1. http://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=359 (Booth, Citation2009). See preface to James (Citation1902/Citation2002).
2. See especially chapter 8 (James, Citation1907).
3. I heard him interviewed on TV and this is the way he explained his general invitation to send in reports of religious experience.