Fringes of Religious Experience : : Cross-perspectives on William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience / / ed. by Sergio Francese, Felicitas Kraemer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Atmanspacher, Harald,; Eisendrath, Craig,; Fach, Wolfgang,; Franzese, Sergio,; Girel, Mathias,; Martínez, Izaskun,; Nikolowa, Nataliya,; Nubiola, Jaime,; Omar, Majeda,; Possenti, Ilaria,; Weber, Michel,; del Castillo, Ramón,
• HerausgeberIn: Francese, Sergio,; Kraemer, Felicitas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Process Thought , 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)

William James's Varieties of Religious Experience is one of the most renowned works of the famous psychologist and founder of pragmatism, and a fully accomplished anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of religion. In this book a selection of 10 papers from international scholars, previousl...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• SUMMARY
• Foreword
• James’s Mystical Body in the Light of the Transmarginal Field of Consciousness
• Acategoriality as Mental Instability. A Dynamical Systems Approach to James’s Account of Mental Activity
• The Unifying Moment: Toward a Theory of Complexity. Whitehead on Universe’s Responsibility and the Role of God
• Education and Conversion. The Plasticity of the Self
• The Glass Prison. Emerson, James and the Religion of the Individual
• Science as a Religious Experience: The James-Kuhn Perspective
• Is Religious Experience the Experience of Something? ‘Truth’, Belief and ‘Overbelief’ in The Varieties of Religious Experience
• Unamuno's Reading of The Varieties of Religious Experience and its Context
• A Chronicle of Pragmatism in France Before 1907.William James in Renouvier’s Critique Philosophique
• The Early Bulgarian Reception of William James. A Brief Survey
• INDEX