Fringes of religious experience [electronic resource] : cross-perspectives on William James's The varieties of religious experience

Main description: 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, previously presented at the International Centennary Conference in Celebration of The Gifford Lectures at University of Edinburgh in 2002, explore the theoretical and historical 'fringes' of James's work in the attempt to provide new insights into some major issues involved therein. The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with important philosophical and psychological issues related to James's account of religious experience. A second shorter section lays a focus a on the historical sources and reception of James's ideas in American and European culture SUMMARY Foreword James’s Mystical Body in the Light of the Transmarginal Field ofConsciousnessMichel Weber* Acategoriality as Mental Instability. A Dynamical Systems Approachto James’s Account of Mental Activity.Harald Atmanspacher* and Wolfgang Fach The Unifying Moment: Toward a Theory of Complexity. Whiteheadon Universe’s Responsibility and the Role of GodCraig Eisendrath (PhD)* Education and Conversion. The Plasticity of the SelfIlaria Possenti* Science as a Religious Experience: The James-Kuhn PerspectiveMajeda Omar (PhD)* Is Religious Experience the Experience of Something? ‘Truth’, Beliefand ‘Overbelief’ in The Varieties of Religious ExperienceSergio Franzese (PhD)* Unamuno's Reading of The Varieties of Religious Experience and itsContextJaime Nubiola - Izaskun Martínez* A Chronicle of Pragmatism in France Before 1907. William James inRenouvier’s Critique Philosophique.Mathias Girel* The Early Bulgarian Reception of William James. A Brief SurveyNataliya Nikolowa* INDEX Foreword; James's Mystical Body in the Light of the Transmarginal Field ofConsciousnessMichel Weber*; Acategoriality as Mental Instability. A Dynamical Systems Approachto James's Account of Mental Activity. Harald Atmanspacher* and Wolfgang Fach; The Unifying Moment: Toward a Theory of Complexity. Whiteheadon Universe's Responsibility and the Role of GodCraig Eisendrath (PhD)*; Education and Conversion. The Plasticity of the SelfIlaria Possenti*; Science as a Religious Experience: The James-Kuhn PerspectiveMajeda Omar (PhD)*

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