The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James
Edited by Matthew Bradley

Oxford World's Classics

• The most critically up-to-date and inclusive edition of this classic survey of religious belief, embracing the interdisciplinary nature of a work that fuses philosophy, psychology, religion, and literary studies, and emphasizing its wide appeal.
• James's work is more relevant than ever in its consideration of the effect of religious ideas on daily life, and atheists who attack religion with 'religious zeal'.
• Introduction stresses the book's significance in the relationship between religion and culture, instituting a new approach to religious belief, discusses its ideas and their contemporary interest, as well as contextualizing the book within James's biographical, intellectual, and literary background.
• Explanatory notes identify key figures and contexts, and provides links with James's other work.
• Includes a completely updated index, expanded and corrected from the original index provided by Joyce in 1902.

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James
Edited by Matthew Bradley

Oxford World's Classics

Description

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James
Edited by Matthew Bradley

Oxford World's Classics

Author Information

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James
Edited by Matthew Bradley

Oxford World's Classics

From Our Blog

Religion versus science...

Intellectual debates which command rock-star levels of mass appeal are rare, to say the least - but 'religion versus science' can still pull in the crowds like the best of the old stadium bands. It goes without saying that an Oxford debate between the Archbishop of Canterbury and Richard Dawkins in February this year was packed out on the day, but it's now also currently near 30,000 hits on YouTube.

Posted on July 11, 2012

Read the blog post