{"collection":"etc","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/etc/vre/index.htm","path":"etc/vre/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/etc/vre/index.htm","text":"In all sad sincerity I think we must conclude that the attempt to demonstrate by purely intellectual processes the truth of the deliverances of direct religious experience is absolutely hopeless...It would be unfair to philosophy, however, to leave her under this negative sentence. Let me close, then, by briefly enumerating what she can do for religion. If she will abandon metaphysics and deduction for criticism and induction, and frankly transform herself from theology into science of religions, she can make herself enormously useful.--p. 445\nWilliam James, one of the founders of modern psychology, delivered the\nGifford lecture in Edinburgh for 1901-2 at a high point in his career.\nHis theme was a systematic analysis of phases of the process of religious\nconversion.\nHe examines (mostly Christian) descriptions of conversion phenomena.\nHe analyzes psychological phenomena connected with saintliness, and mysticism.\nJames believed that science and religion are not incompatible and\nthat both could benefit from each other.\nProduction Notes: This etext was sourced from\nthe Project Gutenberg etext of this book,\nbased on the Modern Library edition (by internal evidence), published in 1938.\nNo additional copyright claims were found on this edition.\nI acquired a copy of this edition and used the PG etext as a\nstarting point for the proof file.\nI added page numbers, footnote formatting, the index in its entirety,\nand corrected a number of paragraph, emphasis and spelling issues to bring the\ntext back into conformance with the source edition.\n--J.B. Hare, April 27, 2008.","title":"The Varieties of Religous Experience Index","type":"page"}