So many books refer to religious sentiment as if it were a single sort of mental entity. There is no one essence in religion, but many characteristics. Lecture 2: Circumscription of the Topic.These peculiarities often have given them their religious authority and influence. In those for whom religion is an acute fever one often finds symptoms of nervous instability, psychical visitations, exalted emotional sensibility, often fallen into trances, heard voices, seen visions and other ordinarily behavior patterns classed as pathological. The description of man’s religious constitution fills these twenty lectures. This classic book has become famous as the standard scientific work on the psychology of religious impulses and of the varieties of religious experiences. (ENTIRE BOOK) It is to our culture’s advantage that there exists so many religious types and sects and creeds. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock. This material is taken from the book published by The Modern Library, New York, 1902.
He was a teacher at Harvard (1872-1907), at first of physiology and anatomy, later of psychology and philosophy. William James (1842-1910), became one of the most eminent of American philosophers and psychologists.
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