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The Varieties of Religious Experience, a study in human naturePremium Ebook Fully annotated. E-book. Formato EPUB William James   -  Fv Éditions, 2021  - 

"Summing up in the broadest possible way the characteristics of the religious life, as we have found them, it includes the following beliefs:— 1. That the visible world is part of a more spiritual universe from which it draws its chief significance; 2. That union or harmonious relation with that higher universe is our true end; 3. That prayer or inner communion with the spirit thereof— be that spirit "God" or "law"—is a process wherein work is really done, and spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world. Religion includes also the following psychological characteristics:— 4. A new zest which adds itself like a gift to life, and takes the form either of lyrical enchantment or of appeal to earnestness and heroism. 5. An assurance of safety and a temper of peace, and, in relation to others, a preponderance of loving affections." William James was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. The Varieties of Religious Experience, an investigation of different forms of religious experience, is one of his most influential books.