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Great Books on William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience

More on the variety of religious experiences in America.

by Robert Abzug

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Deborah Blum, Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Death (2006)

 

Blum places James’s research within the context of a broader scientific and spiritualist search for evidence of existence beyond the grave.

 

 

 

 

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Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (2001)

 

Menand views American thought through American intellectuals, William James among them, who pioneered the philosophy of Pragmatism in the 1870s and beyond.

 

 

 

 

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Robert D. Richardson, William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism (2006)

 

Richardson’s is among the best of a very fine group of James biographies.

 

 

 

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Ann Taves, Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James (1999)

 

This is a path-breaking study of changing modes of envisioning and interpreting the reality of religious experience in the 18th and 19th centuries.

 

 

 

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Charles Taylor, Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (2003)

 

In a series of lectures, Taylor explores the strengths and weaknesses of James’s approach to religion and discusses its relevance to our own time.

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