The Varieties of Religious Experience

A Study in Human Nature

Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902

By

William James

Longmans, Green, And Co,

New York, London, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras

1917

Contents

• Preface.
• Lecture I.Religion And Neurology.
• Lecture II.Circumscription of the Topic.
• Lecture III.The Reality Of The Unseen.
• Lectures IV and V.The Religion Of Healthy-Mindedness.
• Lectures VI And VII.The Sick Soul.
• Lecture VIII.The Divided Self, And The Process Of Its Unification.
• Lecture IX.Conversion.
• Lecture X.Conversion—Concluded.
• Lectures XI, XII, And XIII.Saintliness.
• Lectures XIV And XV.The Value Of Saintliness.
• Lectures XVI And XVII.Mysticism.
• Lecture XVIII.Philosophy.
• Lecture XIX.Other Characteristics.
• Lecture XX.Conclusions.
• Postscript.
• Index.
• Footnotes