"Josiah Royce, William James, and the Social Renewal of the "Sick Soul
Exploring the Communal Dimension of Religious Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3131350 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Andrew Ceragioli (Oblate School of Theology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1045 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel15091045 |
| OpenAlex | W4401962137 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In The Sources of Religious Insight, Josiah Royce assesses William James' pragmatic evaluation of exalted, private religious experience, advanced in The Varieties of Religious Experience as inadequate to encompass the full range of religious experience. Among other contributions, Royce adds social and communal experience to James' individualistic appraisal. Rather than tacking on to the familiar contemporary critical conversation about the Jamesian restriction to private experience, I argue that James and Royce are helpfully brought together through an understanding of religious conversion: James' foundational predicament of the "sick soul" returned to health through religious conversion gains depth and coherence through the attention Royce gives to overcoming alienation through communal participation. In our time of dislocation and self-preoccupation, drawing together these two seminal models of religious experience provides an instructive account of the individual's transformation by way of communal renewal
Environmental ethics · Fourth Dimension · Sociology · Soul · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |