Experiments with truth. A sociological variation on William James's Varieties of Religious Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frédéric Vandenberghe (0000-0003-0614-8420, IESP‐UERJ Brazil, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-47 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.12152 |
| OpenAlex | W2766241140 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
William James's Varieties of Religious Experience is a classic psycho‐philosophical study of the experience of the sacred and of its practical effects on the ordinary life of extraordinary persons. In a pragmatic variation of Kant's proof of god's existence, James uses personal accounts of converts to empirically demonstrate that there's “something” that has causal effects on the well‐being of the person. While the article is largely sympathetic to James explorations of the mystical, it offers a sociological variation on the Varieties that foregrounds the social, cultural and political aspects of religion
Epistemology · Mysticism · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Variation (astronomy · Critical Realism in Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Religion and Society Interactions
William James and a Science of Religions
The will to believe
Talks to teachers on psychology--and to students on some of life's ideals.
On Multiple Realities
The Interpretation of Cultures
Habits of the heart
Philosophie der symbolischen Formen. Zweiter Teil
Gesammelte Schriften zur Religionssoziologie
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation
Available Light
Religious Experience and the Divisible Self
Soziale Umschichtungen in einer Danischen Mittelstadt. Mit angehangtem Tabellenwerk
Sources of the self
William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience
Pragmatism and Social Interactionism
The metaphysical club
Men, Religion, and Melancholia
The Struggle for Life; A Companion to William James's 'The Varieties of Religious Experience
Attribution Theory and the Psychology of Religion
From Structuralism to Culturalism
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |