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