The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2008-03-31
- Publisher
- Arc Manor
- Retrieved
- Mar 29, 2012
- ISBN
- 2AezbiIYHs
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Distinguishing Personal Religion from Institutionalized Religion
In critically judging of the value of religious phenomena, it is very important to insist on the distinction between religion as an individual personal function, and religion as an institutional, corporate, or tribal product. I drew this distinction, you may remember, in my second lecture. The word “religion,” as…
Empirical Mind-Cure
There are plenty of persons to-day — “scientists” or “positivists,” they are fond of calling themselves — who will tell you that religious thought is a mere survival, an atavistic reversion to a type of consciousness which humanity in its more enlightened examples has long since left behind and outgrown. If you ask…