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The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James (1842–1910)

23 chapters, about 164,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE. 400 words
2. LECTURE I. RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY. 6,300 words
3. LECTURE II. CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC. 7,700 words
4. LECTURE III. THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN. 7,700 words
5. LECTURES IV AND V. THE RELIGION OF HEALTHY‐MINDEDNESS. 11,700 words
6. Appendix 1,200 words
7. LECTURES VI AND VII. THE SICK SOUL. 10,500 words
8. LECTURE VIII. THE DIVIDED SELF, AND THE PROCESS OF ITS UNIFICATION. 7,100 words
9. LECTURE IX. CONVERSION. 7,400 words
10. LECTURE X. CONVERSION—CONCLUDED. 11,600 words
11. LECTURES XI, XII, AND XIII. SAINTLINESS. 17,200 words
12. LECTURES XIV AND XV. THE VALUE OF SAINTLINESS. 12,900 words
13. LECTURES XVI AND XVII. MYSTICISM. 10,000 words
14. 1. 300 words
15. 2. 800 words
16. 3. 300 words
17. LECTURE XVIII. PHILOSOPHY. 6,200 words
18. LECTURE XIX. OTHER CHARACTERISTICS. 6,600 words
19. LECTURE XX. CONCLUSIONS. 6,600 words
20. POSTSCRIPT. 2,500 words
21. EMERSON, 32, 56, 167, 205, 239, 330. 900 words
22. REID, 446. 500 words
23. FOOTNOTES 27,600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Attitude (psychology)
• Charity (Christian virtue)
• Francis Xavier
• Hygiene
• Immortality
• Poverty
• Qalb
• Quakers
• Religion
• Resignation
• Sacrifice
• Saint
• Skepticism
• Yoga

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