The Varieties of Religious Experience · William James
REID, 446.
Relaxation, salvation by, 110. See Surrender. Religion, to be tested by fruits, not by origin, 10 ff., 331; its definition, 26, 31; is solemn, 37; compared with Stoicism, 41; its unique function, 51; abstractness of its objects, 54; differs according to temperament, 75, 135, 333, and ought to differ, 487; considered to be a “survival,” 118, 490, 498; its relations to melancholy, 145; worldly passions may combine with it, 337; its essential characters, 369, 485; its relation to prayer, 463‐466; asserts a fact, not a theory, 489; its truth, 377; more than science, it holds by concrete reality, 500; attempts to evaporate it into philosophy, 502; it is concerned with personal destinies, 491, 503; with feeling and conduct, 504; is a sthenic affection, 505; is for life, not for knowledge, 506; its essential contents, 508; it postulates issues of fact, 518. Religious emotion, 279. Religious leaders, often nervously unstable, 6 ff., 30; their loneliness, 335. “Religious sentiment,” 27. Renunciations, 349. Repentance, 127. Resignation, 286. Revelation, the anæsthetic, 387‐393. Revelations, see Automatisms. Revelations, in Mormon Church, 482. Revivalism, 228. Sacrifice, 303, 462. Saintliness, Sainte‐Beuve on, 260; its characteristics, 272, 370; criticism of, 326 ff. Saintly conduct, 356‐377. Saints, dislike of natural man for, 371. Salvation, 526. SATAN, in picture, 50. Scholastic arguments for God, 437. Science, ignores personality and teleology, 491; her “facts,” 500, 501.
“Science of Religions,” 433, 455, 456, 488‐490. Scientific conceptions, their late adoption, 496. Second‐birth, 157, 165, 166. Self of the world, 449. Self‐despair, 110, 129, 208. Self‐surrender, 110, 208. Sexual temptation, 269. Sexuality as cause of religion, 10, 11. “Shrew,” 347. Sickness, 113. Sick souls, Lectures V and VI, passim. Sin, 209. Sinners, Christ died for, 129. Skepticism, 332 ff. Softening of the heart, 267. Solemnity, 37, 48. Soul, 195. Soul, strength of, 273. Spiritism, 514. Spirit‐return, 524. Spiritual judgments, 4. Spiritual states, tests of their value, 18. STARBUCK, 198, 199, 204, 206, 208‐210, 249, 253, 258, 268, 276, 323, 353, 394. Stoicism, 42‐45, 143. Strange appearance of world, 151. Strength of soul, 273. Subconscious action in conversion, 236, 242. Subconscious life, 115, 207, 209, 233, 236, 270, 483. Subconscious Self, as intermediary between the Self and God, 511. Subliminal, see Subconscious. Sufis, 402, 420. Suggestion, 112, 234. Suicide, 147. Supernaturalism its two kinds, 520; criticism of universalistic, 521. Supernatural world, 518. Surrender, salvation by, 110, 208, 211. Survival‐theory of religion, 490, 498, 500. Sympathetic magic, 496. Sympathy, see Charity. Systems, philosophic, 433. Taine, 9. Tenderness, see Charity. TERESA, SAINT, 20, 346, 360, 408, 411, 412, 414. Theologia Germanica, 43. Theologians, systematic, 446. “Theopathy,” 343. Threshold, 135. Tiger, 164, 262. Tobacco, 270, 290. Tragedy of life, 363. Tranquillity, 285. Transcendentalism criticised, 522.
Transcendentalists, 516. Truth of religion, how to be tested, 377; what it is, 509; mystical perception of, 380, 410. “Twice‐born,” type, 166, 363, 488. “Unconscious cerebration,” 207. Unification of Self, 183, 349. Union with God, 408, 418, 425, 451, 509 ff. See lectures on Conversion, passim. Unity of universe, 131. Unreality, sense of, 63. Unseen realities, Lecture III, passim. Upanishads, 419. Utopias, 360. Value of spiritual affections, how tested, 18. Vedantism, 400, 419, 513, 522. Veracity, 7, 291 ff. War, 365‐367. Wealth‐worship, 365. Wesleyan self‐despair, 108, 211. World, soul of the, 449. Worry, 98, 181. Yes‐function, 261‐263, 299, 387. Yoga, 400.
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