Mnogoobrazie religioznogo opyta 2izd - Dzheims Uil'iam

This edition includes the most important work of the American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910) " The diversity of religious experience ", which has long become a classic. Religion is explored by James not as a social institution, but above all as a personal experience. It defines religion as "a set of feelings, actions and experiences of an individual, because their content establishes its attitude to what it reveres as the Deity", connecting with it the idea of a "significant state of mind" of a religious person. James has scrutinized numerous documentary sources, allowing him to take a deeper look at the value of holiness, the peculiarities of mysticism (such as intituability, intuitive nature, short-termity and inactivity of will ), to investigate the phenomenon of religious conversion, which, in his opinion, is preceded by long-term training in the subconscious areas of mental life, to present its own classification of religious...