The Varieties Of Religious Experience

Brooks Divinity School Brooks Divinity School provides theological training for ministers, ministerial candidates, and lay persons in Divine Science. The school  named after Nona L. Brooks, the founder of Divine Science  is located at 1400 Williams Street, Denver, Colorado 80220 (). About This Edition This web edition of the Varieties of Religious Experience was created in Microsoft Word 7.0 and saved as an Adobe Corporation PDF (portable document format) file. It is intended to be read in either of two ways: • As a PDF document that you read directly from the World Wide Web, or which you download to your hard drive. To read the document in this way, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Acrobat Reader is free. You can download it from the Adobe website at . Please see the Adobe site and the Acrobat Reader online help file for information on using Acrobat Reader’s many features (including hyperactive links, bookmarks, user notes, and full text searching). • As a hard copy document that you or someone else has printed out from the original Word or PDF file. In that case, you can use it as you would any other hard copy publication, including its tables of contents and index. Of course, interactive features will be absent. Preparing this edition of the Varieties for publication on the World Wide Web presented both opportunities and challenges. • This is not a scholarly treatise prepared for academic citation. While I have tried to be sure that editing and formatting changes have not altered James’ words or intent, if you require rigorous exactitude, you should consult a more traditional print edition of his works. T The Varities of Religious Experience Editor’s Preface 10 • The Summary of Contents and Table of Contents are new. The table of contents entries are hyperactive if you’re reading this in PDF format. Click on the entry or page number to go there. • Other structural elements, such as headers and footers, are also new. • Page numbering does not correspond to any print edition of the Varieties. It is unique to this web edition. • Headings have been added in the text to make reading easier and to provide a more detailed table of contents. The only headings in James’ original text were the chapter headings showing the beginning of a new lecture or other major division. The wording of the additonal headings is mine, not James’. • Citations have been added to identify persons referred to in the text. A modern reader is unlikely to immediately know, as James’ listeners at the Gifford Lectures presumably did, the identity of persons simply referred to as “Prof. Flournoy,” “Dr. Starbuck,” or “M. Taine.” The references appear the first place the person is mentioned, and are also collected in a Biographical References page on the companion website to this book at http:/ / www/ The website often gives more details about the person, including web addresses where you can find additional information. • Some formatting changes have been made to make the text easier to read, and to