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William James's Hidden Religious Imagination

Jeremy Carrette
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Affective Influence
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Calvinism
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Charles Renouvier
Charles Renouvier influence
civil religion
civil religion studies
Epistemic Circulation
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Father's Work
Father’s Work
Filial Honour
Filial Relation
George Eliot
Herbert Spencer
idea of religion
imaginative approaches to religion
James 1890b
James 1904e
James 1905c
James 1907a
James Family
James's Engagements
James's Idea
James's Introduction
James's Texts
James's Theory
James's Thinking
James's Understanding
James's Work
James’s Engagements
James’s Idea
James’s Introduction
James’s Texts
James’s Theory
James’s Thinking
James’s Understanding
James’s Work
metaphysics of relations
nineteenth-century philosophy
Perceptual Flux
Philosophical Duty
philosophy of religion
pluralism
Pluralistic Universe
post-structural
post-structural theory
psychology of religion
Radical Empiricism
religious pluralism
republicanism
Shaw Memorial
Strenuous Mood
theory of religion

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415828635
  • Weight: 640g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Apr 2013
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion.’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpretations, it uncovers a dynamic, imaginative, and critical use of the category of religion. This work argues that we can only fully understand James’s work on religion by returning to the ground of his metaphysics of relations and by incorporating literary and historical themes.

Author Jeremy Carette develops original perspectives on the influence of James’s father and Calvinism, on the place of the body and sex in James, on the significance of George Eliot’s novels, and Herbert Spencer’s ‘unknown,’ revealing a social and political discourse of civil religion and republicanism and a poetic imagination at the heart of James understanding of religion. These diverse themes are brought together through a post-structural sensitivity and a recovery of the importance of the French philosopher Charles Renouvier to James’s work. This study pushes new boundaries in Jamesian scholarship by reading James with pluralism and from the French tradition. It will be a benchmark text in the reshaping of James and the nineteenth-century foundations of the modern study of ‘religion.’

About Jeremy Carrette
Jeremy Carrette is Professor of Religion and Culture and Head of Religious Studies at the University of Kent, UK. He works across the areas of social, political and psychological approaches to religion and he has previously published on Foucault, James and the politics of spirituality. Amongst other publications, he is author of Religion and Critical Psychology (Routledge, 2007) and editor of William James and the Varieties of Religious Experience (Routledge, 2005).

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