The Varieties of Religious Experience

The Varieties of Religious Experience
Author: William James
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 824
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1877527467

Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."

The Devils of Loudun

The Devils of Loudun
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2010-05-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1409079503

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end but four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world.

A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern; Volume 1

A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern; Volume 1
Author: John MacKinnon Robertson
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781018465210

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Tulu - English Dictionary

Tulu - English Dictionary
Author: A. Manner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 687
Release: 2002-08-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9788120600690

This Represents The Work Originally Published In 1886. Tulu Language One Of The Dravidian Family Is Spoken In The Central Part Of South India.

Children of Lucifer

Children of Lucifer
Author: Ruben van Luijk
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190275103

Satanism adopts Satan, the Judeo-Christian representative of evil, as an object of veneration. This work explores the historical origins of this extraordinary 'antireligion.'