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      William James's Hidden Religious Imagination
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      William James's Hidden Religious Imagination

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      A Universe of Relations

      William James's Hidden Religious Imagination

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      William James's Hidden Religious Imagination book

      A Universe of Relations
      ByJeremy Carrette
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2013
      eBook Published 5 April 2013
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203383247
      Pages 258
      eBook ISBN 9780203383247
      Subjects Humanities
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      Carrette, J. (2013). William James's Hidden Religious Imagination: A Universe of Relations (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203383247

      ABSTRACT

      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.’

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |18 pages

      Introduction: James and Religion Reconsidered

      part |2 pages

      Part I: The Importance of Relations

      chapter 1|30 pages

      James’s Theory of Relations

      chapter 2|20 pages

      Percepts and Rethinking James’s Concept of “Religion”

      part |2 pages

      Part II: James’s Hidden Religious Relations

      chapter 3|31 pages

      The Filial-Calvinistic Relation

      chapter 4|30 pages

      The Body-Sex Relation

      chapter 5|22 pages

      The Social-Political Relation

      chapter 6|26 pages

      The Poetic-More Relation

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