William James's Hidden Religious Imagination

A Universe of Relations

Jeremy Carrette (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2013
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-82863-5 (ISBN)

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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.’

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).

Preface: James’s Dogs and Other Ways to Think Acknowledgements Introduction: James and Religion Reconsidered Part 1: The Importance of Relations 1. James’s Theory of Relations 2. Precepts and Rethinking James’s Concept of ‘Religion’ Part 2: James’s Hidden Religious Relations 3. The Filial-Calvinist Relation 4. The Body-Sex Relation 5. The Social-Political Relation 6. The Poetic-More Relation Conclusion: Religion, Power, and the Relational Attitude Notes Bibliography Index

Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Religion
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10	0-415-82863-5 / 0415828635
ISBN-13	978-0-415-82863-5 / 9780415828635
Zustand	Neuware