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The Varieties of Religious Experience
By William James
Index
Absolute, oneness with the, 410
Abstractness of religious objects, 53
ACHILLES, 85
ACKERMANN, MADAME, 63
Adaptation to environment, of things, 428; of saints, 365-368
Æsthetic elements in religions, 450
Alcohol, 377
AL-GHAZZALI, 393
ALI, 334
ALLEINE, 224
Alternations of personality, 190-191
ALVAREZ DE PAZ, 114
AMIEL, 386
Anæsthesia, 283
Anæsthetic revelation, 377-383
ANGELUS SILESIUS, 408
"Anhedonia," 143
Aristocratic type, 363
ARISTOTLE, 486
Ars, le Curé d’, 296
Asceticism, 268, 291-304, 352-357
Atman, 392
Attributes of God, 431; their æsthetic use, 448
AUGUSTINE, SAINT, s68, 353, 486
AURELIUS, See MARCUS
Automatisms, 229, 245, 467-473
BASHKIRTSEFF, 82
BEECHER, 251
BEHMEN, See BOEHME
Belief, due to non-rationalistic impulses, 72
Bhagavad-Gita, 353
BLAVATSKY, MADAM, 412
BLOOD, 380
BLUMHARDT, 111
BOOTH, 200
BOUGAUD, 336
BOURGET, 258
BOURIGNON, 315
BOWNE, 492
BROWNELL, 505
BUCKE, 389
Buddhist mysticism, 392
BULLEN, 282
BUTTERWORTH, 402
CAIRD, EDWARD, 104
CAIRD, J., on feeling in religion, 424; on absolute self, 440; he does not prove, but reaffirms, religion's dicta, 443.
CALL, 284
CARPENTER, 313
Catharine, Saint, of Genoa, 284
Catholicism and Protestantism compared, 112, 329, 455
Cause, 492
CENNICK, 296
Centres of personal energy, 193, 261, 513
Cerebration, unconscious, 203
Chance, 516
CHAPMAN, 318
Character, cause of its alterations, 190; scheme of its differences of type, 194, 211; causes of its diversity, 256; balance of, 333
Chastity, 304
Chiefs of tribes, 363
Christian Science, 105
CLARK, 380
CLISSOLD, 471
COE, 235
Conduct, perfect, 347
Confession, 451
Consciousness, fields of, 226; subliminal, 228
Consistency, 290
Conversion, to avarice, 175
Conversion, Fletcher's, 178; Tolstoy's, 180; Bunyan's, 183; in general, Lectures IX and X, passim; Bradley's, 186; compared with natural moral growth, 196; Hadley's, 198; two types of, 202 ff.; Brainerd's, 209; Alline's, 213; Oxford graduate's, 216; Ratisbonne's, 219; instantaneous, 222; is it a natural phenomenon? 225; subliminal action involved, in sudden cases, 231, 235; fruits of, 232; its momentousness, 234; may be supernatural, 237; its concomitants: sense of higher control, 239, happiness, 243, automatisms, 245, luminous phenomena, 246; its degree of permanence, 251.
Cosmic consciousness, 389
Counter-conversion, 173
Crankiness, see Psychopathy
Criminal character, 258
Criteria of value of spiritual affections, 19
CRUMP, 234
Cure of bad habits, 264
DAUDET, 164
DERHAM, 483
Design, argument from, 428, 482 ff.
Devoutness, 333
DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITICUS, 407
Disorder in contents of world, 428
Divided Self, Lecture VIII, passim; Cases of: Saint Augustine, 168, H. Alline, 170
Divine, the, 32
Dog, 276
DOWIE, 111
Drink, 262
DRUMMOND, 257
"Dryness," 201
DUMAS, 274
Dyes, on clothing, 289
Earnestness, 258
Ecclesiastical spirit, the, 328, 331
ECKHART, 408
EDDY, 105
EDWARDS, JONATHAN, 21, 112, 196, 224, 233, 234, 243, 323
Effects of religious states, 22
Effeminacy, 357
Ego of Apperception, 439
ELWOOD, 287
EMERSON, 32, 164, 202, 234, 324 Emotion, as alterer of life's value, 247; of the character, 192, 256 ff., 274
Empirical method, 19, 320 ff., 434
Energy, personal, 193; mystical states increase it, 405
Epictetus, 464
Epicureans, 140
Equanimity, 279
Ether, mystical effects of, 382
Evil, ignored by healthy-mindedness, 87, 104, 128; due to things or to the Self, 131; its reality, 160
Evolutionist optimism, 90
Excesses of piety, 333
Excitement, its effects, 192, 261, 273, 319
Experience, religious, the essence of, 498
Extravagances of piety, 332, 476
Extreme cases, why we take them, 476
Failure, 135
Faith-state, 495
Fanaticism, 331
Feeling deeper than intellect in religion, 422
FIELDING, 427
Flower, 466
FRANCIS, SAINT, D’ASSISI, 313
FRANCIS, SAINT, DE SALES, 12
FRASER, 444
Fruits, of conversion, 232; of religion, 321; of Saintliness, 349
FULLER, 41
GAMOND, 283
GARDINER, 263
Genius and insanity, 18
Geniuses, see Religious leaders.
Gentleman, character of the, 311, 363
GERTRUDE, SAINT, 338
"Gifts," 148
Glory of God, 335
God, 32; sense of his presence, 65-71, 266, 270 ff.; historic changes in idea of him, 73, 322 ff., 482; mind-curer's idea of him, too; his honor, 335; described by negatives, 408; his attributes, scholastic proof of, 430; the metaphysical ones are for us meaningless, 435; the moral ones are ill-deduced, 437; he is not a mere inference, 492; is used, not known, 497; his existence must make a difference among phenomena, 507, 512; his relation to the subconscious region, 237, 505; his tasks, 509; may be finite and plural, 515
GODDARD, 95
GOETHE, 134
GOUGH, 200
GOURDON, 168
"Grace," the operation of, 222; the state of, 255
Greeks, their pessimism, 85, 139
Guidance, 461
GURNEY, 516
HALE, 81
HAMON, 358
Happiness, 47-49, 78, 243, 274
HARNACK, 98
Healthy-mindedness, Lectures IV and V, passim; its philosophy of evil, 129; compared with morbid-mindedness, 159, 477
Heart, softening of, 262
HELMONT, VAN, 487
Heterogeneous personality, 166, 190
Higher criticism, 6
HODGSON, R., 514
HOMER, 85
HUGO, 168
Hypocrisy, 331
Hypothesis, what makes a useful one, 508
HYSLOP, 514
IGNATIUS LOYOLA, 307, 397, 401
Illness, 11
"Imitation of Christ," the, 44
Immortality, 514
Impulses, 256
Individuality, 492
Inhibitions, 256 ff
Insane melancholy and religion, 142
Insanity and genius 18; and happiness, 274
Institutional religion, 328
Intellect a secondary force in religion, 422, 504
Intellectual weakness of some saints, 362
Intolerance, 335
Irascibility, 258
JESUS, HARNACK on, 98
JOHN, SAINT, OF THE CROSS, 299, 398, 404
JOHNSTON, 252
JONQUIL, 466
JORDAN, 339
Judgments, existential and spiritual, 6
Karma, 512
KELLNER, 392
Kindliness, see Charity
KINGSLEY, 375
LAGNEAU, 280
Leaders, see Religious leaders
Leaders, of tribes, 363
LESSING, 312
LEUBA, 197, 200, 216, 241, 496, 506
Life, its significance, 148
Life, the subconscious, 203, 206
LOCKER-LAMPSON, 39
Logic, Hegelian, 439
Louis, Saint, of Gonzaga, 343
Love, see Charity
Love, cases of falling out of, 176
Love of God, 271
LOWELL, 65
Loyalty, to God, 335
LUTFULLAH, 161
LUTHER, 126, 135, 239, 324, 340, 373
Lutheran self-despair, 106, 207
Luxury, 357
LYCAON, 85
Lyre, 261
Mahomet, 168. See MOHAMMED
MARGARET MARY, see ALACOQUE
Margin of consciousness, 227
MARSHALL, 493
MARTINEAU, 464
MATHER, 297
MAUDSLEY, 20
Meaning of life, 148
Medical criticism of religion, 404
Medical materialism, 11 ff.
Melancholy, 142, 274; Lectures V and VI, passim; cases of, 145, 146, 154, 156, 194
Melting moods, 262
Method of judging value of religion, 19, 221
MEYSENBUG, 386
Military type of character, 363
MILL, 200
Mind-cure, its sources and history, 92-95; its opinion of fear, 96; cases of, 100-103, 118, 121; its message, 106; its methods, 110-121; it uses verification, 118-122; its philosophy of evil, 129
Miraculous character of conversion, 222
MOLINOS, 128
Monasteries, 291
Monism, 407
Morbidness compared with healthy-mindedness, 477. See, also, Melancholy
Mormon revelations, 472
Mortification, see Asceticism
MUIR, 471
MULFORD, 488
MÜLLER, 457
MURISIER, 341
MYERS, 228, 229, 456, 501, 514
Mystic states, their effects, 22, 405
Mystical experiences, 66
Mysticism, Lectures XVI and XVII, passim; its marks, 371; its theoretic results, 407, 413, 419; it cannot warrant truth, 414; its results, 416; its relation to the sense of union, 499
Mystical region of experience, 505
Natural theology, 482
Nature, scientific view of, 481
Negative accounts of deity, 408
NETTLETON, 211
NEWMAN, F. W., 79
NEWMAN, J. H., on dogmatic theology, 425, 433; his type of imagination, 448
Nitrous oxide, its mystical effects, 378
No-function, 256-257, 293, 378, 407
Obedience, 304
OBERMANN, 466
Omit, 290
"Once-born" type, 79, 163, 355, 477
Oneness with God, see Union.
Optimism, systematic, 86; and evolutionism, 90; it may be shallow, 356
Orderliness of world, 428
Organism determines all mental states whatsoever, 15
Origin of mental states no criterion of their value, 16 ff.
Orison, 397
Over-beliefs, 503; the author's, 505
Over-soul, 506
Pagan feeling, 85
PASCAL, 281
PATON, 351
PEEK, 248
PEIRCE, 435
Penny, 317
PERREYVE, 495
Personality, explained away by science, 117, 481; heterogeneous, 166; alterations of, 190, 206 ff.; is reality, 489. See Character
PHILO, 470
Philosophy, Lecture XVIII, passim; must coerce assent, 424; scholastic, 430; idealistic, 438; unable to give a theoretic warrant to faith, 445; its true office in religion, 445
Photisms, 246
Piety, 332 ff.
Pluralism, 129
"Pragmatism," 435, 509, 512-514
Prayer, 451; its definition, 454; its essence, 454; petitional, 456; its effects, 464-467, 513
Presence of God, 65-71, 267, 270 ff., 387, 409
Presence of God, the practice of, 114
Primitive human thought, 485
PRINGLE-PATTISON, 444
Prophets, the Hebrew, 469
Protestant theology, 239
Protestantism and Catholicism, 112, 223, 323, 450
Providential leading, 461
Psychopathy and religion, 23 ff.
PUFFER, 385
Rationalism, 72, 73; its authority overthrown by mysticism, 419
Reality of unseen objects, Lecture III, passim
Redemption, 154
Reformation of character, 314
Regeneration, see Conversion; by relaxation, 109
REID, 436
Relaxation, salvation by, 108. See Surrender
Religion, to be tested by fruits, not by origin, 11 ff., 324; its definition, 27, 3r; is solemn, 38; compared with Stoicism, 42; its unique function, 51; abstractness of its objects, 54; differs according to temperament, 74, 132, 326, and ought to differ, 477; considered to be a "survival," 116, 480, 488; its relations to melancholy, 142; worldly passions may combine with it, 330; its essential characters, 365, 475; its relation to prayer, 453-455; asserts a fact, not a theory, 479; its truth, 369; more than science, it holds by concrete reality, 490; attempts to
evaporate it into philosophy, 492; it is concerned with personal destinies, 480, 493; with feeling and conduct, 494; is a sthenic affection, 495; is for life, not for knowledge, 496; its essential contents, 498; it postulates issues of fact, 508
Religious emotion, 274
Religious leaders, often nervously unstable, 8 ff., 31; their loneliness, 328
"Religious sentiment," 28
RENAN, 37
Renunciations, 342
Repentance, 125
Resignation, 281
Revelation, the anæsthetic, 377-384
Revelations, see Automatisms.
Revelations, in Mormon Church, 472
Revivalism, 223
RIBET, 397
ROYCE, 444
RUTHERFORD, MARK, 75
SABATIER, A., 454
SAINT-PIERRE, 82
Saintliness, Sainte-Beuve on, 255; its characteristics, 266, 361; criticism of, 320 ff.
Saints, dislike of natural man for, 363
Salvation, 515
SANDAY, 470
SATAN, in picture, 50
Scholastic arguments for God, 428
Science, ignores personality and teleology, 481; her "facts," 490, 491
"Science of Religions," 424, 445, 446, 478-481
Scientific conceptions, their late adoption, 486
SEELEY, 76
Self of the world, 439
SÉNANCOUR, 466
SETH, 444
Sexual temptation, 263
Sexuality as cause of religion, 12
"Shrew," 339
Sickness, 111
Sick souls, Lectures V and VI, passim
SIGHELE, 258
Sin, 205
Sinners, Christ died for, 127
Skepticism, 325 ff.
SKOBELEFF, 260
SMITH, JOSEPH, 471
Softening of the heart, 262
Soul, 191
Soul, strength of, 268
Spiritism, 504
Spirit-return, 514
Spiritual judgments, 6
Spiritual states, tests of their value, 19
STARBUCK, 195, 200, 202, 205-206, 244, 247, 253, 263, 316, 345, 385
Strange appearance of world, 148
Strength of soul, 268
Subconscious action in conversion, 232, 237
Subconscious life, 113, 203, 206, 228, 231, 265, 473
Subconscious Self, as intermediary between the Self and God, 501
Subliminal, see Subconscious
Suicide, 144
Supernaturalism its two kinds, 510; criticism of universalistic, 511
Supernatural world, 508
Surrender, salvation by, 108, 205, 208
Survival-theory of religion, 480, 488, 490
SWINBURNE, 413
Sympathetic magic, 486
Sympathy, see Charity
Systems, philosophic, 424
Taine, 11
TAYLOR, 241
Tenderness, see Charity
TENNYSON, 374
TERESA, SAINT, 22, 339, 352, 400, 402, 403, 405
Theologia Germanica, 43
Theologians, systematic, 437
"Theopathy," 336
THOREAU, 269
Threshold, 132
TOWIANSKI, 276
Tragedy of life, 355
Tranquillity, 279
Transcendentalism criticised, 511
Transcendentalists, 506
TREVOR, 387
Truth of religion, how to be tested, 368; what it is, 500; mystical perception of, 371, 401
"Twice-born," type, 163, 355, 477
TYNDALL, 294
"Unconscious cerebration," 204
"UNION MORALE," 267
Union with God, 400, 409, 416, 441, 499 ff. See lectures on Conversion, passim
Unity of universe, 129
Unreality, sense of, 62
Unseen realities, Lecture III, passim
Upanishads, 410
UPHAM, 284
Utopias, 352
VACHEROT, 492
Value of spiritual affections, how tested, 19
VAMBÉRY, 334
VIVEKANANDA, 504
VOLTAIRE, 36
VOYSEY, 270
Wealth-worship, 357
WEAVER, 276
WESLEY, 223
Wesleyan self-despair, 106, 207
WHITE FIELD, 312
WOLFF, 482
World, soul of the, 439
Yes-function, 256-258, 293, 378
Yoga, 391
YOUNG, 251
