...Experience (Longmans) formed the subject of his course of Gifford lectures, in which he defines religion as "the feelings, acts and experiences of individual...themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may call divine." He claims that the advance in the liberal interpretation of Christianity which has marked...

...one religion; he deliberately puts both theology and ecclesiasticism on one side, and considers only "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual...relation to whatever they may consider the divine." If we look, he says, on man's whole mental life as it stands, the part of it of which rationalism can...

...introduction, and of the definition of the field itself. Religion is defined, for the present purpose, as " the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men...relation to whatever they may consider the divine " (p. 31). This purely empiricist definition was necessitated by the manner of approach, and must not...

...and taken hold of one side in it exclusively, he easily reaches his definition of religion (p. 31), "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual...relation to whatever they may consider the divine." And in regard to this last phrase, " the divine," he makes a further definition, " arbitrarily, if...

...religion as an experience, a life ; or, as it is described by Dr. James (p. 31), a collection of ' feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men...relation to whatever they may consider the divine.' And the whole subject, Psychology of Religion, ' has for its work to carry the well-established methods...

...second lecture, the topic to be studied is circumscribed. Religion is defined arbitrarily to mean " the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual...to stand in relation to whatever they may consider divine." What this "divine " is remains in each case for interpretation, as for example in atheistic...

...Experience (Longmans) formed the subject of his course of Gifford lectures, in which he defines religion as "the feelings, acts and experiences of individual...themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may call divine." He claims that the advance in the liberal interpretation of Christianity which has marked...

...James's special study. For the purposes of that study " religion " is carefully denned by him as " the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual...relation to whatever they may consider the divine." The Salvation Army, however, is a permanently established revival agency, and any conversions which...

...infinity, and guides his conduct. ' ' J James : ' ' Religion means, for the purpose of these lectures, the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual...relation to whatever they may consider the divine." 2 The phrase, ' ' in their solitude, ' ' limits the definition to the passive, subjective type of individuals,...

...infinity, and guides his conduct. ' ' 1 James : ' ' Religion means, for the purpose of these lectures, the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual...stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine."2 The phrase, "in their solitude," limits the definition to the passive, subjective type of...