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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

Chapter 21: Index.
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A series of lectures examines individual religious experience through psychological analysis, classifying temperaments and phenomena such as healthy-mindedness, the sick soul, conversion, saintliness, and mysticism. The author draws extensively on autobiographical and literary case studies to illustrate how intense religious states affect personality and perception. He considers neurological and philosophical angles, debates the reality of unseen states, and describes processes that unify divided selves. The final lectures synthesize these observations into tentative philosophical conclusions about the practical value and varieties of religious life.

Index.

Abstractness of religious objects, 53.
Achilles, 86.
Ackermann, Madame, 63.
Adaptation to environment, of things, 438;
of saints, 374-377.
Æsthetic elements in religions, 460.
Alcohol, 387.
Al-Ghazzali, 402.
Ali, 341.
Alleine, 228.
Alline, 159, 217.
Alternations of personality, 193.
Alvarez de Paz, 116.
Amiel, 394.
Anæsthesia, 288.
Anæsthetic revelation, 387-393.
Angelus Silesius, 417.
Anger, 181, 264.
“Anhedonia,” 145.
Aristocratic type, 371.
Aristotle, 495.
Ars, le Curé d', 302.
Aseity, God's, 439, 445.
Atman, 400.
Attributes of God, 440;
their æsthetic use, 458.
Augustine, Saint, 171, 361, 496.
Aurelius, see Marcus.
Automatic writing, 62, 478.
Baldwin, 347, 503.
Bashkirtseff, 83.
Beecher, 256.
Behmen, see Boehme.
Belief, due to non-rationalistic impulses, 73.
Besant, Mrs., 23, 168.
Bhagavad-Gita, 361.
Blavatsky, Madam, 421.
Blood, 389.
Blumhardt, 113.
Booth, 203.
Bougaud, 344.
Bourget, 263.
Bourignon, 321.
Bowne, 502.
Brainerd, 212, 253.
Bray, 249, 256, 290.
Brooks, 512.
Brownell, 515.
Bucke, 398.
Buddhism, 31, 34, 522.
Buddhist mysticism, 401.
Bullen, 287.
Bunyan, 157, 160.
Butterworth, 411.
Caird, Edward, 106.
Caird, J., on feeling in religion, 434;
on absolute self, 450;
he does not prove, but reaffirms, religion's dicta, 453.
Call, 289.
Carlyle, 41, 300.
Carpenter, 319.
Catharine, Saint, of Genoa, 289.
Catholicism and Protestantism compared, 114, 227, 336, 461.
Causality of God, 517, 522.
Cause, 502.
Cennick, 301.
Centres of personal energy, 196, 267, 523.
Cerebration, unconscious, 207.
Chance, 526.
Channing, 300, 488.
Chapman, 324.
scheme of its differences of type, 197, 214.
Causes of its diversity, 261;
balance of, 340.
Chastity, 310.
Chiefs of tribes, 371.
Christian Science, 106.
Christ's atonement, 129, 245.
Churches, 335, 460.
Clark, 389.
Clissold, 481.
Coe, 240.
Conduct, perfect, 355.
Confession, 462.
Consciousness, fields of, 231;
subliminal, 233.
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Conversion, Fletcher's, 181;
Tolstoy's, 184;
Bunyan's, 186;
in general, Lectures IX and X, passim;
Bradley's, 189;
compared with natural moral growth, 199;
Hadley's, 201;
two types of, 205 ff.;
Brainerd's, 212;
Alline's, 217;
Oxford graduate's, 221;
Ratisbonne's, 223;
instantaneous, 227;
is it a natural phenomenon? 230;
subliminal action involved, in sudden cases, 236, 240;
fruits of, 237;
its momentousness, 239;
may be supernatural, 242;
its concomitants:
sense of higher control, 244,
happiness, 248,
automatisms, 250,
luminous phenomena, 251;
its degree of permanence, 256.
Cosmic consciousness, 398.
Counter-conversion, 176.