1st Edition
William James's Hidden Religious Imagination A Universe of Relations
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
Biography
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).
