{"product_id":"varieties-of-religion-today-william-james-revisited-9780674012530","title":"Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became \u003ci\u003eThe Varieties of Religious Experience\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the foremost thinkers in the English-speaking world returns to the questions posed in James's masterpiece to clarify the circumstances and conditions of religion in our day. An elegant mix of the philosophy and sociology of religion, Charles Taylor's powerful book maintains a clear perspective on James's work in its historical and cultural contexts, while casting a new and revealing light upon the present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucid, readable, and dense with ideas that promise to transform current debates about religion and secularism, \u003ci\u003eVarieties of Religion Today\u003c\/i\u003e is much more than a revisiting of James's classic. Rather, it places James's analysis of religious experience and the dilemmas of doubt and belief in an unfamiliar but illuminating context, namely the social horizon in which questions of religion come to be presented to individuals in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaylor begins with questions about the way in which James conceives his subject, and shows how these questions arise out of different ways of understanding religion that confronted one another in James's time and continue to do so today. Evaluating James's treatment of the ethics of belief, he goes on to develop an innovative and provocative reading of the public and cultural conditions in which questions of belief or unbelief are perceived to be individual questions. What emerges is a remarkable and penetrating view of the relation between religion and social order and, ultimately, of what \"religion\" means.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.78h x 4.80w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674012530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaylor, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University and author of \u003ci\u003eSources of the Self\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Authenticity\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Secular Age\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received many honors, including the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize, and membership in the Order of Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40767992758387,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":55.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_18f12349-7f44-41bd-b99a-202de72f3094.jpg?v=1679663923","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/varieties-of-religion-today-william-james-revisited-9780674012530","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}