...an "argument" about life. Truth consists of "the feelings, acts and experiences of individual people in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves...relation to whatever they may consider the divine." By that, James is referring particularly to those feelings of a quasi-mystical, intuitive sense of...

...or the Divine Within. James defines religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves...stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine."4 In essence, the finite self is seen as having joined the absolute (or eternal) self which...

...supernatural or divine. For James, religion means "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves...to stand in relation to whatever they may consider divine."39 Religious experience is also distinctive in its being something serious and solemn, not...

...you to arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves...to stand in relation to whatever they may consider to be the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out...

...simple" (p. 29), which he defined as, ". . . the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men [sic] in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves...to stand in relation to whatever they may consider divine" (p. 31). This definition is quite consistent with the spiritualistic tradition, which largely...

...opinions. William James famously took 'religion' to mean 'the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves...relation to whatever they may consider the divine' (The Varieties of Religious Experience, lecture II). For the purposes of James' brilliant lectures...

...and simple" (1958, 41). "Religion" means for James "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves...relation to whatever they may consider the divine" (1958, 42). And "the divine" means "only such a primal reality as the individual feels impelled to...

...Stevens, religion came to mean what it did for James: "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves...relation to whatever they may consider the divine. "J As Stevens noted to one of his inquiring readers, "it is a habit of mind with me to be thinking...

...ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves...stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine."6* The arbitrary nature of the category religion means that emotions are "religious" only in...

...ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves...stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine."16 James was thus concerned with immediate personal experience, which he considered to be universal...