A colloquium on William James' "The Varieties of Religious Experience"
March 24, 2002: 2:00pm to 6:30pm
March 25, 2002: 9:00am to 3:30pm
Location:
Room 555, Lerner Hall, Columbia University
2920 Broadway (at West 115th Street )
New York , NY 10027
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Scholars Reevaluate the Significance of William James' 'The Varieties of Religious Experience'
One hundred years after the publication of William
James' "The Varieties of Religious Experience," the Center for the
Study of Science and Religion and the John Templeton Foundation brought
together a group of influential scholars to reevaluate the significance
of the classic work that analyzes religious experience within the
context of psychology and philosophy.
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Ann Taves
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Ann Taves Examined 'The Fragmentation of
Consciousness' and 'The Varieties of Religious Experience: William
James' Contributions to a Theory of Religion'
Anne Taves, professor of history of Christianity and
American religion at the Claremont School of Theology and winner of the
2000 Association of American Publishers Award for Best Scholarly Book
in Philosophy and Religion, said that "The Varieties of Religious
Experience" asks central questions about the function and origin of
religion.
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David Hollinger
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David Hollinger: 'Damned for God's Glory: William James and the Scientific Vindication of Protestant Culture'
David Hollinger, Chancellor's Professor of History
at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "Science,
Jews, and Secular Culture" and "Postethnic America: Beyond
Multiculturalism," interpreted "The Varieties of Religious Experience"
as the product of the particular phase of James' career when he was
shifting from one strategy to another in defense of central aspects of
the culture of liberal Protestantism.
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Jerome Bruner
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| Jerome Bruner |
Jerome Bruner Discussed 'The Varieties of Ordinary Experience'
Jerome Bruner, University Professor at New York
University and author of "Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life," said
James achieved pervasive influence within the field. Bruner said James'
pragmatic outlook has become implicit and endemic in American
influential thought, and that pragmatism led to contructivism in the
human science -- the notion that social construction is reality; that
reality is made, not found.
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Wayne Proudfoot
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Wayne Proudfoot Looked at 'Pragmatism and an Unseen Order in Varieties'
Columbia Religion Professor Wayne Proudfoot, author
of "God and Self" and "Religious Experience," offered his view of
"Varities" as a site of interaction between two strategies --
separating science and religion and bringing science and religion
together under one umbrella, either in support or conflict.
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Published: Aug 19, 2002
Last modified:Wednesday, 18-Sep-2002 18:55:19 EDT
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