A Measured Faith: Edwin Starbuck, William James, and the Scientific Reform of Religious Experience

A number of recent studies have drawn attention to how the study of religion and religious seeking were intertwined in European and American cultures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ann Taves, Leigh Schmidt and Hans Kippenberg, for example, have pointed to ways that particularly Protestan...

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Main Author: White, Christopher (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2008
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2008, Volume: 101, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 431-450
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