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| William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902): |
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| Lecture Summaries: - of VRE's 20 lectures |
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| 1: Religion and Neurology |
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| 2: Circumscription of the Topic |
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| 3: The Reality of the Unseen |
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| 4-5: The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness |
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| 6-7: The Sick Soul |
22545 |
| 8: The Divided Self |
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| 9-10: Conversion |
22855 |
| 11-13: Saintliness |
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| 14-15: The Value of Saintliness |
17149 |
| 16-17: Mysticism |
24091 |
| 18: Philosophy |
11370 |
| 19: Other Characteristics |
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| 20: Conclusions & Postscript |
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| VRE: Issues - inconsistencies and other considerations in VRE, latest 03-11-04 |
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| Religion and the Sacred |
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Understanding the Sacred - meanings of sacred - latest 02-05 |
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| The Sacred in English Religion - a historical survey |
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| Stanley Spencer: Artist of the Sacred |
9893 |
| Protestant Minimalism - Protestant understanding of religion 15/27-02-04 |
8989 |
| Neurotheology 1 - God on the Brain (2003) BBC TV programme 15-02/01-03-04 |
9411 |
| Neurotheology 2 - God on the Brain (2003) BBC TV programme 15-02/01-03-04 |
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| Some Definitions of Religion - various definitions, plus comment 03-03-04 |
8133 |
| Sacred Time - a summary of Gary Eberle: Sacred Time and the Search for Meaning |
10052 |
| Human Time Today - the contemporary experience of time |
6875 |
| Ritual and Performance - latest 08-11-06 |
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| Mircea Eliade: The Sacred & The Profane (1957): |
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| Summaries of the 4 chapters: |
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| 1 Sacred Space |
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| 2 Sacred Time |
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| 3 Sacred Nature |
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| 4 Sacred Self |
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| 1 Criticisms - latest 15-11-04 |
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| 2 Eliade's Sacred |
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| Mary Douglas: Purity and Danger (1966): |
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| Chapters: - latest 11-12-06 |
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| 1: Robertson Smith and his legacy |
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| 2: Understanding rules of defilement |
32987 |
| 4: Ritual re-assessed |
24875 |
| 5: Primitive thought |
23137 |
| 10: Understanding the Lele pangolin cult |
18925 |
| Extended Comments Pages: - latest 11-12-06 |
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| A Ndembu Doctor (ch 4) |
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| The Zande Poison Oracle (ch 5) |
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| The Protestant Atheism of Richard Dawkins: |
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| The Root of All Evil(TV 2006) Summaries & Comments - latest 12-02-06 |
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| 1 - The God Delusion (TV 09-01-06): |
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| 1: Summary |
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| 2: Comment 1 - Catholicism; American Evangelicalism |
11624 |
| 3: Comment 2 - Creationism; The Existence of God |
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| 2 - The Virus of Faith (TV 16-01-06): |
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| 1: Summary |
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| 2: The Historicism of Richard Dawkins 1: Religion as the Intrusive Evil |
8261 |
| 3: The Historicism of Richard Dawkins 2: Scientific Capitalism |
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| 4: Contradictions etc - latest 25-10-06 |
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| Rudolf Otto: The Idea of the Holy (1917): |
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| The Idea of the Holy 1: Summary |
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| The Idea of the Holy 2: Comments |
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| The Rudolf Otto Virus - the mysterium tremendum et fascinans mystery - latest 31-05-07 |
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| Theodor Klauser: A Short History of the Western Liturgy (1965): |
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| Summaries and Notes - latest 01-10-07 |
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| Ch 1: The Early Liturgy (to 570) |
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| Ch 2: The Earlier Medieval Liturgy (570-1073) |
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| Ch 3: The Later Medieval Liturgy (1073-1545) |
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| Ch 4: The Tridentine Liturgy (from 1545) |
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| Ronald Hutton: Shamans (2001): |
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| Summaries and Comments - latest 04-10-06 |
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| Intro & Part 1 |
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| Part 2 |
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| Part 3 |
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| Comments & Notes |
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| Emile Durkheim: The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912): |
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| Durkheim on the Sacred |
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| The Elementary Forms of Religious Life: Comments - latest 05-12-06 |
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| Durkheim's Metaphysics - latest note 05-12-06 |
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| Simon Baron-Cohen: The Essential Difference (2003): |
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| Short Summary |
19675 |
| Comments - latest 18-01-04 |
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| Classism |
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| Five Brain Types - latest 18-01-04 |
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| Personality and Relationships: |
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| Proximal and Distal Relationships |
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| The Personality of Benny Hill - latest 19-09-11 |
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| Personal Networks |
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| Sociocentrism in Psychology |
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