William James delivered a series of talks at Edinburgh College in 1901 and 1902, known as the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion. The publisher Longmans, Green & Co. compiled the lectures and published them, later in 1902. In general, the book is about what James viewed as the nature of religion and the fact that academia had not, up to that point in time, considered religion as a serious subject for research and study. This book, along with the work of Carl Jung, turned the eye of psychological and sociological researches to the purpose and expression of the religious impulse.
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