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1. William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience

   A Centenary Celebration

   Edited by Jeremy Carrette

   William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience was an intellectual landmark, paving the way for current study of psychology, philosophy and religious studies. In this new companion to the Varieties, key international experts provide contemporary responses to James's book, exploring its...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. William James's Hidden Religious Imagination

   A Universe of Relations

   By Jeremy Carrette

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion.’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpretations, it uncovers a dynamic, imaginative, and critical use of the category of religion. This work argues that we can only fully understand...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. A Place of Springs

   By Grace M. Jantzen

   Edited by Jeremy Carrette, Morny Joy

   Series: Death and the Displacement of Beauty

   In this book Grace Jantzen constructs a Quaker spirituality of beauty as a theological-philosophical response to a world preoccupied with death and violence. Having mapped the foundations of western cultural violence in the Greco-Roman period and the Judea-Christian tradition in Foundations of...

   Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge
4. Violence to Eternity

   By Grace M. Jantzen

   Edited by Jeremy Carrette, Morny Joy

   Series: Death and the Displacement of Beauty

   In this volume Grace M. Jantzen continues her groundbreaking analysis of death and beauty in western thought by examining the religious roots of death and violence in the Jewish and Christian tradition, which underlie contemporary values. She shows how man’s fear of the female is often...

   Published November 16th 2008 by Routledge
5. Religion and Critical Psychology

   Religious Experience in the Knowledge Economy

   By Jeremy Carrette

   Jeremy Carrette argues that the psychology of religion is no longer sustainable without a social critique, and that as William James predicted, the project of the modernist psychology of religion has failed. Controversially he champions greater social and philosophical analysis within the field to...

   Published October 28th 2007 by Routledge
6. Selling Spirituality

   The Silent Takeover of Religion

   By Jeremy Carrette, Richard King

   From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism. Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp, attack on this fallacy. It shows how...

   Published September 15th 2004 by Routledge
7. Foucault and Religion

   By Jeremy Carrette

   Foucault and Religion is the first major study of Michel Foucault in relation and response to Religion. Jeremy Carrette offers us a challenging new look at Foucault's work and addresses a religious dimension that has previously been neglected. We see that prior to Foucault's infamous unpublished...

   Published November 3rd 1999 by Routledge
8. Religion and Culture

   By Michel Foucault

   Edited by Jeremy Carrette

   First published in 1999...

   Published August 16th 1999 by Routledge