Chapter III: The Religious Experience 53

Sect. 15. The Possibility of Defining Religion 53
Sect. 16. The Profitableness of Defining Religion 54
Sect. 17. The True Method of Defining Religion 56
Sect. 18. Religion as Belief 59
Sect. 19. Religion as Belief in a Disposition or Attitude 62
Sect. 20. Religion as Belief in the Disposition of the Residual
Environment, or Universe 64
Sect. 21. Examples of Religious Belief 66
Sect. 22. Typical Religious Phenomena. Conversion 69
Sect. 23. Piety 72
Sect. 24. Religious Instruments, Symbolism, and Modes of
Conveyance 74
Sect. 25. Historical Types of Religion. Primitive Religions 77
Sect. 26. Buddhism 78
Sect. 27. Critical Religion 79

CHAPTER IV. THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF RELIGION 82

Sect. 28. Resume of Psychology of Religion 82
Sect. 29. Religion Means to be True 82
Sect. 30. Religion Means to be Practically True. God is a
Disposition from which Consequences May Rationally
be Expected 85
Sect. 31. Historical Examples of Religious Truth and Error. The
Religion of Baal 88
Sect. 32. Greek Religion 89
Sect. 33. Judaism and Christianity 92
Sect. 34. The Cognitive Factor in Religion 96
Sect. 35. The Place of Imagination in Religion 97
Sect. 36. The Special Functions of the Religious Imagination 101
Sect. 37. The Relation between Imagination and Truth in Religion 105
Sect. 38. The Philosophy Implied in Religion and in Religions 108