The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James · 1842–1910
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The Gifford Lectures given at Edinburgh by an American psychologist and philosopher, studying religion as personal experience rather than doctrine: conversion, saintliness, mysticism, the sick soul and the healthy-minded. James quotes his witnesses at length and judges them by their fruits in life. It founded the psychology of religion and remains generous, curious and readable.