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The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James · 1902

James, the founder of pragmatism and a brilliant psychologist, turned the same empirical tools used on nature toward the study of religious experience: mysticism, conversion, saintliness, sick souls and healthy minds. He concluded that religious experience is real in its effects, regardless of its ultimate truth. The most open-minded, rigorous book ever written about faith.

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