The Varieties of Religious Experience (Part 1)

William James

⏱ 8 minWisdom classic

Part 1 of 2. A psychologist studies religion not as doctrine but as a fact of human nature, judging it by its fruits and not its roots, through the sunny once-born soul, the suffering sick soul, the divided self, and the strange transformation of conversion.

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