View The Varieties Of Religious Experience A Study In Human Nature By William James Gif. The varieties of religious experience. James, therefore, defined religion, not by the church that people attend, but by what people do in their everyday life.

Defining personal religion as the feelings, acts, and experiences of individuals in relationship to the divine, james develops a taxonomy of various he also wrote an important work on the psychology of religious experience. Excerpt from the varieties of religious experience: Lecture i religion and neurology introduction:

A study in human nature.

James, therefore, defined religion, not by the church that people attend, but by what people do in their everyday life. This classic book has become famous as the standard scientific work on the psychology of religious impulses and of the varieties of religious experiences. In filial gratitude and love. What is nowadays called the higher criticism of the bible is only a study of the bible from this existential point of view, neglected too much by the earlier church.