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Religious Experience

  1. The Varieties of Religious Experience
    William James
    The Varieties of Religious Experience
    William James 1902

    These lectures examine personal religious experience through accounts of conversion, prayer, and unusual states of mind. One account describes a man's sudden sense of God's presence while hiking in the mountains.

    10h 48m reading time