The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature-Fast Shipping

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

The Varieties of Religious Experience was an immediate bestseller upon its publicationin June 1902. Reflecting the pluralistic views of psychologist turned philosopherWilliam James, it posits that individual religious experiences, rather than the tenetsof organized religions, form the backbone of religious life. James’s discussion ofconversion, repentance, mysticism, and hope of reward and fears of punishment inthe hereafter—as well as his observations on the religious experiences of such diversethinkers as Voltaire, Emerson, Luther, and others—all support his thesis. WalterHouston Clark in Psychology Today deemed it “the most notable of all books in thefield of the psychology of religion.”