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religious experience: a standalone construct

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Religious studies

personal experiences that individuals take to be encounters with the divine or ultimate, which James treated as the root of religion.

In religious studies, religious experience refers to personal experiences that individuals take to be encounters with the divine or ultimate, which James treated as the root of religion. This meaning comes from James (1902) in The varieties of religious experience.[1]

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  1. James, W. (1902). The varieties of religious experience: A study in human nature. Longmans, Green. Open Library record

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