Religious experiences, unlike aesthetic ones, connect to faith and broader ideas beyond subjective feelings.
While both can evoke well-being and connectedness, religious experiences stem from a different origin and involve more than just emotion.
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On The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), focusing on lectures 1-3 and 20. What is religion and how should philosophers study it?
James describes it as a sincere, full-life reaction to the world, more emotional than intellectual, and conveys the experiences of the extreme "religious geniuses" that are merely received second or third hand by the believing masses.