People can react to unseen, abstract concepts in everyday situations, such as political protests for democracy.
Some view everything as a manifestation of their beliefs, like seeing flowers as God's gift, which can be seen as theory-laden perception.
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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.