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 | Concise Dictionary of Religion |  |
JAMES, William (1842-1910):
Brother of the American novelist Henry JAMES (1843-1916) whose Father was a SWEDENBORGIAN theologian. James was successively professor of psychology (1889-1897) and philosophy (1897-1907) at Harvard University. His book The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), laid the basis for the PSYCHOLOGY of RELIGION while his Pragmatism (1907) strongly influenced the development of American thought during the first half of the twentieth century.
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