William James is remembered as the father of American psychology. But for many believers, he holds a different place altogether. He stands as one of the rare modern thinkers who refused to mock faith.
He didn’t preach religion, and he certainly didn’t try to dress it up in academic jargon. Instead, he studied it with care, reverence and genuine respect — treating the spiritual life not as superstition, but as something that lives at the center of who we are. In an age when many intellectuals dismissed the inner life as a quirk of biology or a trick of the mind, James dared to say: Something real is happening here.
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