What to Read After The Varieties of Religious Experience
Readers who loved The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Varieties of Religious Experience is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Power of Myth
The World's Religions
The sacred and the profane
The education of Henry Adams
Dynamics of faith
The Sacred Canopy
The Essence of Christianity (Great Books in Philosophy)
The illustrated world's religions
The elementary forms of the religious life
Seven theories of religion
Stages of faith
The Proper Study of Mankind
The nature and destiny of man
Mysticism
Toward a psychology of being
The Golden Bough
The portable Jung.
The Way of Zen
The perennial philosophy
I Ching
On Becoming a Person
Man and His Symbols
The divided self
The gnostic Gospels