The attention to explanation, naturalism, and the science of religions approach are important to James interpretation and to philosophical discussions of pragmatism, as well as methodology in the study of religion. This book will become a necessary reference for future treatments of Varieties and James's work overall.

— David Lamberth, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University

This book is indispensable for anyone who wants to keep abreast of the best recent work on William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience. The contributors could hardly be more eminent, and the essays they have written for this volume could hardly be more thoughtful and provocative.

— Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University