Books like The Varieties of Religious Experience

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James reads as academic, analytical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Myth and reality

Mircea Eliade · 1963

Shares the faith thread

69% genome match

Castillo interior o las moradas

Teresa of Avila · 1882

Shares the faith + vornate thread

69% genome match

The hero and the goddess

Jean Houston · 1992

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Blake's apocalypse

Harold Bloom · 1963

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Manly Palmer Hall · 1978

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer · 1890

Shares the vornate thread

83% genome match

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo · 1482

Shares the faith + vornate thread

69% genome match

Cosmos and Psyche

Richard Tarnas · 2005

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Myths to live by

Joseph Campbell · 1972

Shares the faith thread

69% genome match

Autobiography of Madame Guyon

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon · 1727

Shares the faith + vornate thread

69% genome match

Zur Psychologie westlicher und östlicher Religion

Carl Gustav Jung · 1938

Shares the faith thread

69% genome match

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

Henry Adams · 1904

Shares the faith + vornate thread

69% genome match