Religion

James treated religious experience phenomenologically, ignoring the question of whether they were physically real, only looking at the psychological aspects. I don't know what he thought of Joseph Smith, but he wrote about the "dark night of the soul," which he recognized as depression, and finding God at the end was the lifting of the depression. People who experience dark nights share their experience as a guide book to help others through their depression. I don't think organized religion is devoid of religiosity, but people who don't experience dark nights don't understand this part of the religious experience.