 A question can be raised whether the famous Jamesian theory of emotions, referred to in this quotation, is the best account for understanding religious emotions. That theory holds that the emotion itself is a “quaking of the human breast” or an “organic thrill,” where such physiological perturbations are caused (aroused) by “objects.” The cause of the quaking may be a bear approaching on the forest path, or it may be the thought of divine retribution. The quaking is religious just in case it is caused by a divine object — or at least a thought thereof.