 James here assimilates religious emotions to emotions more generally, and eschews the project of trying to identify some particular emotion-type to which every instance of religious emotion belongs and which makes it religious. But a few pages later (p. 49) he “arbitrarily” for purposes of his exposition says that religion is the feelings, acts, and experiences of individuals when they apprehend themselves to be in the presence of the divine. Supposing that diversity among conceptions of the divine will engender diversity among emotional experiences of the divine, and the diversity among types of emotions will reflect differences in ways experiences of the divine bear on the diverse situations of life, the Jamesian picture seems compatible with our brief exposition of emotions in the New Testament at the beginning of this article.