# David Brainerd — The Varieties of Religious Experience character guide

> David Brainerd in The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** David Brainerd, Brainerd, David

**First appearance:** 0010-lectures-vi-and-vii-the-sick-soul

## Who they are

Missionary whose diary records his intense religious melancholy and devotion.

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