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Willam James on Religion and Pragmatism

To consider the bearing of pragmatism on philosophy of religion we have to attend not only to different versions of pragmatism but also to different conceptions of religion. I want to trace the development of William James’s understanding of what he took to be the central religious question, show how he reinterprets Peirce’s pragmatic criterion of meaning in a way that enables him to turn to religious experience as evidence in support of religious belief, and briefly consider a criticism that John Dewey made of James’s pragmatic approach to the meaning of the term “God” in his lectures on Pragmatism.