The Classical American Pragmatists and Religion

J. Caleb Clanton is Associate Professor of Philosophy and University Research Professor at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of The Ethics of Citizenship: Liberal Democracy and Religious Convictions and Religion and Democratic Citizenship: Inquiry and Conviction in the American Public Square.

Introduction: On Classical Pragmatism and Religion in America Part I: Pre-pragmatists: Unitarians, Transcendentalists, Proto-pragmatists 1. William Ellery Channing 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson 3. Henry David Thoreau 4. Margaret Fuller 5. Walt Whitman 6. Chauncey Wright Part II: Classical American Pragmatists 7. Charles Sanders Peirce 8. William James 9. John Dewey 10. George Herbert Mead Part III: Fellow Travelers, Sympathizers, Middle Pragmatists 11. Borden Parker Bowne 12. Josiah Royce 13. George Santayana 14. Jane Addams 15. W.E.B. Du Bois 16. William Ernest Hocking 17. Alain Locke 18. Sidney Hook

"An excellent collection of papers in American philosophy of religion. Containing the classic contributions of the transcendentalists and the original pragmatists, Clanton also includes less familiar, yet equally fascinating, pieces by figures from Royce, Santayana, Alain Locke, Jane Addams, and others. This book provides an ideal guide to the treatments of religion by leading American philosophers." --Chris Hookway, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield "Clanton's focus is on those texts, which engage the religious-philosophical tension, pragmatically considered. This book is eminently teachable, for both Clanton's Introduction and his selections." --John McDermott, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Texas A&M University "There has long been a need for a text like this. Clanton introduces readers to several trajectories and usefully tracks thinkers often ignored in this American philosophical tradition." --Douglas Anderson, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Classical American Pragmatists and Religion is a very good introduction to the classical American pragmatists' views on religion. -- Dwayne A. Tunstall, Grand Valley State University -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion