Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: a practical faith -- Part I Practical faith and the will to believe -- Chapter 1 The will and the right to believe -- Chapter 2 James's Wager and the right to believe -- Summary -- Part II Two moral arguments for religious faith -- Chapter 3 James's religious ethics in "The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life" -- Chapter 4 Overcoming pessimism in "Is Life Worth Living?" -- Summary -- Part III Piecemeal supernaturalism and practical needs -- Chapter 5 Religion and morality in The Varieties of Religious Experience -- I The Practical Value of Religious Experience -- II The Moral and Soteriological Nature of Religion -- III Religious Experience, Religious Realism, and Human Flourishing -- IV The Unification and Perfection of the Self -- V Piecemeal Supernaturalism and Practical Needs -- Chapter 6 A pragmatic account of religion -- I A Mediating Way of Thinking -- II The Pragmatic Meaning of Religious Belief -- III Humanism and Realism in James's Theory of Truth -- (i) An overview of James's theory of truth -- (ii) The humanist strand of James's theory of truth -- (iii) The realist strand of James's theory of truth -- IV A Religious Synthesis: Pragmatism and Melioristic Theism -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- WORKS BY JAMES -- ESSAYS -- WORKS BY OTHERS -- Index.