A collection of five essays in which the religious experiences and activities of individuals, communities, and cultures are seen as preeminently rational responses to reality. Of interest to students and scholars of technology and philosophy.

This volume, with a bibliography and index, explores selected issues to show how John Locke and David Hume influenced the empiricism of Peirce, James, and Dewey. Roth looks for linkages and divergences which he thinks have been neglected.