Abstract

This paper seeks to explore the novel approach adopted by pragmatism on belief and in particular, religious belief. If belief can offer new avenues to knowledge and life, pragmatism offers us insight into how belief can enable us to lead a good life manifested in action that has a practical value. After making some preliminary remarks on pragmatism as to how it helps us to creatively respond to the challenge of opposing science and faith or more precisely scientific knowledge and religious belief, it briefly elaborates the contribution made both by classical and contemporary pragmatist thinkers. This paper also tries to show the relationship between pragmatism and social sciences to underscore how this relationship has created a greater scope for the study of religion and of religious belief with renewed interest, without however giving up the idea of transcendence.