Pluralism, Supernaturalism, Pantheism

Toward the end of Varieties of Religious Experience, James summarizes the preceding 'empirical' study by classifying 'God' as an unseen 'supernatural' power. It follows from that classification that 'religion' entails the belief that some unseen supernatural power exists, and that 'religious experience' is constituted by interaction between a natural entity and a supernatural power. On those bases, Spinoza's naturalistic deity fails to qualify as a 'God', and, likewise, the Modal intuition of that deity is no 'religious experience'. Instead, James characterizes Spinoza's doctrine as a 'religion of healthy-mindedness', which, because of its treatment of 'evil' as relative and privative, has a derogatory connotation for James, i. e. James regards 'evil' as, like 'God', an unseen but real force. So, both James' religious 'Pluralism', and his erstwhile 'Empiricist' methodology, seem compromised by his prejudices.