Religion and Religiosity

In 'A Common Faith', Dewey elaborates on his concept of 'religion', deriving it from what he calls 'religiosity', which seems synonymous with the more traditional 'piety'.  By 'religiosity', he means 'holistic conscientiousness'--an awareness of one's entire being, in a macrocosmic context--applicable to all behavior, from which 'religion' is a ritualized abstraction.  Thus, in that piece, he diverges from his other efforts, and from James', to systematize Religion and Experience in terms of primarily cognitive methodology, i. e. uncertain hypothetical causal propositions.  Accordingly, he, in this context, conceives 'God' as an idea that functions as an immanent influence on action, not as a transcendent object of worship.  This concept of Religiosity is thus closer to Spinozism than Dewey seems to recognize, possibly because he seems to not appreciate the fundamental practical character of a Spinozist 'idea'.  Regardless, such Religiosity remains Functionalist behavior--a self-modification that is an adjustment to circumstances, rather than purposeless self-creativity.