It is hard for theologians to stay committed to anthropology. I think James has tagged some really significant elements of human communication but I am not sure he stayed away from the abstraction of God as much as I wish he might.
Likewise, I would like, and he might in the coming studies, to look at the relationship between what he is calling habit and ritual. I am not convinced within my context of working in a University setting that we have negative view of habit but we have a very negative view of ritual.