[PDF] The Promise Of Religious Naturalism eBook

Author : Michael S. Hogue
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1442205954

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The Promise of Religious Naturalism explores religious naturalism as a distinctly promising form of contemporary religious ethics. Examining how religious naturalism responds to the challenges of recent religious transformations and ecological peril worldwide, author Michael Hogue argues that religious naturalism is emerging as an increasingly plausible and potentially rewarding form of religious moral life. Beginning with an introduction of religious naturalism in the larger context of religious and ethical theories, the book undertakes the first extended study of the works of religious naturalists Loyal Rue, Donald Crosby, Jerome Stone, and Ursula Goodenough. Hogue pays particular attention to the ethical components of religious naturalism in relation to religious pluralism and ecological issues.

Author : Loyal Rue
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 143843801X

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Claims that the natural world, as opposed to a supernatural realm, can inspire a religious sensibility and a conviction that life is meaningful.

Author : Mikael Leidenhag
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438484429

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Can nature be considered a religious object? Religious naturalists answer yes, as they seek to carve out a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism. In this book, Mikael Leidenhag critically examines the religious proposals, philosophical commitments, and ecological ambitions of key religious naturalists, including Willem B. Drees, Charley D. Hardwick, Donald Crosby, Ursula Goodenough, Stuart Kauffman, Gordon Kaufman, Karl Peters, and Loyal Rue. Leidenhag argues that contemporary religious naturalism faces several problems, both with regard to its understanding of naturalism and the ways in which it seeks to uphold a religious conception of reality. He evaluates possible routes for moving forward, considering naturalistic and theistic proposals. He also analyzes the philosophical thesis of panpsychism, the idea that mind is a pervasive feature of the universe and reaches down to the fundamental levels of reality. The author concludes that panpsychism offers the most promising framework against which to understand the metaphysics and eco-ethical ambitions of religious naturalism.

Author : Ursula Goodenough
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0195136292

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Author : Donald A. Crosby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1351857533

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Ecological crisis is being widely discussed in society today and therefore, the subject of religious naturalism has emerged as a major topic in religion. The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-four chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into seven parts: • Varieties of religious naturalism and its relations to other outlooks • Some earlier religious naturalists • Pantheism, materialism, and the value-ladenness of nature • Ecology, humans, and politics in naturalistic perspective • Religious naturalism and traditional religions • Putting religious naturalism into practice • Critical discussions of religious naturalism. Within these sections central issues, debates, and problems are examined, including: defining religious naturalism; religious underpinnings of ecology; natural piety; the religious-aesthetic; ecstatic naturalism as deep pantheism; spiritual ecology; African-American religious naturalism; Christian religious naturalism; Dao and water; Confucianism; environmental action; and practices in religious naturalism. The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, theology, and philosophy. The Handbook will also be useful for those in related fields, such as environmental ethics and ecology.

Author : Jerome A. Stone
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791475379

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Looks at the history and revival of religious naturalism, a spiritual path without a supreme being.

Author : David Ray Griffin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2000-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780791445631

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Articulates a metaphysical position capable of rendering both science and religious experience simultaneously and mutually intelligible.

Author : Loyal D. Rue
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813535115

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Annotation If religion is not about God, then what on earth is it about? Loyal Rue contends that religion is a series of strategies that aims to influence human nature so that we might think, feel, and act in ways that are good for us, both individually and collectively.

Author : Charles Taliaferro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441148825

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A philosophical inquiry into the strengths and weaknesses of theism and naturalism in accounting for the emergence of consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. The authors begin by offering an account of modern scientific practice which gives a central place to the visual imagination and aesthetic values. They then move to test the explanatory power of naturalism and theism in accounting for consciousness and the very visual imagination and aesthetic values that lie behind and define modern science. Taliaferro and Evans argue that evolutionary biology alone is insufficient to account for consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. Insofar as naturalism is compelled to go beyond evolutionary biology, it does not fare as well as theism in terms of explanatory power.