RELIGIOUS NATURALISM—WHERE DOES IT LEAD?

Loyal Rue; Loyal Rue

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00409.x

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RELIGIOUS NATURALISM—WHERE DOES IT LEAD?

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I respond to the four symposiasts who commented on my recent book Religion Is Not About God (2005)—religious studies scholars Donald Braxton and David Klemm, philosopher William Rottschaefer, and cognitive scientist Leslie Marsh. Various general and specific points relative to the nature of religion and the future of religion are either clarified or defended. Among the issues that receive attention are (1) the status and adequacy of my proposals for religious naturalism: Can it motivate wholeness, and is it finally a form of pantheism? (2) ritual practices, particularly those of Christianity, reinterpreted within the framework of religious naturalism; and (3) the adequacy of any naturalistic position to account for subjective properties of consciousness.

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moral realism, Donald Braxton, religious naturalism, William Rottschaefer, pantheism, David Klemm, Leslie Marsh

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Rue, L., (2007) “RELIGIOUS NATURALISM—WHERE DOES IT LEAD?”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 42(2), 409–422. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00409.x

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Braxton, Donald M. 2007. “Religious Naturalism and the Future of Christianity. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 42:317–41.

Klemm, David E. 2007. “Religious Naturalism or Theological HumanismZygon: Journal of Religion and Science 42:357–67.

Marsh, Leslie. 2007. “Taking the Super Out of the Supernatural. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 42:343–56.

Rottschaefer, William A. 2007. “Mythic Religious Naturalism. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 42:369–408.

Rue, Loyal. 2005. Religion Is Not About God: How Spiritual Traditions Nurture Our Biological Nature and What to Expect When They Fail New Brunswick , N.J. : Rutgers Univ. Press.

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Volume 42 • Issue 2 • June 2007

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Pages	409–422
Published on	2007-06-01

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