Crosby / Stone The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-85753-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 438 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Handbooks in Religion

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 in relation to traditional and indigenous 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crosby, Donald A.

Stone, Jerome A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION

Donald A. Crosby and Jerome A. Stone

PART I

VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS NATURALISM AND ITS RELATIONS TO OTHER

OUTLOOKS

1. Defining and Defending Religious Naturalism

Jerome A. Stone

2. Religious Naturalism and Its Near Neighbors: Some Live Options

Willem B. Drees

PART II

SOME EARLIER RELIGIOUS NATURALISTS

3. Ernst Haeckel’s Creation: Developing a Non-Reductive Religious Naturalism

Whitney Bauman

4. The Religious Naturalism of Henry Nelson Wieman

Cedric L. Heppler

5. A Unity with the Universe: Schelling, Herder, and Dewey on Natural

Piety

John Shook

6. The Sublime as Sacred: Reading Schopenhauer as a Religious

Naturalist

Abigail T. Wernicki

7. Jaspers’s Philosophical Faith: Toward a Form of Religious

Naturalism

Nicholas J. Wernicki

PART III

PANTHEISM, MATERIALISM, AND THE VALUE-LADENNESS OF NATURE

8. Ecstatic Naturalism as Deep Pantheism

Robert S. Corrington

9. Deus sive Natura: Pantheism as a Variety of Religious Naturalism

Demian Wheeler

10. Matter, Mind, and Meaning

Donald A. Crosby

11. The Solemnity of the World

George Allan

PART IV

ECOLOGY, HUMANS, AND POLITICS IN NATURALISTIC PERSPECTIVE

12. Spiritual Ecology and Religious Naturalism: Exploring their Interrelationships

Leslie E. Sponsel

13. African American Religious Naturalism and the Question of the Human

Carol Wayne White

14. A Political Theology for the Anthropocene

Michael S. Hogue

15. Pragmatic Naturalism and Public Theology:

Prospects of Creative Exchange

Victor Anderson

PART V

RELIGIOUS NATURALISM AND TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS

16. Buddhism and Religious Naturalism

Jay N. Forrest

17. Zen Buddhist Perspectives on Religious Naturalism

Stephanie Kaza

18. One Shawnee’s Reflections on Religious Naturalism

Thomas Norton-Smith

19. Dao and Water: Rethinking Daoism as Naturalism

Jea Sophia Oh

20. A Christian Religious Naturalism

Karl E. Peters

21. Religious Naturalism: Hindu Perspectives

Varadaraja V. Raman

22. Naturalizing Religion

Loyal Rue

23. A Jewish Perspective on Religious Naturalism

Dan Solomon

24. Confucianism as a Form of Religious Naturalism

Mary Evelyn Tucker

PART VI

PUTTING RELIGIOUS NATURALISM INTO PRACTICE

25. Religious Naturalism and the Spirit of Query: Taking Adult Religious Education in a New Direction

Pamela C. Crosby

26. Bringing Religious Naturalism Together Online

Ursula Goodenough

27. Whither Religious Naturalism?

Walter Gulick

28. The Society of Nature and the Religion of Nature

Bruce M. Hannon

29. Practices in Religious Naturalism

Eric Steinhart

30. Naturalistic Spirituality as a Practice

Daniel Strain

PART VII

CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS OF RELIGIOUS NATURALISM

31. The Religious Availability of Religious Naturalism

David E. Conner

32. Holy Nostalgia: Toward a Sympathetic Critique of Religious

Naturalism

Michael L. Raposa

33. Concerning Consecrated Science: The Suspect Wonder of the New Cosmology

Lisa H. Sideris

34. Reflecting on Religious Naturalism: Possibilities and Critiques

Philip Hefner

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Donald A. Crosby is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus of Colorado State University, USA.

Jerome A. Stone is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, William Rainey Harper College, USA.