Varieties of Religious Naturalism

“We are in the midst of a revelatory experience of the universe…
and we need only wander about telling this new story to ignite a transformation of humanity.”

Brian Swimme

Related Websites

There is no one version of religious naturalism. Rather, there exists a trove of writings, art, and music that explore its potential.

Lists below provide links to books and websites that religious naturalists can learn from and draw from – to expand understanding of varied perspectives on religious naturalism and related topics, and how these may be considered or put into practice.

Books

A Fistful of Stars: Communing with the Cosmos	Gail Colins-Randive, Milt Hetrick
A Freethinker’s Gospel	Chris Highland
A God That Could Be Real	Nancy Ellen Abrams
A Religion of Nature	Donald A. Crosby
Atheopaganism	Mark Green
Believing in Dawkins: The New Spiritual Atheism	Eric Steinhart
Biotheology: A New Synthesis of Science and Religion	Michael Cavanaugh
Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism	Carol Wayne White
Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred	Victoria Loorz
Cosmogenisis	Brian Swimme
Dancing with the Sacred	Karl Peters
Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future	Bron Taylor
Einstein’s God: A Way of Being Spiritual Without the Supernatural	Todd Macalister
Elements of Pantheism: A Spirituality of Nature and the Universe	Paul Harrison
Everybody’s Story	Loyal Rue
Evolutionary Religion	J. L. Schellenberg
Exploring Spiritual Naturalism, Year 1	DT Strain
For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World	Sasha Sagan
From the Big Bang to God	Lloyd Geering
How to be Animal	Melanie Challenge
Journey of the Universe	Brian Thomas Swimme (Author), Mary Evelyn Tucker (Author)
Living with Ambiguity: Religious Naturalism and the Menace of Evil	Donald A. Crosby
Log Cabin Reflections	Laura Emerson
Looking to Nature: Exploring a Modern Way of Being Spiritual Without the Supernatural	Todd Macalister
Meditations of John Muir	Chris Highland
More than Discourse	Donald A. Crosby
Nature as Sacred Ground: A Metaphysics for Religious Naturalism	Donald A. Crosby
Nature is Enough: Religious Naturalism and the Meaning of Life	Loyal Rue
Nature’s Sublime: An Essay in Aesthetic Naturalism	Robert S. Corrington
Psyche and the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Religion	Lionel Corbett
Quantum Physics and Ultimate Reality: Mystical Writings of Great Physicists	Michael Green
Reason and Reverence	William R. Murry
Reflections: On Time, Culture, and Spirits in America	Denis McCarty
Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion	Stuart A. Kaufman
Religion, Science and Naturalism	Willem B. Drees
Religion within the Limits of History’s Alone: Pragmatic Historicism and the Future of Theology	Demian Wheeler
Religious and Spiritual Experiences	Wesley J. Wildman
Rooted	Lyanda Haupt
Religious Naturalism Today	Jerome A. Stone
Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism	multiple authors
Sacred Nature	Karen Armstrong
Science and Religious Anthropology: A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life	Wesley J. Wildman
Spinoza’s Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics	Clare Carlisle
Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist	Sharman Apt Russell
Thank God for Evolution	Michael Dowd
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself	Sean Carroll
The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science	Andreas Weber
The Bonobo and The Atheist	Franz de Waal
The Legacy of Anne Conway: Reverberations From A Mystical Naturalist	Carol Wayne White
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality	Andre Comte-Sponville
The New Universe and the Human Future	Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack
The Promise of Religious Naturalism	Michael S. Hogue
The Sacred Depths of Nature	Ursula Goodenough
The Thou of Nature	Donald A. Crosby
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God	Carl Sagan
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe	Jeremy Lent
Therefore Choose Life	George Wald
Thus Let Me Live: An Essay in Humanism	C. W. Vail
What is God and How Does it Work?	Ken Dahl
When God is Gone, Everything is Holy	Chet Raymo
Wisdom for a New Era: Balancing Nature, Science, and Belief	Benjamin C. Godfrey

Poetry

Black Elk’s Circle Poem	Black Elk
Bread Sex Trees: Poetry	Alix Klingenberg
A Little Book of Living Through the Day: Poems During a Pandemic	David Breeden