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
There is no one version of religious naturalism. Rather, there exists a trove of writings, art, and music that explore its potential.
Offered below are links to books and websites on religious naturalism (and its synonyms) that religious naturalists can consider, learn from, and fold into their own orientations.
If you have suggestions of additional materials, please contact us at: RNAcomments@gmail.com.
Books
A Religion of Nature, by Donald A. Crosby
The Sacred Depths of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough
When God is Gone, Everything is Holy, by Chet Raymo
Religious Naturalism Today, by Jerome A. Stone
Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism – 34 chapters by multiple authors
Dancing with the Sacred, by Karl Peters
Biotheology: A New Synthesis of Science and Religion, by Michael Cavanaugh
Nature is Enough: Religious Naturalism and the Meaning of Life, by Loyal Rue
Nature’s Sublime: An Essay in Aesthetic Naturalism, by Robert S. Corrington
Everybody’s Story, by Loyal Rue
Thank God for Evolution, by Michael Dowd
Religion, Science and Naturalism, by Willem B. Drees
The Promise of Religious Naturalism, by Michael S. Hogue
Religion within the Limits of History Alone: Pragmatic Historicism and the Future of Theology, by Demian Wheeler
The New Universe and the Human Future, by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack
Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist, by Sharman Apt Russell
Elements of Pantheism: A Spirituality of Nature and the Universe, by Paul Harrison
Exploring Spiritual Naturalism, Year 1, by DT Strain
Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion, by Stuart A. Kaufman
Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, by Bron Taylor
Reason and Reverence, by William R. Murry
More than Discourse, by Donald A. Crosby
Quantum Physics and Ultimate Reality: Mystical Writings of Great Physicists, by Michael Green
Thus Let Me Live: An Essay in Humanism, by C. W. Vail
What is God and How Does it Work?, by Ken Dahl
A God That Could Be Real, by Nancy Ellen Abrams
The Thou of Nature, by Donald A. Crosby
Meditations of John Muir, by Chris Highland
A Freethinker’s Gospel, by Chris Highland
Einstein’s God: A Way of Being Spiritual Without the Supernatural, by Todd Macalister
Wisdom for a New Era: Balancing Nature, Science, and Belief, by Benjamin C. Godfrey
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, by Carl Sagan
Looking to Nature, by Todd Macalister
From the Big Bang to God, by Lloyd Geering
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality, by Andre Comte-Sponville
Nature as Sacred Ground: A Metaphysics for Religious Naturalism, by Donald A. Crosby
Living with Ambiguity: Religious Naturalism and the Menace of Evil, by Donald A. Crosby
Evolutionary Religion, by J. L. Shellenberg
Therefore Choose Life by George Wald
The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy by Michael McCarthy
A Fistful of Stars: Communing with the Cosmos by Gail Colins-Randive, Milt Hetrick
Reflections: On Time, Culture, and Spirits in America by Denis McCarty
The Legacy of Anne Conway: Reverberations From A Mystical Naturalist by Carol Wayne White
Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism by Carol Wayne White
Looking to Nature: Exploring a Modern Way of Being Spiritual Without the Supernatural by Todd Macalister
For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World by Sasha Sagan
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors by David George Haskell
Websites
Institute for Ecstatic Naturalism
Unitarian Universalist Religious Naturalists
William Grassie – books, essays, projects, etc.
Religious Naturalism Resources
Seven Candles: Science for a Deeper Spirituality
Thomas Berry and the Great Work
Three Point Eight Billion Years