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Is religion natural? Religion, naturalism and near-naturalism [PDF]

open access: bronzeInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 2020
In this article I argue that the kind of scientific naturalism that tends to underwrite projects of naturalizing religion operates with a tacit conception of nature which, upon closer inspection, t...
Thomas J. Spiegel
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Is Religion Natural? Boyle Lecture 2024

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A commitment to religion as natural has commanded widespread support in the history of theology and philosophy. This has often been used apologetically, whether through arguments for religious innatism or from a consensus gentium, neither of which now ...
David Alexander Syme Fergusson
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Back Home and Back to Nature? Natural Parenting and Religion in Francophone Contexts [PDF]

open access: goldOpen Theology, 2020
New entanglements between parenting (in theory and practice), environmentalism, religion, spirituality, and secularism are at the core of the analysis presented in this article.
Guignard Florence Pasche
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From the Natural Self-Orgnizaton of Religion to the Modern Magical Realism of the Religious Experience [PDF]

open access: diamondAcademicus International Scientific Journal, 2019
Religion is a powerful phenomenon arising in and from society. Various efforts have been done to understand religion as a natural phenomenon, which could be framed in the language of science.
Gerardo Abreu Pederzini
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Is religion natural? [PDF]

open access: bronzeInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 2020
Why is religion such a widespread human experience? In enlightenment Scotland, philosophers had already attempted to answer this question turning to natural histories of mankind, and to a careful a...
Kroeker, Esther, Lemmens, Willem
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Evolution and religion : theory, definitions, and the natural selection of religious behavior [PDF]

open access: gold, 2009
The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on ...
Ryan M. Ellsworth
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Is Religion Natural? Response to David Fergusson

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This response to the 2024 Boyle Lecture takes David Fergusson’s lecture “Is Religion Natural?” as a starting point from which to discuss some of the philosophical issues that arise in this context.
Fiona Ellis
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The end of all things. Kant and Cohen on religion and reason [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2023
According to Kant’s concept of natural religion, the moral concept of God consists in the coordinated aggregate of the concepts of holiness, goodness and justice.
Papa Stefano
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The Paradox of the Idea of Intuitive Theism and the Fact of Numerous Atheists; A Research in the Cognitive Sciences of Religion [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2021
In the cognitive science of religion, some, after conducting or examining experiments, believe that all human beings are "intuitive theists" or "Born Believers" and believe in "natural Religion." According to these thinkers, our three basic cognitive ...
Naeimeh Pourmohammadi   +1 more
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The Time of Religion and Human Rights [PDF]

open access: yesحقوق بشر, 2020
The Enlightenment's distinction between positive and natural religion furnishes a useful point of departure for thinking about the relationship, in today's world, between religion and human rights.
Louis E. Wolcher
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