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Christianity and Religious Naturalism

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
This article provides an overview of contemporary religious naturalism, with a specific focus on Christian articulations of this emerging worldview and movement.
Mikael Leidenhag
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Religious Spirituality and the Meaning of Life: the Problem of Absurdity [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022
Religious spirituality faces various challenges in the new world. One of these challenges is the question of meaningfulness or emptiness of life. While in the traditional world, few thinkers see life as empty and absurd, today there are many such views ...
Vahid Sohrabifar, Abolghasem Fanaei
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A Critical Review of Theological Arguments in Defence of Methodological Naturalism [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2018
Inconsistency of methodological naturalism and religious beliefs has been the most important reason for theists to oppose methodological naturalism. But some philosophers defend methodological naturalism based on their theological dispositions.
Zahra Zargar, Ebrahim Azadegan, Lotfollah Nabavi   +2 more
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Cultural Relativism in Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Cultural and Religious Rituals [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022
According to the current interpretation, Wittgenstein in "Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough" takes an expressive approach to religious rituals and cultural practices. Relying on this approach, he criticizes Frazer's view.
Hossein Shaqaqi
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NATURALISM AND RELIGION: HUNTING TWO SNARKS?

Zygon, 2021
Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark has as its subtitle An Agony in Eight Fits. Agony: struggle, violent and painful contest, the pangs of death.
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The Explanation and Its Models in Religious Study [PDF]

Comparative Theology, 2020
The ultimate goal of science is to predict the future and predicting is impossible without explanation. The scientific explanation is the expression of causes of a phenomenon in the light of a scientific law. Explanation in the humanities is a widespread
Ahmad Ebadi, Elham Sadat Karimi Dooraki
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Theology and Naturalism

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023
Historically and today, the movement of naturalism affirms the reality of the natural world, rejecting religious views of God, the soul, and values when these are understood to be supernatural or transcending the natural world.
Charles Taliaferro
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“I believe because of evolution”: has cognitive science undermined the rationality of religious belief? [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
This article explores the implications of contemporary naturalistic theories of religion for the rationality of religious (theistic) belief. The so-called evolutionary debunking arguments attempt to undermine the rationality of a belief by appealing to ...
Kantemir Kanukoev
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A FRAMEWORK OF SPIRITUALITY FOR THE FUTURE OF NATURALISM

Zygon, 2021
William James wrote that the life of religion “consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.” Naturalism organizes our experiences of the universe within a science ...
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Virkeligheder og religionshistorie: En introduktion til ontologier ifølge Philippe Descola

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2021
  ENGLISH SUMMARY: A presentation of Philippe Descola’s model of four ontol-ogies (animism, totemism, analogism, and naturalism) and six forms of attach-ment (gift, exchange, etc.) and an argument for their relevance for the academic study of ...
Hans J. Lundager Jensen
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