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WHEN TO BE WHAT? WHY SCIENCE‐INSPIRED NATURALISM NEED NOT IMPLY RELIGIOUS NATURALISM
Zygon, 2021 In The Aristos, John Fowles imagined the human situation as that of a diverse group of people on a raft, apparently between a wreck in the past and a shore where they will land. But there was no wreck, there is no shore.
Willem B. Drees
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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.
Drees, Willem B.; id_orcid +1 more
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Zygon, 2014 Religious naturalism is distinct from supernatural religion largely because of metaphysical minimalism. Certain varieties of religious naturalism are more minimalist than others, however, and some even eschew metaphysics altogether. But is anything lost
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What is Religious Naturalism? A Preliminary Report of an Ongoing Conversation
Zygon, 2000 Religious naturalism is an emerging construct that relies greatly on science and yet affirms attitudes and practices that are distinctly religious in nature. This article explores the meaning of the term as it is used by various proponents, contrasts it
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RE‐ENVISIONING HOPE: ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE, LEARNED IGNORANCE, AND RELIGIOUS NATURALISM
Zygon, 2018 In this essay, I introduce religious naturalism as one contemporary religious response to anthropogenic climate change; in so doing, I offer a concept of hope associated with the beauty of ignorance, of not knowing ourselves in the usual manner ...
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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 +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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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, философияThis 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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