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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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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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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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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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A Critical Examination of Methodological Naturalism from the Perspective of Islamic Education [PDF]

پژوهش در آموزش معارف و تربیت اسلامی
The aim of this study is to critically examine methodological naturalism from the perspective of Islamic education. For this purpose, a descriptive–analytical method has been employed.
Habib Karkon
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THE POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF AWE AND NATURE APPRECIATION TO POSITIVE MORAL VALUES

Zygon, 2021
The present analysis utilizes publicly available survey data to assess attitudes consistent with the religious naturalist orientation. Religious naturalism entails a sense of awe and reverence toward the natural world, and the survey data have subscales
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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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NATURALISTIC RELIGIOUS PRACTICES: WHAT NATURALISTS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING AND DOING

Zygon, 2021
Beyond philosophical perspectives on how naturalism can be considered as a focus of religious orientation, a number of naturalists have been exploring things that might be done as spiritual/religious practices. This article gives an overview of types of
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Near-Death Experiences and Religious Experience: An Exploration of Spirituality in Medicine

Religions, 2022
There has been a continuous discussion of religious experience since William James, culminating in a rich and varied literature on the epistemology of religious experience in the late twentieth century. There has also been a burgeoning literature on near-
Jonathan Kopel, Mark Webb
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