TAKING THE SUPER OUT OF THE SUPERNATURAL

Author: Marsh, Leslie

Source: Zygon, Volume 42, Number 2, June 2007 , pp. 343-356(14)

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Abstract:

Metaphysical dualities divorce humankind from its natural environment, dualities that can precipitate environmental disaster. Loyal Rue in Religion Is Not About God (2005) seeks to resolve the abstract modalities of religion and naturalism in a unified monistic ecocentric metaphysic characterized as religious naturalism. Rue puts forward proposals for a general naturalistic theory of religion, a theory that lays bare the structural and functional features of religious phenomena as the critical first step on the road to badly needed religion-science realignment. Only then will humanity be equipped to address the environmental imperative.

Keywords: cognition; consciousness; environmentalism; evolutionary psychology; naturalism; pantheism

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00343.x

Affiliations: 1: Researcher at the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom;, Email: l.marsh@sussex.ac.uk.

Publication date: 2007-06-01