RELIGIOUS NATURALISM—WHERE DOES IT LEAD?

Author: Rue, Loyal

Source: Zygon, Volume 42, Number 2, June 2007 , pp. 409-422(14)

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Abstract:

I respond to the four symposiasts who commented on my recent book Religion Is Not About God (2005)—religious studies scholars Donald Braxton and David Klemm, philosopher William Rottschaefer, and cognitive scientist Leslie Marsh. Various general and specific points relative to the nature of religion and the future of religion are either clarified or defended. Among the issues that receive attention are (1) the status and adequacy of my proposals for religious naturalism: Can it motivate wholeness, and is it finally a form of pantheism? (2) ritual practices, particularly those of Christianity, reinterpreted within the framework of religious naturalism; and (3) the adequacy of any naturalistic position to account for subjective properties of consciousness.

Keywords: Donald Braxton; David Klemm; Leslie Marsh; moral realism; pantheism; religious naturalism; William Rottschaefer

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00409.x

Affiliations: 1: Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Luther College, 700 College Drive, Decorah, IA 52101;, Email: rueloyal@luther.edu.

Publication date: 2007-06-01