Religious Naturalism Resources
Welcome to this brief listing of sources for further reading and reflection.
The following represents some of the material I encountered and found helpful in the course of my own reading. I make no claims as to its scope or quality. I do, however, hope you enjoy what you find here or elsewhere as you explore the growing body of information on Religious Naturalism.
Please let me know if you are interested in helping form a WUU reading and discussion group around religious naturalism.
Don Ackley
757-532-9882
Websites
www.religious-naturalist-association.org
Official website of the Religious Naturalist Association. Membership is free, so take advantage of its many resources.
A large, growing, and very informative site maintained by the Religious Naturalist Association with lots of articles and resources for exploring the many aspects of religious naturalism.
An enormous web complex associated with the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, made up largely of academics.
Books
Comte-Sponville, Andre The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality Penguin 2008
Goodenough, Ursula The Sacred Depths of Nature Oxford University Press 1998
Murry, William R Reason and Reverence: Religious Humanism for the 21st Century Skinner House 2007
Peters, Karl E Dancing with the Sacred: Evolution, Ecology, and God Trinity Press International 2002
Raymo, Chet When God is Gone, Everything is Holy Sorin Books, 2008
Last I looked, all of the above – and much more – are available from Amazon and gathered together if you search under Religious Naturalism.
Please note we will be selling Dr. Murry’s Reason and Reverence at his lecture on March 14th, 2014.
Articles
Hassinger, Amy “Welcome to the Ecozoic Era” UUWorld Spring 2006
Murry, William R “Reason and Reverence” UUWorld Winter 2006
Murry, William R “Natural Faith: How Darwinian Evolution has Transformed Liberal Religion” UUWorld
Spring, 2009
Murry, William R “Religious Humanism: An Address Delivered at the UUA General Assembly 2000