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The books listed here do not represent any endorsement by the authors of the contents of this website. They are not listed in any preferential order but the book by Ursula Goodenough is the defining text on the subject. A soon to be released text by Jerome Stone relates the history of this paradigm. It will be added when it becomes available at Amazon. For a total listing of the RN literature, go to our Bibliography .
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| The Sacred Depths of Nature |
Ursula Goodenough |
ISBN: 0195136292, Paperback - BUY
In eloquent prose a noted molecular biologist, offers a scientist's insight into the dialogue between science and religion and lays the foundation for RN
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| Religion is not about God |
Loyal Rue |
ISBN: 0813539552, Paperback - BUY
In this provocative book, Loyal Rue contends that religion, very basically, is about us. Successful religions are narrative (myth) traditions
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| When God Is Gone, Everything Is Holy: The Making of a Religious Naturalist |
Chet Raymo |
ISBN: ISBN-10: 1933495138, Hardcover - BUY
Chet Raymo has enriched and graced our lives with this wonderfulbook, steeped in wisdom, warmth, and clarity. A classic.
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| The God Problem |
Nigel Leaves |
ISBN: 0944344984, Paperback - BUY
Discusses four ways of addressing the God problem with RN being one way.
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| Reason and Reverence: Religious Humanism for the 21st Century |
William R. Murry |
ISBN: 1558965181 , Paperback - BUY
A religious humanism that speaks both to the heart and mind
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| Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion |
Stuart Kauffman |
ISBN: 0465003001 , Hardcover - BUY
Kauffman argues that the science of complexity provides a way to move beyond reductionist science to something new: a unified culture where we see God in the creativity of the universe, biosphere, and humanity.
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| The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality |
Andre Comte-Sponville |
ISBN: 0670018473 , Hardcover - BUY
The concept of spirituality has become intertwined with religion, and thus has lost touch with the nature of a true spiritual existence. A compelling argument is made for a profound dimension of experience that is god-free. The author's idea of spirituality resembles Eastern spirituality.
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| Dancing with the Sacred |
Karl Peters |
ISBN: 1563383934, Paperback - BUY
Zygon editor Peters describes a naturalistic theism, in which the sacred or divine is thought of as a system of nonpersonal processes within the natural world.
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| ADDITIONAL READING ON RN |
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These books offer a broader scope of RN ideas
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| In the Beginning...Creativity |
Gordon Kaufman |
ISBN: 0800636848, Paperback - BUY
IRAS regular redefines God as Creativity rather than as Creator
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| Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science |
Connie Barlow |
ISBN: 0387947949, Hardcover - BUY
We enter our houses of worship in search of meaning and understanding, but can we include the halls of academe and scientific laboratories as additional sources of inspiration? Barlow say yes!
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| Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue |
Paul Woodruff |
ISBN: 195157958, Paperback - BUY
Reverence which is the virtue that keeps human beings from trying to act like gods, has been forgotten in our society. People practice it but without understanding or valuing it.
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| Why Would Anyone Believe in God? |
Justin L. Barrett |
ISBN: 0759106673 , Paperback - BUY
Barrett presents a well-substantiated, yet very accessible thesis describing the psychological mechanisms involved in belief -- that is, both belief in general and belief in God in particular.
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| A Religion of Nature |
Donald A. Crosby |
ISBN: 0791454541 , Paperback - BUY
An eloquent case for regarding nature itself as religion-as the metaphysical ultimate deserving religious commitment
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| Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge |
Edward O. Wilson |
ISBN: 0316645699, Hardcover - BUY
A theory which attempts to unify man's search for knowledge in the various fields of mathematics, physics, chemisty, biology, evolutionary psychology, and socibiology
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| The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos |
Brian Swimme |
ISBN: 1570752818, Paperback - BUY
Man's nature to the cosmos and the necessity for not becoming disconnected to nature and the wonder and awe of the universe, stresses the interdependence of everything and focuses on the mystery and awe of the universe
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| Religion, Science and Naturalism |
Willem B. Drees |
ISBN: 052164562X, Paperback - BUY
Religious view of reality rooted in the possibilities of the natural world
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| No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe |
Matt Young |
ISBN: 0759610894, Paperback - BUY
A handful of books on science and religion are written with intellectual honesty, knowledge, and style. This is one
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| Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses |
Thomas W. Clark |
ISBN: 0979111102 , Paperback - BUY
Packed with insights about naturalism and its implications for free will, for life's meaning and purpose, and for social and political issues
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| Science of God: Truth in the Age of Science |
Kevin Sharpe |
ISBN: 074254267X, Paperback - BUY
Sharpe proposes a method for doing theology which does not divorce it from the practical applications of science
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| Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion |
Barbara J. King |
ISBN: 0385511043 , Hardcover - BUY
A gentle, respectful, and above all thoughtful book that searches for the origins of the religious impulse
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| Variety in Religion and Science |
Varadaraja V. Raman |
ISBN: 0595358403, Paperback - BUY
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| When Science Meets Religion |
Ian G. Barbour |
ISBN: 006060381X, Paperback - BUY
Barbour won the 1999 Templeton Prize for his role in advancing the study of science and religion. Are science and religion enemies, strangers, or partners?
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| The Minimalist Vision of Transcendence: A Naturalists Philosophy of Religion |
Jerome A. Stone |
ISBN: 0791411605 , Paperback - BUY
Viable alternative is offered to what a lot of people believe are the only two options: overpromising theology and cynical skepticism
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| God in Us : A Case for Christian Humanism |
Anthony Freeman |
ISBN: 0907845177, Paperback - BUY
Helps both believers and enquirers to a deeper understanding of their religious impulses. Lucid, clear, common-sense and to-the-point.
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| The Courage to Be |
Paul Tillich |
ISBN: 0300084714, Paperback - BUY
This book has more good ideas in it than clam chowder has calories. It's packed into every page, every line.
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| The case for religious naturalism;: A philosophy for the modern Jew |
| Jack Joseph Cohen |
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| Belief in God in an Age of Science |
John Polkinghorne |
ISBN: 0300099495, Paperback - BUY
If rationality is generously and adequately construed, then science and theology will be seen as partners in a common quest for understanding
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| Wonder and Wisdom: Conversations in Science, Spirituality, and Theology |
Celia Deane-Drummond |
ISBN: 1599470918 , Paperback - BUY
Author shows that by weaving wonder and wisdom together, a deeper spirituality can surface that integrates theology and science
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| Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists |
Phillip Clayton |
ISBN: 0415257670, Paperback - BUY
60 leading scientists discuss the intersections between their scientific practices and their understandings of religious traditions. Included are brief reflections by well-known scientists on their attempts to reconcile their own religious upbringing with their scientific work that both must depend upon models to direct their understandings of the mysteries that lie behind reality
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See Bibliography for all our recommendations
Latest publications below
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| The Promise of Religious Naturalism |
Michael S. Hogue |
ISBN: • ISBN-10: 0742562611, Hardcover - BUY
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| Religious Naturalism Today: The Rebirth of a Forgotten Alternative |
Jerome Arthur Stone |
ISBN: • ISBN-10: 0791475387, Paperback - BUY
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