Religious Naturalist Perspectives
There are lots of ways to think of oneself as a Religious Naturalist; for example in the perspectives collected so far we have one which emphasizes the lack of god-language, one which emphasizes science as a way of knowing, and one which emphasizes the simple act of living in harmony with nature.
The term ‘Big Tent’ is a metaphor we use to capture and describe the wide range of beliefs, principles, and backgrounds emphasized by Religious Naturalists. The metaphor seeks to attract people with diverse viewpoints and does not require adherence to some specific ideology as a criteria for membership. Indeed, we think of the Big Tent as containing various booths, so that each of us can have both a general home within the broader “Big Tent” community, and also a finely-tuned rapport with those who happen to share our booth. Thus each of us can find agreement in a friendly, collaborative and beneficial way, with perhaps some friendly banter between booths.
This means our precise philosophies and anthropologies may be different, but our commitment to scholarly and tolerant discourse within our Big Tent makes for an interesting and energizing domicile - a domicile with amiable social aspects to it. We find the discussions/debates within this intellectual home to be challenging, enlightening and down right, good-natured, fun.
On the next page we have attempted to outline the current perspectives within the big tent into a set of booths. It is safe to say that the way we've organized them so far (into one of four categories) will change as we get more perspectives and find more useful ways to organize them. If you don't find YOUR perspective here, for example, and if you consider yourself a Religious Naturalist, please write an e-mail to the content editor and see if you can work out with him a location for your perspective within the outline. That may in turn require the re-organization of the whole outline.
Individual Viewpoints within Religious Naturalism's "Big Tent"
The sub-pages or web sites that follow present various opinions on Religious Naturalism. They are not necessarily the position of the group or this site but are the opinions of the individual authors. Neither does their featuring here necessarily mean they are in full agreement with the positions of this site.CONTACTS FOR THIS WEBSITE
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