Jerome A. Stone - Böcker

Ecological crisis is being widely discussed in society today and therefore, the subject of religious naturalism has emerged as a major topic in religion. The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-four chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into seven parts:• Varieties of religious naturalism and its relations to other outlooks• Some earlier religious naturalists • Pantheism, materialism, and the value-ladenness of nature • Ecology, humans, and politics in naturalistic perspective• Religious naturalism and traditional religions• Putting religious naturalism into practice• Critical discussions of religious naturalism.Within these sections central issues, debates, and problems are examined, including: defining religious naturalism; religious underpinnings of ecology; natural piety; the religious-aesthetic; ecstatic naturalism as deep pantheism; spiritual ecology; African-American religious naturalism; Christian religious naturalism; Dao and water; Confucianism; environmental action; and practices in religious naturalism. The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, theology, and philosophy. The Handbook will also be useful for those in related fields, such as environmental ethics and ecology.

Develops a revised form of religious naturalism that, drawing on figures like James, Whitehead, and Wieman, argues for a "minimalist" and ethically open understanding of transcendence rooted in experience and nature rather than supernaturalism.In The Minimalist Vision of Transcendence, Jerome A. Stone offers a fresh and compelling reconstruction of religious naturalism—one that is both intellectually rigorous and spiritually open.Drawing on the rich traditions of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Henry Nelson Wieman, and Bernard E. Meland, Stone carefully revisits their insights while critically refining their limitations. The result is a "minimalist" vision of transcendence that neither returns to classical supernaturalism nor collapses into reductive secularism, but instead articulates a thoughtful middle path: a philosophy of openness grounded in experience, ethics, and a reimagined sense of the divine within nature.Across its chapters, Stone places his approach in dialogue with major twentieth-century thinkers and movements, including Charles Hartshorne, Schubert Ogden, Langdon Gilkey, Albert Camus, and secular humanism. He consistently asks what remains viable, what must be revised, and what can still speak to contemporary philosophical and religious concerns.Particularly striking is Stone's account of "a generous empiricism" and his ethical emphasis on openness—offering a framework in which religious meaning is neither imposed nor discarded, but carefully reinterpreted.

Looks at the history and revival of religious naturalism, a spiritual path without a supreme being.Previously a forgotten option in religious thinking, religious naturalism is coming back. It seeks to explore and encourage religious ways of responding to the world on a completely naturalistic basis without a supreme being or ground of being. In this book, Jerome A. Stone traces its history and analyzes some of the issues dividing religious naturalists. He includes analysis of nearly fifty distinguished philosophers, theologians, scientists, and figures in art and literature, both living and dead. They range from Ursula Goodenough, Gordon Kaufman, William Dean, Thomas Berry, and Gary Snyder to Jan Christiaan Smuts, William Bernhardt, Gregory Bateson, and Sharon Welch.

Looks at the history and revival of religious naturalism, a spiritual path without a supreme being.Previously a forgotten option in religious thinking, religious naturalism is coming back. It seeks to explore and encourage religious ways of responding to the world on a completely naturalistic basis without a supreme being or ground of being. In this book, Jerome A. Stone traces its history and analyzes some of the issues dividing religious naturalists. He includes analysis of nearly fifty distinguished philosophers, theologians, scientists, and figures in art and literature, both living and dead. They range from Ursula Goodenough, Gordon Kaufman, William Dean, Thomas Berry, and Gary Snyder to Jan Christiaan Smuts, William Bernhardt, Gregory Bateson, and Sharon Welch.

Ecological crisis is being widely discussed in society today and therefore, the subject of religious naturalism has emerged as a major topic in religion. The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-four chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into seven parts:• Varieties of religious naturalism and its relations to other outlooks• Some earlier religious naturalists • Pantheism, materialism, and the value-ladenness of nature • Ecology, humans, and politics in naturalistic perspective• Religious naturalism and traditional religions• Putting religious naturalism into practice• Critical discussions of religious naturalism.Within these sections central issues, debates, and problems are examined, including: defining religious naturalism; religious underpinnings of ecology; natural piety; the religious-aesthetic; ecstatic naturalism as deep pantheism; spiritual ecology; African-American religious naturalism; Christian religious naturalism; Dao and water; Confucianism; environmental action; and practices in religious naturalism. The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, theology, and philosophy. The Handbook will also be useful for those in related fields, such as environmental ethics and ecology.

Sacred Nature examines the crisis of environmental degradation through the prism of religious naturalism, which seeks rich spiritual engagement in a world without a god. Jerome Stone introduces students to the growing field of religious naturalism, exploring a series of questions about how it addresses the environmental crises, evaluating the merits of public prophetic discourse that uses the language of spirituality. He presents and defends the concept of religious naturalism while drawing out the implications of religious naturalism for addressing some of the major environmental issues facing humans today. This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scholars specializing in contemporary religious thought or environmental studies.