1st Edition
Sacred Nature The Environmental Potential of Religious Naturalism
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One: Introducing Religious Naturalism
Chapter Two: Alternative Starting Points: Experiences of the Sacred and the Big Picture
Chapter Three: Appreciative Perception
Chapter Four: Spirituality for Naturalists
Chapter Five: The "G---d" Word
Chapter Six: Needed Paradigm Shifts
Chapter Seven: Learning from Indigenous Peoples
Chapter Eight: Religious Naturalism in the Public Square: Towards a Public Ecotheology
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Jerome A. Stone is a Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, William Rainey Harper College, and formerly taught at Meadville Lombard Theological School. He is also a Community Minister affiliated with the Unitarian Church of Evanston, Illinois.
Stone not only makes the case that religious naturalism can incorporate a sense of sacredness that underwrites environmentalism; he also demonstrates that he is not alone in thinking this possible. This book describes a plethora of religiously naturalistic environmentalist positions, and makes clear that there has been for some time a community of the similarly-minded in this area. Andrew Dole, Amherst College, USA.
