Donald A. Crosby - The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism

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.

Donald A. Crosby is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Colorado State University, USA.

Jerome A. Stone is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, William Rainey Harper College, USA.

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Names: Crosby, Donald A., editor.Title: The Routledge handbook of religious naturalism / edited by Donald A. Crosby and Jerome A. Stone.Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.Identifiers: LCCN 2017040565| ISBN 9781138292079 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315228907 (ebook)Subjects: LCSH: NaturalismReligious aspects.Classification: LCC BL183 .R68 2018 | DDC 201/.77dc23LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017040565

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George Allan is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Dickinson College, where he taught for 33 years, the last 21 of which he was also the Colleges senior academic officer. Allan has published three books on the metaphysical foundations of social value: The Importances of the Past: A Meditation on the Authority of Tradition; The Realizations of the Future: An Inquiry into the Authority of Praxis; and The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form. He has also published three books in philosophy of education: Rethinking College Education; Higher Education in the Making: Pragmatism, Whitehead and the Canon; and Modes of Learning: Whiteheads Metaphysics and the Stages of Education. Allan has published around 100 articles and book chapters in metaphysics, social philosophy, philosophy of history, philosophy of education, and issues in higher education, usually from a process/pragmatic perspective. His current projects include reinterpreting Whiteheads cosmology in a functionalist and secular manner, and exploring the relevance of Susanne Langers ontology of the Act for an interpretation of the conditions of civilized existence.

Victor Anderson is the Oberlin Theological School Professor of Ethics and Society at the Divinity School. He is also the Professor in the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies and Religious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds degrees from Calvin Theological Seminary including the Master of Divinity and Master of Theology in Philosophical and Moral Theology. He earned the M.A and Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University in Religion, Ethics, and Politics (1991, 1992). Anderson has published three books: Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay in African American Religious and Cultural Criticism (1995), Pragmatic Theology: Negotiating the Intersection of an American Philosophy of Religion and Public Theology (1999), and Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience (2008). He teaches courses in philosophy of religion, philosophical, theological and social ethics, African American religious studies, and American philosophy and religious thought. He is currently working on a book, Creative Conflict and Creative Exchange: A Christians Social Witness to the Public and Its Problems, which is planned for spring 2017.

Whitney Bauman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University in Miami. He teaches and lectures on science and religion, religion and nature, and religion and queer theory. His books include Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic (2014); Theology Creation and Environmental Ethics (2009); with Lucas Johnston, Science and Religion: One Planet, Many Possibilities (2014) and with Kevin OBrien and Richard Bohannon, Grounding Religion: A Fieldguide to the Study of Religion and Ecology (2010). He is currently working on a manuscript that examines the religious influences on Ernst Haeckels understanding of the natural world.