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SPIRITUALITY FOR NATURALISTS
Author(s) -
Stone Jerome A.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2012.01279.x
Subject(s) - spirituality , george (robot) , adjective , philosophy , religious experience , epistemology , religious studies , literature , art history , history , art , linguistics , medicine , noun , pathology , alternative medicine
The views of eleven writers who develop a naturalized spirituality, from Baruch Spinoza and George Santayana to Sam Harris, André Comte‐Sponville, Ursula Goodenough, and Sharon Welch and others are presented. Then the writer's own theory is developed. This is a pluralistic notion of sacredness , an adjective referring to unmanipulable events of overriding importance. The difficulties in using traditional religious words, such as God and spiritual are addressed.