Reading up on Paganism and naturalistic spirituality?  Here are some books to get you started.

• Abram, David, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World – an entrancing investigation into our relation to the world of the senses
• Adler, Margot, Drawing Down the Moon – an excellent resource on modern Neopaganism
• Becker, Lawrence.  A New Stoicism – a version of Stoicism updated to be fully consistent with current scientific naturalism
• Brisson, Luc.  How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology – a history of allegory from Classical Greece to the Renaissance
• Buber, Martin, I and Thou  – the classic work on dialogue and spirituality (also available in the Kaufmann translation)
• Burkert, Walter.  Greek Religion – a quintessential, comprehensive introduction to ancient Greek religion.
• Darwin, Charles.  On the Origin of Species – the classic, full text online.
• Dennet, Daniel, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon  –  an atheist philosopher’s fascination with the phenomenon of religion.
• Epstein, Greg, Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe  –  Humanist ethics in a world without divine sanction
• Harrison, Paul, Elements of Pantheism: Religious Reverence of Nature and the Universe  –  A handbook on pantheism from a key figure in the World Pantheist Movement.
• Hawking, Stephen.  A Brief History of Time – now classic introduction to modern cosmology and physics, from the Big Bang to the present
• Humanist Manifestos I, II, and III – declarations of Humanist values from 1933, 1973, and 2003, respectively
• IAO131, Naturalistic Occultism – From the book description: “an attempt to treat the phenomena of occultism with an eye of naturalism (i.e. not supernatural), science (i.e. based on empirical evidence), and pragmatism (i.e. what works is provisionally ‘true’).”
• Jones, Prudence and Nigel Pennick, A History of Pagan Europe – a readable primer on Paganism throughout European history, from the neolithic through the present day
• Kerenyi, Karl.  Gods of the Greeks – a compendium of Greek myths written for adults, told from the point of view of an ancient Greek person
• Kurtz, Paul, Humanist Manifesto 2000: A Call for a New Planetary Humanism  –  a book-length elaboration of the values of Secular Humanism
• Kramer, Kenneth, Martin Buber’s I and Thou: Practicing Living Dialogue  – a manual for putting Buber’s dialogue into practice
• Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions  –  key work on paradigm shifts.
• Kuzminski, Adrian, Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism  –  the Classical philosophy of Pyrrhonian Skepticism compared with Buddhism.
• Lurhmann, Tanya.  Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft – an anthropological investigation into why so many modern people find magic compelling.
• McCauley, Robert.  Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not – a cognitive science view on how religion exploits natural mental tendencies, while science pushes us to difficult, counterintuitive ideas.
• Morton, Sherry Lynn, The Brain on Ritual: How Tantric Puja Shapes the Mind  – a masters thesis exploring cognitive research in relation to Hindu puja ritual
• Myers, Brendan Cathbad and Isaac Bonewits, The Mysteries of Druidry: Celtic Mysticism, Theory, and Practice  –  a Druidic handbook open to a nontheistic point of view
• Myers, Brendan, The Other Side of Virtue  –  an exploration of virtue ethics from a modern Pagan philosopher’s perspective
• Popper, Karl, Conjectures and Refutations  –  a collection of pieces from one of the 20th century’s greatest philosophers of science
• Rue, Loyal.  Religion Is Not About God – a comprehensive theory embedding religion within evolution, explaining how it functions, and calling for a new religious traditions promoting an ecocentric morality.
• Seddon, Keith.  Stoic Serenity: A Practical Course on Finding Inner Peace  –  a handbook of Stoicism from a leader in the modern Stoic movement.  Download a pdf copy FREE here.
• Slone, D. Jason.  Theological Incorrectness: Why Religious People Believe What They Shouldn’t  –  an exploration of the Cognitive Science of Religion
• Wilson, Timothy D.  Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious – a readable account of what cognitive science can tell us about introspection, the introspection illusion, and how we come to know ourselves
• Woodruff, Paul.  Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue – a secular view of reverence appropriate for our modern times
• Zuckerman, Phil.  Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment  –  a study of the nonreligious in contemporary Scandinavia

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