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A Pedagogy of Gaia, by Bart Everson: “May Day x 2″

Posted on April 30, 2014 by NaturalisticPaganism

In anticipation of May Day on May 1st and our new semi-seasonal theme, Practice, Bart Everson discusses the connection between spiritual and political desire. Two May Days? International Workers Day is celebrated on the first of May all around the…

Category: A Pedagogy of Gaia, Bart Everson Tags: anarchism, Beltane, International Worker's Day, liberation, May Day, Paganism, politics. activism, religion, spirituality, spring

Stages of (My) Faith, a review by John Halstead

Posted on January 26, 2014 by NaturalisticPaganism

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Understanding James Fowler’s stages of human spiritual development helped me make peace with my religious past and also gave me an inkling of what I wanted to move toward spiritually.

Category: belief, Book Review, John Halstead Tags: ambiguity tolerance, community, critical reasoning, development, human development, literal belief, myth, Neo-Paganism, religion, rituals, spirituality, stages of faith, symbols, tentatively

The HPedia: Religion

Posted on April 25, 2013 by NaturalisticPaganism

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Your help is needed! Please critique this entry from the HPedia: An encyclopedia of key concepts in Naturalistic Paganism. Please leave your constructive criticism in the comments below. The definition of religion is highly contested. One of the most widely…

Category: uncategorized Tags: naturalistic paganism, religion, religious naturalism, science and god

Real religion?

Posted on November 13, 2011 by NaturalisticPaganism

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– by B. T. Newberg What makes for “real” religion? How do you know that what you’re doing isn’t just playing dress-up, a shallow parody of religion? Well, maybe you “just know.” But aren’t there times when you doubt whether…

Category: B. T. Newberg Tags: atheist pagan, atheist wicca, Buddhism, earth religion, Martin Buber, naturalism, naturalistic paganism, nature religion, pagan humanism, pagan pantheism, Paganism, pantheism, religion, religious naturalism, science and god, science and myth, science and religion, spiritual humanism, Spiritual Naturalism, spirituality and religion, supernormal stimuli

Science vs. religion: Mythology is poetry, not prose, by Heather Wiech

Posted on October 2, 2011 by NaturalisticPaganism

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image enhanced from Education by Louis Comfort Tiffany How do you keep myth from becoming dogma? Heather Wiech suggests it takes both science and religion. – B. T. Newberg Joseph Campbell said that religion is supposed to give meaning to…

Category: Heather Wiech Tags: atheist pagan, atheist wicca, Demeter, earth religion, Joseph Campbell, Mythology, naturalistic paganism, nature religion, pagan humanism, pagan pantheism, pantheism, religion, religious naturalism, ritual, science, science and god, science and myth, science and religion, spiritual humanism, Spiritual Naturalism, spirituality and religion

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