Natural religion
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Natural religion might have the following meanings:
- In the modern study of religion it is used to refer to the notion that there is a spontaneous religious apprehension of the world common to all human beings, see:
- As a reverent form of nature-worship, embodied in a well-known quote from Frank Lloyd Wright: "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
- Referring to the religions of people prior to their Christianization, or Islamization.
- Referring to Dr Brendan Connolly's work in his book The Natural Religion ISBN: 978-0955831300.
See also
- Natural theology, often synonymous in the 18th and 19th centuries— see, for example, David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
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