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.

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS. INTRODUCTION. Donald A. Crosby and Jerome A. Stone. PART I. VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS NATURALISM AND ITS RELATIONS TO OTHER OUTLOOKS. 1. Defining and Defending Religious Naturalism. Jerome A. Stone. 2. Religious Naturalism and Its Near Neighbors: Some Live Options. Willem B. Drees. PART II. SOME EARLIER RELIGIOUS NATURALISTS. 3. Ernst Haeckel's Creation: Developing a Non-Reductive Religious Naturalism. Whitney Bauman. 4. The Religious Naturalism of Henry Nelson Wieman. Cedric L. Heppler. 5. A Unity with the Universe: Schelling, Herder, and Dewey on Natural Piety. John Shook. 6. The Sublime as Sacred: Reading Schopenhauer as a Religious Naturalist. Abigail T. Wernicki. 7. Jaspers's Philosophical Faith: Toward a Form of Religious Naturalism. Nicholas J. Wernicki. PART III. PANTHEISM, MATERIALISM, AND THE VALUE-LADENNESS OF NATURE. 8. Ecstatic Naturalism as Deep Pantheism. Robert S. Corrington. 9. Deus sive Natura: Pantheism as a Variety of Religious Naturalism. Demian Wheeler. 10. Matter, Mind, and Meaning. Donald A. Crosby. 11. The Solemnity of the World. George Allan. PART IV. ECOLOGY, HUMANS, AND POLITICS IN NATURALISTIC PERSPECTIVE. 12. Spiritual Ecology and Religious Naturalism: Exploring their Interrelationships. Leslie E. Sponsel. 13. African American Religious Naturalism and the Question of the Human. Carol Wayne White. 14. A Political Theology for the Anthropocene. Michael S. Hogue. 15. Pragmatic Naturalism and Public Theology: Prospects of Creative Exchange. Victor Anderson. PART V. RELIGIOUS NATURALISM AND TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS. 16. Buddhism and Religious Naturalism. Jay N. Forrest. 17. Zen Buddhist Perspectives on Religious Naturalism. Stephanie Kaza. 18. One Shawnee's Reflections on Religious Naturalism. Thomas Norton-Smith. 19. Dao and Water: Rethinking Daoism as Naturalism. Jea Sophia Oh. 20. A Christian Religious Naturalism. Karl E. Peters. 21. Religious Naturalism: Hindu Perspectives. Varadaraja V. Raman. 22. Naturalizing Religion. Loyal Rue. 23. A Jewish Perspective on Religious Naturalism. Dan Solomon. 24. Confucianism as a Form of Religious Naturalism. Mary Evelyn Tucker. PART VI. PUTTING RELIGIOUS NATURALISM INTO PRACTICE. 25. Religious Naturalism and the Spirit of Query: Taking Adult Religious Education in a New Direction. Pamela C. Crosby. 26. Bringing Religious Naturalism Together Online. Ursula Goodenough. 27. Whither Religious Naturalism? Walter Gulick. 28. The Society of Nature and the Religion of Nature. Bruce M. Hannon. 29. Practices in Religious Naturalism. Eric Steinhart. 30. Naturalistic Spirituality as a Practice. Daniel Strain. PART VII. CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS OF RELIGIOUS NATURALISM. 31. The Religious Availability of Religious Naturalism. David E. Conner. 32. Holy Nostalgia: Toward a Sympathetic Critique of Religious Naturalism. Michael L. Raposa. 33. Concerning Consecrated Science: The Suspect Wonder of the New Cosmology. LisaH. Sideris. 34. Reflecting on Religious Naturalism: Possibilities and Critiques. Philip Hefner. INDEX