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Taking Nature to Heart: The Religious Naturalist Orientation

IRAS Sessions Taking Nature to Heart: The Religious Naturalist Orientation with Ursula Goodenough Throughout the ages, religious traditions center themselves on a Large Story, a Mythos, transmitted in writings or in oral accounts, that tell How Things Are and Which Things Matter. These stories are embellished via art, ritual, and ceremony, and they serve, in Loyal Rue’s phrase, to educate the social emotions that humans have inherited from our primate lineage. Scientific inquiry has generated what Rue has called Everybody’s Story, the 13.8 billion year history of our evolving universe, planet, and living beings. A “vanilla” naturalist takes this story to mind. A religious naturalist also takes this story to heart, exploring its religious potential along spiritual and moral trajectories. I will develop these trajectories along the lines taken in my new book, The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Emerged and Evolved www.sacreddepthsofnature.com, and describe the Religious Naturalist Association www.religious-naturalist-association.org, which seeks to introduce this orientation to others.