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    There is No Natural Religion is a series of philosophical aphorisms by William Blake, written in 1788. Following on from his initial experiments with...
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  • Natural religion most frequently means the "religion of nature", in which God, the soul, spirits, and all objects of the supernatural are considered as...
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    Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, first published in 1779. Through dialogue, three...
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    spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. Different religions may or may not contain various...
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    the non-textual The Approach of Doom (1787), All Religions are One and There is No Natural Religion represent Blake's first successful attempt to combine...
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  • Deism (category Philosophy of religion)
    reliance on revealed religions or religious authority. Deism emphasizes the concept of natural theology—that is, God's existence is revealed through nature...
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    Turtles all the way down (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    David Hume references the story in his 1779 work Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion when arguing against God as an unmoved mover: How, therefore, shall...
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  • Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon is a 2006 book by American philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett, in which the author...
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  • a distinction between political theology (the social functions of religion), natural theology and mythical theology. His terminology became part of the...
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    Sumerian religion Sumerian religion was the religion practiced by the people of Sumer, the first literate civilization found in recorded history and based...
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    A nature religion is a religious movement that believes nature and the natural world is an embodiment of divinity, sacredness or spiritual power. Nature...
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  • Thumbnail for Religion in Japan
    Religion in Japan is manifested primarily in Shinto and in Buddhism, the two main faiths, which Japanese people often practice simultaneously. According...
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  • Problem of evil (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    of evil in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is this: [God's] power we allow [is] infinite: Whatever he wills is executed: But neither man nor any...
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  • Teleological argument (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    that Confucius was a godless man, and that "the ancient Chinese had no natural religion, since they did not know the creator of the world". However, later...
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    Religion in China is diverse and most Chinese people are either non-religious or practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian worldview...
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    African religion used to be referred to as 'traditional' but this is no longer appropriate. 'Traditional' was used to distinguish Africa religion from Abrahamic...
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    The relationship between religion and science involves discussions that interconnect the study of the natural world, history, philosophy, and theology...
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  • Deism in England and France in the 18th century (category 18th century in religion)
    world is operated by natural laws of the Supreme Being. C. J. Betts argues that Deism was never a religion in the usual sense. It was a religion for individuals...
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  • Seicho-no-Ie, Tenrikyo, Yazidism, and Atenism. Elements of monotheistic thought are found in early religions such as ancient Chinese religion, Tengrism...
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  • evolved due to natural selection and is an adaptation, in which case religion conferred some sort of evolutionary advantage. The other is that religious...
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    Babylonian religion is the religious practice of Babylonia. Babylonia's mythology was greatly influenced by its Sumerian counterparts and was written...
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  • White magic (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Naturalis. It is the coming-together of these ideas - early "natural" religions and later philosophical thinking - that Knight suggests is "at the root...
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    Shinto (redirect from Shinto religion)
    religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its practitioners Shintoists, although adherents rarely use that term themselves. There is...
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  • Earth-centered religion or nature worship is a system of religion based on the veneration of natural phenomena. It covers any religion that worships the...
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  • and is used to show similarities between these religions and put them in contrast to Indian religions, Iranian religions, and the East Asian religions (though...
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  • Animism (redirect from Animistic religion)
    groups related by a series of marriage exchanges. Their religion was animism, the belief that natural species and objects had souls. With the development...
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  • adherents around the world. In sociology, desecularization is the proliferation or growth of religion, most commonly after a period of previous secularization...
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    God (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Islam is an oath that forms the basis of the religion and which non-Muslims wishing to convert must recite, declaring that "I testify that there is no deity...
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    Deity (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Deism refers to what can be called natural religion, the acceptance of a certain body of religious knowledge that is inborn in every person or that can...
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  • Theistic rationalism is a hybrid of natural religion, Christianity, and rationalism, in which rationalism is the predominant element. According to Henry...
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