Natural Religion

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:
    • Urreligion
    • origin of religion
    • anthropology of religion
  • 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.

Famous quotes containing the words natural and/or religion:

    “When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    “... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else’s morality.”
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)