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:

    “A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.”
    —Anita Brookner (b. 1938)