Prominent Communities and Leaders
Religious naturalists sometimes use the social practices of traditional religions, including communal gatherings and rituals, to foster a sense of community, and to serve as reinforcement of its participants' efforts to expand the scope of their understandings. Some known examples of religious naturalists groupings and congregation leaders are:
- World Pantheist Movement - largely web-based but with some local groups. The WPM is the world’s largest religious naturalist organization
- Universal Pantheist Society founded 1975 – Pantheism is an intercepting concept with religious naturalism
- Gaia Community - similar viewpoints
- Congregation Beth Or, a Jewish congregation near Chicago led by Rabbi David Oler
- Congregation of Beth Adam in Loveland Ohio led by Rabbi Robert Barr
- Pastor Ian Lawton, minister at the Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, West Michigan and Center for Progressive Christianity
Religious Naturalism is growing in the academic community. Articles appear frequently in Zygon, Religious Humanism and the Journal of Liberal Religion. There are three major electronic discussion groups.
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