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| '''Nature worship''' also called '''naturism'''<ref>Oxford English Dictionary</ref> or '''physiolatry'''<ref name="Merriam-Webster 2022">{{cite web | title=Definition of PHYSIOLATRY | website=Merriam-Webster | date=2022-10-13 | url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/physiolatry | access-date=2022-10-13}}</ref> is any of a variety of religious, spiritual and devotional practices that focus on the ] of the ] considered to be behind the ] visible throughout nature.<ref>A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics edited by Shailer Mathews, Gerald Birney Smith, p 305</ref> A ] can be in charge of ], a place, a ], the ], the ], or the ]. Nature worship is often considered the primitive source of modern religious beliefs<ref name="urantia">{{cite book|last=Uversa Press|title=The Urantia Book|year=2003|publisher=Fifth Epochal Fellowship|location=New York|isbn=0965197220|pages=805–810|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-MfMsljJW3gC&q=}}</ref><ref name="weir">{{cite web|last=Weir|first=James|title=Lust and Religion|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26071/26071-h/26071-h.htm|format=eBook|date=16 July 2008}}</ref> and can be found in ], ], ], ], ], ],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tzu |first=Chuang Tzu |title=The Tao of Nature |publisher=Penguin UK |year=2010 |isbn=9780141192741 |edition=1st |location=United kingdom |pages=25-100 |language=English}}</ref> ], ], ], some ] and ] including ].<ref name="Sanders 2009 p. 13">{{cite book | last=Sanders | first=C. | title=Wicca's Charm: Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality | publisher=Crown Publishing Group | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-307-55109-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ePLQ9vdJWWUC&pg=PR13 | access-date=2023-02-27 | page=13}}</ref> Common to most forms of nature worship is a spiritual focus on the individual's connection and influence on some aspects of the natural world and ] towards it.<ref>''The New International Encyclopædia'', Volume 14 edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, pp 288-289</ref> Due to their admiration of nature, the works of ], ] and ] were viewed as nature worship.<ref name="Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine: Being a Continuation of the Arminian Or Methodist Magazine First Publ. by John Wesley 1778 p. 914">{{cite book | title=Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine: Being a Continuation of the Arminian Or Methodist Magazine First Publ. by John Wesley | year=1778 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=98MRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA914 | access-date=2022-10-13 | page=914}}</ref><ref name="Gill 2006 p. 181">{{cite book | last=Gill | first=S. | title=William Wordsworth's The Prelude: A Casebook | publisher=OUP USA | series=Casebooks in Criticism | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-19-518091-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJ4_sMpCYmgC&pg=PA181 | access-date=2022-10-13 | page=181}}</ref><ref name="Glickman 2000 p. 8">{{cite book | last=Glickman | first=S. | title=The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape | publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-7735-2135-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4OlaR4Lkf1YC&pg=PA8 | access-date=2023-02-26 | page=8}}</ref><ref name="Test 2019 p. 111">{{cite book | last=Test | first=E.M.L. | title=Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | series=Early Modern Cultural Studies | year=2019 | isbn=978-1-4962-1289-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=buF8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT111 | access-date=2023-02-26 | page=111}}</ref> |
'''Nature ] worship''' also called '''naturism'''<ref>Oxford English Dictionary</ref> or '''physiolatry'''<ref name="Merriam-Webster 2022">{{cite web | title=Definition of PHYSIOLATRY | website=Merriam-Webster | date=2022-10-13 | url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/physiolatry | access-date=2022-10-13}}</ref> is any of a variety of religious, spiritual and devotional practices that focus on the ] of the ] considered to be behind the ] visible throughout nature.<ref>A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics edited by Shailer Mathews, Gerald Birney Smith, p 305</ref> A ] can be in charge of ], a place, a ], the ], the ], or the ]. Nature worship is often considered the primitive source of modern religious beliefs<ref name="urantia">{{cite book|last=Uversa Press|title=The Urantia Book|year=2003|publisher=Fifth Epochal Fellowship|location=New York|isbn=0965197220|pages=805–810|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-MfMsljJW3gC&q=}}</ref><ref name="weir">{{cite web|last=Weir|first=James|title=Lust and Religion|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26071/26071-h/26071-h.htm|format=eBook|date=16 July 2008}}</ref> and can be found in ], ], ], ], ], ],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tzu |first=Chuang Tzu |title=The Tao of Nature |publisher=Penguin UK |year=2010 |isbn=9780141192741 |edition=1st |location=United kingdom |pages=25-100 |language=English}}</ref> ], ], ], some ] and ] including ].<ref name="Sanders 2009 p. 13">{{cite book | last=Sanders | first=C. | title=Wicca's Charm: Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality | publisher=Crown Publishing Group | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-307-55109-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ePLQ9vdJWWUC&pg=PR13 | access-date=2023-02-27 | page=13}}</ref> Common to most forms of nature worship is a spiritual focus on the individual's connection and influence on some aspects of the natural world and ] towards it.<ref>''The New International Encyclopædia'', Volume 14 edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, pp 288-289</ref> Due to their admiration of nature, the works of ], ] and ] were viewed as nature worship.<ref name="Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine: Being a Continuation of the Arminian Or Methodist Magazine First Publ. by John Wesley 1778 p. 914">{{cite book | title=Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine: Being a Continuation of the Arminian Or Methodist Magazine First Publ. by John Wesley | year=1778 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=98MRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA914 | access-date=2022-10-13 | page=914}}</ref><ref name="Gill 2006 p. 181">{{cite book | last=Gill | first=S. | title=William Wordsworth's The Prelude: A Casebook | publisher=OUP USA | series=Casebooks in Criticism | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-19-518091-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJ4_sMpCYmgC&pg=PA181 | access-date=2022-10-13 | page=181}}</ref><ref name="Glickman 2000 p. 8">{{cite book | last=Glickman | first=S. | title=The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape | publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-7735-2135-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4OlaR4Lkf1YC&pg=PA8 | access-date=2023-02-26 | page=8}}</ref><ref name="Test 2019 p. 111">{{cite book | last=Test | first=E.M.L. | title=Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | series=Early Modern Cultural Studies | year=2019 | isbn=978-1-4962-1289-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=buF8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT111 | access-date=2023-02-26 | page=111}}</ref> | ||
| ==Criticism of "Nature Worship"== | ==Criticism of "Nature Worship"== | ||
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Worship of the nature spirits This article is about religions which worship nature. For other uses, see Naturism (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Naturalism (disambiguation) or Naturism.Nature Prakṛti worship also called naturism or physiolatry is any of a variety of religious, spiritual and devotional practices that focus on the worship of the nature spirits considered to be behind the natural phenomena visible throughout nature. A nature deity can be in charge of nature, a place, a biotope, the biosphere, the cosmos, or the universe. Nature worship is often considered the primitive source of modern religious beliefs and can be found in pantheism, panentheism, deism, polytheism, animism, Taoism, totemism, Hinduism, shamanism, some theism and paganism including Wicca. Common to most forms of nature worship is a spiritual focus on the individual's connection and influence on some aspects of the natural world and reverence towards it. Due to their admiration of nature, the works of Edmund Spenser, Anthony Ashley-Cooper and Carl Linnaeus were viewed as nature worship.
Criticism of "Nature Worship"
English historian, Ronald Hutton, has been critical of the antiquity of Nature Worship since at least 1998 until the present. He has argued that the gods of Ancient Europe were not Nature Deities of any sort; rather, they were gods of "civilization and human activity," meanwhile the "Earth-Mother goddesses" are characterized by him as mere literary figures as opposed to deities, because he believes they lack any temples dedicated to them or a priesthood to serve them. He strongly juxtaposes this view by differentiating ancient pagans from Neopagans and Wiccans who profess to be nature worshippers as an essential component of their faith, which he believes is unlike any other in recorded history. Despite having been charged by New Zealand Wiccan, Ben Whitmore, with having disenfranchised those Neopagans "who feel kinship and connection" with the gods and pagans of the Ancient World, Prof. Hutton has reprised these views, virtually verbatim, in the second addition of his book, Triumph of the Moon.
Forms and aspects of nature worship
- Animal worship
- Fire worship
- Gaia philosophy
- Gavari
- Green Man
- Holy well
- Megalith
- Mountain worship
- Naturalistic pantheism
- Naturalistic spirituality
- Sacred groves
- Sacred herbs
- Sacred mountains
- Sky deity
- Standing stone
- Star worship
- Stone circle
- Thunder god
- Totem
- Tree worship
- Water deity
See also
See also: List of nature deities- Earth religion
- Hinduism
- Faunus
- Folk religion
- Goddess worship (disambiguation)
- Natural religion
- Neopaganism
- Pan
- Pantheism
- Panentheism
- Shamanism
- Taoism
- White magic
- Wildlife totemization
References
- Oxford English Dictionary
- "Definition of PHYSIOLATRY". Merriam-Webster. 2022-10-13. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
- A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics edited by Shailer Mathews, Gerald Birney Smith, p 305
- Uversa Press (2003). The Urantia Book. New York: Fifth Epochal Fellowship. pp. 805–810. ISBN 0965197220.
- Weir, James (16 July 2008). "Lust and Religion" (eBook).
- Tzu, Chuang Tzu (2010). The Tao of Nature (1st ed.). United kingdom: Penguin UK. pp. 25–100. ISBN 9780141192741.
- Sanders, C. (2009). Wicca's Charm: Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality. Crown Publishing Group. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-307-55109-2. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- The New International Encyclopædia, Volume 14 edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, pp 288-289
- Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine: Being a Continuation of the Arminian Or Methodist Magazine First Publ. by John Wesley. 1778. p. 914. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
- Gill, S. (2006). William Wordsworth's The Prelude: A Casebook. Casebooks in Criticism. OUP USA. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-19-518091-6. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
- Glickman, S. (2000). The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-7735-2135-3. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- Test, E.M.L. (2019). Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature. Early Modern Cultural Studies. University of Nebraska Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-1-4962-1289-4. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- Hutton, Ronald. "The Discovery of the Modern Goddess." Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World. Eds. Joanne Pearson, Richard H. Roberts and Geoffrey Samuel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998: p.89.
- Whitmore, Ben. Trials of the Moon: Reopening the Case for Historical Witchcraft. Aukland: Briar Books, 2010: p. 2-3.
- Hutton, Ronald. The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019: p. 33.
