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, or Islamization.

See also

• Natural theology, often synonymous in the 18th and 19th centuries— see, for example, David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.