Book prospectus (2020) THE NEW RELIGION OF NATURE, Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D.
BOOK PROSPECTUS A rough working draft THE NEW RELIGION OF NATURE: HOW A HYBRID OF PAGANISM AND RELIGIOUS NATURALISM, TWO EMERGING EARTH-CENTERED SPIRITUALITIES, COULD BECOME AN INSURGENT ECO-THEOLOGY AND THE DOMINANT SPIRITUAL ORIENTATION OF UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS AS THESE 200,000 SPIRITUAL ACTIVISTS LAUNCH THE SUSTAINABILITY REVOLUTION OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS 1. Steps Towards a Dionysian Naturalism 2. Enchanting Naturalism 3. Our Universe is a Sacred Living System 4. Dancing with Dionysus: Ecstasy, Naturalism and Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene 5. Nature Religions and Revolutionary Social Change: Advancing a Practical Theology for Spritual Activism 6. Bearing Witness to Social Injustice as a Spiritual Practice 7. Tripping with the Gods: On Entheogenic Spirituality 8. The New Religion of Nature: Creating a Hybrid of Religious Naturalism, Paganism and Druidry (in progress) 9. On the Epic of Evolution (in progress) 10. Naturalizing the Western Esoteric Traditi...