Natural religion

Natural religion might have the following meanings:

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• A synonym for "natural theology"; religion based on reason and ordinary experience (this usage is primarily found in the 18th century and before — see, for example, David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion).
• In the modern study of religion it's used to refer to the notion that there is some sort of natural, spontaneous religious apprehension of the world common to all human beings.