ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how religious naturalism fares against a constructive realist critique. It focuses on to important aspects of one of the world versions recognized by constructive realism—an American Indian world version—followed by its assessment of elements of religious naturalism. A Shawnee speaker might say "meci skwaawa", expressing the fact "It redded" about the cardinal, because American Indian languages like Shawnee and Choctaw lack the verb "to be", treating English adjectives like "red" as intransitive verbs. Comparing the worlds of Native religion and religious naturalism, therefore, will be especially difficult and fraught with dangers. Native traditions tend not to draw sharp distinctions between literature and philosophy, science and religion. Constructive realism and the Native view it recognizes both agree that there is no supernatural world; that the human world is a part of nature; and that values are inherent in the natural world.
