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Nature worship is a vague term used to describe a diverse variety of religious, spiritual and devotional practices found in a broad spectrum of spiritual traditions. While the term can sometimes have pejorative connotations, it can be an accurate description for some kinds of religious practice. Falling under the bracket of "nature worship" are both those practices which revere nature on Earth (IE: the Biosphere), the cosmos and wider universe, or both.

Nature worship can be found in pantheism, polytheism and animism as well as in pagan religions where deities are viewed as the embodiment of natural forces. Common to most forms of nature worship is a spiritual focus on the individual's connection to the natural world and reverence towards it.

Forms of nature worship

• Fire worship
• Tree worship
• Animal worship
• Star worship
• Sacred mountains
• Sacred groves
• Sacred herbs
• Holy well
• Megalith
• Standing stone
• Stone circle
• Thunder god
• Totem
• Sky deity
• Water deity
• Naturalistic pantheism
• Naturalistic spirituality
• Gaia philosophy

See also

• The sacred way
• Folk religion
• Pantheism
• Shamanism
• Earth religion
• Neopaganism
• Goddess worship (disambiguation)
• Natural religion (disambiguation)
• Wildlife totemization
• Category:Sacred sites

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