Space, Time, and Religion in the Making (dialogue with Roman Campolo)

Roman and I had another dialogue session to discuss Alfred North Whitehead’s book Religion in the Making (1926). This book lays out Whitehead’s understanding of the evolution of religious consciousness through the phases of emotion, ritual, belief, and rationalization. We touched on the significance of play behavior in animals and human beings, the transition from tribal to universal religious perspectives, Whitehead’s views on personal and impersonal aspects of divinity, the and the integration of immanence and transcendence.

In addition to the evolution of religion and the nature of God, we explored the intersections of Whitehead’s thought with other philosophers including Kant, Leibniz, Newton, Bergson, and Einstein, particularly regarding the nature of space, time, and perception.