Currently, the main purpose of my reading is to understand jiyū shūkyō and to support the creation of my jiyū shūkyō.

Currently reading

Date last updated: 2025-07-07

1. Western free-religion: Caute by Andrew James Brown
2. Eastern free-religion: Selected Essays by Imaoka Shin'ichirō (1881–1988)
3. Filipino free-religion: Anitismo: The Ancient Religion of the Philippines by Isabelo de los Reyes
4. Creative expressions of free-religion: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

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Western free-religion

Andrew's readings

• Spirituality for the Godless by Michael McGee
• Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice by Michael McGee
• Gospel in Brief by Leo Tolstoy
• Tolstoy's late religious writings
• The Universal Word: A Theology for a Universal Faith by Nels F.S. Ferre
• The Theology of Nels F. S. Ferre by Ferre and Ferre
• Transforming Liberalism: The Theology of James Luther Adams by George Kimmich Beach
• Day by Day: Reflections on the Themes of the Torah from Literature, Philosophy and Religious Thought by Rabbi Chaim Stern
• Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged by Roger Scruton
• Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought by Tim Ingold https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00141840600603111
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• To the Sunny Short by Capek
• Appearance and Reality by F. H. Bradley

Others

• Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
• The Book of Job by Henry Bugbee
• The Point of View of My Work as an author by Kierkegaard

Eastern free-religion

Imaoka

• "Selected Writings on Free Religion and Other Subjects"
• "One Hundred Years of Life" by Shinichiro Imaoka
• "Cosmic Sage" by George Williams
• "Liberal Religious Reformation in Japan" by George Williams

Seiza

• Seiza for Beginners by Kobayashi Nobuko
• "The Okada Method of Quiet Sitting" in Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality by Michel Mohr
• "The Life and Times of Okada Torajiro and his Seiza Approach to Self-harmonization" by Joshua Shapiro

Filipino free-religion

• Pasyon and Revolution by Ileto

Filipino psychology

• Alejo, A.E. (2018). Loob ng tao. In R.Pe-Pua (Ed.), Handbook of Filipino psychology volume 1: Perspectives and methodology (pp. 368-381). The University of the Philippines Press.
• Bulatao, J.C. (1992). Phenomena and their interpretation: Landmark essays 1957-1989. Ateneo de Manila University Press.
• De Guia, K. (2018). Connected with all life—The enduring Filipino kapwa orientation, the Filipino shared self in a postmodern context. In R. Pe-Pua (Ed.), Handbook of Filipino psychology volume 1: perspectives and methodology (pp. 310-328). The University of the Philippines Press.
• Enriquez, V.G. (1992). From colonial to liberation psychology: The Philippine experience. The University of the Philippines Press.
• Estrada-Claudio, S. (2018). Has Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) become sikolohiya ng mga Pilipino sa Pilipinas (psychology of Filipinos in the Philippines)? In R. Pe-Pua (Ed.), Handbook of Filipino psychology: Perspectives and methodology (pp. 235-247). The University of the Philippines Press.
• Meneses, K. (2019). Pakikipagkapwa: A Filipino value in attempt to counter biodiversity and cultural diversity loss. Solidarity, 8(1). https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/solidarity/vol8/ iss1/3/
• Mercado, L.N. (1994). The Filipino mind. The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy.
• Mojares, R. (2017). Interrogations in Philippine cultural history. Ateneo de Manila University Press.
• Pe-Pua, R. & Protacio-Marcelino, E. (2000). Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology): A legacy of Virgilio G. Enriquez. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 3(1), 49-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-839X.00054
• Pe-Pua, R. (2005). Kros-katutubong perspektibo sa metodolohiya: Ang karanasan ng Pilipinas. Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino.
• ==Pe-Pua, R. (2015). Indigenous psychology. In J.D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (2nd ed., Vol. 11) (pp. 788-794). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.24067-1
• Salazar, Z.A. (1977). Ang kamalayan at kaluluwa: Isang paglilinaw ng ilang konsepto sa kinagisnang sikolohiya. In L.F. Antonio, L.L. Samson, E.S. Reyes, & M.E.A. Paguio (Eds.), Ulat ng ikalawang pambansang kumperensya sa sikolohiyang Pilipino (pp. 131-144). Pambansang Samahan ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino.
• Samaco-Zamora, M.C.F. & Fernandez, K.T.G. (2016). A grounded theory of Filipino wellness (kaginhawaan). Psychological Studies, 61(4), 279-287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-016-0373-7
• Villaroman-Bautista, V. (2019). Gamit at etika ng sikolohiyang pangrelihiyon (Sinundan ng talakayan ng papel). In R. Pe-Pua (Ed.), Handbook of Filipino Psychology Volume 2: Applications (pp. 273-284). The University of the Philippines Press. (Originally published in 1999)
• Wilkinson, D. (2017). Is there such a thing as animism? Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 85(2), 289-311. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfw064
• Yabut, H.J. (2019). Tungo sa sikolohikal na pananaliksik ng espiritwalidad at relihiyon sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino. Diwa, 7, 1-9. https://www.pssp.org.ph/diwa/diwa-e-journaltomo-7-nobyembre-2019-tungo-sa-sikolohikal-na-pananaliksik-ng-espiritwalidad-atrelihiyon-sa-sikohiyang-pilipino/

Creative expressions of free-religion

Literature

Poetry

• Journeys and Places by Edward Muir

Others

• The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations
• Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
• Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, 1950-1971 by Lew Welch
• Experimental Writing by Lenhart and Cordeiro (2024)
• The Living Mountain by Nan Shepard (1977)
• The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (1995)
• Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
• On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
• Life: A User's Manual (1987) by George Perec
• Dostoevsky, F. (1992). The Grand Inquisitor. In R. Pevear & L. Volokhonsky (Trans.), The Brothers Karamazov. Vintage Classics.
• Henry James, “The Middle Years,” in The Tales of Henry James, ed. Edward Wagenknecht (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1984)
• Stanley Cavell, “Passionate and Performative Utterance,” in Contending with Stanley Cavell, ed. Russell B. Goodman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), Ch. 10, 192–3.
• Kelly Dean Jolley, Stony Lonesome (Auburn, AL: New Plains Press, 2014)
• Moby-Dick by Melville
• Essays by Montaigne
• Stanley Cavell, Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005)
• Concluding Unscientific Postscript by Kierkegaard
• Existentialism: Being Authentic in an Inauthentic Age by Gordon Marino
• David Rothenberg, Sudden Music: Improvisation, Sound, Nature (Athens: University Georgia Press, 2002)
• Stanley Cavell, Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).
• Stanley Cavell. Must We Mean What We Say: A Book of Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976)
• George Eliot, Middlemarch
• Stanley Cavell, Philosophical Passages, Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida (New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 1995)
• Repetition by Kierkegaard
• Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground
• Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Walking

• Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are by John Kaag (2018)
• Walking with Buddha by CW Lockhart (2020)
• The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane (2013)
• Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit (2001) (history of walking)
• The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker by Merlin Coverley (2012) (philosophical history)
• Walking in Circles by Todd Wassel (2020)
• Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kaage (2019)
• In Praise of Paths by Torbjørn Ekelund (2020)
• A Walk Through Paris by Eric Hazan (2016)
• How We Walk by Matthew Beaumont (2024)
• Faraway the Southern Sky: A Novel by Joseph Andras (2024)
• The Walker: On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont (2020)
• Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont (2015)
• On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation by Alexandra Horowitz (2013)
• Open City by Teju Cole (2011)
• How to Walk by Thich Nhat Hanh
• In Praise of Walking by Shane O'Mara (2019) (neuroscience of walking)
• First Steps by Jeremy DeSilva (2021) (anthropology of walking)
• On Foot: A History of Walking (2004)
• A Walking Life by Antonia Malchik (2019) (social history of walking)
• The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson (2008)
• On Trails by Robert Moor (2019)
• Beneath my Feet by Duncan Minshull (2019) (anthology)
• While Wandering by Duncan Minshull (2014) (anthology)
• The Joy of Walking by Suzy Cripps (2020) (anthology)
• No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman
• "The World of the Living Present and the Constitution of the Surrounding World External to the Organism" (1931) by Edmund Husserl
• The Peripatetic (1793) by John Thelwall
• Reveries of a Solitary Walker (1782) by Jean Jacques Rousseau