Pantheism

===20th century===
In a letter written to Eduard Büsching (25 October 1929), after Büsching sent [[Albert Einstein]] a copy of his book ''Es gibt keinen Gott''  ("There is no God"), Einstein wrote, "We followers of Spinoza see our God in the wonderful order and lawfulness of all that exists and in its soul [''Beseeltheit''] as it reveals itself in man and animal."<ref name="Jammer">Jammer (2011), ''Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology'', Princeton University Press, p. 51; original at Einstein Archive, [http://alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Record/EAR000015602 reel 33-275].</ref> According to Einstein, the book only dealt with the concept of a [[personal god]] and not the impersonal God of pantheism.<ref name="Jammer" /> In a letter written in 1954 to philosopher Eric Gutkind, Einstein wrote "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses."<ref name="weakness" /><ref>{{cite web| url = http://de.richarddawkins.net/articles/der-einstein-gutkind-brief-mit-transkript-und-englischer-ubersetzung| title = Richard Dawkins Foundation, ''Der Einstein-Gutkind Brief – Mit Transkript und Englischer Übersetzung''| date = 31 May 2017}}</ref> In another letter written in 1954 he wrote "I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."<ref name="weakness">{{cite news| title=Belief in God a 'product of human weaknesses': Einstein letter | work=CBC News | date=13 May 2008 | url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2008/05/13/einstein-religion.html| access-date=5 February 2022}}</ref> In ''Ideas And Opinions'', published a year before his death, Einstein stated his precise conception of the word God:

<blockquote>Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality and intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order. [...] This firm belief, a belief bound up with a deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God. In common parlance this may be described as "pantheistic" (Spinoza).<ref>{{cite book |last=Einstein |first=Albert |date=2010 |title=Ideas And Opinions |location=New York |publisher=Three Rivers Press |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vLm4oojTPnkC&pg=PA262 262]}}</ref></blockquote>

In the late 20th century, some declared that pantheism was an underlying theology of [[Modern Paganism|Neopaganism]],<ref>{{cite book |first=Margot |last=Adler |title=Drawing Down the Moon |publisher=Beacon Press |date=1986}}</ref> and pantheists began forming organizations devoted specifically to pantheism and treating it as a separate religion.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
[[File:LuminariesofPantheism.jpg|thumb|left|[[Levi Ponce]]'s ''Luminaries of Pantheism'' mural in Venice, California for [[The Paradise Project]]]]