[Asec] CFP APA Pacific 2023| Panel on Perception in Religious/Spiritual Experience

[Olga Louchakova-Schwartz]

Perception in Religious/Spiritual Experience

https://sophere.org/apa-participation/pacific/

This is a call for contributions to panels of the Society for the
Phenomenology of Religious Experience, to be hold at the meeting of the
Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in San Francisco
in April 2023  (for specifics please visit the APA website)

We invite phenomenalistic (empirical) and phenomenological (Husserlian or
any other kinds of phenomenology) accounts of perception in religious and
spiritual experience (RSA). Examples of such experiences may include a
variety of meditation experience; experiences of traditional piety
(Christian, Buddhist, Islamic and other);  spontaneous experiences, e.g.
while reading religious texts, experience of "spiritual emergence", and
conversion; experience of devotion or prayer, etc., as well as experiences
described in the first-person perspective by Merleau-Ponty, Lacoste,
Husserl (HUA XVII), Schopenhauer, Fichte, Scheller or other philosophers.
It can be also experiences described in traditional texts, e.g.  by St.
Paul, Milarepa, or Sri Ramana Maharshi.  However, these papers should be
not merely accounts of perception, but high-quality research studies linked
to familiar philosophical topics.  A descriptive account must be accompanied by
philosophical reflection, either along the lines of phenomenological theory
or reaching into the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, logic, or the analysis
of language. Thus, the analysis of perception in RSE should serve as a
ground for philosophizing.   Cross-cultural comparisons are encouraged.

Please submit an abstract of 300 words to olouch at ucdavis.edu . You should
receive a response email acknowledging your submission.  The deadline for
submission is September 10; notifications of acceptance will be send out by
Sept 14. Questions: olouchakova at gmail.com; olouch at ucdavis.edu.



PS. The best papers will be invited for publication as monographs in the
Lexington Press series Phenomenologies of Religious Experience,
https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXPRE

-- 
Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, MD, PhD,
Professor, UC Davis School of Medicine
Professor, Hult International Business School
Adjunct Lecturer, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley
President, Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience
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