[Asec] CFA corrected | SoPheRe panel at APA Eastern 2023 | Phenomenology and Mysticism

[Olga Louchakova-Schwartz]

Please circulate this, sorry for the typo in the previous

On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 11:01 AM Olga Louchakova-Schwartz <
olouchakova at gmail.com> wrote:

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> *Phenomenology and Mysticism*
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> The panel of the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience  to
> be held at the APA Eastern 2023, 1/4/2023 » 1/7/2023, in Montreal, Quebec
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> This panel will explore and develop a phenomenological analysis of
> mystical religious experience within the traditions of Buddhism (and
> Eastern Mysticism generally), Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
> High-quality, well-researched papers that emphasize not only the relation
> to the divine (verticality) but also the community (horizontality) would be
> welcome.  Questions and topics that could be pursued would be the
> following:  How does Heidegger's writing on Paul's letters and on
> "stretching" in *Being and Time *suggest an approach to the mysticism of
> Julian of Norwich or Meister Eckhart?  How does Husserl's emphasis on
> intersubjectivity and the life-world allow for a reflection on Thich Nhat
> Hahn or the Sufi tradition?  Using Edith Stein and Hedwig Conrad-Martius,
> how might the discussion of writing on the heart, in both Deuteronomy and
> the Gospels, and of the writing of the finger of God, help us reconfigure
> what it means to share religious experience together?  With such kinds of
> questions and explorations, the goal of the panel is to make progress on
> the phenomenology of religious experience by way of careful,
> phenomenological analysis of important texts in the history of spirituality
> and religion.  Papers grounded in Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein, Martin
> Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, etc. that elucidate and
> interrogate either figures like Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Avila, Thich
> Nhat Hahn, Julian of Norwich, or seminal religious texts such as the Koran,
> the Torah, etc. would be helpful in achieving this goal.
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> Abstracts of approx. 300 words should be submitted for blind review by
> July 30, 2021. Accepted papers will be notified by August 10, 2021. All
> papers, and any questions, should be sent to the panel organizers at
> *dr.petercostello at gmail.com* <dr.petercostello at gmail.com>.
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> 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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