[Asec] CFP - "Religious Experience and the Phenomenology of Nature"

[Olga Louchakova-Schwartz]

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From: Ó Murchadha, Felix <felix.omurchadha at universityofgalway.ie>
Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 4:05 PM
CFP - "Religious Experience and the Phenomenology of Nature


*CALL FOR PAPERS*



*Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience (SOPHERE) Conference
2023:*

*Religious Experience and the Phenomenology of Nature*

*16th – 19th August 2023*



*CFP deadline: March 15 2023*



*(Hosted by the University of Galway and St. Angela’s College, Sligo)*



See: https://sophere.org/conferences/



*Theme of the Conference*

Faced as we are with climate change, mass extinctions of species, global
pandemics, there is probably no more pressing theme today than that of
nature. It is, however, not at all clear what we mean by ‘nature’, and
whether discourse about nature is even meaningful today. Many speak of the
‘death of nature’ while at another extreme we find the exhortation toward a
‘re-enchantment’ of [by] nature. What the conference aims to explore is the
place of religious experience within this our current situation.

We are delighted to have great *keynote speakers *for this conference:



*Dr. Timothy Mooney *is Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy,
University College Dublin.



*Dr. Martin Nitsche* is Professor and Researcher at the Institute of
Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.



*Prof. Timothy Howles* is Assistant Director for Research Programming at
the Laudato Si’ Research

Institute at the University of Oxford.

*Prof. Dr. Dr. Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, *President of SOPHERE, will give
the Presidential address*.*



*Abstracts/Papers*

If you wish to present a paper, please send either an anonymized paper of
no more than 3,000 words or an abstract of no more than 600 words free of
any identifying information, and in Word format, to
conferencegalway2023 at sophere.org *by March 15th 2023* (midnight Irish
time). Although we are accepting abstracts, preference will be given to
completed papers. In a separate document, send identifying information. You
should receive an email acknowledging your submission.



We welcome abstracts from multiple perspectives, including from
postgraduate researchers. Areas of interest include the first-person
phenomenological perspective and research of religious experience in the
following contexts (though not limited to these):



>          Natural Theology and Revelation

>          Religious Nature Poetry

>          Eco-feminism

>          Nature Aesthetics

>          Environmental Aesthetics

>          Naturphilosophie

>          Eastern, Northern, and Southern Perspectives

>          Nature and Grace

>          Philosophy of Nature in Different Religious Traditions

>          Metaphysics of Nature

>          Subjectivity and Nature

>          Phenomenology of Spiritual Practices in Nature

>          Eco-phenomenology and Religious Experience



*Timeline*:

>10th September 2022: CfA/P opens

>15th March 2023 (midnight Ireland): CfA/P closes

> Mid-June 2023: Abstract submission outcomes communicated

> Early July 2023: Speaker and delegate registration opens

*Selection process:*

>Papers/Abstracts will undergo blind peer-review by members of the SOPHERE
board and of the Conference Committee.

> We intend to inform everyone of the outcome of their submission by *15
June 2023*.



If you have any questions about the conference, please email the conference
organizers:

> Professor Felix Ó Murchadha: felix.omurchadha at universityofgalway.ie

> Dr. Mary Shanahan: mshanahan at stangelas.ie







Prof. Felix Ó Murchadha,

School of History and Philosophy,

University of Galway,

University Road,

Galway,

Ireland.

Tel. +353-(0)91 492573

E-mail: felix.omurchadha at nuigalway.ie

Website: https://felixomurchadha.com/



*President, Irish Philosophical Society / Cumann Fealsúnachta na hÉireann* (
www.irish-philosophical-society.ie)



*Upcoming and Recent Publications:*



*The Formation of the Modern Self* (Bloomsbury Academic 2022* – see: *

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/formation-of-the-modern-self-9781350245457/)



“Violent Times, the Horror of the Unspeakable and the Temporality of
Religious Experience”, *Continental Philosophy Review, *Vol. 53 (2020), pp.
287–302 (2020



“The Passionate Self and the Religiosity of Phenomena”, *Journal of
Speculative Philosophy*, Vol. 33, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: THE RELIGIOUS
STRUCTURE OF PHENOMENA (2019), pp. 56-77
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