<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b><span style="font-size:24pt"><font size="2">Call for Abstracts</font><span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:24pt"><font size="2"><br></font></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b><span style="font-size:24pt"><font size="2"><a href="http://sophere.org/conferences/biennial-conference/call-for-papers/">http://sophere.org/conferences/biennial-conference/call-for-papers/</a><br></font></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b><span style="font-size:24pt"><font size="2">IMAGE, PHENOMENON, AND IMAGINATION IN THE
PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE</font><span></span></span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>The Society for
Phenomenology of Religious Experience (SOPHERE) Biennial Congress, Prague, 2018<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Dates: November 2, Friday, to November
4, Sunday, 2018<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Hosted by the Institute of Philosophy
of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Venue: Prague, Narodni 3, the Czech
Academy of Sciences (main building)<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt">Keynote speakers:<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Hans Rainer Sepp, Charles University,
Prague<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Michael J. Shapiro, University of
Hawaii at Manoa<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt">Presidential address:<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, Jesuit School
of Theology and UC Davis, USA<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Conference director:<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Martin Nitsche, Czech Academy of
Sciences, Prague<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>The 1<sup>st</sup> Biennial Congress of
the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience invites submission of
papers dedicated to the phenomenologically determined themes of imagination,
image-consciousness, appearance and the non-apparent, phenomenological
ontology, and genetic phenomenology, with regard to religious experience. We
further invite innovative philosophical and theological reflections on image,
imagination, and creativity in religious experiencing, as well as reflections
on a reverse problem of how religious experience contributes to the above
mentioned faculties examined in the psychological horizon. The topics will be
discussed in following perspectives:<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span>1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Methods in
Phenomenological Research<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Applicability of phenomenological
methods to study religious experience in general.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Applicability of phenomenological
methods to study images of religious experience and its imaginative aspects in
particular.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Imagination and the embodied nature
of religious experience.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Philosophy and phenomenological
research of religious experience<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span>2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Phenomenological
Ontology and Metaphysics<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Can phenomenology capture the non-apparent?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– What is the relationship between
phenomenality and religious experiencing?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– How do we think relationship between
phenomenality, intentionality, and visible light?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– What are the modes of givenness in
religious experiencing?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– How does religious experiencing
transcend (or not) intentionality?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Is there a religious experiencing
sans the “moral emotions”?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– What is the relationship between
religious experience, certainty, and truth?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– How do the questions of
phenomenological manifold and unification manifest in regard for religious
experiencing<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span>3.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">History of
Phenomenology:<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Phenomenological accounts of image
and imagination in the work of phenomenological scholars (Husserl, Heidegger,
Merleau-Ponty, etc.).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span>4.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Phenomenological
Psychology<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Imagination, fantasies, and dreams in
religion and religious experience.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Images in spiritual praxis.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Imagination and the altered states of
consciousness.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Spatiality and other cognitive
aspects of religious imagery.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span>5.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Phenomenological
Theology <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Connection between images and the
concepts of Divine.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Imagination in pastoral praxis.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Theological importance of sacred
images.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span>6.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Phenomenological
aspects of Image in Religious studies<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Relation to images and/or imagination
in different religions and religiosities.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Comparative iconography (also with
regard to language).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Images and imagination in
mythopoetics, or history of religion.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span>7.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Phenomenology and
Philosophy of Religion<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Picture theory of meaning.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Phenomenological ontology of “Imago
Dei”.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Visual vs. symbolic consciousness in
generation of religious concepts.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Phenomenology of symbolic forms.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Phenomenology of relations between
image and language in religious contexts.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span>8.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Theory of Images<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Image and representation – related to
religion and religious experience.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Pictorial turn – related to religion
and religious experience.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Synesthesia in religious experience
(tactility of images).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Apparent and unapparent in
phenomenology of religious experience.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span>9.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Theory of Art<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Different kinds of images: film,
photography, painting, sculpture, performance – related to religion and
religious experience.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Contemporary religious art.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span>10.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Media Theory<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Image as medium of religious
experience.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Communicological virtues of religious
image.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span>11.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Politics of Images<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Political dimensions of image and
imagination in religion and religious experience<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Religion and images of holocaust.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Social phenomenology of religious
image.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– “We-intentionality” and religious
visuality.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span>12.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Ethics<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Ethical dimensions of image and imagination
in religion and religious experience.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Image and healthcare.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Image and hope.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>– Religious transformation in the
images of good and evil.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>We welcome paper proposals related to
the main theme of the conference, but not necessarily bound by the topics
listed above. Session proposals with at least three presentations are also
welcome.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Propositions have to be written in
English.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Please submit an abstract of
approximately 250 words. To be considered all presentation proposals should be
anonymized and must include a cover sheet with name, paper title, affiliation,
five key words, and full contact information including email. For more
information, see our website <a href="http://sophere.org">http://sophere.org</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Session proposals must include
abstracts of at least three presentations, a clear title of the session, a name
of its chair, and a short description of the session.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Abstracts should be
sent to: <a href="mailto:conferenceprague@sophere.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">conferenceprague@sophere.org</a><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Deadline for submitting presentation
proposals: June 10 2018<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Deadline for submitting session
proposals: June 3 2018<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>Notification of acceptance: until June
30 2018<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Selected papers from the conference will be invited for publication in
the topical issue of Open Theology, De Gruyter, “Phenomenology of Religious
Experience III”, planned for 2019.<span></span></span></p>
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<br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate"><div style="font-size:small;font-family:helvetica;border-collapse:separate"><div style="border-collapse:separate"><font size="1"><div style="display:inline">_____________________<br>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS<br>"Image, Phenomenon, and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience"<br><a href="http://sophere.org/conferences/biennial-conference/call-for-papers/" target="_blank">http://sophere.org/conferences/biennial-conference/call-for-papers/</a><br>__________________________<br><br>Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D. <br>Professor of Philosophy of Religion,<br>Hult International Business School<br><br>Assistant Clinical Professor, PHS,<br>UC Davis School of Medicine<br></div><div style="display:inline"><br></div><div style="display:inline">Professor Emerita, <br></div><div style="display:inline"><a href="https://www.sofia.edu/about/research/" target="_blank">former Director of Research</a><br></div><div style="display:inline">Institute of Transpersonal Psychology <br></div><div style="display:inline">(now Sofia University)<br></div><div style="display:inline"><br></div><div style="display:inline"><a href="https://www.scu.edu/jst/about/people-of-jst/faculty/olga-louchakova-schwartz/" target="_blank">Lecturer, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley</a><br>Chair, AARWR Philosophy of Religion Unit<br><a href="http://sophere.org/" target="_blank">Founding President, SOPHERE</a><br><a href="http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/teo/?tab=2" target="_blank">Associate Editor, JTPP</a><br>Guest Editor, Open Theology, 2017, 2018, 2019<br><a href="http://sophere.org/publications/" target="_blank">Topical issues in Phenomenology of Religious Experience</a></div><div style="display:inline"><br></div><div style="display:inline"><br></div><div style="display:inline">For publications, see <a href="https://ucdavis.academia.edu/OlgaLouchakova/Papers" target="_blank">https://ucdavis.academia.edu/OlgaLouchakova/Papers</a><br></div></font></div></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:helvetica;border-collapse:separate"><font size="1"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate"><p><b><br></b></p><br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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