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The problem of religious experience

case studies in phenomenology, with reflections and commentaries

edited byOlga Louchakova-Schwartz(University of California Davis)

Abstract

For a long time, the philosophically difficult topic of religious experience has been on the sidelines of phenomenological research (with a notable exception of Anthony Steinbock, who focused on mysticism). The book The Problem of Religious Experience: Case Studies in Phenomenology, with Reflections and Commentaries brings together preeminent as well as emerging voices in the field, with fresh views on the topic. Originating from dialogues of the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, these two volumes cover a spectrum of phenomenological approaches, with a thematization of the field in the form of case studies. Contributions from theology, comparative religion, psychology and the philosophy of religion come together in the commentaries and meta-narrative written by Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (the editor). Volume I, The Primeval Showing of Religious Experience, examines religious experience with regard to its lived “interiority”, in light of the problem of the ego cogito, including the recent research on the embodiment of subjectivity and phenomenological materiality. Volume I also sheds light on religious experience in regard for the problems of its constitution, passive synthesis, the world, and otherness. Volume II, Doxastic Perspectives in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, addresses the phenomenology of revelation, shows how different approaches treat the question of essence in religious experience (i.e., what is it that makes religious experience religious?), and demonstrates how religious experience contributes to the psychological horizon of meaning. The book identifies the “growing edges” in the phenomenological research of religious experience and is useful for psychologists, philosophers, and theologians alike.

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Reconnecting the self to the divine

the role of the lived body in spontaneous religious experiences

Shogo Tanaka

pp.27-37

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21575-0_2
The silence of sound

crystallizing nondual metaphysics through the invocation of a divine name or mantra

Patrick Laude

pp.39-55

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21575-0_3
Living the epoché

a phenomenological realism of religious experience

Sam Mickey

pp.113-124

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21575-0_7
The other as trace of infinity

phenomenology and religious experience in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas

Massimo Mezzanzanica

pp.143-157

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21575-0_9
Sight and sacrament

the place of nature in religious experience

Christopher Dupee

pp.203-214

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21575-0_12
Religious experience as experience of repentance

how phenomenology increases our knowledge of religious experiences

Bianca Bellini

pp.287-312

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21575-0_18

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 2019

Pages: 339

Series: Contributions to Phenomenology

Series volume: 103

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21575-0

ISBN (hardback): 978-3-030-21574-3

Full citation:

Louchakova-Schwartz Olga (2019) The problem of religious experience: case studies in phenomenology, with reflections and commentaries. Dordrecht, Springer.