From Eugene.Clay at asu.edu Wed Apr 18 00:15:15 2018 From: Eugene.Clay at asu.edu (Eugene Clay) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:15:15 +0000 Subject: [Asec] Academica Press Calls for MSS Message-ID: Academica Press, a leading independent non-fiction publisher, is proud to call for manuscripts from dynamic scholars at all levels seeking to publish cutting edge work that challenges traditional disciplinary boundaries and provocatively revisits conventional topics. New publications will ideally be devoted to eclectic and under-explored issues and make imaginative uses of theory and method. Academica publishes actively in political science, international relations, history, literature, linguistics, religion, philosophy, cultural and regional studies, the arts, anthropology, law, and other fields (Learn more at http://www.academicapress.com). 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URL: From olouchakova at gmail.com Wed Apr 18 19:23:16 2018 From: olouchakova at gmail.com (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:23:16 -0700 Subject: [Asec] Call for papers for the Open Theology Issue Message-ID: *Topical issue of Open Theology, 2018 * *Phenomenology of Religious Experience II: Perspectives in Theology * To download the call, click here *Edited by: * Dr. Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley) and the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience Dr. Martin Nitsche, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague) *https://www.degruyter.com/page/1708 * *https://www.facebook.com/OpenTheology/ * *DESCRIPTION* ?Open Theology? (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opth) invites submissions for the topical issue ?Phenomenology of Religious Experience II: Perspectives in Theology?, prepared in collaboration with the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience (www.sophere.org). The topic comprises phenomenological explorations of religious experience, with special focus on papers written from a theological standpoint or in relation to theology. This includes issues such as ethics and judgement of religious experience, generation of theology (the so called theologies of experience), contemporary theologies of social grace, theologies of nature and gender, and the use of the phenomenological approach in the investigation of theology itself (phenomenology of theology and related aspects of phenomenology of religion). The issue is open to critical philosophical appraisal of the category of religious experience *per se*, especially in the way such criticisms contribute to the formulation of modern theological discourse. Finally, we are interested in papers that address the role of experience in revelation, conversion, or spiritual awakenings in phenomenological approaches to theology. The first volume from the series ?Phenomenology of Religious Experience? was published in 2017 and it is available at https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opth.2017.3.issue-1/issue-files/opth.2017.3.issue-1.xml *Authors publishing their articles in the topical issue will benefit from:* ? transparent, comprehensive and fast peer review, ? an efficient route to fast-track publication and full advantage of De Gruyter Open?s e-technology, ? free language assistance for authors from non-English speaking regions, ? complementary membership in the Society for Phenomenology of Religious Experience. *Publication costs* should be covered by Article Processing Charges (APC) paid by authors, their affiliated institutions, funders or sponsors. To view funding opportunities to cover APC please visit http://degruyteropen.com/you/author/fundingforauthors/. Authors who would like to apply for discounts or free publication are asked to contact Managing Editor of the journal Dr. Katarzyna Tempczyk ( katarzyna.tempczyk at degruyteropen.com) before submission of articles. *HOW TO SUBMIT* Submissions will be collected by June 10, 2018 via the on-line submission system at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/ Choose as article type: ?Topical Issue Article: Phenomenology of Religious Experience II?. Before submission the authors should carefully read over the Instruction for Authors, available at: http://www.degruyter.com/view/supplement/s23006579_Instruction_for_Authors.pdf All contributions will undergo critical peer-review before being accepted for publication. Further questions about this thematic issue can be addressed to Dr. Olga Louchakova-Schwartz at olouchakova at gmail.com. 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URL: From olouchakova at gmail.com Wed Apr 18 19:27:42 2018 From: olouchakova at gmail.com (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:27:42 -0700 Subject: [Asec] Call for Abstracts, "Image, Phenomenon, Imagination in Phenomenology of Religious Experience", Prague, Nov 2-4, 2018 Message-ID: Call for Abstracts IMAGE, PHENOMENON, AND IMAGINATION IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE (click to download CFA ) The Society for Phenomenology of Religious Experience (SOPHERE) Biennial Congress, Prague, 2018 Dates: November 2, Friday, to November 4, Sunday, 2018 Hosted by the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague Venue: Prague, Narodni 3, the Czech Academy of Sciences (main building) Keynote speakers: Hans Rainer Sepp, Charles University, Prague Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii at Manoa Presidential address: Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, Jesuit School of Theology and UC Davis, USA Conference director: Martin Nitsche, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague The 1st 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: 1. * Methods in Phenomenological Research* ? Applicability of phenomenological methods to study religious experience in general. ? Applicability of phenomenological methods to study images of religious experience and its imaginative aspects in particular. ? Imagination and the embodied nature of religious experience. ? Philosophy and phenomenological research of religious experience 1. * Phenomenological Ontology and Metaphysics* ? Can phenomenology capture the non-apparent? ? What is the relationship between phenomenality and religious experiencing? ? How do we think relationship between phenomenality, intentionality, and visible light? ? What are the modes of givenness in religious experiencing? ? How does religious experiencing transcend (or not) intentionality? ? Is there a religious experiencing sans the ?moral emotions?? ? What is the relationship between religious experience, certainty, and truth? ? How do the questions of phenomenological manifold and unification manifest in regard for religious experiencing 1. * History of Phenomenology:* ? Phenomenological accounts of image and imagination in the work of phenomenological scholars (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, etc.). 1. * Phenomenological Psychology* ? Imagination, fantasies, and dreams in religion and religious experience. ? Images in spiritual praxis. ? Imagination and the altered states of consciousness. ? Spatiality and other cognitive aspects of religious imagery. 1. * Phenomenological Theology * ? Connection between images and the concepts of Divine. ? Imagination in pastoral praxis. ? Theological importance of sacred images. 1. * Phenomenological aspects of Image in Religious studies* ? Relation to images and/or imagination in different religions and religiosities. ? Comparative iconography (also with regard to language). ? Images and imagination in mythopoetics, or history of religion. 1. * Phenomenology and Philosophy of Religion* ? Picture theory of meaning. ? Phenomenological ontology of ?Imago Dei?. ? Visual vs. symbolic consciousness in generation of religious concepts. ? Phenomenology of symbolic forms. ? Phenomenology of relations between image and language in religious contexts. 1. * Theory of Images* ? Image and representation ? related to religion and religious experience. ? Pictorial turn ? related to religion and religious experience. ? Synesthesia in religious experience (tactility of images). ? Apparent and unapparent in phenomenology of religious experience. 1. * Theory of Art* ? Different kinds of images: film, photography, painting, sculpture, performance ? related to religion and religious experience. ? Contemporary religious art. 1. * Media Theory* ? Image as medium of religious experience. ? Communicological virtues of religious image. 1. * Politics of Images* ? Political dimensions of image and imagination in religion and religious experience ? Religion and images of holocaust. ? Social phenomenology of religious image. ? ?We-intentionality? and religious visuality. 1. * Ethics* ? Ethical dimensions of image and imagination in religion and religious experience. ? Image and healthcare. ? Image and hope. ? Religious transformation in the images of good and evil. 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. Propositions have to be written in English. 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 http://sophere.org 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. Abstracts should be sent to: conferenceprague at sophere.org Deadline for submitting presentation proposals: June 10 2018 Deadline for submitting session proposals: June 3 2018 Notification of acceptance: until June 30 2018 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. Please share. - Facebook - Twitter ??Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D.?? ? Professor, Philosophy of Religion?, Hult International Business School Clinical Professor, PHS, UC Davis Chair, AARWR Philosophy of Religion Unit? Founding President, SOPHERE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: