[Asec] CFP (Ir)Rationality and Religiosity During Pandemics, Deadline Extended

[Olga Louchakova-Schwartz]

Deadline for submission extended till August 15.
Confirmation of acceptance will be emailed by Sept 1.
Confirmed speakers:

Bruce Ellis Benson (University of St. Andrews)

Tripp Fuller (The University of Edinburgh)

Sarah Lane Richie (The University of Edinburgh)

Michael Barber (St. Louis University)

James Mensch (Charles University)


*Call for Papers*
*(Ir)Rationality and  Religiosity During Pandemics: Phenomenological
Criticism*



Supplemental  Research Webinar (online workshop only)  of the Society for
the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

https://sophere.org/conferences/irrationality-religiosity-and-causality-during-pandemics-phenomenological-criticism/



September 16-17, 2020



Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria



Keynote talks: Bruce Benson (University of St. Andrews)



In the context of the current COVID 19-crisis, the vexed relationship
between religion, intuition, discursive reason, and instrumental
rationality has become ever more complicated.  Given resurgent appeals to
the transformative (purifying, redemptive, liberating, etc.) force of
religious resources in times of crisis–both manipulating and hopeful—we
invite papers which explicate the involved aspects of (ir)rationality, on a
societal, social, communal, and personal scale. Our working hypothesis is
that the by now apparent lapses and discontents of secular reason
contributed, if not lead to, the COVID19 pandemics.  With the toll of
deaths exceeding 100,000 in mid-April 2020, and industrial countries such
as the United States leading the numbers, what does it tell us about the
status of knowledge, consciousness and its relationships with the power
networks ?  Given the astounding denials of both trivial-ontic-empirical
and scientific facts of epidemics and the gripping realities of global
misinformation, the relationship between the reason—in action, politics,
press, local decision-making—and the subjective dimension of religiosity
stand out  in this new light, calling for phenomenological reporting and
reflection, which must precede the care and the cure.  While religious
experience has been shown to have emancipatory value and enhance resilience
and decrease stress, we'd like to clarify if this assessment still stands
in this new situation.



We invite submissions of papers of about 3000 words, which would correspond
to 20 min of reading maximum. Please also provide up to  300 words synopsis
of your talk, in a separate Word document formatted for anonymous review.
Please submit both to viennaweb2020 at sophere.org     Deadline for submission
is July 15, 2020, with notifications of acceptance by August 1. The
workshop is free of charge, as a contribution to healing the pandemic
(donations to Sophere are of course welcome). Best papers will be
recommended for a free of charge publication in a special issue of Open
Theology (De Gruyter), prepared in cooperation with the workshop.



Workshop Directors:

Jason Alvis J.WESLEY.ALVIS at gmail.com

Michael Staudigl michael.staudigl at univie.ac.

Olga Louchakova-Schwartz  olouchakova at gmail.com


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Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Spirituality, and Human Development,
HIBS
Clinical Professor, UC Davis, School of Medicine
https://ucdavis.academia.edu/OlgaLouchakova

Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience
Founding President, www.sophere.org

The Problem of Religious Experience
<https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030215743>:
Case Studies in Phenomenology, with Reflection and Commentaries,
V.1 and 2 (Springer, 2019)
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