[Asec] CFP second notice: (Ir)Rationality and Religiosity During Pandemics: Phenomenological Criticism

[Olga Louchakova-Schwartz]

(Ir)Rationality and Religiosity During Pandemics: Phenomenological
Criticism

September 16-17, 2020

Supplemental  Research Webinar of the Society for the Phenomenology of
Religious Experience Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, University of
Vienna, Austria

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


Keynote talk: Bruce Benson

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  *461,715*  in mid-June 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. Best papers
will be recommended for publication in a special topical issue of *Open
Theology* (De Gruyter). The workshop is free of charge, as a contribution
to healing the pandemic (donations in support of 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.

Webinar 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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