[Asec] CFO for a topical issue of Open Theology"Phenomenology of Religious Experience V: (Ir)Rationality and Religiosity During Pandemics"

[Olga Louchakova-Schwartz]

CALL FOR PAPERS (click to download
<https://sophere.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DG_OA_FlyerA5_OPTH_CFP-Pandemic.pdf>
)
for a topical issue of Open Theology
*Phenomenology of Religious Experience V: (Ir)Rationality and Religiosity
During Pandemics*
Edited by:
Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (UC Davis and Graduate Theological Union)
Jason Alvis (University of Vienna)
Michael Staudigl (University of Vienna)

DESCRIPTION
“Open Theology” (
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opth/opth-overview.xml) invites
submissions for the topical issue “Phenomenology of Religious Experience V:
(Ir)Rationality and Religiosity During Pandemics”, prepared in
collaboration with the Society for the  Phenomenology of Religious
Experience (www.sophere.org<http://www.sophere.org><http://www.sophere.org
>).

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 286,000 in mid-May 2020, and industrial countries such as
the United States leading the numbers, what does it tell us about the
status of knowledge, consciousness, and their 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.

Authors publishing their articles in the topical issue will benefit from:
– transparent, comprehensive and fast peer review,
– efficient route to fast-track publication and full advantage of De
Gruyter’s e-technology,
– free language assistance for authors from non-English speaking regions,
– complementary membership in the Society for Phenomenology of Religious
Experience.

As a rule, publication costs should be covered by so called Article
Publishing Charges (APC), paid by authors, their affiliated institutions,
funders or sponsors. To view funding opportunities to cover APC please
visit https://www.degruyter.com/page/1097
Authors without access to publishing funds are encouraged to discuss
potential discounts or waivers with Managing Editor of the journal
Dr. Katarzyna Tempczyk (katarzyna.tempczyk at degruyter.com<mailto:
katarzyna.tempczyk at degruyter.com><mailto:
katarzyna.tempczyk at degruyteropen.com<mailto:
katarzyna.tempczyk at degruyteropen.com>>) before submitting their manuscript.

HOW TO SUBMIT
Submissions will be collected from September 1 to March 31, 2021, via the
on-line submission system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/
Choose as article type: “Topical Issue Article: Pandemics”.
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 Olga
Louchakova-Schwartz at olouchakova at gmail.com<mailto:olouchakova at gmail.com
><mailto:olouchakova at gmail.com<mailto:olouchakova at gmail.com>>. In case of
technical or financial questions, please contact journal Managing
Editor Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk at degruyter.com<mailto:
katarzyna.tempczyk at degruyter.com><mailto:
katarzyna.tempczyk at degruyteropen.com<mailto:
katarzyna.tempczyk at degruyteropen.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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