[Asec] CFP | APA Eastern| SoPheRE Panel Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Towards an Exit From Shared Suffering

[Olga Louchakova-Schwartz]

*Call for Papers*

*Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Towards an Exit From Shared Suffering*

https://sophere.org/apa-participation/community-art-and-religious-experience/

What is the content and structure of an experience of forgiveness or of
reconciliation?  How are these experiences religious ones?  How do they
intertwine with an experience of shared suffering? Does a phenomenological
analysis or description of these experiences provide us with the context
for hope that we can exit the violence and suffering that form the very
call for forgiveness and reconciliation in the first place?  Why or why not?

The Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience (SoPheRE) will be
hosting a panel discussion on the topic “Forgiveness and Reconciliation:
Toward an Exit from Shared Suffering” at the Eastern Division meeting of
the American Philosophical Association in  Montreal, Quebec from January
5-8, 2022. We hereby invite papers related to that theme. Possible topics
to be covered include (but are not limited to):

·       What is meant phenomenologically by forgiveness in religious
experience? What can—and cannot—be forgiven?  Why? How different religious
philosophies (i.e., multicultural contexts) treat this issue?

·       How is reconciliation a movement rooted in the call of the
transcendent?  Of the immanent?

·       What are  resources in the  Continental and phenomenological
tradition that might assist us in order to articulate the possibility or
impossibility of reconciliation—resources such as those in the works of
Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, GWF Hegel, Jean-Luc Marion, Edith Stein,
John Caputo, and others?

·       How does the experience of shared suffering make possible (or make
problematic) what it means to move beyond that suffering?

·       How do actual attempts at forgiveness or reconciliation (such as
those in South Africa or in Palestine and Israel) take account of a
religious or sacred textual structure?  How do these attempts articulate a
phenomenological understanding?

·       How does art or literature demonstrate or call for a new kind of
space or temporality that forms the structure or possibility of forgiveness
and reconciliation?



Papers should be for 30 minutes reading time (approx. 3500 words) and
submitted for blind review by July 20, 2021. Accepted papers will be
notified by August 1, 2021. All presenters must register for the Eastern
Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. All papers, and
any questions, should be sent to the panel organizers at
*dr.petercostello at gmail.com* <dr.petercostello 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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