[Asec] In The Shadows of Religious Experience | SoPheRE Webinar Oct 6-8 | Program

[Olga Louchakova-Schwartz]

In the Shadows of Religious Experience: Hostility, Violence, & Revenge

**All times are set to Central European Time (Vienna Austria)**

Preliminary Program

Registration:
https://sophere.org/conferences/vienna-2020-call-for-abstracts/registration/
October 6



13:30-14:00: Michael STAUDIGL & Jason ALVIS (Vienna), “Introduction: On
secularism and its discontents, or: Why a Conference about the Dark Sides
of Religious Experience?”


Session 1:  Phenomenologies of Religious Violence   (Moderator: Michael
Staudigl)



14:00-14:30: Tareq AYOUB, “Heroism and Being-Towards-Death: On Martyrdom in
Contemporary Shi’ism”

14:30-15:00:  Nuzhat KHURSHID, "Legitimizing Transgression Within Faith.
Islamic Psychoanalysis and Muslim Women’s Agency"

15:00-15:30: Tanay GANDHI, “The Hindutva Body: Religious Experience and
Visceral Dispositions for Violence in the Project for a Hindu Nation”


Session 2: Revenge of the Sacred (Moderator: Jason Alvis)



15:30-16:00: Thomas SOJER, “The conjuncture of religious revenge and
attention: Looking at the “Pope’s revenge” through the eyes of Simone Weil”

16:00-16:30: Eric BIEN, “The Double-sidedness of the Frown: Revenge as a
Spiral of Satisfaction and Provocation”


16:30-17:00 ****BREAK****





*17:00-18:00: KEYNOTE --- J. Aaron SIMMONS, **“**There are A-holes
Everywhere on BS Mountain: Evangelical Conspiracism and Epistemic Violence”*

          (Moderator:
Jason Alvis)



Session 3: The Politicization of Transcendence
                                                                  (Moderator:
Emil Salim)



18:00*–*18:30: Jan CERNY, “Étienne Balibar: Secularization as a Suppression
or Transformation of Religious Experience?”

18:30-19:00: Thomasz NIEZGODA, “Violence as an Response. Eric Voegelin on
the Ambivalence of the Experience of Transcendence”



19:00-19:30 - ****BREAK****


Session 4: Reassessing Political Theology   (Moderator: Olga
Louchakova-Schwartz)

19:30-20:00:  Michele GIULI, “George Bataille’s interpretation of the Death
of God as a way to understand the postmodern human condition”

20:00-20:30: Ahmad BOSTANI, “Phenomenology of the Imagination and
Anti-Secular Ideologies: Henry Corbin’s Theologico-Political Legacy
Reconsidered”

20:30-21:00: Paul SLAMA, “On the ‘psycho-theological’ structure of
modernity and social violence”






October 7


Session 5: Enmity and the Politicization of Religious Truth (Moderator:
Michael Staudigl)



14:00-14:30: Osman Gazi BIRGÜL, “On the Politicization and
Instrumentalization of Truth:

A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Analysis”

14:30-15:00: Macej WITKOWSKI, “Philosophy, Catholicism and Judaism in
inter-war Germany: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt on political violence”

15:00-15:30: Barbara LORENZ, “Migration of religious narratives of
hostility & violence in (post)modern conspiracy myths”





*15:30-16:30     KEYNOTE - - - Neal DE ROO, "Locating Religious Violence in
the Spiritual Constitution of Experience" *

(Moderator: O. Louchakova-Schwartz)


Session 6: Innocence, Theodicy, Guilt, and Levinas (Moderator: J. Alvis)



16:30-17:00: Derek SAWER, “Bearing the Burden of Sacred History: Levinasian
Anti-theodicy and the German Counter-Monument Tradition”

17:00-17:30: Michael BARBER,  “Nietzsche and Levinas against Innocence”



17:30-18:00 ****BREAK****
Session 7: Denials and Possibilities of Transcendence (Moderator: M. D.
Barber)



18:00-18:30: Georg HARFENSTELLER, “Hostility and the effective direction of
religious communitarisation”

18:30-19:00: Matt ROSEN, “‘This is our testimony to the whole world’: A
Quaker Phenomenology of Peace”

19:00-19:30: Eleni LORANDOU, “Embodying the universe: reviewing religious
transcendence through Merleau-Ponty’s narratives of artistic engagement.”





*19:30-20:30 - SOPHERE Presidential Address  - - - Olga
Louchakova-Schwartz, *

*“Thinking About the Obvious:  Religious Experience and the First-Person
Perspective *

(Moderator: Michael Barber)




October 8


Session 8: Difficult Relations (Moderator: Michael Staudigl)



14:00-14:30: Walter S. STEPANENKO, “A Relational Phenomenological Reading
of Two Parables and the Atonement as Revenge Reduction: Implications for
Contemporary Approaches to Religion”

14:30-15:00: Antje KAPUST: “Shifting of violence in civil societies:
Religion and violence”


  Session 9: Complicating Oppositions, Transcending Binaries (Moderator:
Martin Koci)   15:00-15:30: Emil SALIM, “Violence in Empedoclean
Metaphysics” 15:30-16:00: Maria GOLEBIEWSKA, "The Phenomenal Aspects of
Negativity and Negating according to Søren Kierkegaard"



16:00-16:30  ****BREAK****


Session 10:  Secular Violence, esp. in the Case of Canada (Moderator: Jason
Alvis)



16:30-17:00: :  Robert Appelbaum, “Religious Violence and Space: Two
Incidents from the French Wars of Religion”
17:00-17:30: Raphael Cohen-Almagor, “*Indivisibilité, sécurité*, *laïcité:*
The Burqa and the Niqab in France” 17:30-18:00: Felix Ó Murchadha:
“Enthusiasm, Superstition and Religious Violence”




Session 11: The Affective States and Spaces of Violence (Moderator: Olga
Louchakova-Schwartz)



17:30-18:00*: *Jennifer GUYVER, “Protecting the legitimacy of state
violence through laïcité: the case of Quebec”

18:30-19:00: Seraphine APPEL, “Ideological Structures of ‘Reconciliation’”

19:30-20:00: Damian BARNAT, “Religious and Secular Responses to Violence.
Charles Taylor on the Moral Transformation”



20:00 Closing Remarks – End of the Conference





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*This webinar is conducted within the framework of the Society for the
Phenomenology of Religious Experience, is based at the University of Vienna
in the Institute for Philosophy, in cooperation with the "Centre for
Religion and Transformation", and with the financial support of the FWF
research grant "Revenge of the Sacred: Phenomenology and the ends of
Christianity in Europe" (FWF P 31919) *

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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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