[Asec] Extended Deadline | CFP Religious Experience and Metaphysics

[Olga Louchakova-Schwartz]

Religious Experience and Metaphysics

*Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, Religions Special
Issue ,*

*Call for Papers*

In this issue, we seek to address relationships between religious or
spiritual experience (RSE) and metaphysics. RSE is associated with
interruptions in ordinary language/common sense experience of the everyday
(cf. Dahl; Barber; Heidegger). RSE interruptions create specific changes in
perception, but it is not clear if and how RSE phenomena as described by
i.e. mystics(such as internal perception of light, sound, altered
perception of the body (re: spatiality, density, depth, other parameters),
internal stillness, motion, presence or disconnect, etc.) impact one’s
beliefs and/or attendant metaphysical (pre)suppositions. Do RSE change
empirical realism of the natural attitude, religious
attitude, or one’s metaphysics of the self? In the first panel, we invite
concrete empirical and textual investigations of relationships between the
perceptual and conceptual aspects of RSE across different traditions. The
papers can include both first-person and second-person descriptive
phenomenological research or an intertwining of different phenomenological
analyses.

We also are seeking revisionist metaphysical proposals that include a
reference to formal phenomenological analyses of consciousness in RSE. By
contrast with the ordinary experience of objects, originary self-giving in
RSE can be non-associative, open-ended, undetermined; in other words,
excluding mental or “real” (empirically so) objects. Therefore, a
descriptive metaphysics of such consciousness needs to be non-object
related (cf. Ladyman, French). What is the nature of reality “displayed” by
RSE? Besides covering the metaphysics of consciousness, the panel welcomes
speculative extensions of such phenomenologically grounded metaphysics into
realist contexts, such as e.g., metaphysics of the quantum world or
Minkowski space-time.
Submissions portal open
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/REMs>
*Deadline Extended: OCT 31,  2022*
Guest editor: Olga Louchakova-Schwartz   olouch at ucdavis.edu
<olouch at ucdavis.edu>
https://sophere.org/publications/active-calls-papers/

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Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, MD, PhD,
Professor, UC Davis School of Medicine
Professor, Hult International Business School
Adjunct Lecturer, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley
President, Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience
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