[Asec] Correction: CFP | APA panel | Religious/Spiritual Experience and Other Domains of Human Activity

[Olga Louchakova-Schwartz]

Apologies for the error, highlighted below. The APA Central meeting is
planned for 2/22/2023-2/25/23 in Denver, Colorado.

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 8:41 PM Olga Louchakova-Schwartz <
olouchakova at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Call for Papers: Religious/Spiritual Experience and Other Domains of
> Human Activity*
>
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> The Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience invites
> submissions of high-quality abstracts of 150-300 words for its group
> meeting at the Central APA. The APA is currently planning the Central
> Division meeting at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, IL, on February
> 23-26, 2022, with virtual backup plans. Abstracts should be anonymized
> and sent by email to apacentral at sophere.org before *August 15* with the
> subject line “Central APA Submission”. Notifications of acceptance will be
> emailed by *Aug 25*. Paper presentation time should be no more than 20-30
> minutes. Presenters will have to be registered members of the APA. Selected
> papers will be published in the special issue of Religions free of charge.
>
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> Alfred Schutz developed a theory of finite provinces of meaning, beginning
> with pragmatic everyday life and continuing on to suggest a variety of
> finite provinces of meaning that are not pragmatically motivated as
> everyday life is and that involve modifications of everyday life. Such
> provinces of meaning could include: literature, art, music, play, dreaming,
> theorizing, phantasying, telling a joke, or religious/spiritual experience.
> On the basis of his analysis of everyday life, he articulated six features
> of the cognitive style that would pertain to any province of meaning: a
> form of spontaneity, a tension of consciousness, the way one experiences
> oneself, a specific *epoch**é* by which one distinguishes the province
> one inhabits from other provinces, a form of social relationship, and an
> understanding of temporality. These features would all be modified from the
> way they are found in everyday life as one passes to a different province
> of meaning.
>
> We, members of SOPHERE (The Society for the Phenomenology of Religious
> Experience), hope to sponsor a session at the meeting of the Central branch
> of the American Philosophical Association to be help in Spring of 2023. The
> title of the Session is “Religious/Spiritual Experience and Other Domains
> of Human Activity.” Submissions need not employ Schutzian methodology, but
> the idea would be to compare and contrast religious or spiritual experience
> with other domains of human activity.  For example, how is religious or
> spiritual experience like or different from play? Is religious experience
> like experience of painting or music? How is religious/spiritual experience
> like or different from literary experience or from the kind of theorizing
> one often finds accompanying religious/spiritual experience, e.g.,
> metaphysics or natural theology.
>
> Samples of possible questions might be:
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> 1)     How does theorizing interact with religious/spiritual experience?
> Are the standards of philosophical/theological justification altered when
> dealing with religious experience as certain views on pragmatic
> encroachment suggest? Can an overly theorized approach to
> religious/spiritual experience distort it? What does one make of
> discussions in the philosophical tradition about the relationship of faith
> and reason?
>
> 2)     How is religious/spiritual experience like and different from
> phantasy?  What would be the implications for a view that
> religious/spiritual experience is nothing more than an unfounded
> imaginative projection that flies in the face of reality?
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> 3)     Discuss the role of the body in religious experience, e.g. what
> role does religious/spiritual ritual play in religious experience? Why do
> rituals include art, paintings, music, gesture, incense, light and
> darkness, architecture, the spoken word? Does the sphere of art undergo a
> transformation when integrated with religious-spiritual experience? Is
> ritual like and/or different from play?
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> 4)     Discuss the place of narrative, sacred texts, and literature in
> ritual and religious/spiritual experience?
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> 5)     How might one think of religious/spiritual experiences and
> experiences of awe (e.g. at the sight of a landscape) or forms of play (eg.
> Sports events or political realities) as para-ritual events?  Are there
> differences?
>
> 6)     Can one develop comparisons or contrasts of how
> religious/spiritual experiences interact with other spheres of activity in
> different religious communities, e.g. the role of music or narratives in
> Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, or Christian rituals?
>
> 7)     What is the relationship between religious/spiritual experience
> and the natural sciences? Is religion inherently inimical to the natural
> sciences?
>
> https://sophere.org/apa-participation/central/
> Contact : Michael Barber michael.barber at slu.edu
>
> --
> 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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