[Asec] New book

[Olga Louchakova-Schwartz]

*Nitsche, Martin, and Louchakova-Schwartz, Olga (eds.) Image and
Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience. Nordhausen:
Bautz, 2023*


This volume presents new findings on religious images, in their
relationship to appearance and phenomenality, to being, transcendence,
liminality, reduction, original self-giving, evidence, and other
topics of regressive and constitutive phenomenology. Drawing on
Christian, Islamic, and cross-cultural folk testimony, the volume
creates an incisive reference that opens new avenues for
phenomenological research.

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While human beings have probably always been fascinated by images, we
live in an image-obsessed age in which images powerfully shape our
lives. The writers in this volume are keenly attentive to the ways in
which we all are both image bearers and image makers. Although their
reflections often arise from and relate ex

plicitly to religious imagery, their explorations have much wider
implications. They delve deeply into such issues as the ways in which
images both reveal and conceal, the ways in which images are
interpreted, and the ways in which we use images to define ourselves
and tell our stories. This is a powerful volume, full of
thought-provoking analyses of the phenomenon of the image and its role
in human being-in-the-world. Topics such as embodiment, mysticism,
ritual, touch, creation, and suffering are explored with sensitivity,
nuance, and insight. In short, the authors show us a great deal about
how images embody whatever it is we take to be ‘sacred’.
*Bruce Ellis Benson, University of Nottingham*

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https://www.bautz.de/product-page/image-and-imagination-in-the-phenomenology-of-religious-experience?lang=en

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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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