Overview
- Treats religious experience in the light of post-classical phenomenology
- Draws connections between the constitutive phenomenology and the naturalistic understanding of Homo Religiosus
- Contributes towards an articulation of a descriptive psychology of religious experiencing
- Sets new directions for religious experience as a subject of philosophical research
Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 103)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Volume I. The Primeval Showing of Religious Experience Part I. Subjectivity and Religious Interiorities
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Part II. Lifeworld, Intersubjectivity, Alterity
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Volume II. Doxastic Perspectives in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience Part III. The Phenomenology of Revelation
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Keywords
- Phenomenological Psychology and Religious Experience
- Phenomenology of Mysticism
- Phenomenology of Prayer
- Phenomenology of Religious Experience
- Phenomenology of Revelation
- Phenomenology of Divine Presence
- Religion and Phenomenological Research
- Religious Experience and Alterity
- Religious Experience and Epoché
- Religious Knowing
- Subjectivity and Religious Experience
- religious experience and transcendence
- religious conversion
- Western mysticism
- Kierkegaardian Phenomenology
- Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenology
- Derrida's Phenomenology
- Husserl's Phenomenology
About this book
For a long time, the philosophically difficult topic of religious experience has been on the sidelines of phenomenological research (with a notable exception of Anthony Steinbock, who focused on mysticism). The book The Problem of Religious Experience: Case Studies in Phenomenology, with Reflections and Commentaries brings together preeminent as well as emerging voices in the field, with fresh views on the topic. Originating from dialogues of the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, these two volumes cover a spectrum of phenomenological approaches, with a thematization of the field in the form of case studies. Contributions from theology, comparative religion, psychology and the philosophy of religion come together in the commentaries and meta-narrative written by Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (the editor). Volume I, The Primeval Showing of Religious Experience, examines religious experience with regard to its lived “interiority”, in light of the problem of the ego cogito, including the recent research on the embodiment of subjectivity and phenomenological materiality. Volume I also sheds light on religious experience in regard for the problems of its constitution, passive synthesis, the world, and otherness. Volume II, Doxastic Perspectives in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, addresses the phenomenology of revelation, shows how different approaches treat the question of essence in religious experience (i.e., what is it that makes religious experience religious?), and demonstrates how religious experience contributes to the psychological horizon of meaning. The book identifies the “growing edges” in the phenomenological research of religious experience and is useful for psychologists, philosophers, and theologians alike.
"The two volumes offer an excellent interdisciplinary introduction to the phenomenon of religious experience. The case studies presented in them are arranged under the central topics of self, alterity, revelation, and psychological aspects of religious experience and provide outstanding examples of applied phenomenology." Hans Rainer Sepp, Charles University, Prague, and Central European Institute of Philosophy
"In the context of the "return of religion," this book offers both a timely and necessary contribution to confront the peculiarities of religious experience. Providing readers with applied phenomenological descriptions in an interdisciplinary spirit, these debates will prove stimulating for a resurgent field of research that is starting to refine its conceptual devices and methodological presuppositions." University of Vienna.Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Problem of Religious Experience
Book Subtitle: Case Studies in Phenomenology, with Reflections and Commentaries
Editors: Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21575-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21574-3Published: 29 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21577-4Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21575-0Published: 28 January 2020
Series ISSN: 0923-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 339
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studies, general