Image and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Martin Nitsche · Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

Jan 2023 · Verlag Traugott Bautz

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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 explicitly 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 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"--

About the author

Martin Nitsche, geboren 1975 in Usti nad Labem, CZ Ph.D. in Philosophie, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 2007, Schwerpunkt: Phänomenologie Dissertation: "Human Essence in Heidegger`s Contributions to Philosophy"

M.A. in Philosophie and Geschichte, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 1999 Schwerpunkt: Ontologie; Political Thought (20th century Czechoslovakia)

These: "Critical Ways of Ludwig Feuerbach`s Philosophy"

2008 - 2015: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Positionen am Institut: - Senior Rechercheur/Forscher, seit 2014

- Rechercheur/Forscher, 2010 - 2014

- Post-doc Rechercheur/Forscher, seit 2008

2002 - 2015: Department of Political Science and Philosophy, University of Jan E. Purkyne, Usti nad Labem CZ

Positionen am Institut:

- Akademischer Rat, von 2002 (seit 2014 Teilzeitbeschäftigung

- E.U. project expert-guarantor, September 2012 - Januar 2015 (OPVK Projekt "Corona culturae")

Olga Louchakova-Schwartz arbeitet seit einigen Jahren in phänomenologischer Philosophie, Religionsphilosophie, vergleichender Erkenntnistheorie und vergleichender Metaphysik.

Ihr besonderer Fokus liegt darauf, was Erfahrung religiös oder spirituell macht und wie diese Erfahrung das Selbst, die Verkörperung und die Wahrnehmung beeinflusst. Sie interessiert sich auch für Normalität und medizinische Normativität der Selbsterfahrung und medizinische Phänomenologie. Ihr Aufbaustudium in deskriptiver Phänomenologie (2004-2013) absolvierte sie bei Amedeo und Barbro Giorgi und in phänomenologischer Philosophie (2006-2014) bei Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. 2016 gründete sie die Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience.

Schwerpunkte : Religiöse Erfahrung; Husserl; Henry; die Philosophien von Shankara, Ibn-Arabi, Suhrawardi und Zarathushtra. Migrationsfragen in Gesundheit, Theologie und Dienst. Transformation in Einzelpersonen und Gruppen.

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