Skip to content

Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

  • Home
  • Exploratory Workshop 2024
    • Program
    • RECORDED TALKS
    • “Non-Objects” Call for Abstracts (2024)
    • Registration
    • Locations and Accommodation
  • Book Series
  • Webinars
  • APA Groups
    • APA Eastern
    • APA Central
    • APA Pacific
  • Archive
    • Conference 2023: Religious Experience and the Phenomenology of Nature
      • Schedule and Conference Pack with Program and Abstracts Download
      • Galway CFP and Submission
      • Registration
      • Accommodations
    • Activities
      • Conferences
      • Special Events and Lectures
      • Emerging Scholar Series
    • In the Shadows of Religious Experience: Hostility, Violence, Revenge
      • Vienna 2021 Program
      • Registration
    • Past APA Conferences
      • Sonic Aspects of Religious Experience: Phenomenology of Immersion (Western APA 2022, Vancouver)
      • Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Towards an Exit From Shared Suffering (Eastern APA 2022)
      • Religious/Spiritual Experience and Metaphysics (Central APA 2022)
    • (Ir)Rationality and Religiosity During Pandemics: Phenomenological Criticism. Vienna/online 2020
      • Pandemic Webinar: Recordings
      • Vienna 2020 Abstracts
      • Vienna 2020 Program
    • Religious Experience and Description. Indiana 2019
      • Indiana, Call for Papers
      • Indiana, Program
    • Image, Phenomenon, Imagination. Prague 2018
      • Prague Conference Photos
      • Program Prague 2018
      • Prague Call for Abstracts
    • Religious Experience and the Lifeworld. Berkeley 2018
      • Berkeley 2018, Call for Papers
      • Program
    • Phenomenology of Religious Experience. Berkeley 2016
    • Podcasts and Videos
  • Publications
    • Open Calls for Papers
      • Books
      • Periodicals
    • 2025 Religious Experience and Metaphysics
    • 2023 In the Shadows of Religious Experience: Hostility, Violence, Revenge
    • 2021 Rationality and Religiosity During a Pandemic
    • 2020 Religious Experience and Description
    • 2019 The Problem of Religious Experience
    • 2019 Visuality, Imagination, and the Lifeworld
    • 2018 Perspectives in Theology
    • 2017 Phenomenology of Religious Experience
  • Membership
    • Core Membership
    • Affiliated Membership
    • Observer Membership
  • People
    • Directors
    • Officers
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • RSS
  • Support Us
what makes a religious experience

What makes a “Religious” Experience?

Posted on April 5, 2025April 5, 2025 by CH@el@

By Kyril Wolfe What makes an experience “religious?” The answer may seem obvious: an experience is “religious” if it concerns itself with religion…

Read More
Cartesian Meditations is a later text of Husserl’s, first given as a series of lectures at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1929

SoPheRE Update: The 2025 edition of the SoPheRE Webinar is Coming Soon

Posted on February 2, 2025February 2, 2025 by CH@el@

By Kyril Wolfe Happy 2025! Our SoPheRE webinar is resuming this February, led again by Dr. Peter Costello. For the next webinar program,…

Read More
Duquesne University in Pittsburgh

SoPheRe Exploratory Workshop 2024 Report: Non-Objects

Posted on December 28, 2024December 28, 2024 by CH@el@

By Kyril Wolfe From October 28-30 of 2024, the Society gathered together in Pittsburgh for an exploratory workshop. Our organizers were our fearless…

Read More

Not the excitement of your horse winning the race

Posted on September 7, 2024 by Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

from Amir Freinmann, Sept 7, 2024 Not the excitement of your horse winning the race In a forthcoming book chapter I co-authored with…

Read More
Unveiling the Unseen

Unveiling the Unseen

Posted on January 9, 2024January 29, 2024 by Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

post by Tareq Ayoub, 1.8.2024 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to encounter the divine? To glimpse the depth of…

Read More

New Contributor Resource: New Movements in Religion

Posted on December 14, 2020January 12, 2021 by Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

Open to Contributors: New Movements in Religion is a member-produced website aimed at promoting the work we do for a general audience. It’s intended to be…

Read More

(Ir)rationality, Religiosity, and Causality During Pandemics: Phenomenological Criticism

Posted on April 21, 2020January 29, 2024 by Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
Read More

Olga Louchakova-Schwartz/Thematizing Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Posted on September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 by Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

Thematization, thematization…. This is all I seem to have been doing for the last three years, after the Fall 2016, when, on the…

Read More

A Scholarly Analysis of the Pope Francis’ Pontifical Texts Reveals Likely Influences of French Theological Phenomenology

Posted on September 19, 2018September 19, 2018 by Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

Published in a recent issue of Open Theology, an article by Kristóf Oltvai, a graduate student at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School,…

Read More

Philosophy of Religion Unit at the American Academy of Religion CFP, conf Mar 2-3, 2019

Posted on July 23, 2018January 29, 2024 by Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

​​​Dear Colleagues, This is the CFP from the Philosophy of Religion Unit at the American Academy of Religion. 2019 ANNUAL CONFERENCE | CALL…

Read More

Posts navigation

1 2 3 Next
Powered by Nevler. © 2020 Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience. All Rights Reserved. Website Manager: DavidJaeger0@gmail.com