PROGRAM and SCHEDULE BOOK of ABSTRACTS
Keynote Speakers
Angela Ales Bello (Pontificia Università Lateranense and the Centro Italiano di Ricerche Fenomenologiche, Rome, Italy): Dual Anthropology as Imago Dei in Edith Stein VIDEO AVAILABLE
Hans Rainer Sepp (Charles University, Prague): Religious Experience: Beginnings and Ends of Imagination VIDEO
Michael Shapiro (University of Hawai’i Manoa): The Phenomenology of Belief: Media Technologies and Communities of Sense
Presidental Address
Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, and UC Davis): Transcendental Reaches, and the Riches of Experience VIDEO
Accepted Papers
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Jason W. Alvis (Institute for Philosophy, University of Vienna): The Counter-spectacularity of Religious Experience: Or, a case for Inconspicuousness VIDEO
Noman Baig (Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan): “Remember Me, and I will Remember You:” The Phenomenology of Ritual Remembrance in Sufi Zikr
Michael Barber (Saint Louis University, USA): Experiencing God as a Consociate, Justification, and Reality(formerly Intersubjectivity, Phantasy and the Religious Experience of God) VIDEO
Inga Bartkienė (University of Applied Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania): Face On Screen: Is It Possible?
Alison Benders (Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University Berkeley, CA USA): Claiming Interior Experience of Moral Agency as Imago Dei
Alexander Berg (Charles University, Prague): The Influence of William James “Varieties of Religious Experience” on Wittgenstein’s pictorial thinking, or Wittgenstein’s later philosophy as a phenomenology
Domenico Bilotti (Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy): Secularism and violence as the new masks of God
Patricia Bockelman (Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida): A space oddity: Overview of neurophenomenological methods for examining religious and spiritual experiences in simulation environments
Thomas Bown (Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah): The Phenomenology of Job’s Self-image as a Knower of Things: Implications for Psychology
Kenul Bunyadzade (Azerbaijan Academy of sciences): The Phenomenology of Love (Rabia al-Adawiyya (VIII c.) and Edith Stein (XX c.)
Vinicio Busacchi (University of Cagliari, Sardiania, Italy): Transcending Emotions and Intentionality: Daisaku Ikeda’s Interpretation of Buddhist Meditation and the Mind Body Problem
Carla Canullo (Università di Macerata, Italy): God and man as unrepresentable images
Jan Černý (Institute of Philosophy, Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences): The Phenomenology of the Invisible in Jean-Yves Lacoste
Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): Disseminating the Religious Experience: Hajj Images and Objects as Alternative of the Sacred in Malabar
William L Connelly (The Catholic Institute of Paris): Modality and Metaphysics: Ritual Usage and the Predication of Religious Experience with Artistic Representation
Nikolaas Deketelaere (Balliol College, University of Oxford): Silence and Action. Kierkegaard’s Phenomenology of Religious Terror
Neal DeRoo (The King’s University, Canada): A Phenomenology of Image-Bearing: Spirituality, Humanity, and the “Supra-” Relation
Jonathan Doner (Virginia, USA): The Dynamic Geometry of Religious Experience: A Phenomenological Theory of Walking the Labyrinth
Dagmar Dotting (Fakulty of Humanities, Charlesuniversität Prague, and Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna): The Great Image Has No Form “大象無形“ Pictoriality in Daoism using Qiu Shihua and other contemporary mountain-water paintings as an example
Cornelia Edwards (Charles University, Prague): The Diabolical Order of Striped Garments
Silvana Errico (Fondo Ambiente Italiano): Religiosity and Superstition
Guillermo Ferrer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany): The imaginative expression of the mystical event of experience (St. Theresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross)
Maria Gołębiewska (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences): Patheticness and Temporal Phenomenalisation of Transcendence according to Kierkegaard
Alexandra Grundler (University of California, Santa Cruz): Taking Interest in the Imagination: A Mark of a Good Soul and the Foundation for Religious Experience
Rico Gutschmidt (Universität Konstanz, Germany): God in the Failure of Thought. Paradoxical Images and Transformative Experience in Negative Theology
Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of TechnologyPoland): Aspects of phenomenological space in a semiotactic study of wayside shrines
Kyle H. Kavanaugh (The Catholic University of Paris): Being, Phenomenality, and Phenomenology: John Scottus Eriugena?
Yeonhee Sophie Kim (University of Hawai’i Manoa): Religious Affects and Phenomenological Being in Andrei Tarkovsky
Petr Kouba (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague): Phenomenology of Sacrifice in Patočka, Marion and Nancy
Boon-Ooi Lee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): Cultural Phenomenology of Self-Transformation among Dang-kis in Singapore
Andreas Gonçalves Lind (Universitè de Namur): The concept of ‘imagination’ in the work of Michel Henry
Anna-Lena Lumma (University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany): Approaching spiritual experiences through different first-person mode
James R. Mensch (Charles University, Prague): Embodiment and the Experience of the Divine VIDEO
Lucía Montes Sánchez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): Religious experience in Fra Angelico’s frescoes of San Marco: the origin of «visual» in Georges Didi-Huberman’s philosophy of images
Martin Muránský (Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava): Wonder as limiting phenomenon and challenging limits of anthropological concept of religious experience in Ernst Tugendhat
Vincent J. Pastro (Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, California): The Phenomenology of the Word and the Mexican Immigrant Experience of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Vít Pokorný (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague): Daemonic dimension and symbolic politics: a study in historical anthropology
Mira T. Reyes (University of Pardubice Centre of Ethics, Czech Republic): Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Animal Piety
Joanna Sarbiewska (University of Gdansk, Poland): Deconstruction as a neophenomenology: the apophatic techno-image and ecstasies
Amy Slagle (University of Southern Mississippi): Can an Iconogram Convey the Divine? The Eastern Orthodox Icon in the Internet Age
Jon Stewart (Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences): Hegel’s Account of the Representations of the Gods in his Lectures on https://www.facebook.com/thesophere/posts/487448018382776the Philosophy of Religion
Sally Stocksdale (Notre Dame of Maryland University): Exemplary ‘God-men’: A comparative overview of the Spiritual Beliefs of Malevich and Kandinsky
Christopher Stratman (University of Nebraska—Lincoln): Cognitive Phenomenology and the Rubber Hand Illusion
Marta Szabat (Jagiellonian University Medical College, Faculty of Health Science, Kraków, Poland): Images of hope in palliative care
Jana Trajtelová (Trnava University in Trnava):“All Shall Be Well”: On Sin, Antinomies, and Transformation of Images in Julian of Norwich
Lawrence S. Wang (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Freiburg): Boredom in Aesthetic Experience as Mystical Analogue
Jan Warndorff (Utrecht, Netherlands, independent scholar): Ortega y Gasset’s phenomenology of human life
Katarzyna Lidia Weichert (University of Warsaw, Poland):Virtuality – experience of mystery in painting
Cezary Woźniak (Institute of Culture, Jagiellonian University, Cracow): Inquiring into the Pure Immanence. Notion, Appearances, Experience
Panel: Reading Filipino expressions of faith and collectivity (Chair: Fleurdeliz R. Altez-Albela, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines)
- Emmanuel Jeric A Albela (University of Santo Tomas, Philippines): An analysis of the Philippines’ pre-Hispanic religious belief through revolutionary movement
- Fleurdeliz R. Altez-Albela (University of Santo Tomas, Philippines): Communicating joy, generosity, and solidarity: Exporing play and festive in the contemporary Filipino celebrations of Christmas (Pasko) through Gadamer’s phenomenological hermeneutics
- Patrick Andre C. Mencias (University of Santo Tomas, Philippines): Turning towards goodness: Levinasian forgiveness and Filipino Lenten practices:
- Rhochie Avelino Matienzo (University of Santo Tomas, Philippines): Translación, a religious experience? An existential phenomenology of the black Nazarene folk religiosity in Manila, Philippines