Image and imagination and phenomenology of religious experience / Martin Nitsche and Olga Louchakova-Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nitsche, Martin, 1975- author.

Louchakova-Schwartz, Olga, author.

Series:

libri nigri

libri nigri ; v.91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Experience (Religion).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 pages)

Place of Publication:

Nordhausen, Germany : Traugott Bautz Verlag, [2023]

Summary:

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 NottinghamThis 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.

Contents:

Cover

Titelei

Impressum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Vorwort

Foreword: Phenomenology, Givenness, Religion ~ Joseph Rivera

Introduction: Phenomenology of Religious Experience, Image Consciousness and Imagination ~ Martin Nitsche Purkyne

The Second Editor's Introduction: Religious Imagination Empirically, With Just a Slight Taste of Phenomenology ~ Olga Louchakova‑Schwartz

PART 1. IMAGINATION

Religious Experience: The Beginnings and Ends of Imagination ~ Hans Rainer Sepp

The Imago Dei and Image Consciousness: The Phenomenological Conjunction of Meaning and Community ~ Peter R. Costello

The Feeling of Being Carried

or, Becoming Aware of the Relation to Alterity: On Some Parallels between the Epochē and Religious Experiences ~ Marius Sitsch

Mental Imagery and Apodicticity in Suhrawardi versus Husserl's Notion of Originary Self‑Giving ~ Olga Louchakova‑Schwartz

Investigating Meditative Visions and Experiences -A First‑Person Phenomenological Framework ~ Anna‑Lena Lumma

A Phenomenology of Image Bearing: Spirituality, Humanity, and the Expressive Relation ~ Neal DeRoo

On Spiritual versus Carnal Visibility: Phenomenologically Dismantling an Orthodox Iconoclasm ~ Stephanie Rumpza

Bloodying God: Crucifixion and the Image ~ Andrew Oberg

Pain, Religion, and Imagination ~ Lutz Niemann

PART 3. THE PERFORMATIVE FUNCTION OF IMAGES

Typifications, Play, and Ritual ~ Michael Barber

Above Which More Consoling Cannot Be "Given": The Role of Images in the Phenomenology of Consolation ~ Martin Krebs

The Role of Movement in Religious Experience ~ Gilija Žukauskienė

Revelation as an Erotic Phenomenon: The Interplay of Revelation, Love, and Reduction in Jean‑Luc Marion's Phenomenology of Givenness ~ Jan David Schenk.

Spirit Possession in Dang‑Ki Healing: An Embodied, Intercorporeal, and Intersubjective Phenomenon ~ Boon‑Ooi Lee

List of Authors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Nitsche, Martin Image and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

ISBN:

9783959486606

395948660X