Image and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Martin Nitsche, Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

• Publisher: Traugott Bautz
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9783959485807
• eBook ISBN: 9783959486606
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

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.

Table of 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