The Problem of Religious Experience: Case Studies in Phenomenology, with Reflections and Commentarie

Part I. Chapter 1. Religious Interiorities (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Chapter 2. Reconnecting the Self to the Divine: The Body's Role in Religious Experience (Shogo Tanaka).- Chapter 3. Crystallizing Metaphysics Through the Invocation of the Divine Name and Mantra in Sufi Gnosis and Hindu Non- Dualism (Patrick Laude).- Chapter 4. Epoché and Appresentation: A New Way of Looking at the Sacred and the Profane in Religious Experience (Michael Barber).- Chapter 5. Concluding Reflections: Passivity and Activity in Religious Experience (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Part II. Chapter 6. The Other as Trace of Infinity. Phenomenology and Religious Experience in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (Massimo Mezzanzanica).- Chapter 7. Toward a Nondogmatic Phenomenology of Religion: On Husserl, Derrida, and the Gospels (Peter Costello).- Chapter 8. Living the Epoché: A Phenomenological Realism of Religious Experience (Sam Mickey).- Chapter 9. Concluding Reflections: Religious Experience and Transcendence (or the Absence of Such) (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Part III. Chapter 10. Revelation of God as Immanent Trinity in Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology (Adrian-razvan Sandru).- Chapter 11. A Kierkegaardian Phenomenology of Divine Presence (Joshua Cockayne).- Chapter 12. Sight and Sacrament: Nature, Liturgy, and Earthly Life (Christopher DuPee).- Chapter 13. Concluding Reflections: Revelation and the Region(s) of Religious Intuition (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Part IV. Chapter 14. On Vocation and Identity in Western Mysticism (Jana Trajtelova).- Chapter 15. Mystical Experience as Existential Knowledge in Raimon Panikkar's Navasutrani (Leonardo Marcato).- Chapter 16. Religious Experience as Experience of Repentance (Bianca Bellini).- Chapter 17. Transformative Impact: How to phenomenologically Approach a Religious Conversion (Martin Nitsche). Chapter 18. Concluding Reflections: Religious Experience and the Practice of Psychology (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).