Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1000307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Louchakova-Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Louchakova-Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | LOUCHAKOVA-SCHWARTZ O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6657-1605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
"Introduction to the Special Issue "Religious Experience and Metaphysics: A Brief Overview of Husserl's Concept of Metaphysics
Over the past decade, the recognition of connections between phenomenology and metaphysics has transformed our understanding of phenomenology quite significantly
Faith in a Religiously Ambivalent Age: The Negative Phenomena of Hostility, Violence, and Revenge
Today, the so-called "decline of religion" in the Global North needs to be considered in light of the simultaneous "return of religion" in the Global South
The Metaphysical Magnificence of Reduction: The Pure Ego and Its Substrate According to Phenomenology and Vedanta
This article examines relationships between the absolute being of the universal ego (Ātman-self) according to the Indian religious philosophy of Vedanta (V) and the phenomenological, irreal being of the transcendental ego in Husserl's phenomenology (P). Both Ātman and the transcendental ego are accessed in the first-person perspective by onto-phenomenological reductions. Such reductions, as stated by Husserl, have absolute freedom of positing and…
Religious Experience in the First-Person Perspective: The Lived Body and Perception of Reality
The first-person perspective, developed by Husserl for the scientific study of consciousness, consists of formal categories which can be used both for the analyses of consciousness as such and its concrete forms. Evidence (Evidenz), the central category in this approach, characterizes consciousness as knowledge. This paper presents the phenomenology of changes in perception and embodiment which lead to evidence for religious/spiritual experience …
Faith in a Crisis: What Theological and Phenomenological Resources can Teach us in the Covid-19 Pandemic
During the COVID 19-crisis we have witnessed religious authorities do and say things that past generations would have deemed unthinkable: Some have claimed that "there is no pandemic," urging their communities to break laws that temporarily prohibit them from large social gatherings.Others have committed acts of irruptive violence, even expressing pride in physically assaulting protesters.1Yet simultaneously, we also have witnessed State authorit…
Religious Experience and Description: Introduction to the Topical Issue
In phenomenology especially, reflective analysis of experience initiates all arguments in the theory of knowledge, including the access to its aprioris. In his early work, while defining the terrain of phenomenology, Husserl suspended metaphysical investigations neither because he did not value the discipline (he actually mentions metaphysics among "precious sciences"), nor because he considered them incompatible with phenomenology, but because h…
The Problem of Religious Experience: Case Studies in Phenomenology, with Reflections and Commentaries
The Way into Transcendental Philosophy from the Argument in Suhrawardī’s Philosophy of Illumination
This paper presents a phenomenological analysis of the argument in The First Discourse of Part 2 of Suhrawardī’s Philosophy of Illumination . Specifically, this argument is considered with regard to temporal extension of its logos, i.e., the succession of logical steps. Contrary to traditional views of Suhrawardī as a Neoplatonizing proponent of the primacy of essence over existence, the steps of his argument convey a much more nuanced picture in…
Phenomenology and Theological Research: Introduction to the Topical Issue of ‟Open Theology” Phenomenology of Religious Experience II: Perspectives in Theology
This topical issue of "Open Theology", Phenomenology of Religious Experience II: Perspectives in Theology, addresses various aspects of phenomenological investigations in theology. An overarching unifying theme of the issue can be outlined as follows: Can rigorous phenomenological science serve theology in ways that turn theology itself into a system of knowledge in its own right and distinct from the natural and historical human sciences? It nev…
Intersubjectivity and Multiple Realities in Zarathushtra’s Gathas
The Gathas, a corpus of seventeen poems in Old Avestan composed by the ancient Iranian poet-priest Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) ca. 1200 B.C.E., is the foundation document of Zoroastrian religion. Even though the dualistic axiology of the Gathas has been widely noted, it has proved very difficult to understand the meaning and genre of the corpus or the position of Zarathushtra’s ideas with regard to other religious philosophies. Relying on recent adv…
Qualia of God: Phenomenological Materiality in Introspection, with a Reference to Advaita Vedanta
Applying Michel Henry’s philosophical framework to the phenomenological analysis of religious experience, the author introduces a concept of material introspection and a new theory of the constitution of religious experience in phenomenologically material interiority. As opposed to ordinary mental self-scrutiny, material introspection happens when the usual outgoing attention is reverted onto embodied self-awareness in search of mystical self-kno…
Religious Experience, Adumbrated: Towards a Phenomenological Ontology of the Region
Theophanis the Monk and Monoimus the Arab in a Phenomenological-Cognitive Perspective
Two brief Late Antique religious texts, respectively by the monk Theophanis and by Monoimus the Arab, present an interesting problem of whether they embody the authors' experience, or whether they are merely literary constructs. Rather than approaching this issue through the lens of theory, the article shows how phenomenological analysis and studies of living subjectivity can be engaged with the text in order to clarify the contents of introspect…
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Theophanis the Monk and Monoimus the Arab in a Phenomenological-Cognitive Perspective
Two brief Late Antique religious texts, respectively by the monk Theophanis and by Monoimus the Arab, present an interesting problem of whether they embody the authors' experience, or whether they are merely literary constructs. Rather than approaching this issue through the lens of theory, the article shows how phenomenological analysis and studies of living subjectivity can be engaged with the text in order to clarify the contents of introspect…
Qualia of God: Phenomenological Materiality in Introspection, with a Reference to Advaita Vedanta
Applying Michel Henry’s philosophical framework to the phenomenological analysis of religious experience, the author introduces a concept of material introspection and a new theory of the constitution of religious experience in phenomenologically material interiority. As opposed to ordinary mental self-scrutiny, material introspection happens when the usual outgoing attention is reverted onto embodied self-awareness in search of mystical self-kno…
Religious Experience, Adumbrated: Towards a Phenomenological Ontology of the Region
Phenomenology and Theological Research: Introduction to the Topical Issue of ‟Open Theology” Phenomenology of Religious Experience II: Perspectives in Theology
This topical issue of "Open Theology", Phenomenology of Religious Experience II: Perspectives in Theology, addresses various aspects of phenomenological investigations in theology. An overarching unifying theme of the issue can be outlined as follows: Can rigorous phenomenological science serve theology in ways that turn theology itself into a system of knowledge in its own right and distinct from the natural and historical human sciences? It nev…
Intersubjectivity and Multiple Realities in Zarathushtra’s Gathas
The Gathas, a corpus of seventeen poems in Old Avestan composed by the ancient Iranian poet-priest Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) ca. 1200 B.C.E., is the foundation document of Zoroastrian religion. Even though the dualistic axiology of the Gathas has been widely noted, it has proved very difficult to understand the meaning and genre of the corpus or the position of Zarathushtra’s ideas with regard to other religious philosophies. Relying on recent adv…
The Problem of Religious Experience: Case Studies in Phenomenology, with Reflections and Commentaries
The Way into Transcendental Philosophy from the Argument in Suhrawardī’s Philosophy of Illumination
This paper presents a phenomenological analysis of the argument in The First Discourse of Part 2 of Suhrawardī’s Philosophy of Illumination . Specifically, this argument is considered with regard to temporal extension of its logos, i.e., the succession of logical steps. Contrary to traditional views of Suhrawardī as a Neoplatonizing proponent of the primacy of essence over existence, the steps of his argument convey a much more nuanced picture in…
Religious Experience and Description: Introduction to the Topical Issue
In phenomenology especially, reflective analysis of experience initiates all arguments in the theory of knowledge, including the access to its aprioris. In his early work, while defining the terrain of phenomenology, Husserl suspended metaphysical investigations neither because he did not value the discipline (he actually mentions metaphysics among "precious sciences"), nor because he considered them incompatible with phenomenology, but because h…
Faith in a Crisis: What Theological and Phenomenological Resources can Teach us in the Covid-19 Pandemic
During the COVID 19-crisis we have witnessed religious authorities do and say things that past generations would have deemed unthinkable: Some have claimed that "there is no pandemic," urging their communities to break laws that temporarily prohibit them from large social gatherings.Others have committed acts of irruptive violence, even expressing pride in physically assaulting protesters.1Yet simultaneously, we also have witnessed State authorit…
Religious Experience in the First-Person Perspective: The Lived Body and Perception of Reality
The first-person perspective, developed by Husserl for the scientific study of consciousness, consists of formal categories which can be used both for the analyses of consciousness as such and its concrete forms. Evidence (Evidenz), the central category in this approach, characterizes consciousness as knowledge. This paper presents the phenomenology of changes in perception and embodiment which lead to evidence for religious/spiritual experience …
Faith in a Religiously Ambivalent Age: The Negative Phenomena of Hostility, Violence, and Revenge
Today, the so-called "decline of religion" in the Global North needs to be considered in light of the simultaneous "return of religion" in the Global South
The Metaphysical Magnificence of Reduction: The Pure Ego and Its Substrate According to Phenomenology and Vedanta
This article examines relationships between the absolute being of the universal ego (Ātman-self) according to the Indian religious philosophy of Vedanta (V) and the phenomenological, irreal being of the transcendental ego in Husserl's phenomenology (P). Both Ātman and the transcendental ego are accessed in the first-person perspective by onto-phenomenological reductions. Such reductions, as stated by Husserl, have absolute freedom of positing and…
"Introduction to the Special Issue "Religious Experience and Metaphysics: A Brief Overview of Husserl's Concept of Metaphysics
Over the past decade, the recognition of connections between phenomenology and metaphysics has transformed our understanding of phenomenology quite significantly
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