CFP for publication or other deadlineMay 31, 2030
Sophere - book series
A scholarly series exploring religious and spiritual experience through phenomenology, metaphysics, theology, psychology, and the health and social sciences.
A scholarly series exploring religious and spiritual experience through phenomenology, metaphysics, theology, psychology, and the health and social sciences.
Proposals may take critical, descriptive, theoretical, comparative, historical, or other approaches. They may focus on the interplay between religious or spiritual experience and diverse theoretical approaches, or proceed from such experience toward the development of a new theory.
In accord with Husserl's original intent, the series welcomes attempts to locate spiritual or religious experience within a broader theory of the sciences (Wissenschaftslehre) and to expand phenomenology toward transcendental philosophy and metaphysics.
The series covers five broad areas:
Religious and Spiritual Experience Clarifications of religious and spiritual experience, its formal phenomenological investigation, and its relationships to art, textuality, culture, anthropology, politics, and comparative religion.
Metaphysics Metaphysical extensions of the phenomenology of religious and spiritual experience.
Existential and Psychological Analyses Existential and psychological analyses, across different traditions, of religious and spiritual experience.
Theologies of Religious Experience Theologies of religious experience, with or without a specific focus on ritual and liturgy. This includes liberation theologies, feminist theologies, and theologies addressing the intersections of religious experience with race, social status, and related dimensions of social life.
Medicine, Health, and the Sciences The phenomenology of religious and spiritual experience as applied to and/or examined within medicine, nursing, and the health sciences, as well as the natural and social sciences.
The series is published in cooperation with the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience.
Jana Hodges-Kluck jhodges-kluck@rowman.com