The Phenomenology of Religion As Philosophical Anthropology
A Virtual Conference
4th October - 6th October 2021
Day 1
9.45-10.00
Welcome – Gavin Flood (Oxford University and OCHS)
10.45-11.30
Gert-Jan van der Heiden (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Engaging and Disengaging Religion: A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Approach
11.45-12.30
Satoko Fujiwara (University of Tokyo)
Global Phenomenologies of Religion and their Implications for Philosophical Anthropology
13.15-14.00
Lunch break
14.45-15.30
Kevin Hart (University of Virginia)
Phenomenology and Contemplation
16.15-16.45
General Discussion
10.00 – 10.45
Emmanuel Falque (Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Paris)
The Turn of the Flesh
11.30-11.45
Short break
12.30-13.15
Hent de Vries (New York University, Cornell University)
Conversion: Phenomenology’s Anti-Naturalist Attitude
14.00-14.45
Anna Vind (University of Copenhagen)
Psalm 33,9 ‘He speaks and then it is present’: Reflections on the human being, language and time in the early modern Christian tradition
15.30-16.15
Joseph Simmons (Oxford University)
Mediating verticality in community – the phenomenological vision of Nicholas of Cusa
Day 2
10.00-10.45
Yoshi Sawai (Professor emeritus of the History of Religions, Tenri University)
A Semantic Interpretation of Rudolf Otto’s Religious Theory
11.30-11.45
Short break
12.30-13.15
Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen (Oxford University and OCHS)
Orders of Discourses and Levels of Phenomenology in the Study of Religions: The Conceptual Modeling of a Religious Tradition and its Anthropology in Medieval India
14.15-15.00
Anthony Steinbock (Stony Brook University)
The Beloved from a Phenomenological Perspective
15.45-16.30
Sam G. Ngaihte (Manipur University)
Desiring Dharma: Anthropotechnics and Ritual in the Mīmāṃsāsūtras
10.45-11.30
Philip Moller (Oxford University)
Human Experience in the Study of Religion: Phenomenology, Verticality, and the ‘Natural Desire to See God’
11.45-12.30
Nikolaas Deketelaere (Institut Catholique de Paris)
Geometry of Embodiment: Husserl with Tertullian
13.15-14.15
Lunch break
15.00-15.45
Jessica Frazier (Oxford University and OCHS)
Gadamer’s Orchard: Phenomenology and the Role of Religious Studies in the Destiny of Humanity
16.30-17.00
General discussion
Day 3
10.00-10.45
Carl Scerri (Oxford University)
Phenomenology and Mystery: Erich Przywara’s “Reductio in Mysterium”
11.30-11.45
Short break
12.30-13.15
Lucian Wong (OCHS)
Hinduism, History, and the Phenomenology of Verticality
14.00-14.45
Oliver Davies (Emeritus Professor of Christian Doctrine, Kings College London)
What is Enlightenment 3?
15.30-16.30
General discussion
10.45-11.30
Matthew Dunch
John Zizioulas and Emmanuel Levinas on Totality, Otherness, and the Possibility of Communion
11.45-12.30
Jeppe Sinding Jensen (Aarhus University)
The contribution of Philosophical Anthropology to (any) Phenomenology of Religion: What is the phenomenon to ‘-ologise’?
13.15-14.00
Lunch break
14.45-15.30
Gavin Flood (Oxford University)
A Phenomenology of Holiness
Day 1
9.45-10.00
Welcome – Gavin Flood (Oxford University and OCHS)
10.00 – 10.45
Emmanuel Falque (Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Paris)
The Turn of the Flesh
10.45-11.30
Gert-Jan van der Heiden (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Engaging and Disengaging Religion: A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Approach
11.30-11.45
Short break
11.45-12.30
Satoko Fujiwara (University of Tokyo)
Global Phenomenologies of Religion and their Implications for Philosophical Anthropology
12.30-13.15
Hent de Vries (New York University, Cornell University)
Conversion: Phenomenology’s Anti-Naturalist Attitude
13.15-14.00
Lunch break
14.00-14.45
Anna Vind (University of Copenhagen)
Psalm 33,9 ‘He speaks and then it is present’: Reflections on the human being, language and time in the early modern Christian tradition
14.45-15.30
Kevin Hart (University of Virginia)
Phenomenology and Contemplation
15.30-16.15
Joseph Simmons (Oxford University)
Mediating verticality in community – the phenomenological vision of Nicholas of Cusa
16.15-16.45
General Discussion
Day 2
10.00-10.45
Yoshi Sawai (Professor emeritus of the History of Religions, Tenri University)
A Semantic Interpretation of Rudolf Otto’s Religious Theory
10.45-11.30
Philip Moller (Oxford University)
Human Experience in the Study of Religion: Phenomenology, Verticality, and the ‘Natural Desire to See God’
11.30-11.45
Short break
11.45-12.30
Nikolaas Deketelaere (Institut Catholique de Paris)
Geometry of Embodiment: Husserl with Tertullian
12.30-13.15
Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen (Oxford University and OCHS)
Orders of Discourses and Levels of Phenomenology in the Study of Religions: The Conceptual Modeling of a Religious Tradition and its Anthropology in Medieval India
13.15-14.15
Lunch break
14.15-15.00
Anthony Steinbock (Stony Brook University)
The Beloved from a Phenomenological Perspective
15.00-15.45
Jessica Frazier (Oxford University and OCHS)
Gadamer’s Orchard: Phenomenology and the Role of Religious Studies in the Destiny of Humanity
15.45-16.30
Sam G. Ngaihte (Manipur University)
Desiring Dharma: Anthropotechnics and Ritual in the Mīmāṃsāsūtras
16.30-17.00
General discussion
Day 3
10.00-10.45
Carl Scerri (Oxford University)
Phenomenology and Mystery: Erich Przywara’s “Reductio in Mysterium”
10.45-11.30
Matthew Dunch (Oxford University)
John Zizioulas and Emmanuel Levinas on Totality, Otherness, and the Possibility of Communion
11.30-11.45
Short break
11.45-12.30
Jeppe Sinding Jensen (Aarhus University)
The contribution of Philosophical Anthropology to (any) Phenomenology of Religion: What is the phenomenon to ‘-ologise’?
12.30-13.15
Lucian Wong (OCHS)
Hinduism, History, and the Phenomenology of Verticality
13.15-14.00
Lunch break
14.00-14.45
Oliver Davies (Emeritus Professor of Christian Doctrine, Kings College London)
What is Enlightenment 3?
14.45-15.30
Gavin Flood (Oxford University)
A Phenomenology of Holiness
15.30-16.30
General discussion
