Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
Olga Louchakova-Schwartz is Professor Emerita of Psychology and Comparative Religion, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, and Clinical Professor at the University of California at Davis. Her research of Tibetan Meditation at the Neurophenomenology Center in the Silicon Valley (which she founded and for several years directed) was featured on BBC and Science Daily. She is the Founding President of the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience. She published more than 200 articles and book chapters in comparative philosophy of consciousness, spirituality, emergent religious phenomena, and phenomenology of life. She is the editor and contributing author of The Problem of Religious Experience: Case Studies in Phenomenology, with Reflections and Commentaries (Springer 2019), an editor of guest series of issues with Open Theology (De Gruyter), and is currently working on two books, Husserl and Suhrawardi: A Phenomenological Dialogue (Springer), and Religious Experience and Description: An Anthology (Lexington Press).
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with Nitsche Martin (2019) Open Theology 5.
(2019) The problem of religious experience: case studies in phenomenology, with reflections and commentaries, Dordrecht, Springer.
with Alvis Jason, Staudigl Michael (2021) Open Theology 7.
with Nelson James, Preston Aaron (2020) Open Theology 6 (1).
with Staudigl Michael, Alvis Jason (2022) Religions 13.
(2023) Religions 14.
with Nitsche Martin (2023) Image and imagination in the phenomenology of religious experience, Nordhausen, Bautz.
(2014) "Dia–log(os): the genesis of communicological virtues in the phenomenology of life, with the reference to the advaita vedānta of ādi śaṅkara", in: Tymieniecka Anna-Teresa (ed), Phenomenology of space and time II: The forces of the cosmos and the ontopoietic genesis of life, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.193-205.
(2006) "Ontopoiesis and union in the prayer of the heart: Contributions to psychotherapy and learning", in: Tymieniecka Anna-Teresa (ed), Logos of phenomenology and phenomenology of the logos IV: The logos of scientific interrogation. participating in nature-life-sharing in life, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.289-311.
(2007) "Ontopoiesis and spiritual emergence: Bridging Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life and transpersonal psychology", in: Tymieniecka Anna-Teresa (ed), Phenomenology of life from the animal soul to the human mind: The human soul in the creative transformation of the mind, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.43-68.
(2011) "The self and the world: Vedanta, sufism, and the presocratics in a phenomenological view", in: Tymieniecka Anna-Teresa (ed), Phenomenology/ontopoiesis retrieving geo-cosmic horizons of antiquity: Logos and life, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.423-438.
(2018) "The symphony of sentience, in cosmos and life: in memoriam Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka", in: Smith William S, Smith Jadwiga, Verducci Daniela (ed), Eco-Phenomenology: life, human life, post-human life in the harmony of the Cosmos, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.3-13.
(2014) "The seal of philosophy: Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life versus islamic metaphysics", in: Muhtaroglu Nazif; Quintern Detlev (ed), Islamic philosophy and occidental phenomenology in dialogue: the logos of life and cultural interlacing, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.71-101.
(2013) "Cognitive phenomenology in the study of Tibetan meditation: phenomenological descriptions versus meditation styles", in: Gordon Susan (ed), Neurophenomenology and its applications to psychology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.61-87.
(2019) "Introduction to the two volumes: from phenomenological theory to the concretum of religious experiencing", in: Louchakova-Schwartz Olga (ed), The problem of religious experience: case studies in phenomenology, with reflections and commentaries, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.1-22.
(2019) "The emancipatory continuity of religious emotion", in: Louchakova-Schwartz Olga (ed), The problem of religious experience: case studies in phenomenology, with reflections and commentaries, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.77-99.
(2019) "The self-internalization of religious subjectivity: commentary on part 1", in: Louchakova-Schwartz Olga (ed), The problem of religious experience: case studies in phenomenology, with reflections and commentaries, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.101-110.
(2019) "Religious experience and transcendence (or the absence of such): commentary on part 2", in: Louchakova-Schwartz Olga (ed), The problem of religious experience: case studies in phenomenology, with reflections and commentaries, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.187-197.
(2019) "Toward a systematic phenomenology of the religious attitude: commentary on part 3", in: Louchakova-Schwartz Olga (ed), The problem of religious experience: case studies in phenomenology, with reflections and commentaries, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.271-283.
(2019) "Religious experience and the practice of psychology: commentary on part 4", in: Louchakova-Schwartz Olga (ed), The problem of religious experience: case studies in phenomenology, with reflections and commentaries, Dordrecht, Springer, pp.331-339.