Faced as we are with climate change, mass extinctions of species, global pandemics, there is probably no more pressing theme today than that of nature. It is, however, not at all clear what we mean by ‘nature’, and whether discourse about nature is even meaningful today. Phenomenology of nature (Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Husserl) and a place of religious experience in this phenomenology is that in which we find ourselves as human beings. Inspired by the overcoming of dualisms of body and mind and nature and freedom deriving from the Phenomenology and Schelling, we can re-examine the religious sense of nature as containing sacredness.
Hosted by the National University of Galway and St. Angela’s College, Sligo, 16th– 19th August 2023
Topics
> Natural Theology and Revelation
> Religious Nature Poetry
> Eco-feminism
> Nature Aesthetics
> Environmental Aesthetics
> Naturphilosophie
> Eastern, Northern, and SouthernPerspectives
> Nature and Grace
> Philosophy of Nature in Different Religious Traditions
> Metaphysics of Nature
> Subjectivity and Nature
> Phenomenology of Spiritual Practices in Nature
> Eco-phenomenology and Religious Experience
Submission anonymized paper of no more than 3,000 words or an abstract of no more than 600 words conferencegalway2023@sophere.org
Organizers
Felix o’Murchadha felix.omurchadha@universityofgalway.ie
Mary Shanahan mshanahan@stangelas.ie