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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).

Religions 14

Religious experience and metaphysics

2023

Image and imagination in the phenomenology of religious experience

2023

with Nitsche Martin (ed)

Nordhausen, Bautz

Religions 13

In the shadows of religious experience

2022

Open Theology 7

Phenomenology of Religious Experience V

2021

Open Theology 6/1

Religious experience and description

2020

Introduction to the two volumes: from phenomenological theory to the concretum of religious experiencing

2019

in: The problem of religious experience, Dordrecht : Springer

Religious experience and the practice of psychology: commentary on part 4

2019

in: The problem of religious experience, Dordrecht : Springer

Religious experience and transcendence (or the absence of such): commentary on part 2

2019

in: The problem of religious experience, Dordrecht : Springer

The emancipatory continuity of religious emotion

2019

in: The problem of religious experience, Dordrecht : Springer

The self-internalization of religious subjectivity: commentary on part 1

2019

in: The problem of religious experience, Dordrecht : Springer

Toward a systematic phenomenology of the religious attitude: commentary on part 3

2019

in: The problem of religious experience, Dordrecht : Springer

The problem of religious experience: case studies in phenomenology, with reflections and commentaries

2019

(ed)

Dordrecht, Springer

Open Theology 5

Phenomenology in dialogue

2019

The symphony of sentience, in cosmos and life: in memoriam Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

2018

in: Eco-Phenomenology, Dordrecht : Springer

Dia–log(os): the genesis of communicological virtues in the phenomenology of life, with the reference to the advaita vedānta of ādi śaṅkara

2014

in: Phenomenology of space and time II, Dordrecht : Springer

The seal of philosophy: Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life versus islamic metaphysics

2014

in: Islamic philosophy and occidental phenomenology in dialogue, Dordrecht : Springer

Cognitive phenomenology in the study of Tibetan meditation: phenomenological descriptions versus meditation styles

2013

in: Neurophenomenology and its applications to psychology, Dordrecht : Springer

The self and the world: Vedanta, sufism, and the presocratics in a phenomenological view

2011

in: Phenomenology/ontopoiesis retrieving geo-cosmic horizons of antiquity, Dordrecht : Springer

Ontopoiesis and spiritual emergence: Bridging Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life and transpersonal psychology

2007

in: Phenomenology of life from the animal soul to the human mind, Dordrecht : Springer

Ontopoiesis and union in the prayer of the heart: Contributions to psychotherapy and learning

2006

in: Logos of phenomenology and phenomenology of the logos IV, Dordrecht : Springer