Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy of Religion,  and Clinical Professor at the University of California at Davis. She received awards from Spitzer and Zimmer Foundations; her research was featured on BBC, Science Daily, and other important forums.  She is the Founding President of the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience.

Part I. Chapter 1. Religious Interiorities (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Chapter 2. Reconnecting the Self to the Divine: The Body's Role in Religious Experience (Shogo Tanaka).- Chapter 3. Crystallizing Metaphysics Through the Invocation of the Divine Name and Mantra in Sufi Gnosis and Hindu Non- Dualism (Patrick Laude).- Chapter 4. Epoché and Appresentation: A New Way of Looking at the Sacred and the Profane in Religious Experience (Michael Barber).- Chapter 5. Concluding Reflections: Passivity and Activity in Religious Experience (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Part II. Chapter 6. The Other as Trace of Infinity. Phenomenology and Religious Experience in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (Massimo Mezzanzanica).- Chapter 7. Toward a Nondogmatic Phenomenology of Religion: On Husserl, Derrida, and the Gospels (Peter Costello).- Chapter 8. Living the Epoché: A Phenomenological Realism of Religious Experience (Sam Mickey).- Chapter 9. Concluding Reflections: Religious Experience and Transcendence (or the Absence of Such) (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Part III. Chapter 10. Revelation of God as Immanent Trinity in Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology (Adrian-razvan Sandru).- Chapter 11. A Kierkegaardian Phenomenology of Divine Presence (Joshua Cockayne).- Chapter 12. Sight and Sacrament: Nature, Liturgy, and Earthly Life (Christopher DuPee).- Chapter 13. Concluding Reflections: Revelation and the Region(s) of Religious Intuition (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Part IV. Chapter 14. On Vocation and Identity in Western Mysticism (Jana Trajtelova).- Chapter 15. Mystical Experience as Existential Knowledge in Raimon Panikkar's Navasutrani (Leonardo Marcato).- Chapter 16. Religious Experience as Experience of Repentance (Bianca Bellini).- Chapter 17. Transformative Impact: How to phenomenologically Approach a Religious Conversion (Martin Nitsche). Chapter 18. Concluding Reflections: Religious Experience and the Practice of Psychology (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).