."Esquisse
méthodologique de mythologie comparée: Charon indoeuropéen?"
in M.V. García Quintela et al. eds. Anthropology of the
Indo-European World and Material Culture. Proceedings of the 5th International
Colloquium of Anthropology of the Indo-European World and Comparative Mythology.
Budapest, Archaeolingua vol. 20, 2007, 333-344
."Mutation et perduration
de l'espace sacré: l'exemple du culte des eaux thermales dans la
Péninsule Ibérique jusqu'à la romanisation" S.
Ribichini et al.eds. Saturnia Tellus.
Definizioni dello
spazio consacrato in ambiente etrusco, italico, fenicio-punico, iberico
e celtico. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di studi. Roma, CNR, 2008,
458-469
.J. Scheid / F.Diez de Velasco / P. Xella "Interventi
introduttivi alla Tavola Rotonda "Definizioni dello spazio consacrato nel
Mediterraneo antico" S. Ribichini et al. eds. Saturnia Tellus.
Definizioni
dello spazio consacrato in ambiente etrusco, italico, fenicio-punico, iberico
e celtico. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di studi. Roma, CNR, 2008,
715-717
."Religiocentrism"
Rever
(Revista de Estudos da Religiao) 5,4 (2005), 137-143
."Religion, identity and education for peace: beyond
the dichotomies confessional/non confessional and global/local" British
Journal of Religious Education 29,1 (jan. 2007), 77-87 (also in Robert
Jackson and Satoko Fujiwara, Peace Education and Religious Plurality.
International Perspectives. London/New York, Routledge, 2008, 63-73).
."Multi-religiosity in the Canary Islands: Analysing
processes of religious change between continents", Religion 39,2,
2009, 147-153.
."History (Study)
of Religions in Spain and the SECR (Sociedad Española de Ciencias
de las Religiones / Spanish Society for the Sciences of Religions)"
Bandue.Revista
de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones
III, 2009,
123-136
."Religion, identity and education for peace: beyond
the dichotomies confessional/non confessional and global/local" in Robert
Jackson and Satoko Fujiwara, Peace Education and Religious Plurality.
International Perspectives. London/New York, Routledge, 2008, 63-73.
."The visibilization of Religious Minorities in Spain",
Social
Compass 57,2, 2010, 253-267
."La Storia delle
Religioni in Spagna. Particolarità e prospettive" Humanitas
66,1, 2011, 91-123
. "Marge, axe et centre:
iconographie d'Héraclès, Atlas et l'arbre des Hespérides"
in V. Pirenne-Delforge, E. Suárez de la Torre, eds. Héros
et héroïnes dans les mythes et les cultes grecs, Kernos,
supl. 10, Liège, 2000, 197-216
. "Nessos"
Lexicon
Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Zurich-Munich) vol. VI,1, 1992,
838-847 y VI,2, 1992, 534-555
. "Limós" LIMC vol. VI,1,1992, 288
. bibliographical reviews in A. Motte
et alii
(eds.)
MENTOR,
Bibliographie informatisée sur la religion grecque ancienne,
Lieja, Centre d'Histoire des Religions, 1992 and A. Motte
et alii (eds.)
Mentor
2, Bibliographie informatisée sur la religion grecque ancienne
(1986-1990), Lieja, Centre d'Histoire des Religions, 1998
. "The suitor's journey: An Iconographical approach"
Abstracts Odysseus and Aeneas, two wandering heroes of the Ancient World,
Euroclassica 1993, 10
. "Polos" LIMC VII,1, 1994, 425 y VII,2, 343
. "Pharos" LIMC VII,1 1994, 223
. "Portus" LIMC VII, 1994,1 518-519
. "Pontos" LIMC VII, 1994, 468-469
. "Divindades indíxenas
das augas termais no extremo occidente hispano" Larouco 1, 1991,
53-60
. "Divinités des eaux
thermales dans le Nord-Ouest de la prouincia Tarraconensis
et dans
le Nord de la prouincia Lusitania: une approche au phénomène
du thermalisme romain dans l'occident des Provinces Ibériques"Caesarodunum
26,
1992 (Les eaux thermales et les cultes de eaux en Gaule et dans les
provinces voisines, Actes du Colloque 28-30 Septembre 1990, Aix-les-Bains),
133-149
. "Bilan
de la recherche espagnole en histoire des religions de l'antiquité.
Religion et mythologie grecques" Mélanges de la Casa de Velazquez
XVIII, 1992, 143-164
. "Serpentine Power in Greece
and India"
Yavanika 3, 1993, 13-31
. F. Diez de Velasco, M.A. Molinero Polo "Hellenoaegyptiaca
I:
Influences égyptiennes dans l'imaginaire grec de la mort: quelques
exemples d'un emprunt supposé (Diodore I, 92,1-4; I, 96,4-8)"
Kernos
7,
1994, 26-52
. "Les mythes d'Europe: réflexions
sur l'eurocentrisme"
Metis XI, 1996, 123-132
Congress and conference participations (in languages
other than Spanish)
."Le
tourisme religieux bouddhiste en Espagne: quelques exemples", en XXXV
ISSR (International Society for the Sociology of Religion) Congress "The
Politics of Religion and Spirituality", STS 064-1: Thematic session/Session
thématique : Spiritual Tourism/Le tourisme spirituel. Barcelona,
9-12 July 2019.
"The
visibilization of the new Buddhist heritage in Spain: examples of artistic
hybridization in Vajrayana retreat centers" (presentación),
International
forum on Buddhist art and Buddhism’s transmission to Europe: When the Himalaya
meets with Alps, Madrid, Spain, August 26-29, 2016
."Minorities
vs. majorities: Making Visible Religious Diversity in Madrid (Spain)"
XXI Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the
History of Religions (IAHR), Erfurt, Germany, 25 August 2015. Panel 25-212:
Religious places in urban space (Panel Chairs: Marian Burchardt, Maria
Chiara Giorda)
."History of
Religions vs. Sciences of Religions: names and shapes of a disciplinary
field in Spain" XXI Quinquennial World Congress of the International
Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), Erfurt, Germany, 25 August
2015. Panel 25-307 The study of religions (in plural) in Catholic countries:
particularities, specificities and challenges (Panel Chair: F. Diez de
Velasco)
."Multi-faith
spaces: proposals for a neutral and operational design" Workshop 5
of RECODE (Responding to Complex Diversity in Europe and Canada): "Multireligious
Society. Accomodating New Religious Diversities in Post-Secular Settings",
11-12 April, 2013, Madrid, Centre for Human and Social Sciences (Spanish
National Research Council, CSIC).
."The place of Buddhism in the Construction of the Religious
Plurality in Spain" en 10th Conference of the European Association for
the Study of Religions (EASR), New Movements in Religion. Theories and
Trends. 18-22 September 2011, Hungarian Culture Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
-“The visibilization of Religious Minorities in Spain”.
Keynote Speaker, 30 ISSR Conference “The Challenges of Religious Pluralism”
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 27-31,2009.
."La construction de la notion de minorité religieuse
en Espagne: le cas d'étude du bouddhisme" Session 50, Religious
Minorities in Spain/Religions minoritaires en Espagne" 30th ISSR Conference,
The Challenges of Religious Pluralism, Santiago de Compostela July 27-31,2009.
-"Senses
in/of religious violence" Peace
and Violence in the Name of Gods. Analyses from the perspective of
Religious Studies. International lecture series at the University of Heidelberg,
Germany, January 15,2009.
-"Teaching
Religious Education in Spanish School: some non religio-centric proposals",
8th Conference of the EASR, Time of Decline, Time of Hope. Scientific,
Cultural and Political Engagement of the Study of Religions, Brno, Czchec
Republic, September 7-11,2008.
-"History of Religions in
Spain and the SECR" Coloquio inaugural da Associacao Portuguesa para
o Estudo da Religiao: A Situacao e as Perspectivas do Estudo Cientifico
das Religioes em Portugal", Lisboa, Instituto de Ciencias Sociais Universidade
de Lisboa, 4-5 abril 2008.
-"Multirreligiosity in the Canary Islands: analysing
processes of religious change between continents" International workshop
"The Study of Religion in Local and Regional Perspective" University
of Bergen (Norway), June 26-29,2007.
-"La place des penseurs espagnols dans la réflexion
historico-religieuse de Mircea Eliade/The place of spanish thinkers in
the historico-religious thought of Mircea Eliade", Religious History of
Europe and Asia, 6th EASR / IAHR special Conference, Bucharest, Romania,
September 18-23,2006.
-"Influences égyptiennes dans l'imaginaire grec
de la mort" Colloque Influences, emprunts et syncrétismes religieux
en Grèce ancienne. Centre International pour l'étude de la
religion grecque ancienne (Atenas-Bruselas), Université Libre de
Bruxelles, 2-4 septembre 1993.
-"Cultes et thermalisme dans le Nord-Ouest des provinces
ibériques" Colloque archéologique 1990, Aix-les-Bains (Université
de Tours, France).
Research
Projects, editorial activities and academic membership:
.Former editor of
Bandue. Revista de la Sociedad Española
de Ciencias de las Religiones (
webpage
of Bandue) 2006-2020
.Head of the research project: "
Bases
teóricas y metodológicas para el estudio de la diversidad
religiosa y las minorías religiosas en España" (HAR2016-75173-P)
del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España, 2017-2020
.Vicepresident of the SECR (Sociedad Española de Ciencias de
las Religiones) (2017-)
.Head of the Research Project "WATER AND RELIGION" (CICYT, Spain)
(1994-1997)
.Organiser of the Symposium MILLENNIUM: FEAR AND RELIGION
.Head of the Research Project "METHODS IN HISTORY OF RELIGIONS"
(2003-2006)
.Head of the research contract: "Las religiones
en el mundo" of the
Fundación
Atman (Madrid).
.Head of the research project-contract: "La multirreligiosidad en Canarias:
análisis de las comunidades y grupos religiosos minoritarios" (research
contract between the "
Fundación
Pluralismo y Convivencia" (Madrid) and the Universidad de La Laguna)
2006-2008
.Head of the research project-contract: "Gestión pública
de la diversidad religiosa" (research contract between the "
Fundación
Pluralismo y Convivencia" (Madrid) and the Universidad de La Laguna).2009-
.Head of the research project-contract: "Guía técnica
para la gestión de espacios multiconfesionales" (research contract
between the "
Fundación
Pluralismo y Convivencia" (Madrid) and the Universidad de La Laguna).2010
Head of the research project-contract: "
Budismo
en España: historia, visibilización e implantación"
(Buddhism in Spain) (research contract between the "
Fundación
Pluralismo y Convivencia" (Madrid) and the Universidad de La Laguna)
2010-2012.
.Head of the research project-contract: "Las iglesias ortodoxas en
España" (Orthodox Churchs in Spain) (research contract between the
"
Fundación Pluralismo
y Convivencia" (Madrid) and the Universidad de La Laguna) 2012-2016.
.Head of the research project: "La Historia de las Religiones y el
Estudio de las Religiones en España antes del Concilio Vaticano
II" Plan Nacional de I+D+I, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (HAR2011-25292),
2012-2015.
.Former vicepresident of the EASR (European Association for the Study
of Religions) 2011-2013
.Former director (editor) of the collection/serie "Religiones
y mitos". Akal, Madrid (ex-Cambridge University Press, spanish branch)
(22 volumes published)
.Former director (editor) of the collection "Biblioteca de las
Religiones", Editorial del Orto, Madrid (21 volumes published)
.Former member of the Executive Committee of the IAHR (2005-2010)
.Member of the SECR (Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones)
.Member of ALER (Asociación Latinoamericana para el Estudio
de la Religión)
.Member of the International Scientific Committee of the LIMC (Lexicon
Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae). Articles on the LIMC: Nessos, Polum,
Portus, Limos, Pontos, Pharos: (
http://www.limcnet.org/AboutUsLink/InternationalScientificCommittee/tabid/98/Default.aspx)
.Former member of the International Academic Committee of EIR (Enciclopedia
Iberoamericana de Religiones) (co-editor of the first volume)
.Former member of the Editorial Board of Numen (Brill) 2005-2010.
.Member of the Advisory Board of SMSR (Studi e Materiali di Storia
delle Religioni) 2009-.
.He has got five “sexenios de investigación” (30 years of research
of excellence: 1987-2016) positively assessed by the ANECA-CNEAI.
.Publication and evaluation processes referee:
.H2020 evaluator, 2017,
2020
(http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/experts_lists/challenges/inclusivesoc/h2020-expertslists-challenges-inclusivesoc-2017_en.xlsx)
.Componente come comissario OSCE dellaCommissione per l’abilitazione
scientifica nazionale alla prima e seconda fascia dei professori universitari
nel settore concorsuale 11/A4-Scienze del libro e del documento e scienze
storico religiose, 2013-2014
.Miembro del comité asesor 10 de la Comisión Nacional
Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora, años 2013 y 2014
.Referee for the evaluation of research products (Italian Evaluation
of Research Quality),ANVUR (National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities
ans Research Institutes, Italy) 2012-2013
.Evaluator of Research Projects, GACR (Czech Science Foundation) 2012,
.Evaluator of Research Projects, Spanish Comission for Science and
technology, 2003-2013
.Evaluator of Research Projects, Universidad Nacional de Colombia,
2007
.Evaluator of Research Projects, Universidad de Sevilla, 2011
.Referee in diverse academic journals
Life and Education:
Born in Granada (Spain) 06/04/1960
Pre-universitary education in the Lycée Français de Madrid
(Diplome de Bachelier de l'enseignement du second degré par l'Académie
de Toulouse, 1978)
Licenciado en Historia (Degree in History), 1983, UCM calificación
Premio Extraordinario (best student of the year in History).Courses on
History of Religions, Ancient History, History, ancient languages. Tesina
(little thesis) on the subject: "Religious significance of the thermal
water in the Iberian Peninsula in the Ancient World".
Licenciado en Antropología Social y Cultural (Degree in Social
and Cultural Anthropology), 2005, UNED (Madrid)
Doctoral education: Courses of History of Religions. Early Christianity,
Greek religion, Iberian Religions, Anthropology. Tutor: J. M. Blázquez.
Greek grant in 1984-1985 in the University of Athens (Greece), tutor:
W. Lambrinoudakis.
Doctoral Thesis in History in 1988 (Central University of Madrid- Universidad
Complutense), calificación Premio Extraordinario (best thesis of
the year in History). Subject: "The Origin of the Charon's Myth". Director:
J.M. Blázquez.
Premio Extraordinario de doctorado 1988 (Award to the best thesis of
the year in History in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain).
Premio Extraordinario de licenciatura 1984 (Award to the best student
of the year in History in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain).
E-learning resource Award. Ministry of Education (Spain). 2006. Las
religiones del mundo.
LANGUAGES:
Spanish (mother tongue), French (Diplome de Baccalauréat de
l’enseignement secondaire), English (Advanced Studies Diploma (B2), Escuela
Oficial de Idiomas, Canary Islands, Spain).
Past Academic Positions:
.Profesor Titular (Associate professor). Department of Prehistory and
Anthropology. University of La Laguna (Spain). 1990-1996.
.Ayudante (Assistant). Department of History. University of Santiago
de Compostela (Spain) 1989-1990.
.Membre libre de la section scientifique de la Casa de Velazquez. 1990-1992.
.Post-Doctoral Researcher (MEC/MRS). University of Paris-Sorbonne (France).
1988-1989.
.Pre-Doctoral Research Grant (Becario de Formación del Personal
Investigador, Ministerio de Educación Y Ciencia). Department of
Ancient History. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). 1985-1988.
.Predoctoral Greek grant. Faculty of Philosophy. University of Athens
(Greece), 1984.
.Tutor of the Itinerary "History of Religions" in the Faculty of History.
University of La Laguna.
SUMMARY of the CV
and IndicatorsFrancisco
Diez de Velasco is Catedrático (Full Professor) of History of Religions
at the University of La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain): July 1996-present. Teaching subjects:
General and Comparative History of Religions (World Religions); Theories
and Methodologies for the Study of Religion; Religious diversity and cultural
integration (anthropology)
.
Author of 20 books. Editor of 13 books. Author of 50 papers, 55
book chapters and 30 other publications (congresses, Festschrifts,
lexica, etc.). Coordinator of the research group HISTOREL (History of
Religions) of The University of La Laguna composed of 15 researchers.
He is or has been the head of research of four research projects of the
Spanish Ministry of Research. He has coordinated six research contracts
for the Pluralism and Coexistence Foundation (Madrid) dedicated to the
study of religious minorities in Spain. Member a series of
international associations in the discipline: Vice-president of the
European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) 2011-2013,
Officer (Executive Committee) of the IAHR (International Association
for the History of Religions) 2005-2010, Member of the Board of
Directors of the SECR (Spanish Society of Religious Sciences) (1998-)
and Vicepresident (from 2017), participating in the organization of
conferences and symposiums in these associations. He has participated
in more than 60 congresses, of which 30 of international impact or with
participation in English or French. Editor of Bandue. Revista de la
Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones (from 2005). Former
director of the series Religiones y Mitos (CUP / Akal: 24 books
published), Paradigmas (Trotta), Religiones y Textos (Ediciones del
Orto: 19 books published). Membre of the editorial board of Numen
(Brill) 2005-2010. Académico Correspondiente (correspondant member) of
the Real Academia de la Historia (Spain) from 2013. Member
(Vocal-experto) of the Religious Liberty Advisory Commission of the
Spanish Ministry of Justice from March 2019
(https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2019/03/19/pdfs/BOE-A-2019-3917.pdf).
Complete curriculum at: http://fradive.webs.ull.es/cvvelasco.html.
.9 doctoral theses directed (6 in the last 10 years, 3 in the last 5 years)
The
research areas to which I dedicate are characterized as
non-bibliometric. The following are tentative indicators: H
index: 20 / i10 index: 36 (google scholar at 25/03/2022)
Books
published as individual autor: 21, as editor 17 in high impact
publishers as Alianza Editorial (SPI: ICEE 45.735 position
1/272), Akal (SPI: ICEE 28.831 position 9/272), Trotta (SPI: ICEE
17.148 position 17/272), Icaria (SPI: ICEE 4.571 position 51/272),
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (SPI: ICEE 6.167 position 42/272),
Ediciones Clásicas (SPI: ICEE 3.179 position 67/272).
Among
the 50 papers published in journals, 7 are in English, 4 in French, 2
in Italian. In foreign journals 20 articles, some in journals of
maximum impact in the discipline Religious Studies as Numen (Brill, SJR
Q1/0,169; CIRC: A), Religion (Elsevier: SJR Q1/0,341; CIRC: A+), Social
Compass (Sage: SJR Q1/0,348; CIRC A), British Journal of Religious
Education (Routledge; SJR Q1/0,384; CIRC A+), Studi e Materiali di
Storia delle Religioni or Historia Religionum (both indexed as A
by ANVUR), Mélanges de la Casa de Velazquez (Arts and Humanities
Citation Index, SJR; CIRC A), Humanitas (Italy, MIAR ICDS 6,5), Kernos
(CIERGA, Bruselas), Metis (Centre Louis Gernet, EHESS, París),
Archaeus (Romanian Association for the History of Religions, Bucarest),
Revista Cultura & Religión (Chile), Religare (Brasil). Among the
Spanish journals: Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones (SJR
Q2/0,111), Bandue. Revista de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las
Religiones (ERIH+), Archivo Español de Arqueología (CIRC A), Gerion
(CIRC B, FECYT), Veleia (CIRC B), Historia y Memoria de la Educación
(ESCI), Éndoxa, Arys, Res publica.
The
book Religiones en España: historia y presente (Religions in Spain:
history and present), Madrid, Akal, 2012, has been awarded the "premio
de investigación humanística del año 2013 de la Real Sociedad Menéndez
Pelayo, Santander" (Humanistic Research Award of the Real Sociedad
Menéndez Pelayo after a public contest).
Premio
Extraordinario de doctorado 1988 (Award to the best thesis of the year
in History in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain).
High-level
evaluation work as a consequence of the recognized quality of the
scientific production: member of the "comité asesor 10" of the CNEAI
(2013 and 2014)/ Comissario OSCE della Commissione per l’abilitazione
scientifica nazionale alla prima e seconda fascia dei professori
universitari nel settore concorsuale 11/A4-Scienze del libro e del
documento e scienze storico religiose, 2013-2014/ referee for the
evaluation of research products (Italian Evaluation of Research
Quality), ANVUR (National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and
Research Institutes, Italy) 2012-2013 y 2016 / evaluator in H2020, 2017
(http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/experts_lists/challenges/inclusivesoc/h2020-expertslists-challenges-inclusivesoc-2017_en.xlsx)
and 2019.
. Coordinator (ULL) of the interuniversity doctoral program DOCTESO (Territorio y Sociedad) from 2015 to 2018.
.He has got six “sexenios de investigación” (36 years of research
of excellence: 1987-2022) positively assessed by the ANECA-CNEAI one "sexenio de transferencia" and 6
"quinquenios de docencia" (30 years of teaching of excellence).
Present
Position / Current Academic Interests
