MILLENNIUM: FEAR AND RELIGION.
Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain), 3-6 February 2000.
IV Conference of the SECR (Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones, spanish member of the IAHR, International Association for the History of Religions).
(spanish version: versión en español) (french version: version française)

ORGANIZATION: ADDRESS:

Francisco Diez de Velasco                Facultad de Geografía e Historia. Universidad de La Laguna
José Delgado Delgado                      Campus de Guajara . E-38205 La Laguna,
Miguel Ángel Molinero Polo             Tenerife, Canary Islands. Spain

Papers (for discussion)

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GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE:

Open meeting to members of the SECR and other religious studies scholars in Spain and all over the world. The general purpose of the conference is to make a common reflection on the subject "fear and religion" in the different possible aspects and particularly relating to the limits of the humane (death, end of the times, millennium and millennarianism, the great change).
The languages of the conference are spanish, english, portuguese, italian, french and german.

Thematical areas of the conference:

1) IDENTITY, FEAR AND RELIGION
Orientative subjects: Psychological and sociological implications of the fear and the responses of the different religions.

2) MILLENNIUM AND FEAR
Orientative subjects: Millennarianism and fear in the different religions. The fear to the end of the times in past and present. Fear in the contemporary millennarianist movements (new age and new religious movements).

3) FEAR AND DEATH
Orientative subjects: Fear to the death and religion in past and present. Fear to the end of life and fear to the end of the times.

4) FEAR OF THE RELIGION, FEAR OF THE RELIGIONS
Orientative subjects: Fear of belief and unbelief. Modernity, postmodernity and fear of the religion. Fear of religious diversity (and violent responses in past and present).

Scientific Comitee
President: Dr. Raimon Panikkar. Presidente de la SECR. Catedrático emérito de Filosofía Comparada de la Religión. Universidad de California.
Secretary: Dr. Francisco Diez de Velasco. Catedrático de la Universidad de La Laguna (Historia de las Religiones).
Members: Dr. Miguel Ángel Molinero Polo. Profesor asociado de la Universidad de La Laguna (Egiptología).
            Dr. Julio Trebolle Barrera. Vicepresidente de la SECR. Director del Instituto de Ciencias de las Religiones. Universidad Complutense. Madrid
       Drª. Montserrat Abumalham. Secretaria de la SECR. Profesora Titular de la UCM (Estudios árabes e islámicos).
      Dr. Amador Vega. Profesor Titular de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona (Filosofía de la Religión).
      Dr. José Delgado. Profesor Asociado de la Universidad de La Laguna (Religiones de la antigüedad).
      D. Fernando Amérigo. Profesor Titular EU. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado).

Sponsors
IBERIA, líneas aéreas de España
CajaCanarias
Cabildo Insular de Tenerife
Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones
Universidad de La Laguna