Coord.: Jaime CONTRERAS (Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid), Rosa María MARTÍNEZ DE CODES (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Org.: Universidad de Alcalá; École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques - Casa de Velázquez, Madrid; Scientific meeting organised in the framework of the Proyect coordinated by the I+D+I National Plan, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad,
HAR2009-14034-C02-01/02
Casa de Velázquez, C/ de Paul Guinard 3, 28040 Madrid
Presentation
This workshop is organised in the framework of a National Investigation Project of I+D+I about a subject of special relevance for all the member States and associated Countries in the European Union, secularism and religiousness: tendencies and manifestations. The secularizing trends, in its political, social and cultural dimension provide, nowadays, a framework of coexistence and conflict in the legal-political area of the rule of law. The main subjects of analysis and debate will focus on:
I. The several secularizing trends and its different religious beliefs and practices. Historical interpretation
II. The traditional religions face to the secularism phenomenon. The plurality of its mutual relations in the multicultural societies
III. Duties of the rule of law and public policies in the relationship between religion and secularity
IV. Social and cultural characteristics of the religions in Occident
V. Social, cultural and political movements in the Islamic space face to the secularism phenomenon: diversity and tendencies
The social, historical and legal dimension of these problems requires an interdisciplinary meeting workshop in which it would be possible to debate the possibility of starting up a convincing European project that could permit the study of this subject and could provide strategies and public policies.
Programme
FRIDAY 5th OCTOBER
9h30-13h30
Opening
Fernando GALVÁN
Rector of Alcalá University
Jean-Pierre ÉTIENVRE
Director of the Casa de Velázquez
Introduction
Jaime CONTRERAS
(Universidad de Alcalá)
Rosa María MARTÍNEZ CODES
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Session I - Secularisms in historical perspective
Jeremy GUNN
(Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane)
Françoise CRÉMOUX
(Université Paris VIII)
Debate
Pause
Session II - The religions face to the secularism phenomenon: reactions and proposals
Blandine CHELINI-PONT
(Aix-Marseille Université)
Joaquín MANTECÓN
(Universidad de Cantabria)
Debate
15h30-18h30
Session III - The rule of law and public policies: religion and secularity
José María ESPINAR
(Universidad de Alcalá)
Arieh KOCHAVI
(University of Haifa)
Debate
Pause
Session IV - Social and cultural analysis of the religiousness in Occident
Jean-Pierre BASTIAN
(Université de Strasbourg)
Debate
SATURDAY 6th OCTOBER
9h00-13h30
Session V - Perspectives of the secularism in the Islamic spaces
Baudouin DUPRÊT
(Centre Jacques-Berque, Rabat)
Amal IDRISSI
(Université Moulay Ismail, Meknès)
Debate
Pause
Conclusions and closure
Jaime CONTRERAS
(Universidad de Alcalá)
