IAHR Executive Committee Members 2005-2010
Internet Officer: Francisco Diez de Velasco, Spain
Born in 1960 at Granada (Spain).
Catedrático (Professor, profile of the chair: History of Religions) at the University of La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain).
Pre-universitary education in the Lycée Français de Madrid.Licenciado en Historia (Degree in History), 1983, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Licenciado en Antropología Social y Cultural (Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology), 2005, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid). PhD-Doctoral Thesis in History in 1988 (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Greek grant in 1984-1985 in the University of Athens (Greece). Post Doctoral Grant at the University of Paris-Sorbonne: 1988-1989. Membre libre de la section scientifique de la Casa de Velazquez, 1990-1992. Member of the Directive Committee of the SECR (Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones), 1998-. Member of ALER (Asociación Latinoamericana para el Estudio de la Religión)
Member of the International Scientific Committee of the LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae).Member of the International Academic Committee of EIR (Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de Religiones).Head of the Research Project "WATER AND RELIGION" (CICYT, Spain). Head of the Research Project "METHODS IN HISTORY OF RELIGIONS". Director of the collection "Religiones y mitos". Akal, Madrid (previously Cambridge University Press, spanish branch). Director of the collection "Biblioteca de las Religiones", Editorial del Orto, Madrid.
Current Academic Interests: General and Comparative History of Religions. Theory and Methodology in the Study of Religion. Religious Iconography. Religion and Education. Death and Religion.
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