SESSIONS AND ROUND TABLES

From the origins to “the end of the world” – creation and entropy

What fate is in store from the different readings of the religious teleologies and cosmogonies?

Where do they converge and diverge?

What are the possible equivalents to the readings from science and the recent cosmological models?

The future of religion and the religion of the future

What can be expected from the contemporary theologies as far as the confrontation between the scientific and technological realities is concerned?

What value is there for the dominant monotheistic codes when facing cultural relativities and new axiological frameworks?

Which model may come to have the new religious sense of the generations who will live in the 21st century?

The future of the human species - what evolution?

            Which direction will be taken by the human prototype during the next centuries?

Which mutations might be foreseen in the incorporation of non-organic elements and extensions in the human body?

What are the plausible limitations and concerns in ethical terms as far as future genetics are concerned.

Society and Values – fundamentalisms and survival

Which answer do human societies have to their internal agitations and non-conformisms?

What dangers are to be expected from the agglomerated and uncontrolled arsenals of massive destruction?

What will we do with this planet’s cultural and biological diversity? 

Extraterrestrial life – scientific and theological implications

Which answers are to be given in collective terms to a sign of life beyond Earth?

What perspectives can be drawn on the subject by scientific knowledge?

What are the psychological, sociological and cultural reactions that can be anticipated at the level of the dominant theologies?

The mind-body binomial – for a therapy of the Being

            What axis and acquisitions of knowledge reveal possible dualisms and connections?

What hypotheses are placed in the recent framework of research?

Which are the foreseeable consequences for an innovative therapeutic approach?

Extraordinary religious experiences – from Physics to Neurotheology

              What new subjects and work hypotheses are to be dealt with in these domains?

What use can be implied by the multicultural analysis of the so called “transcendental experiences”?

Which relationship and dialogue can be allowed in a new spirit-science dynamic