Who we are
About BCURE
BCURE is the Laboratory for the Study of Culture and Religion, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
A research space that focuses on how culture and religion participate in the configuration of collective imaginaries, value systems and conflicts that cross contemporary societies.
BCURE emerges as a renewal of the ISOR group (Research in Sociology of Religion), with over forty years of trajectory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
We maintain our academic roots and our commitment to empirical analysis, while broadening horizons with a clear interdisciplinary, diverse, and international vocation.
We are an interdisciplinary research group that combines intellectual openness, creativity, theoretical solidity and scientific rigour. We understand research as a tool to think through complexity, generate critical knowledge, and open spaces for dialogue between knowledges, disciplines, and experiences.
Our pillars are epistemic justice, the gender perspective and climate justice, from which we promote open, inclusive and collaborative research.
BCURE is a space of welcome, exchange, and critical reflection for research professionals who share an interest in understanding the transformations of the contemporary world.
The team
Core team
Mar Griera
Full Professor of Sociology
Religious diversity, spirituality, contemporary sociological theory, sociology of knowledge
María Esther Fernández
Associate Professor of Sociology
Socialization processes, deafness and functional diversity, new spiritualities, and mental health
Avi Astor
Associate Professor of Sociology Culture, religious diversity, digital religion, urban sociology, sociological theory
Cecilia Delgado-Molina
Executive Secretary of the International Sociological Association (ISA)
Guest Researcher
Members
Collaborators
Berta Güell
Affiliated with
Universitat de Vic
Laura Cuch
Affiliated with
Goldsmiths, University of London
We understand our research as a tool to think about social and cultural complexity, generate critical knowledge and open dialogue between knowledge and disciplines.
Marta Simó
Associate Professor of Sociology (UAB) and Associate Professor of Pedagogy (UB) and advisor in Memory and Interculturality.
Mayte Cantero Sánchez
Postdoctoral researcher Juan
de la Cierva (2026-2028)
Gender studies, LGBTI+ studies, contemporary thought, intersectionality, sociology of knowledge
Martín Couto
Predoctoral researcher
Values, attitudes, culture, morality, sexual and reproductive rights, South America
Laura Moreno González
Predoctoral researcher (FPI)
Death, mourning, religions, monastic life and visual anthropology legions
Laia Garcia Muñoz
Research Support Technician
Sociology of Culture, Communication, Social Networks, Youth, Gender