Publications The main objective of the International Network of Science, Religion and Health is to foster collaboration among researchers working at the intersection of science, religion and health. The network has three main lines of action . To stimulate communication and theoretical cross-fertilization among researchers to advance the understanding of social and cultural narratives about science, religion/spirituality, and health. To identify, systematize and dissemina

The project aims to examine the relationship between religion, stigmatised urban peripheries, and social distress. We want to compare two types of religious organisations—Muslim and Pentecostal—in two neighbourhoods in Catalonia: Espronceda in Sabadell and Plaça Catalunya in Salt (and the area bordering it, Santa Eugènia in Girona). The research project is organised around three questions. The first is: are these economic and social peripheries spaces that receive new populat

Over the past few decades, Catalonia has undergone a process of ethnic and religious diversification as a result of increased international immigration. In this context, the integration of minorities and the accommodation of their religious and cultural needs has become a priority for political authorities and civil society. A key strategy in this integration process has been working with “cultural mediators,” or individuals with the cultural and social skills necessary to br

In recent decades, Catalonia has experienced transformations that have generated changes in the country's religious landscape. After national Catholicism and the secularizing processes of the democratic transition, the waves of migration that began in the 1990s created a new scenario in which religious minorities became increasingly important. The research on the Map of Religious Minorities in Catalonia is framed within this context and aims to understand how this diversity