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Projects

BCURE projects explore how culture and religion shape imaginaries, practices and social conflicts in contemporary societies. From an interdisciplinary and critical approach, we work with communities, institutions and international networks to generate relevant and transformative knowledge.

The team participates in several research projects, often in consortium with other universities, institutions and organizations. These projects are structured around the thematic axes that define our research activity.

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TANC: The Apocalypse is Not Coming

Transdisciplinary conference on apocalyptic imaginaries and regenerative futures.

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Iftar in the squares. The public celebration of Ramadan in the medium-sized cities of Spain.

The project “Iftar in the Squares” aims to study the public celebration of Ramadan in medium-sized Spanish cities.

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CONSPIRE: CONSPIracism and Radicalization Risks in Europe

Training program for social science students on health-related conspiracies, with online modules, face-to-face workshops and mobility. Critical thinking, democratic participation and the prevention of radicalization through creative and participatory methodologies.

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HEARTS. Promoting Mental Health in Higher Education

The HEARTS Project aims to co-design and pilot innovative strategies for promoting mental health in higher education, with a focus on trauma prevention and support.

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MIRETAGE European Pathways to Minority Religious Heritage

The MIRETAGE project aims to promote inclusive education and heritage through the development of innovative methods for adult education in heritage laboratories and heritage routes.

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Viable Unknowns. Sustainable and inclusive coexistence in the city

Viable Unknowns brings together performing arts professionals, researchers and diverse communities to explore innovative, sustainable and inclusive theatrical forms, addressing collective imaginaries and social challenges on a transnational scale.

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Religious communities and moral entrepreneurs in a context of affective polarization

Polarization, and especially affective polarization, emerges as a key issue for understanding social complexity and the challenges to coexistence.

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LEGACI Legislative Theater for Inclusive Heritage

The LEGACI project works on collective identity and memory to close intercultural and intergenerational gaps, and to explore the implications and lack of implementation of the FARO agreement.

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SRES2. Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum of Global Perspectives

The project “Science and Religion: Global Perspectives” has as its main objective to understand how the relationship between science and religion is perceived in various social, political, cultural and religious contexts.

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ECIREL. Between science and religion

An empirical study to understand the role of religious beliefs in opposition to biomedical technologies.

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PROSE. Performative Ritual and Authority among Shia in Europe

Public religious rituals performed locally but projected globally. Shia Muslims of South Asian origin in Europe. Religious and civic performativity.

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DIGITISLAM. Digital Islam across Europe: Understanding Muslims' Participation in Online Islamic Environments

The project examines how diverse Muslim populations interact with the online ecosystem, seeking and providing formal or informal advice on issues related to Islam.

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Islam, Science and Gender:
Negotiating Boundaries in two case studies in Spain and Morocco

Negotiation between scientific and religious discourses within the Muslim population, based on the cases of Barcelona and Tangier, with special attention to dilemmas and positions on COVID-19 vaccination and infertility treatments.

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Biomedical narratives around gender and sexuality in religious contexts: Spain and Mexico

Analysis of scientific and religious arguments about the body in debates about gender and sexuality on social networks, identifying profiles and narratives where beliefs and biomedical knowledge intersect within digital activism in Spain and Mexico.

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Gender, sexual diversity and religious pluralism in the associative fabric of Catalonia

Qualitative research in Santa Coloma, Lleida and Vic on gender equality, LGTBIQ+ rights and governance of religious plurality in the local associative fabric.

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Research Network on Science Religion and Health

The main objective of the International Network on Science, Religion and Health is to foster collaboration among researchers working at the intersection of science, religion and health.

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Mediation and Religious Diversity

Study on the role of cultural mediators in the Filipino, Islamic and Sikh communities of the metropolitan area of Barcelona, analyzing their trajectories, functions and challenges in integration and religious representation.

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Religious map of Catalonia

Research by ISOR that identifies and analyzes centers of worship and religious minority entities in Catalonia, showing the scope and diversity of the contemporary religious landscape.

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Urban Religions

Study of religious expressions in public space in Madrid and Barcelona to analyze visibility strategies, negotiation processes with institutions and social recognition of religious plurality.

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Peripheral Religiosity

Research on the role of Muslim and Pentecostal organizations in stigmatized neighborhoods of Sabadell, Salt and Girona, analyzing how religion is articulated with precariousness, social unrest and urban dynamics.

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