M Griera
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 16901 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Griera |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Griera |
| FIRMA | GRIERA M |
| AFILIACIONES | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1773-4874 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 167 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Les éco-spiritualités contemporaines
Expresiones públicas de religiosidad en el espacio urbano
Este artículo analiza las expresiones públicas de religiosidad como un prisma para comprender las transformaciones urbanas de la diversidad religiosa. En contextos caracterizados por la coexistencia de secularización y pluralización religiosa, prácticas como procesiones, meditaciones colectivas o festividades religiosas adquieren creciente visibilidad en calles y plazas. El texto propone entender estas expresiones como dispositivos urbanos híbrid…
‘Scientifying’ spirituality or spiritualising biomedicine? Exploring the interplay in healthcare practices in Argentina and Spain
This article investigates the dynamic interplay between spirituality, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and health systems within diverse sociocultural contexts, focusing on Argentina and Spain. Through empirical analysis of contemporary forms of spirituality and health, the study examines how CAM therapies are integrated and negotiated within healthcare institutions and how their spiritual dimensions are addressed. The comparative an…
Spiritual Privilege? Thinking Sociologically about Yoga, Holistic Spirituality, and Prisons
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Navigating Uncertainty
Integrative medicine should be understood not as an isolated entity but as a boundary field —a contested space where medical legitimacy, scientific authority, and professional jurisdiction are continuously negotiated. The Spanish case illustrates how regulation functions not merely as a technical or legal instrument but as a mechanism that structures professional practice while also defining what constitutes legitimate medical knowledge. In the a…
Céline Béraud, Une religion parmi d’autres. Le catholicisme en prison et à l’hôpital
Dans cet ouvrage dense et maîtrisé, la sociologue Céline Béraud propose une analyse approfondie de la place du catholicisme dans deux institutions publiques emblématiques de l’État français contemporain, la prison et l’hôpital. Avec pour sous-titre Le catholicisme en prison et à l’hôpital, le livre met en évidence un déplacement historique et symbolique : la transformation progressive du catholicisme, passé du statut de religion de référence et d…
Making Religion Coexist
This article examines two emblematic urban events—La Nit de les Religions in Barcelona and La Noche de los Templos in Buenos Aires—that showcase religious diversity through open-door nights in places of worship. Although developed independently, these initiatives reflect a transnational repertoire for governing diversity through symbolic performances, spatial choreographies, and affective encounters. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, po…
Transgender bodies as battlefields in science and religion
The last decade has seen an intensification of anti-trans mobilisations as backlash to efforts to expand rights and increased visibility in multiple countries. Analysis of newspaper coverage in Spain and the United States reveals that science and religion are employed in justification of such mobilisations. However, neither the sociological study of gender and sexuality or of science and religion has paid attention to this intersection. Drawing u…
Performing heritage at Cordoba's Mosque-Cathedral
This article explores the politics of cultural heritage in societies experiencing secularization and religious diversification by examining recent efforts made by Cordoba's Cathedral Chapter to emphasize the Christian origins and identity of the iconic Mosque-Cathedral. We argue that the Cathedral Chapter's approach to managing and narrating the building over the past two decades responds largely to tensions stemming from the divergence between t…
“I'm going to do battle… I'm going to do some good”. Biographical trajectories, moral politics, and public engagement among highly religious young Catholics in Spain and Mexico
Public debates and controversies on moral issues have gained visibility in recent decades in both Spain and Mexico. Conservative Catholic groups and networks are increasingly playing a crucial role in raising and framing highly morally charged themes in the public arena, especially on intimacy‐related policies, including sexual and reproductive freedoms. A new generation of young Catholic leaders becoming key political agents has emerged in this …
Rite and Stone
Over long periods, interdisciplinary debates in urban studies on the relationships between religion and urban space were influenced by mainstream versions of modernization theory. These were based on the binary of urban modernity and nonurban (religious) tradition. However, historical urban research has shown that cities were also more often sites of religious innovation. Inspired by Jennifer Robinson’s understanding of cities as “ordinary” sites…
Conspirituality in Covid-19 Times
This article focuses on the development of COVID-19 anti-vaccination movements in Spain and explores their relationship with the phenomenon of conspirituality. By using a mixed-methods approach combining big data analysis with small ethnographic data analysis, we examine how conspiracy theories and spiritual ideas circulate, merge and crystallize in particular practices and encounters in Spain. The big data analysis of Twitter conversations revea…
Pluralismo religioso y políticas públicas locales
En el actual contexto global de pluralismo religioso, el reconocimiento social e institucional de los grupos religiosos depende, por una parte, de los marcos normativos y de la voluntad política de los representantes públicos y de sus gestores; y, por otra, de las estrategias de institucionalización que adopten los grupos religiosos, como su visibilización en el espacio público o la participación ciudadana en la vida política del municipio. El an…
Spiritual Entrepreneurs
Faith-based prisons in the United States are not a reminiscence of the past. Neither are they a small-scale experiment carried out in the margins of the carceral system. As the religious scholar Brad Stoddard explains in this book, faith-based prisons are a growing phenomenon gaining centrality amid a context of high incarceration rates, high recidivism rates and a weakened welfare system. Although Stoddard focuses his research in the state of Fl…
The Politics of Mapping Religion
This article critically analyses the proliferation and production of what we call “religious maps” in Europe in recent years. Religious maps have emerged as a form of monitoring, describing, and representing spatial processes of (ethno-) religious diversification. Through the comparative empirical analysis of the cases of Barcelona, Hamburg, and Amsterdam, we demonstrate that maps and the knowledge formations they (re)produce have become key tool…
Proyectos morales y nuevas subjetividades religiosas en el espacio público. A modo de presentación
Este texto presenta el número monográfico "Proyectos morales y nuevas subjetividades religiosas en el espacio público". En este monográfico queremos abordar la exploración de las nuevas subjetividades religiosas en el espacio público, enmarcándolo especialmente en lo que el sociólogo José Casanova identificó como el proceso de desprivatización de la religión. La visibilidad actual de viejas y nuevas subjetividades religiosas socava la apariencia …
Las matrices religioso y/o espirituales de las teorías conspiracionistas en tiempos de Covid-19
In this document, we invite four experts from Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina to discuss the relationship between these conspiracy movements, their links with religious or spiritual belief systems, and their implications in contemporary societies
Banal Catholicism, Morality Policies and the Politics of Belonging in Spain
The articulation between religion, politics and the law in contemporary European societies is a complex matter. In this article, we argue that classical secularization approaches fail to capture the ambivalent form of Catholicism in Europe, and we advance an alternative approach that reconsiders two elements: temporality and social space. Firstly, we propose to adopt an "eventful temporality", which enables the consideration of the impact of unex…
Is yoga a girl’s thing?
This chapter focuses on a male-centred context and analyses the role of spiritual practices in refashioning conceptions and performances of masculinity. Drawing on an intensive fieldwork among kundalini yoga students in a male prison in the outskirts of Barcelona, the chapters illustrates how inmates redefine their biographies and reconstruct their imaginaries of masculinity by engaging in a holistic spiritual regime. The implementation of a yoga…
The Many Shapes of Interreligious Relations in Contemporary Spain
The idea of interreligious dialogue has gained worldwide traction in the last decades and has been promoted as a key component for religious peace. The aim of the article is to examine how interreligious aspirations and practices crystallize in different settings – namely diplomacy, governance and activism – and are shaped by the particular historical and political dynamics of each of these settings. The article explains how the plasticity of the…
Adapter la religion
Throughout Europe we observe a significant trend of increasing state intervention in the governance of religious practices and expressions. A growing number of policies and procedures seek to define and regulate how religion can, and cannot, be expressed in the public domain. In this article we explore how ideas of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ religion are translated into policies in urban contexts. We disentangle the social imaginaries that underlie the sym…
Urban regimes and the interaction order of religious minority rituals
This article develops a multidimensional concept of urban regimes that allows for explaining racialized asymmetries of access to public space among different religious minority groups. Departing from an empirical study of collective religious rituals in the streets, parks and squares of Barcelona, we compare Buddhist, Sikh and Islamic events in public space. Although all religious events are in theory subjected to the same regulatory regime, we f…
Religious governance in the Spanish city
This contribution examines divergent trajectories of religious governance in Madrid and Barcelona, two cities that have pursued distinct approaches to accommodating religious diversity despite being located in the same national context. Whereas Madrid has dealt with religious diversity under the broader rubric of immigration and culture, and has been largely passive and ‘hands-off’ in its approach to governance, Barcelona has demarcated religion …
To see or not to see
Why has the face veil become the centre of political debates about Islam in urban contexts? What kinds of experiences and ideas have animated its framing as a practice in need of regulation? Focusing on Spain, we argue that space and emotion are the key categories for explaining the micro-politics of face veil conflicts and that constitute face veiling as an object of contention "on the ground". We suggest the notion of regimes of public space an…
Beyond Narcissism
Holistic spirituality has often been characterized by academic literature as belonging to the private sphere, articulated through the market and anchored in the growth of narcissistic individualism. However, recent empirical evidence and theoretical developments suggest a more complex picture. Drawing on the analysis and comparison of two empirical cases-the organization of collective meditations in public spaces and the teaching of yoga in priso…
The Politics of Religious Heritage
This article contributes to sociological theorizations of religion as heritage through analyzing the politics of religious heritage in Spain since its transition to democracy during the late 1970s. Our analysis is organized around three historical sequences of critical importance for understanding the political and legal significance of discourses that frame religion as cultural heritage in Spain: (1) negotiations that took place during Spain's d…
Narrating Liberal Rights and Culture
Drawing on cultural sociology approaches to the role of narrative and framing in politics, this article explores urban contestations over Muslim face veiling in Spain. We argue that regimes of religious diversity are shaped by the ways that the framing and narrating of rights and culture acquire cultural resonance and political traction in urban society. We find that the meanings attached to the face veil and mobilised in public discourses draw o…
The governance of religious diversity in stateless nations
Academic literature dealing with the governance of religious diversity in Europe has gained saliency in recent years. However, most existing research is based on state-level policies, while the role of regional government is receiving far less attention. To address this lacuna, this article focuses attention on the role of the regional government in the regulation of religious diversity in Catalonia. The article reflects on the increasing relevan…
Banal is not Trivial
Recognizing religious groups is not only a question of granting rights, but also a question of the possibility of being perceived as unproblematic, especially in contexts where religion is a contested issue. Spain is a compelling case to examine this proposition. There, the rise of migration-driven religious diversity and the attacks of 11 March 2004 have led religious minorities into the sensitive terrain of ‘supra-visibility’. Drawing upon rese…
Interreligious relations and governance of religion in Europe
In recent years, the growth and expansion of interreligious initiatives have received increasing scholarly attention worldwide, and interreligious actors and repertoires are gaining relevance within emerging governance regimes of religious diversity in Europe and beyond. However, empirical research in this field is still very limited. With the aim to fill this gap, this special issue gathers four original contributions aimed at critically describ…
To see or not to see
Why has the face veil become the centre of political debates about Islam in urban contexts? What kinds of experiences and ideas have animated its framing as a practice in need of regulation? Focusing on Spain, we argue that space and emotion are the key categories for explaining the micro-politics of face veil conflicts and that constitute face veiling as an object of contention "on the ground". We suggest the notion of regimes of public space an…
Beyond Narcissism
Holistic spirituality has often been characterized by academic literature as belonging to the private sphere, articulated through the market and anchored in the growth of narcissistic individualism. However, recent empirical evidence and theoretical developments suggest a more complex picture. Drawing on the analysis and comparison of two empirical cases-the organization of collective meditations in public spaces and the teaching of yoga in priso…
Religious governance in the Spanish city
This contribution examines divergent trajectories of religious governance in Madrid and Barcelona, two cities that have pursued distinct approaches to accommodating religious diversity despite being located in the same national context. Whereas Madrid has dealt with religious diversity under the broader rubric of immigration and culture, and has been largely passive and ‘hands-off’ in its approach to governance, Barcelona has demarcated religion …
Banal Catholicism, Morality Policies and the Politics of Belonging in Spain
The articulation between religion, politics and the law in contemporary European societies is a complex matter. In this article, we argue that classical secularization approaches fail to capture the ambivalent form of Catholicism in Europe, and we advance an alternative approach that reconsiders two elements: temporality and social space. Firstly, we propose to adopt an "eventful temporality", which enables the consideration of the impact of unex…
Yoga in Penitentiary Settings
Rite and Stone
Over long periods, interdisciplinary debates in urban studies on the relationships between religion and urban space were influenced by mainstream versions of modernization theory. These were based on the binary of urban modernity and nonurban (religious) tradition. However, historical urban research has shown that cities were also more often sites of religious innovation. Inspired by Jennifer Robinson’s understanding of cities as “ordinary” sites…
Polarization and the Limits of Politicization
Religión e instituciones públicas en España. Hospitales y prisiones en perspectiva comparada
A partir de una aproximación cualitativa, este artículo analiza las tensiones y negociaciones cotidianas que se producen en torno a la presencia y rol de la religión en las prisiones y hospitales contemporáneos en España. Más concretamente, el artículo examina la emergencia de nuevas formas de encaje entre la Iglesia católica, las minorías religiosas y las instituciones seculares; y sus implicaciones en cuanto a la naturaleza secular del Estado y…
Born a pastor, being a woman
Women’s presence in Pentecostal leadership positions has slowly increased over the past decades, which raises new questions on the reconfiguration of gender roles and its relationship with religious doctrines. Based on empirical research, this article examines the construction of female leadership and religious authority within Pentecostal churches in a diasporic context. We draw upon biographical narratives of six female Pentecostal pastors—thre…
Performing heritage at Cordoba's Mosque-Cathedral
This article explores the politics of cultural heritage in societies experiencing secularization and religious diversification by examining recent efforts made by Cordoba's Cathedral Chapter to emphasize the Christian origins and identity of the iconic Mosque-Cathedral. We argue that the Cathedral Chapter's approach to managing and narrating the building over the past two decades responds largely to tensions stemming from the divergence between t…
Religion in Public Institutions
Much is known historically about the formal place for religion and spirituality in various countries. Less is known sociologically about the actual ways religion and spirituality are present in public institutions or about the conceptual and methodological assumptions that underlie how scholars approach the study of religion within public institutions. We conceive of public institutions broadly as those institutions that need to follow state regu…
Afterword
Each of the essays presented enters the conversation about religion in public institutions through a different analytic doorway. The essays presented here enlarge and challenge various aspects of our initial analytic framework and enable us to see our blind spots and propose next steps. Reflecting on the contributions, we outline three additional issues to consider: the centrality of religion to the organizational identity or to organizational go…
Gender and power in contemporary spirituality. Ethnographic approaches by Fedele, Anna and Kim Knibbe
“Are you a real Christian?” Stereotypes, distrust and distinction strategies between “new” and “old” Protestants in Catalonia
The arrival of a high number of followers of the Protestant faith due to the increase in immigration flows has shaped the configuration, expectations for future growth and the public role of the Protestant community in Catalonia. However, the adaptation process between “new” and “old” Protestants has not been free of controversies. In this article, I deal with the analysis of the conflictive relationship between African Pentecostal Churches and t…
Public policies, interfaith associations and religious minorities
Religious diversity is posing new and urgent challenges to local authorities and there is no solid foundation of expertise in dealing with this issue at the local level. In some European cities, interfaith platforms are providing local authorities with new governance tools to cope with the challenges of religious diversity and are generating new ways of framing and representing religion in the public sphere. The author takes the city of Barcelona…
Banal is not Trivial
Recognizing religious groups is not only a question of granting rights, but also a question of the possibility of being perceived as unproblematic, especially in contexts where religion is a contested issue. Spain is a compelling case to examine this proposition. There, the rise of migration-driven religious diversity and the attacks of 11 March 2004 have led religious minorities into the sensitive terrain of ‘supra-visibility’. Drawing upon rese…
Politics and religion beyond state borders
This study examines the interplay between the political and religious factors in the activity of Spanish members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in their work within the European Parliament (EP). First, we explore the impact of Spanish MEPs’ religious preferences and ideological beliefs regarding religious affairs on their parliamentary activity. Second, we analyse the parliamentary activity of Spanish MEPs (parliamentary questions and motions …
Narrating Liberal Rights and Culture
Drawing on cultural sociology approaches to the role of narrative and framing in politics, this article explores urban contestations over Muslim face veiling in Spain. We argue that regimes of religious diversity are shaped by the ways that the framing and narrating of rights and culture acquire cultural resonance and political traction in urban society. We find that the meanings attached to the face veil and mobilised in public discourses draw o…
Gender and power in contemporary spirituality. Ethnographic approaches by Fedele, Anna and Kim Knibbe
Demonopolisation and dislocation
The aim of this paper is to analyse the reformulation of the place and role of religion in Spanish public institutions after the constitutional disestablishment of the Catholic Church and religious diversification of society. Drawing upon qualitative fieldwork in six Spanish prisons, we argue that there is a process of the realignment of forces between the religious groups that provide services in such institutions, the Catholic Church adopting a…
Religión e instituciones públicas en España. Hospitales y prisiones en perspectiva comparada
A partir de una aproximación cualitativa, este artículo analiza las tensiones y negociaciones cotidianas que se producen en torno a la presencia y rol de la religión en las prisiones y hospitales contemporáneos en España. Más concretamente, el artículo examina la emergencia de nuevas formas de encaje entre la Iglesia católica, las minorías religiosas y las instituciones seculares; y sus implicaciones en cuanto a la naturaleza secular del Estado y…
Responses to Religious Diversity in Spain
Thei ncrease in religious diversity is an indisputably clear trendi nm ost European countries.This transformationhas givenrise to challenges to the ways in whichstatesand secular institutions have traditionally provided their services.Our research is embedded in academic debates aboutthe responses of secular state-run institutions to the religious diversification of the population. We compare two different institutionalsettings:prisons and hospit…
Responses to Religious Diversity in Spain
The increase in religious diversity is an indisputably clear trend in most European countries. This transformation has given rise to challenges to the ways in which states and secular institutions have traditionally provided their services. Our research is embedded in academic debates about the responses of secular state-run institutions to the religious diversification of the population. We compare two different institutional settings: prisons a…
The governance of religious diversity in stateless nations
Academic literature dealing with the governance of religious diversity in Europe has gained saliency in recent years. However, most existing research is based on state-level policies, while the role of regional government is receiving far less attention. To address this lacuna, this article focuses attention on the role of the regional government in the regulation of religious diversity in Catalonia. The article reflects on the increasing relevan…
Yoga in Penitentiary Settings
Religión y espacio público
En la última década la cuestión del velo integral ha generado acalorados debates políticos en numerosos países europeos y ha sido objeto de una creciente regulación jurídica a nivel europeo, estatal y local. A partir de un estudio de caso, este artículo se centra en analizar en profundidad los procesos de problematización y regulación legal del velo integral en Cataluña. El objetivo es examinar las razones que explican la emergencia de esta probl…
Religion in Public Institutions
Much is known historically about the formal place for religion and spirituality in various countries. Less is known sociologically about the actual ways religion and spirituality are present in public institutions or about the conceptual and methodological assumptions that underlie how scholars approach the study of religion within public institutions. We conceive of public institutions broadly as those institutions that need to follow state regu…
Afterword
Each of the essays presented enters the conversation about religion in public institutions through a different analytic doorway. The essays presented here enlarge and challenge various aspects of our initial analytic framework and enable us to see our blind spots and propose next steps. Reflecting on the contributions, we outline three additional issues to consider: the centrality of religion to the organizational identity or to organizational go…
The Politics of Religious Heritage
This article contributes to sociological theorizations of religion as heritage through analyzing the politics of religious heritage in Spain since its transition to democracy during the late 1970s. Our analysis is organized around three historical sequences of critical importance for understanding the political and legal significance of discourses that frame religion as cultural heritage in Spain: (1) negotiations that took place during Spain's d…
Catholic Chaplains in Public Institutions
This article analyses the roles of Catholic chaplains amidst secularisation and diversification in Spain. Instead of focussing on highly politicised and controversial issues, we examine lower-profile negotiations taking place in secular public institutions. With this micro-sociological approach, we move the analysis beyond the official stand of the national Catholic hierarchy and examine everyday interactions and negotiations between front-line C…
Researching Religion in Public Institutions
The increasing vitality and variety of religious identities in Europe give rise to new claims and demands by religious minorities. This generates new challenges for the articulation of the religious and the secular in European democracies, which become especially salient in public institutions such as hospitals, prisons, and schools. This special issue focuses on public institutions with the aim to examine how state and religion encounter one ano…
Initiatives interreligieuses et gouvernance locale
Many European local governments are seeking out ways to encourage interreligious initiatives. This article focuses on the cases of Barcelona and Turin. Both cities are pioneering new forms of governance of the religious field in Southern Europe, while also being a source of inspiration for other cities. The article traces the genealogy of the institutional collaboration between interreligious actors and local governments, and develops a typology …
Las salas multiconfesionales en el contexto hospitalario catalán
Multifaith rooms are an emerging model for the management and accommodation of the religious diversity that proliferates in the health field. This article examines the micropolitics of the design of multireligious spaces in hospital contexts. Drawing on recent empirical evidence and the "material turn" in the study of religion, we focus on the material negotiations that underlie the creation of these religious spaces. The article is based on an e…
Born a pastor, being a woman
Women’s presence in Pentecostal leadership positions has slowly increased over the past decades, which raises new questions on the reconfiguration of gender roles and its relationship with religious doctrines. Based on empirical research, this article examines the construction of female leadership and religious authority within Pentecostal churches in a diasporic context. We draw upon biographical narratives of six female Pentecostal pastors—thre…
Introduction
Interreligious relations and governance of religion in Europe
In recent years, the growth and expansion of interreligious initiatives have received increasing scholarly attention worldwide, and interreligious actors and repertoires are gaining relevance within emerging governance regimes of religious diversity in Europe and beyond. However, empirical research in this field is still very limited. With the aim to fill this gap, this special issue gathers four original contributions aimed at critically describ…
Religious governance in the Spanish city
This contribution examines divergent trajectories of religious governance in Madrid and Barcelona, two cities that have pursued distinct approaches to accommodating religious diversity despite being located in the same national context. Whereas Madrid has dealt with religious diversity under the broader rubric of immigration and culture, and has been largely passive and ‘hands-off’ in its approach to governance, Barcelona has demarcated religion …
To see or not to see
Why has the face veil become the centre of political debates about Islam in urban contexts? What kinds of experiences and ideas have animated its framing as a practice in need of regulation? Focusing on Spain, we argue that space and emotion are the key categories for explaining the micro-politics of face veil conflicts and that constitute face veiling as an object of contention "on the ground". We suggest the notion of regimes of public space an…
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