Julia Martínez-Ariño
Biographic Data
| ID | 149763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Martínez-Ariño |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Martínez-Ariño |
| SIGNATURE | MARTÍNEZ-ARIÑO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8893-0899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Governance of religious diversity: Current challenges and approaches to democratic coexistence. Introduction to the monograph
This article reflects on the public governance of cultural and religious diversity. Religious traditions have long shaped dominant cultural patterns in Western societies, which now face the challenge of ensuring harmonious coexistence among groups with diverse beliefs and ways of expressing them. In democratic systems where majorities tend to prevail, it is essential to develop approaches that enable the meaningful inclusion of minority perspecti…
Introduction to ‘Religion, Gender, and Embodied Politics
Network of Categories: A Method to Aggregate Egocentric Network Survey Data into a Whole Network Structure
We propose a new method for analyzing and visualizing information on a large collection of personal networks to uncover the socio-centric structure of relationships among aggregated actors that we clustered into categories. The network of categories identifies the links between groups of sampled ego actors sharing a given attribute (e.g., "being immigrant organizations") and abstract attribute-based groups or types of alters (e.g., "any immigrant…
The Church is against us!’ Feminist collective apostasies and the struggle for gender equality in Argentina and Spain
Feminist mobilisations risen across the globe in the last few years. This is especially the case in Latin America and Spain, where social movements to claim the legalisation of abortion and to end violence against women have become key political actors. Some of these movements have adopted collective apostasies as a tool within their mobilisation repertoires to denounce the role of the Catholic Church in maintaining the patriarchal system and int…
The political mobilisation of religion and gender in intersectional perspective
This collection explores the intersections of religion, gender, and sexuality in contexts of political turmoil and polarisation, adopting perspectives from sociology, anthropology, and religious studies. From an intersectional perspective, it examines how various actors mobilise these categories in public discourse, governance, and activism, highlighting the power dynamics that shape religious and sexual identities. Contributions address three pr…
Revisiting Urban Secularism: Critical Points, New Questions
In this piece, I revisit my work in Urban Secularism by addressing the main critical points raised by five generous critics. These concern issues about the theoretical framing of the book, its methodological design and implementation as well as points concerning the findings of the book and some aspects that would have required more attention, such as the relevance of the far-right, race and class in urban secular politics. In the last section of…
Interreligious Encounters in Europe: Sites, Materialities and Practices
A Conversation with Dr Julia Martínez-Ariño: Feminist Apostasy as Activism
Contains fulltext : 296261.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective
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…
Religion and the natural and virtual environments: Introduction
This special
The Politics of Mapping Religion: Locating, Counting, and Categorizing Places of Worship in European Cities
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…
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…
Governing Religious Diversity in Cities: Critical Perspectives
Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe
While French laïcité is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy. What might we learn if we study the governance of religion from a dynamic bottom-up perspective? Using an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in the making. How do city actors understand, frame and govern religious diversity? Which local factors play a role in those processes? In Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversi…
Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe
While French laïcité is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy. What might we learn if we study the governance of religion from a dynamic bottom-up perspective? Using an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in the making. How do city actors understand, frame and govern religious diversity? Which local factors play a role in those processes? In Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversi…
Adapter la religion: Négocier les limites de la religion minoritaire dans les espaces urbains
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…
Jewish Spatial Practices in Barcelona as Claims for Recognition
In this article, I argue that the spatial practices of the contemporary Jewish organisations in Barcelona’s medieval Jewish neighbourhood represent claims for public recognition. As a small and quite invisible minority within the diverse city population, Jewish groups increasingly claim that their presence in the city should be recognised by political authorities and ordinary citizens alike. They do so through a series of spatial practices around…
Economy or Justice? How Urban Actors Respond to Diversity
The diversification of population, demands for recognition, and the spread of diversity policies present new challenges to European cities. Do urban actors respond to this development in different ways across cities? Can we distinguish a logic determined by economic considerations or rather a justice-oriented logic? This article presents evidence from 20 German cities based on an original survey of important urban actors. This design reflects cur…
A relational approach to local immigrant policy-making: Collaboration with immigrant advocacy bodies in French and German cities
textabstractThe role of immigrant advocacy bodies in collaborative policy-making in cities is \nso far insufficiently researched. This article investigates the ties between relevant \nurban actors and immig
Governing religious diversity in cities: Critical perspectives
This collection addresses the question of how cities govern and regulate religious diversity. Its main goals are: 1) to take stock of current research regarding the municipal governance of religious diversity; 2) to put forward new concepts and empirical analyses to enhance this field of study; and 3) to identify potential lines for future enquiry that help move the field forward. The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, such as the role…
Governing Islam in French cities: Defining ‘acceptable’ public religiosity through municipal consultative bodies
In recent years, European states have institutionalised relations with Islamic groups in the form of national Islam councils. Similarly, municipalities have set up more or less comparable bodies to address issues related to urban religious diversity. However, rather than being restricted to Muslim representatives, municipal consultative bodies usually incorporate a variety of religious actors. This contribution analyses three such bodies in the F…
Catholic Chaplains in Public Institutions: Contextual Opportunities and Institutional Inertia in Spanish Hospitals and Prisons
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: Context, Object, and Methods
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…
Why do some cities adopt more diversity policies than others? A study in France and Germany
Conceptualising the role of cities in the governance of religious diversity in Europe
The sociological literature has devoted less attention to cities than to nation-states as contexts for the regulation of religion and religious diversity in Europe. Drawing on ideas from the literature on migration, urban studies, geography and the sociology of religion, as well as empirical material from fieldwork conducted in three medium-size cities in France, the author conceptualises the governance of religious diversity in cities as complex…
Why do some cities adopt more diversity policies than others? A study in France and Germany
A relational approach to local immigrant policy-making: Collaboration with immigrant advocacy bodies in French and German cities
textabstractThe role of immigrant advocacy bodies in collaborative policy-making in cities is \nso far insufficiently researched. This article investigates the ties between relevant \nurban actors and immig
Governing religious diversity in cities: Critical perspectives
This collection addresses the question of how cities govern and regulate religious diversity. Its main goals are: 1) to take stock of current research regarding the municipal governance of religious diversity; 2) to put forward new concepts and empirical analyses to enhance this field of study; and 3) to identify potential lines for future enquiry that help move the field forward. The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, such as the role…
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…
Economy or Justice? How Urban Actors Respond to Diversity
The diversification of population, demands for recognition, and the spread of diversity policies present new challenges to European cities. Do urban actors respond to this development in different ways across cities? Can we distinguish a logic determined by economic considerations or rather a justice-oriented logic? This article presents evidence from 20 German cities based on an original survey of important urban actors. This design reflects cur…
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective
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…
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…
Governing Islam in French cities: Defining ‘acceptable’ public religiosity through municipal consultative bodies
In recent years, European states have institutionalised relations with Islamic groups in the form of national Islam councils. Similarly, municipalities have set up more or less comparable bodies to address issues related to urban religious diversity. However, rather than being restricted to Muslim representatives, municipal consultative bodies usually incorporate a variety of religious actors. This contribution analyses three such bodies in the F…
Conceptualising the role of cities in the governance of religious diversity in Europe
The sociological literature has devoted less attention to cities than to nation-states as contexts for the regulation of religion and religious diversity in Europe. Drawing on ideas from the literature on migration, urban studies, geography and the sociology of religion, as well as empirical material from fieldwork conducted in three medium-size cities in France, the author conceptualises the governance of religious diversity in cities as complex…
Jewish Spatial Practices in Barcelona as Claims for Recognition
In this article, I argue that the spatial practices of the contemporary Jewish organisations in Barcelona’s medieval Jewish neighbourhood represent claims for public recognition. As a small and quite invisible minority within the diverse city population, Jewish groups increasingly claim that their presence in the city should be recognised by political authorities and ordinary citizens alike. They do so through a series of spatial practices around…
Demonopolisation and dislocation: (Re-)negotiating the place and role of religion in Spanish prisons
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: Hospitals and Prisons from a Comparative Perspective
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: Hospitals and Prisons from a Comparative Perspective
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…
“Being Jew is like Travelling by Bus”: Constructing Jewish Identities in Spain between Individualisation and Group Belonging
Individualisation theory has mainly focused on the deregulation of religion and dissolution of traditional majority churches, but there is less evidence of its appropriateness for religious minorities. In this paper I contribute to this debate by analysing how Jews in Spain construct their Jewish sense of belonging in the context of a diverse, traditionally Catholic society. My main argument is that Jews, as a small and invisible minority, confro…
Catholic Chaplains in Public Institutions: Contextual Opportunities and Institutional Inertia in Spanish Hospitals and Prisons
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: Context, Object, and Methods
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…
Why do some cities adopt more diversity policies than others? A study in France and Germany
Conceptualising the role of cities in the governance of religious diversity in Europe
The sociological literature has devoted less attention to cities than to nation-states as contexts for the regulation of religion and religious diversity in Europe. Drawing on ideas from the literature on migration, urban studies, geography and the sociology of religion, as well as empirical material from fieldwork conducted in three medium-size cities in France, the author conceptualises the governance of religious diversity in cities as complex…
Governing religious diversity in cities: Critical perspectives
This collection addresses the question of how cities govern and regulate religious diversity. Its main goals are: 1) to take stock of current research regarding the municipal governance of religious diversity; 2) to put forward new concepts and empirical analyses to enhance this field of study; and 3) to identify potential lines for future enquiry that help move the field forward. The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, such as the role…
Governing Islam in French cities: Defining ‘acceptable’ public religiosity through municipal consultative bodies
In recent years, European states have institutionalised relations with Islamic groups in the form of national Islam councils. Similarly, municipalities have set up more or less comparable bodies to address issues related to urban religious diversity. However, rather than being restricted to Muslim representatives, municipal consultative bodies usually incorporate a variety of religious actors. This contribution analyses three such bodies in the F…
Governing Religious Diversity in Cities: Critical Perspectives
Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe
While French laïcité is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy. What might we learn if we study the governance of religion from a dynamic bottom-up perspective? Using an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in the making. How do city actors understand, frame and govern religious diversity? Which local factors play a role in those processes? In Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversi…
Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe
While French laïcité is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy. What might we learn if we study the governance of religion from a dynamic bottom-up perspective? Using an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in the making. How do city actors understand, frame and govern religious diversity? Which local factors play a role in those processes? In Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversi…
Adapter la religion: Négocier les limites de la religion minoritaire dans les espaces urbains
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…
Jewish Spatial Practices in Barcelona as Claims for Recognition
In this article, I argue that the spatial practices of the contemporary Jewish organisations in Barcelona’s medieval Jewish neighbourhood represent claims for public recognition. As a small and quite invisible minority within the diverse city population, Jewish groups increasingly claim that their presence in the city should be recognised by political authorities and ordinary citizens alike. They do so through a series of spatial practices around…
Economy or Justice? How Urban Actors Respond to Diversity
The diversification of population, demands for recognition, and the spread of diversity policies present new challenges to European cities. Do urban actors respond to this development in different ways across cities? Can we distinguish a logic determined by economic considerations or rather a justice-oriented logic? This article presents evidence from 20 German cities based on an original survey of important urban actors. This design reflects cur…
A relational approach to local immigrant policy-making: Collaboration with immigrant advocacy bodies in French and German cities
textabstractThe role of immigrant advocacy bodies in collaborative policy-making in cities is \nso far insufficiently researched. This article investigates the ties between relevant \nurban actors and immig
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…
Religion and the natural and virtual environments: Introduction
This special
The Politics of Mapping Religion: Locating, Counting, and Categorizing Places of Worship in European Cities
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…
Revisiting Urban Secularism: Critical Points, New Questions
In this piece, I revisit my work in Urban Secularism by addressing the main critical points raised by five generous critics. These concern issues about the theoretical framing of the book, its methodological design and implementation as well as points concerning the findings of the book and some aspects that would have required more attention, such as the relevance of the far-right, race and class in urban secular politics. In the last section of…
Interreligious Encounters in Europe: Sites, Materialities and Practices
A Conversation with Dr Julia Martínez-Ariño: Feminist Apostasy as Activism
Contains fulltext : 296261.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective
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…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Law (18 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (16 works) · Politics (14 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Social science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works)