All Stories

  1. TEDified Islam: Postsecular Storytelling in New Media, written by Jasbeer Musthafa Mamalipurath

    Article • Journal of Muslims in Europe, June 2025, De Gruyter

    Dr. Avi Astor

  2. The “publicness” of urban religious rituals: a comparison of Shia lamentation processions in Barcelona and Birmingham

    Article • Culture and Religion, May 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Avi Astor

  3. Religiosity, social solidarity, and cultural participation

    Article • May 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Avi Astor, Mr Frédéric Lebaron

  4. The limits of cultural democracy? Challenges and paradoxes in advancing cultural inclusion and participation in Denmark, the Netherlands, Serbia, and Spain

    Article • May 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Avi Astor

  5. Crèche Controversies: State Neutrality and Public Religious Displays in the US and Europe

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Avi Astor

  6. Anonymity and Digital Islamic Authority

    Article • Religions, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. Avi Astor

  7. Performing heritage at Cordoba’s Mosque-Cathedral

    Article • Cultural Studies, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Avi Astor

  8. L’Achoura à Barcelone : adaptations spatiales d’un rituel islamique chiite en situation diasporique

    Article • Revue européenne de migrations internationales, January 2024, OpenEdition

    Dr. Avi Astor

  9. Transforming the sacred: a neo-Durkheimian analysis of the aesthetic modification and cultural resignification of Barcelona’s municipal crèche (1961–2021)

    Article • American Journal of Cultural Sociology, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Avi Astor

  10. Religious representation and performative citizenship: The civic dimensions of Shia lamentation rituals in Barcelona

    Article • Social Compass, January 2023, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Avi Astor

  11. Marian Burchardt, Regulating Difference: Religious Diversity and Nationhood in the Secular West

    Article • Journal of Religion in Europe, July 2021, Brill

    Dr. Avi Astor

  12. Religion and its modifiers: making sense of the definition and subtypification of a contested concept

    Article • Theory and Society, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Avi Astor

  13. Nationalist Mobilization, Ethno-Religious Contention, and Legal Innovation in a Stateless Nation: Explaining Catalonia’s 2009 “Law on Centers of Worship”

    Article • Religions, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Avi Astor

  14. Culturalized Religion: A Synthetic Review and Agenda for Research

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, April 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Avi Astor

  15. ‘A Latin Can Be Worth Just as Much or More than a Saxon’: Boxing, Gender, and Transnational Latinity in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Spain

    Article • The International Journal of the History of Sport, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Avi Astor

  16. Religion and counter-state nationalism in Catalonia

    Article • Social Compass, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Avi Astor

  17. Street Performance, Public Space, and the Boundaries of Urban Desirability: The Case of Living Statues in Barcelona

    Article • International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, October 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Avi Astor

  18. Religious governance in the Spanish city: hands-on versus hands-off approaches to accommodating religious diversity in Barcelona and Madrid

    Article • Religion State & Society, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Avi Astor

  19. European Identities, Heritage, and the Iconic Power of Multi-Religious Buildings: Cordoba’s Mosque Cathedral and Berlin’s House of One

    Article • July 2019, Brill

    Dr. Avi Astor

  20. Polarization and the Limits of Politicization: Cordoba’s Mosque-Cathedral and the Politics of Cultural Heritage

    Article • Qualitative Sociology, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Avi Astor

  21. Article • Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos, December 2018, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

    Dr. Avi Astor

  22. Islam y la esfera pública europea

    Article • Revista CIDOB d Afers Internacionals, April 2017, CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)

    Dr. Avi Astor

  23. The Politics of Religious Heritage: Framing Claims to Religion as Culture in Spain

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Avi Astor

  24. La gestión de la diversidad religiosa en la España contemporánea

    Article • Anuario CIDOB de la Inmigración, December 2016, CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)

    Dr. Avi Astor

  25. Knocked Out

    Article • International Review for the Sociology of Sport, November 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Avi Astor

  26. Reviews of Books

    Article • Bulletin of Spanish Studies, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Avi Astor

  27. Social Position and Place-Protective Action in a New Immigration Context: Understanding Anti-Mosque Campaigns in Catalonia

    Article • International Migration Review, March 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Avi Astor

  28. Governing Religious Diversity Amid National Redefinition: Muslim Incorporation in Spain

    Article • November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Avi Astor

  29. Religious Governance and the Accommodation of Islam in Contemporary Spain

    Article • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Avi Astor

  30. Memory, community, and opposition to mosques: the case of Badalona

    Article • Theory and Society, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Avi Astor

  31. Unauthorized Immigration, Securitization and the Making of Operation Wetback

    Article • Latino Studies, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Avi Astor

  32. How does lack of insurance affect use of intensive care? A population-based study*

    Article • Critical Care Medicine, August 2006, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr. Avi Astor