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Paula Arana Barbier

@paulaaranab.bsky.social
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TCK🇵🇪🇲🇹🇩🇪🇪🇸 PhD, Postdoctoral fellow at Uni Heidelberg. I research Jews and Muslims in Europe, Immigration, Politica of Death, and Religious Accommodation. Reviews Editor Patterns of Prejudice.

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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Read the full article here 👉 doi.org/10.5209/anqe... Your feedback and shares are very welcome! #ReligiousFreedom #Governance #EU #Secularism #PolicyResearch
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The governance of religion in Europe: mapping religious accommodation in the EU | Anaquel de Estudios Árabes
Abdi, Hervé, and Dominique Valentin. ‘Multiple Correspondence Analysis’. In Encyclopaedia of Measurement and Statistics, edited by Neil J. Salkind and Kristin Rasmussen, II:651–57. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2007.
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
📊 Using datasets like Religion and the State and Global Restrictions on Religion, we performed an MCA to map 27 EU countries into four categories: 🔹 Accommodation 🔹 Public secularism 🔹 Restrictive privatisation 🔹 Privatised religious freedom
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We define Governmental Religious Accommodation as a political right—an institutional response to minority religious needs across: ✔️ Materials ✔️ Practices ✔️ Rights
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
What does it mean for a government to accommodate religion? Our article presents a multidisciplinary framework and an empirical model to assess how EU countries approach religious accommodation beyond Islam.
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🚨 New publication alert! 📰 “The Governance of Religion in Europe: Mapping Religious Accommodation in the EU” How do European governments handle religious diversity? We propose a novel method for measuring it. 🔗 doi.org/10.5209/anqe... 🧵👇
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
#OnlineFirst Our article Towards multicultural memory: Struggles over a muslim cemetery in post-Civil War Asturias, Spain is out! This article examines how an overlooked Muslim cemetery in Asturias challenges prevailing narratives of the Spanish Civil War. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
💬 This special issue opens a necessary conversation about the afterlives of Muslims in Europe. Death reveals the hidden boundaries of citizenship, belonging, and recognition. Read the full issue: journals.sagepub.com/page/etn/spe...
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🇸🇪 How does Sweden’s multiculturalism extend to death? The Politics of Death and Multiculturalism by Magdalena Nordin explores how Muslim burial practices reveal tensions between group rights and individual freedoms. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #MuslimGraves
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🪦 Muslim bodies in secular European cemeteries examines how Muslims navigate burial in secularised cemeteries. The article by Yasemin Ural explores the interplay of secularisation, religious identity, and public visibility in European deathscapes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🇫🇷🇳🇱 How do institutional biases shape Islamic burial in Europe? This article by Van den Breemer and Maussen offers a typology to analyse how France and the Netherlands respond differently to Muslim burial needs amid rising diversity. #MuslimsInEurope journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🇪🇸 Moros y Cristianos Together? examines the politics of death as a lens on multiculturalism, revealing how Muslims face systemic barriers to burial and postmortem belonging. By Paula M Arana Barbier. #PoliticsofDeath #MuslimsInSpain journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Towards multicultural memory examines contestations over a Muslim burial space in post-Civil War Asturias, 🇪🇸. Becker et al. It situates memory, space, and religious pluralism within broader European debates on multiculturalism and minoritised belonging. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New Special Issue! "The Politics of Death: Multiculturalism and the Afterlives of Muslims in Europe" explores how death and burial practices shape Muslim belonging and exclusion across European societies. Edited by Elisabeth Becker & I. 🧵👇 journals.sagepub.com/page/etn/spe...
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📰✍️Nuevo artículo: “Moros y Cristianos Together?: The Politics of Death and Muslims in Spain” de @paulaaranab.bsky.social en Ethnicities 👁️https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14687968251327163
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The article is part of a special issue on Multiculturalism and the Afterlives of Muslims in Europe, which examines cases in France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
In it, I connect Muslim cemeteries from the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s National Catholicism to the situation experienced by Muslims today while attempting to showcase the importance of cemeteries in the construction of the national imaginary.
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#OnlineFirst My article “Moros y Cristianos Together?: The Politics of Death and Muslims in Spain” is already available at @EthnicitiesSAGE. #NewPublication journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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Paula Arana Barbier @paulaaranab.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Thank you Professor Rajae El Khamsi for accepting to supervise my visiting fellowship at the Institute of African, Euro-Mediterranean and Ibero-American Studies of the Mohammed V University in Rabat, where I also had the chance to present my latest project. #visitingresearcher
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