ISOR (investigacions en sociologia de la religió)

Born in Barcelona in 1943. Ph.D. in Humanities (1971) at Barcelona University, he teaches Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 1971. Founder and director of the research group ISOR, Investigacions en Sociologia de la Religió, in 1974. Since 1989, he is full professor of Sociology of the Sociology Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he teaches Sociology of Religion and Analysis of Religious Organisations, among other subjects. He has been professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain and is associate member of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs of Boston University. In 2006 he received the Narcís Monturiol Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya for his research work, in 2009 he was awarded the Jaume Vicens Vives Distinction for excellence in teaching, and since 1995 he is member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans. Throughout his research and teaching career he has coordinated numerous projects on a variety of subjects related to the sociology of culture and religion, such as the elaboration of the Religious Map of Catalonia, and has supervised more than 15 doctoral dissertations.