Staff profile

I am a social anthropologist interested in questions of comparative religion and politics with an emphasis on debates over transnational migration and knowledge flow, space- and place-making, conflict and conflict resolution, and different forms of reasoning and argumentation. I have experience conducting fieldwork with Islamic movements and Muslim communities between South Asia and Western Europe, where I investigate how they navigate the tensions that characterise an increasingly interconnected and diverse world. Currently, I am at the initial stage of a research project on interfaith dialogues and the interactions between different religious communities in Northeast India. Before joining the Department of Theology & Religion at Durham University, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

• Comparative Religion and Politics
• Islam and the Muslim World
• South Asia and Western Europe

Journal Article

• The “publicness” of urban religious rituals: a comparison of Shia lamentation processions in Barcelona and Birmingham
  
  Astor, A., Martín-Sáez, G., Albert-Blanco, V., & Martínez-Cuadros, R. (2025). The “publicness” of urban religious rituals: a comparison of Shia lamentation processions in Barcelona and Birmingham. Culture and Religion. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2025.2507886