Joseba García Martín
Joseba García Martín is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Basque Government (2023–2025), a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022), and a Predoctoral Fellowship from the Basque Government (2016–2020). He holds a PhD in Sociology (International Mention), an MA in Models and Areas of Research in Social Sciences, and a BA in Sociology, all from UPV/EHU. His doctoral dissertation received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award in 2023.
His research examines the processes of secularization, religious change, and the transformation of Catholicism in contemporary society. He focuses particularly on the relationship between politics and religion through the study of Catholic-inspired lay organizations and their impact on the public sphere, understood as renewed strategies for the desecularization of religion. He also investigates their connections with the Spanish far right and their mobilization against progressive moral policies, especially those related to end-of-life issues, sexual and reproductive health, and the family.
In recent years, he has also developed a line of research on youth, exploring, on the one hand, the processes of re-Christianization promoted by Catholic organizations that instrumentalize culture and social media in a context of cultural change and political polarization, and, on the other hand, the study of civil and political organizations aligned with the so-called “new far-right” movements. His work combines perspectives from the sociology of religion and social movement studies.
He has published more than fifteen articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Sociology Compass, Politics and Religion, Revista Internacional de Sociología (RIS), Revista Española de Sociología (RES), Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS), Política y Sociedad, RECERCA, and Revista de Estudios Sociales (RES). He has also contributed over a dozen book chapters to publishers including Routledge, Springer, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), and Instituto de la Juventud (INJUVE), and has co-edited two collective volumes. Since 2024, he has served as a board member of the Research Committee on Sociology of Religion (CI16) of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES) and is co-founder of the international network New Far Rights: Global Research Network.
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Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4742-5770