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Education in law of religions

As in other countries, law of religions does not stand as a programme on its own at Spanish public universities. However, most of them teach State Ecclesiastical Law (or similar subjects) as (...)

As in other countries, law of religions does not stand as a programme on its own at Spanish public universities. However, most of them teach State Ecclesiastical Law (or similar subjects) as part of the law undergraduate studies, sometimes as a mandatory sometimes as an optional subject. Only those universities with specific departments or areas in this subject are presented below.

A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña - Department of Special Public Law - Law, State and Religion
Alicante: Universitat d’Alicante - Department of Historical-Legal Sciences.
Almeria: Universidad de Almería - Department of Law - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Department of Public Law and Historical-Legal Sciences - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra -Law Department - Area of State Ecclesiastical law
Cáceres: Universidad de Extremadura - Department of Public Law - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
Castellón de la Plana: Universitat Jauma I - Department of Labor,Social Security and State Ecclesiastical Law
Girona: Universitat de Girona - Department of Public Law - Area of State Ecclesiastic Law
Granada: Universidad de Granada - Department of Procedural Law and State Ecclesiastical Law
Jaen: Universidad de Jaén - Department of Public and Common European Law - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna - Department of Private Law - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law and Cannonical Law
Lleida: Universitat de Lleida - Department of Pivate Law - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja - Department of Law - Area of Ecclesiastical Law
Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Department of Public Law and Legal Philosophy - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Department of State Ecclesiastical Law
Madrid: Universidad Carlos III - Department of Public International, Ecclesiastical Law and Philosophy of Law - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
Madrid: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Department of Public Law II - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
Málaga: Universidad de Màlaga - Department of Civil Law, State Ecclesiastical Law and Roman Law - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo - Department of Basic Legal Sciences - Area of Ecclesiastical Law
Pamplona: Universidad Pública de Navarra - Department of Public Law - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca - Department of Private Law - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
San Sebastian: Universidad del País Vasco - Department of State Ecclesiastical Law and Roman Law
Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla - Department of Basic Legal Sciences - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
Sevilla: Universidad Pablo de Olavide - Department of Public Law - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
Tarragona: Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Department of Public Law - Area of State Ecclesiastic Law
Valencia: Universitat de València - Department of Roman and State Ecclesiastical Law
Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid - Department of Constitutional, Procedural and State Ecclesiastical Law
Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza -Department of Public Law - Area of State Ecclesiastical Law
UNED: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Nacional University of Distance Learning) - Department of State Ecclesiastical Law

Private universities, most of them belonging to Catholic organizations, also offer education on ecclesiastic law or law of religions. These are some of them:

Barcelona: Universitat Abad Oliba - Degree on Law
Barcelona: ESADE Business School - Degree on Law
Barcelona: Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Degree on Law
Madrid: Universidad a Distancia de Madrid - Degree on Law
Salamanca: Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca - Degree on Canon Law
Valencia: Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Màrtir - Degree on Law
Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra - Faculty of Canon Law

Other informations:

Barcelona: Faculty of Theology of Catalonia
Barcelona: Instituto Bíblico y Seminario Teológico de España (protestant)
Granada: Universidad de Granada - Faculty of Theology
Madrid: Universidad Pontificia de Comillas - Faculty of Theology
Sevilla: Universidad Internacional de Sevilla - Master “Religions and Societies”

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Education in sociology of religion

Barcelona: Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona, Sociology of Religion and Analysis of Religious Organizations
Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, Instituto Superior de Ciencias Religiosas, Sociology (...)

Barcelona: Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona, Sociology of Religion and Analysis of Religious Organizations

Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, Instituto Superior de Ciencias Religiosas, Sociology of the Religious

Granada: Universidad de Granada, Sociology of Religion

Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Sociology of Religion

Pamplona: Universidad Pública de Navarra, Sociology of the Religious

Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, Sociology of Religions

UNED: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Nacional University of Distance Learning), Sociology of Religion

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Research in law of religion

Main research units which conduct research in law of religions:
Cátedra Fernando de los Ríos de Laicidad y Libertades Públicas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Prof. Dionisio Llamazares (...)

Main research units which conduct research in law of religions:

Cátedra Fernando de los Ríos de Laicidad y Libertades Públicas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Prof. Dionisio Llamazares Fernández

Culturas, religiones y derechos humanos, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Prof. Miguel Rodríguez Blanco

Derecho y Diálogo Intercultural y Religioso, Universidad del País Vasco, Prof. Adoración Castro Jover

LibReligiosa-CM, Red de Investigación “La libertad religiosa en España y en el Derecho comparado”, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Isidoro Martín Sánchez

Presente y Futuro de la Diversidad Ideológica y Religiosa en España, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Universidad Pablo de Olavide

REDESOC, Religión, Derecho y Sociedad, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Prof. Rafael Navarro-Valls

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Research in sociology of religions

Main research units which conduct research in sociology (and in some cases anthropology) of religion:
ISOR, Investigacions en Sociologia de la Religió, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Prof. (...)

Main research units which conduct research in sociology (and in some cases anthropology) of religion:

ISOR, Investigacions en Sociologia de la Religió, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Prof. Joan Estruch i Gibert

RELICAN, Grupo de Investigación de las Religiones en Canarias, Universidad de La Laguna, Prof. Francisco Díez de Velasco

Compilation of Research Projects on Religion by the Observatory of Religious Pluralism in Spain

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