Crosswise Blog

The Crosswise Blog was created by Dr. Rafael Cazarin, who served as its coordinator until 2025. It is currently coordinated by Dr. Rosa Martinez-Cuadros and welcomes concise articles exploring the social and cultural dimensions of the intersection between science, religion, and health.


If you are interested in contributing, you can find our submission guidelines here.

Rethinking Moral Agency, Normative Piety, and Everyday Islam in the Context of Healing
Muge Akpina
Health and Well-being in Times of COVID-19. Experiences from Latin American Women in Hamburg
Franca Webel
Controversies and beliefs around the cryopreserved embryos in Argentina
Cecila Johnson
New Models of Self-Restoration in Prison: Ethnography of Buddhism in Quebec Penitentiaries
Catherine de Guise
Rythmic Routines: Folk music, Religiosity and Well-Being across China’s Borders
Lisa Spinelli
A conflict between Islam and Science? Covid-19 Vaccines and Muslim communities in Barcelona and Tangier
Rosa Martínez-Cuadros
Embryos in the Spotlight: Decoding Societal Imaginaries in the intersection of Sicence, Health and Belief
Gabriela Irrazabal
Yoga, Science and Health: The Social and Discursive Construction of the Yoga Body
Matteo Di Placido
The universalization of Spirituality
Rodrigo Toniol
Ukugula kwabantu: Building bridges between biomedicine and the African healing traditions of Southern Africa
Sinethemba Makanya
Mindfulness in Brazil: Between Science, Religion, and the Secular
Giovanna Paccillo
Healing “by Grace”?
Folk Medicine and Women Healers in Rural Catalonia
Romina Martínez-Algueró
From the Time of Dreaming to the Time of Globalization or Vice Versa?
Francesca Benna