Marià Corbí is a philosopher and theologian and he has been professor of Social Sciences in ESADE and Fundación Vidal y Barraquer. Since 1999, Corbí is Head of the Center of Religious Traditions Studies of Barcelona (CETR).

As a researcher, he has studied the ideological and religious consequences of the transformations generated by knowledge society. According to Corbí, the religious forms are defined by the aptitude to create stable environments of unremovable certainties. That’s why the religious forms are very slightly suitable for a social reality that lives in a constant transformation, which is at the core of the innovation societies.

His last book “Hacia una espiritualidad laica: sin creencias, sin religiones, sin dioses” (Barcelona, Herder 2007) focus on the idea of a new spirituality based neither on the big divinities nor in the beliefs and dogmas of the big religions. Inside the thematic block Redefining Identity, Marià Corbí will explain us how present social changes are modifying religiousness.

These day in which we live, are crossed by radical changes that concern all the spheres of our life, included the religion. According to the author, we must not feel sorry for the religion’s crisis, we must face the challenge of a new lay spirituality far form the limits of the established beliefs and orthodoxis dogmas.

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