Teresa Giménez Barbat

María Teresa Giménez Barbat (born 4 June 1955 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish anthropologist, writer and politician. She advocates secular humanism, rationalist universalism and scepticism. She writes in two languages, Spanish and Catalan. She is member of the Spanish political party Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) and has participated in anti-nationalist movements before in Catalonia.

Biography

She studied at the University of Barcelona, where she received a degree in anthropology. In 2008 she promoted the "Third Culture" association, and in 2009 "Secular Humanism Forum" dedicated to promote an ethic independent of religion.

In 2006 she was a member of the directorate of the political party Citizens of Catalonia, a new non-nationalist party. When UPyD was created with similar ideology, she joined the new formation, and since 2012, was a member of the directorate of the party in Catalonia. She was fifth in the UPyD list of candidates in the 2009 European Parliament Election.

Books

Polvo de Estrellas, Barcelona, Kairós 2003. Diari d'una escèptica, Barcelona, Tentadero 2007 Citileaks: los españolistas de la Plaza Real

References

1955 births

Living people

Atheism activists

Spanish anthropologists

Spanish women anthropologists

Spanish humanists

Anti-nationalists

20th-century Spanish philosophers

21st-century Spanish philosophers

Union, Progress and Democracy MEPs

20th-century Spanish women writers

MEPs for Spain 2014–2019

21st-century women MEPs for Spain

20th-century atheists

21st-century atheists

21st-century Spanish women writers