From a sociological perspective, religions appear as institutions, communities, and social actors capable of shaping norms, values, and power relations. They regulate status, organize forms of care, produce moral categories, and orient processes of inclusion and exclusion. They act as meaning-making devices that shape the codes, narratives, and symbols through which equality and hierarchy, body and gender, identity and belonging are defined. Through rituals, public discourse, digital media, and sacred objects, they generate representations that can reinforce structures of domination or open spaces for critique and emancipation. Contemporary transformations—migratory mobility, religious pluralism, and the digitalization of practices—are redefining these processes, making the relationship between religion, culture, and power a crucial field for understanding how the meanings that structure collective life are produced, negotiated, and contested. Research questions: How do these transformations redefine the role of religions in addressing social vulnerability? In what ways do religious actors—both formal and informal—inform, reinforce, or challenge processes of inclusion, marginalization, and social recognition? How do religious rituals, symbols, and iconographies contribute to the construction of categories of belonging and otherness? What role do digital media play in the circulation and re-elaboration of religious meanings related to equality and inequality? Potential areas of investigation: Religious communities involved in social service provision or charitable initiatives; religious movements advocating for rights or resisting social change; interactions between religious institutions and local welfare governance; Religious iconographies associated with the body; ritual practices of inclusion and exclusion (rites of passage, normative practices); religious content circulating on digital platforms, games and social media.