The anti-cult sociologist really believed that Satanic “human sacrifices” happened in Canada. But he admitted that he “never once came across a body.”
Massimo Introvigne
A Modern Léo Taxil: Stephen Kent and Satanism. 1: The Shadow of Taxil
The most famous anti-Masonic hoax is a cautionary tale to keep in mind when examining claims by anti-cult scholars about Satanic or “cultic” abuse.
Tantra, Translation, and 20th-Century China: A Seductive Look at Esoteric Buddhism
Wei Wu’s new book offers a window into a captivating, enigmatic, and mostly unfamiliar aspect of Chinese Buddhism.
Were the Chinese Originally Monotheists? New Light on an Ancient Missionary Debate
A dazzling little book by Chen Huaiyu shows how Baroque-era Jesuits and 19th-century Protestant missionaries scoured Chinese texts for signs of a pristine monotheism.
The Secular Storm: The Strange Japanese Antipathy Towards Religion
Ian Reader and Clark Chilson’s “On Being Nonreligious in Contemporary Japan” is required reading for understanding what’s going on in Japan.
世俗の嵐：日本人の奇妙な宗教嫌悪
イアン・リーダーとクラーク・チルソン著『現代日本における非宗教性』は、日本でいま起きている事態を理解するための必読書である。
Seoul’s New Inquisition: The Jailing of Pastor Son and Korea’s War on Churches
When governments start jailing pastors for preaching values, the line between democracy and despotism begins to blur.
マザー・ハンの拘束：韓国における宗教と理性の不浄な戦い
法的根拠は存在しなかった。容疑の内容は非現実的で、政治的動機に基づいている。これは汚職事件ではない――粛清である。
韓国での宗教ジェノサイド：信仰の暗殺
私は韓国に、単なる視察でなく立ち上がるために来た。家庭連合に対する攻撃は、その本質を正しく呼ぶべきである。これは「宗教迫害」である。
The Party in Your Living Room: China’s New Architecture of Everyday Control
An essential new report by the Mercator Institute reveals how the Chinese Communist Party combines Marxism and high-tech to control all features of daily life.
Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of some 70 books and more than 100 articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and of the executive board of University of California Press' Nova Religio. From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the "Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.