The Ortega regime is not only a threat for human rights. Now it threatens regional and global stability as well.
Massimo Introvigne
China’s New Law Targets Those Protesting Abroad Against Chinese Sport Teams
How will exactly Beijing authorities try to enforce art. 120 of the new Sports Law? Perhaps international sport authorities will do the job for the CCP, and forbid the protests themselves.
Russian Anti-Cult Indoctrination for Students of Occupied Ukraine
Anti-cultist Roman Silantyev called the Ukrainian leadership “neopagan and occult” and explained that an independent Ukraine will soon no longer exist.
Samsung Outlet Attacked Over Blasphemy Charges in Pakistan
The rumor that a QR code connected to a Wi-Fi network with a blasphemous name led to the riots.
Parliamentarism and Human Rights: The “New” Transitional Justice and the Tai Ji Men Case
Several countries have recognized that democratically elected Parliaments and serious human rights violations may unfortunately coexist.
Čiurlionis, Esotericism, and Theosophy. 3. “Theosophical” Symbols
Čiurlionis: the Lithuanian painter’s works include several symbolic references that may be attributed to Theosophical influences, but the relation remains conjectural.
Čiurlionis, Esotericism, and Theosophy. 2. The Stabrowski-Theosophy Connection
Čiurlionis was a friend and pupil of Polish symbolist painter Kazimierz Stabrowski, a prominent Theosophist, and also read the works of Flammarion, another Theosophist.
Čiurlionis, Esotericism, and Theosophy 1. Insights from an International Conference
Was Čiurlionis, the great Lithuanian painter, influenced by the ideas of the Theosophical Society? The jury is still out.
The Tai Ji Men Case at the CESNUR 2022 Conference
Scholars and dizi presented papers on different angles of the 25-year-old case at Quebec City’s Université Laval
Amarnath Yatra: World-Famous Shiva Lingam Pilgrimage Under Threat of Terrorists
In 2020 and 2021, it was stopped by COVID. Now, pilgrims to this Shiva shrine in Kashmir are afraid of anti-Indian terrorism.
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.