Certaines personnes, affirmant avoir appartenu à une religion ou à un mouvement religieux et prétendant en connaître les secrets, ne disent pas la vérité.
Massimo Introvigne
“A New Form of Human Civilization”: A New Dangerous Slogan
Claims for the Communist Party and China’s historical superiority become increasingly extravagant. But they have consequences.
Peut-on se fier aux apostats ? 1. Le problème de l’apostasie
Les apostats sont d’anciens membres de religions ou de mouvements religieux dont ils sont devenus les ennemis jurés. Il en existe depuis des siècles.
The Strange Russian War Against Reiki
“Experts” call Reiki an “occult religion” or a “destructive cult.” They misunderstand what Reiki is all about.
Did Nostradamus Predict a World War Starting in Ukraine?
Some try to persuade us that Nostradamus, the French 16th-century astrologer, predicted World War III and widespread religious persecution. A look at the “Nostradamologists.”
Hazaras in Pakistan. 5. Two New Enemies: ISIS and COVID, 2016–2022
From 2016, ISIS replaced Lashkar-e-Jhangvi as the deadliest anti-Hazara terrorist group. In 2020, Hazaras were accused of spreading COVID as the “Shi’a virus.”
¿Son confiables los apóstatas? 5. Por qué algunos se vuelven apóstatas
Los exmiembros que se vuelven apóstatas a menudo “aprenden” su papel de los movimientos antisectas.
¿Son confiables los apóstatas? 4. No todo exmiembro es apóstata
Lamentablemente, los medios de comunicación suelen confundir dos grupos muy diferentes: los exmiembros de una organización religiosa y los apóstatas. La mayoría de exmiembros no son apóstatas.
Hazaras in Pakistan. 4. The Third Wave of Anti-Hazara Terrorist Attacks, 2010–2015
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists Usman Saifullah Kurd and Dawood Badini waged a war of extermination against the Hazaras of Balochistan.
Corruption in the Tai Ji Men Case Denounced at the United Nations
A written statement has been submitted to the 49th session of the Human Rights Council on how corruption affects human rights. It argues that the persecution of Tai Ji Men is “a clear case of corruption.”
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.