When a streaming series becomes a tribunal, it is time for the international human rights community to take notice.
Massimo Introvigne
How to Kill a Religion: South Korea’s Proposed “Church Dissolution Act”
The proposed legislation is a direct challenge to the ICCPR. It would allow the government to destroy the religions it perceived as politically hostile.
A Growing Religious Liberty Crisis in South Korea Denounced at the United Nations
Shincheonji and others under threat: CAP‑LC sounds the alarm on Korea’s slide toward religious repression.
Xi Jinping Thought on Demography: How to Lose a Population and Call It Progress
China’s new official doctrine admits the birthrate won’t recover—and rebrands decline as “high-quality development.”
Tai Ji Men Returns to Geneva: A Familiar Shadow Is Back at the UN Human Rights Council
The twelfth United Nations submission on the Tai Ji Men case confirms Taiwan’s problems with the Two Human Rights Covenants.
La Teosofia e le arti visive
Tra tutte le organizzazioni spirituali e religiose, nessuna ha avuto un’influenza maggiore sull’arte moderna della Società Teosofica
Konstantin Rudnev: encarcelado en Argentina por un delito inventado en Rusia
Un maestro espiritual ruso sobrevive a la persecución, el exilio y la desinformación —solo para quedar atrapado otra vez en una narrativa que no muere.
Konstantin Rudnev: Jailed in Argentina for a Crime Invented in Russia
A Russian spiritual teacher survives persecution, exile, and disinformation—only to be trapped again by a narrative that won’t die.
In the Shadow of the ICCPR: Taiwan’s Struggle With Its Own Machinery
A sweeping report reveals how rights guaranteed on paper falter under administrative habits, as the Tai Ji Men case demonstrates.
Silencing the Churches: Why Korea’s New Rhetoric Threatens Democratic Freedom
In his New Year’s message, President Lee promised to “root out” religious involvement in politics, targeting the Unification Church, Shincheonji, and conservative Protestant churches.
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.