The Russian dissident and spiritual teacher has been hospitalized again for emergency surgery.
Massimo Introvigne
Shincheonji: A Session in Rome Held Under the Shadow of an Arrest
At the European Academy of Religion, scholars gathered to discuss the religious movement while its elderly leader remained behind bars.
The New Testament Church and the Tai Ji Men Case: The Mount Zion Saga in Comparative Perspective
The repression of the Christian millenarian movement during the Martial Law period in Taiwan has similarities with the post-authoritarian assault on Tai Ji Men.
新天地と統一教会：韓国法務部長官、「にせ預言者」は「厳正に処罰すべき」と表明
高齢の宗教指導者たちが拘束されるなか、法務部長官は「異端者」を糾弾するために聖書を引用し、日本で起きた出来事を称賛した。
Theosophy, “Thought-Forms,” and the Arts. 4. From Ringbom’s Legacy to Today’s Scholarship
How a once-marginal thesis reshaped the understanding of modernism’s spiritual roots.
Global Anti-Cultism and the Return of “Brainwashing” Theories
Accusing “cults” of “coercive persuasion” looked démodé, at least in academia and courts of law outside of France. But the discredited theory is coming back.
Theosophy, “Thought-Forms,” and the Arts. 3. Kandinsky and Theosophy in Munich.
How occult ideas and deep esoteric structures shaped the painter who transformed modern art.
Theosophy, “Thought-Forms,” and the Arts. 2. Artists Who Saw the Invisible
From Symbolism to abstraction: how a clairvoyant atlas shaped painters across continents.
Shincheonji and the Unification Church: South Korea’s Minister of Justice Promises “Strict Punishment” of “False Prophets”
Elderly religious leaders are kept in detention, while the politician quotes the Gospel against the “heretics” and hails what happened in Japan.
いかにして“ナラティブ”は作られたのか：ファクトチェックの専門家・加藤文宏氏が読み解く日本の旧統一教会問題
第一線のジャーナリストが、統計データをもとに、いかに活動家とメディアが宗教団体を解散へと導く社会的空気を作り上げたかを明らかにする。マッシモ・イントロヴィニエ
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 Pennsylvania 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.