- The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
- Alternative Spiritualities, New Religions, and The Reenchantment of the West
- The Sociocultural Significance of Modern New Religious Movements
- Science and Religion in the New Religions
- Virtually Religious: New Religious Movements and the World Wide Web
- Violence and New Religious Movements
- Legal Dimensions of New Religions
- The North American Anti-Cult Movement: Vicissitudes of Success and Failure
- Something Peculiar about France: Anti-Cult Campaigns in Western Europe and French Religious Exceptionalism
- Satanism and Ritual Abuse
- Conversion and “Brainwashing” in New Religious Movements
- Leaving the Fold: Disaffiliating from New Religious Movements
- Psychology and the New Religious Movements
- Millennialism
- The Mythic Dimensions of New Religious Movements: Function, Reality Construction, and Process
- Women in New Religious Movements
- Children in New Religious Movements
- Waiting for the “Big Beam”: UFO Religions and “Ufological” Themes in New Religious Movements
- Esotericism in New Religious Movements
- The Dynamics of Alternative Spirituality: Seekers, Networks, and “New Age”
- New Religions in East Asia
- Witches, Wiccans, and Neo-Pagans: A Review of Current Academic Treatments of Neo-Paganism
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The North American anti-cult movement enjoyed considerable success exporting its peculiar ideology to Europe, particularly following the Solar Temple murder-suicides in the mid-1990s. This article begins by analyzing European attitudes toward new religious movements in terms of two types of official reports issued by various nations. It then discusses France, which alone among European countries seems intent on abolishing all new religions.
Keywords: Europe, abolition, Solar Temple, France
Massimo Introvigne is the managing director of CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, an international research facility in Turin, Italy. He is the author or editor of thirty-two books on the history and sociology of religions (including the monumental Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia) and of more than a hundred scholarly articles, published in several languages.
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- The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
- Alternative Spiritualities, New Religions, and The Reenchantment of the West
- The Sociocultural Significance of Modern New Religious Movements
- Science and Religion in the New Religions
- Virtually Religious: New Religious Movements and the World Wide Web
- Violence and New Religious Movements
- Legal Dimensions of New Religions
- The North American Anti-Cult Movement: Vicissitudes of Success and Failure
- Something Peculiar about France: Anti-Cult Campaigns in Western Europe and French Religious Exceptionalism
- Satanism and Ritual Abuse
- Conversion and “Brainwashing” in New Religious Movements
- Leaving the Fold: Disaffiliating from New Religious Movements
- Psychology and the New Religious Movements
- Millennialism
- The Mythic Dimensions of New Religious Movements: Function, Reality Construction, and Process
- Women in New Religious Movements
- Children in New Religious Movements
- Waiting for the “Big Beam”: UFO Religions and “Ufological” Themes in New Religious Movements
- Esotericism in New Religious Movements
- The Dynamics of Alternative Spirituality: Seekers, Networks, and “New Age”
- New Religions in East Asia
- Witches, Wiccans, and Neo-Pagans: A Review of Current Academic Treatments of Neo-Paganism
- Index
