CESNUR

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The Center for Studies on New Religions (Italian Centro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni , CESNUR , English Center for Studies on New Religions ) is an international association for the study of new religious movements . The seat is in Turin , the president is Luigi Berzano, professor of sociology at the University of Turin , the director is Massimo Introvigne . Antoine Faivre is the director for France .

The center was founded in 1988 by the lawyer and sociologist Massimo Introvigne, the historian Jean-François Mayer, the religious scholar John Gordon Melton and the sociologist Eileen Barker .

activities

CESNUR has hosted and hosted colloquia at several international universities and has published a large number of studies. The two editions of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia are generally regarded as the standard reference work on religious topics in Italy.

The colloquia organized by CESNUR increasingly focus their attention no longer on the new religious movements, but on religious pluralism in general, on the relationships between immigration , globalization and religion , and on the various forms of fundamentalism . In 2006, CESNUR started a project to study Chinese immigration in Italy. There is also a regularly updated encyclopedia of religions in Italy on the Internet.

criticism

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CESNUR's views on the new religious movements have been criticized in Europe by opponents of sects and psycho-groups, while CESNUR, for its part, regards the fight against sects as dangerous for religious freedom.

CESNUR replied to the allegations that Massimo Introvignes' personal commitment in the Alleanza Cattolica had nothing to do with the orientation of CESNUR and that CESNUR was headed by a scientific body whose members had the most diverse religious and political views.

CESNURS information pages on the Internet about the discourses in connection with new religions are considered by some critics to be too "sect-friendly".

See also

Portal: New Religious Movements  - Overview of Wikipedia content on New Religious Movements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.cesnur.org/conferenze.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.cesnur.org/text_mov.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.cesnur.org/religioni_italia/default.htm
  4. ↑ Gerald Willms: The Wonderful World of Sects: From Paul to Scientology. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Edition: 1st edition 2012, p. 323.