Massimo Introvigne

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Massimo Introvigne

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#1005

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#1915

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Ethics

#250

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#292

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Metaphysics

#218

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#324

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Epistemology

#268

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#339

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PhD Philosophy University of Turin

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According to Wikipedia, Massimo Introvigne is an Italian Roman Catholic sociologist of religion and intellectual property attorney. He is a founder and the managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions , a Turin-based organization which has been described as "the highest profile lobbying and information group for controversial religions".

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Brainwashing Theories in European Parliamentary and Administrative Reports on Cults and Sects (2001) (89)
Religious Competition and Revival in Italy: Exploring European Exceptionalism (2005) (38)
Satanism: A Social History (2016) (25)
Ordeal by Fire: The Tragedy of the Solar Temple (1995) (17)
New Religious Movements, Countermovements, Moral Panics, and the Media (2007) (14)
The Plymouth Brethren (2018) (11)
The Book of Mormon Wars: A Non-Mormon Perspective (1996) (10)
Defectors, Ordinary Leave-takers, and Apostates: A Quantitative Study of Former Members of New Acropolis in France (1999) (10)
Pilgrims in the Digital Age: a research manifesto (2016) (10)
Moral panics and anti‐cult terrorism in Western Europe (2000) (10)
“There is No Place for Us to Go but Up”: New Religious Movements and Violence (2002) (9)
The future of new religions (2004) (8)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Occult Masters and the Temple of Doom: The Fiery End of the Solar Temple (2002) (8)
Religion as Claim: Social and Legal Controversies (1999) (7)
Advocacy, brainwashing theories, and new religious movements (2014) (7)
A symbolic universe: information terrorism and new religions in cyberspace: Massimo Introvigne (2005) (7)
Blacklisting or Greenlisting? A European Perspective on the New Cult Wars (1998) (6)
Holy Mountains and Anti-Cult Ecology: The Campaign Against the Aumist Religion in France (1999) (4)
Separating Facts from Fiction (2013) (4)
The Unification Church (2000) (4)
Italy's Surprisingly Favorable Environment for Religious Minorities (2001) (4)
Shincheonji and the COVID-19 Epidemic: Sorting Fact from Fiction (2020) (3)
SOKA GAKKAI IN ITALY : SUCCESS AND CONTROVERSIES (2021) (3)
The Devil Makers: Contemporary Evangelical Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism (1994) (3)
Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and the Heralds of The Gospel: The Religious Economy of Brazilian Conservative Catholicism (2016) (3)
New Religious Movements and the Visual Arts (2016) (3)
The Sounding Cosmos Revisited: Sixten Ringbom and the “Discovery” of Theosophical Influences on Modern Art (2018) (3)
Western Europe, Postmodernity, and the Shadow of the French Revolution: A Response to Soper and Robbins (2001) (3)
Brainwashing (2022) (3)
“I Worship Death, Evil, and All Darkness”: Black Metal and Satanism (2018) (3)
Introduction—New Religious Movements and Violence: A Typology (2018) (2)
Esotericism in the Mirror of COVID-19: Gregorian Bivolaru, MISA, and the Pandemic (2020) (2)
Gatekeeping and Narratives about “Cult” Violence: The McDonald’s Murder of 2014 in China (2018) (2)
Freemasonry and New Religious Movements (2014) (2)
Modern Catholic Millennialism (2011) (1)
“Theosophical” Artistic Networks in the Americas, 1920–1950 (2016) (1)
Inside The Church of Almighty God (2020) (1)
The Church of Almighty God (2020) (1)
Did L. Ron Hubbard Believe in Brainwashing?The Strange Story of the “Brain-Washing Manual” of 1955 (2017) (1)
Enquete sur le satanisme: Satanistes et anti-satanistes du XVIIe siecle a nos jours [Inquiry into Satanism: Satanists and Anti-Satanists from the 17th Century to Our Day] (1997) (1)
THE RADICAL AESTHETICS OF THE MOVEMENT FOR SPIRITUAL INTEGRATION INTO THE ABSOLUTE (MISA) (2017) (1)
Non-traditional Christianity (1993) (1)
Old Wine in New Bottles: The Story behind Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism (1995) (1)
Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism (2010) (1)
Introduction - Emperor Nero Redux: Fake News and Anti-Cult Movements (2018) (1)
Who Is Irma Plavatsky? Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, and the Internationalisation of Popular Culture from the Dime Novel to The Da Vinci Code (2012) (1)
Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult:Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult. (1999) (1)
Russia: Satan the Translator (2016) (0)
Review: Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism, by Marci Kwon (2021) (0)
A Satanic Underground, 1897–1952 (2016) (0)
Review: Religion in China: Ties That Bind, by Adam Yuet Chau (2020) (0)
David W. Kim, Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea: The Emergence, Transformation and Transmission of a New Religion. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. Hardcover. Pp. 406. £67.99. (2022) (0)
The Origins of Contemporary Satanism, 1952–1980 (2016) (0)
Joining The Church of Almighty God (2020) (0)
The Flourishing of New Religions in Korea (2021) (0)
The Red Dragon and the Pastors (2020) (0)
Embraced by the Church? Betty Eadie, Near-Death Experiences, and Mormonism (1996) (0)
Retrenchment and Mainstreaming (2018) (0)
Escaping China (2020) (0)
Darby and the Origins of the Plymouth Brethren (2018) (0)
Religious persecution and refugees (2020) (0)
A Pope of Their Own: El Palmar de Troya and the Palmarian Church by Magnus Lundberg (review) (2019) (0)
Around Huysmans, 1870–1891 (2016) (0)
Something Peculiar about France (2008) (0)
Satan the Musician: Black Metal and Satanism (2016) (0)
The Great Satanism Scare, 1980–1994 (2016) (0)
The Vale do Amanhecer : Healing and spiritualism in a globalized Brazilian new religious movement (2013) (0)
Jehovah's Witnesses (2007) (0)
Living in The Church of Almighty God (2020) (0)
Shouldn’t evil cults that worship satan be illegal? (2019) (0)
Keeping the Faith: Thai Buddhism at the Crossroads (2005) (0)
Review: A Pope of Their Own: El Palmar de Troya and the Palmarian Church by Magnus Lundberg (2019) (0)
Tra New Age e Next age : le origini del Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA) (2000) (0)
Holy Mountains and Anti-Cult Ecology (2004) (0)
Fidus (1868–1948): A German Artist from Theosophy to Nazism (2017) (0)
Some Conclusions (2020) (0)
Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism, by Ruben van Luijk (2018) (0)
New Religious Movements in Western Europe: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, No. 41) (1999) (0)
Review: Joseph’s Temple: The Dynamic Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism by Michael W. Homer (2015) (0)
Pope Benedict XVI and Religious Liberty. Separating Fact from Fiction / Massimo Introvigne. (2012) (0)
China’s Struggle against the Xie Jiao (2020) (0)
From the 20th to the 21st Century, 1994–2016 (2016) (0)
The Beast and the Prophet (2012) (0)
Index of Groups and Organizations (2016) (0)
Lithuanian Occulture and the Pyramid of Merkinė: Innovation or Continuity? (2015) (0)
Sweden: Satan the Highway Robber (2016) (0)
Report of the Personal Representatives of the OSCE Chair-in-Office on tolerance and non-discrimination issues,Rabbi Andrew Baker, Dr. Massimo Introvigne and Ambassador Adil Akhmetov on the country visit to Ukraine, October 24-27, 2011 (2012) (0)
England: Satan the Member of Parliament (2016) (0)
Review: Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramović (2018) (0)
Esoteric Art Strikes Back (2019) (0)
New Religious Movements in North America (2021) (0)
Killing the Competition (2021) (0)
A chapter in the life of Eileen Barker: The American Psychological Association, brainwashing controversies and the Great Cult Apologist Conspiracy (2003) (0)
Scientology Studies 2.0, Utopia or Opportunity? (2021) (0)
Review: La Grande Blavatsky by Francesca Serra (2017) (0)
France: Satan in the Courtroom (2016) (0)
Report of the Personal Representatives of the OSCE Chair-in-Office on tolerance and non-discrimination issues, Rabbi Andrew Baker, Dr. Massimo Introvigne and Ambassador Adil Akhmetov on the country visit to the Holy See, May 6, 2011 (2011) (0)
Jo Jeongsan in Context: “Second Founders” in New Religious Movements (2021) (0)
Reginald W. Machell (1854–1927): Blavatsky’s Child, British Symbolist, American Artist (2014) (0)
Reginald W. Machell (1854-1927): The Travels of a Theosophical Artist from England to the United States (2014) (0)
Satan the Freemason: The Mystification of Léo Taxil, 1891–1897 (2016) (0)
Italy: Satan the Friar (2016) (0)
An Epidemic of Anti-Satanism, 1821–1870 (2016) (0)
Raven and the Time of Divisions (2018) (0)
Review: Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity: Seeing and Believing by Jill M. Krebs (2017) (0)
The Fact of Religious Conversion (2010) (0)
The Suicide of Ms. Liu and Other Chinese Persecution Stories (2020) (0)
Joel E.Dimsdale: Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing, from Pavlov to Social Media, New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2021; pp. Xiii + 244. (2022) (0)
Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society. Ethnographies of Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania, edited by Milda Ališauskienė and Ingo W. Schröder. Ashgate, 2012. 212 pp., 5 b&w illustrations. £50, ISBN 9781409409120. (2012) (0)
Fake News (2020) (0)
Painting the masters in Britain (2017) (0)
Futurism and Theosophy: Giacomo Balla and His Circle (2022) (0)

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