Massimo Introvigne

MASSIMO INTROVIGNE (born in 1955 in Rome, Italy) is a Roman Catholic sociologist of religion. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), a scholarly organisation that studies New Religious Movements (NRMs). He has written extensively on religion, including Mormonism. A list of his publications can be found at his web-site: http://www.cesnur.org/testi/introvigne_biblio.htm. A lawyer by profession, Introvigne works as a consultant on intellectual property rights.

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Letters to the Editor

Non-Traditional Christianity | Daniel C. Peterson and Stephen D. Ricks, Offenders for a Word: How Anti-Mormons Play Word Games to Attack the Latter-day Saints

Although Hugh Nibley has often argued that there is no such a thing as a Mormon theology (theology being intrinsically incompatible with continuous revelation), a number of Nibley’s followers have produced what in any other…

The Devil Makers: Contemporary Evangelical Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism

Embraced by the Church? Betty Eadie, Near-Death Experiences, and Mormonism

In 1975 psychiatrist Raymond A. Moody introduced the expression “near-death experience” (NDE) in his bestselling book Life After Life. By 1988 more than 3 million copies of the book had been sold (not including foreign…

“An American Enterprise”: An Interview with Massimo Introvigne

Ronan: How did you become interested in New Religious Movements?

Massimo: I am from a Roman Catholic background but started being interested in other religions at a very early age. I think it was by reading novels from authors like Emilio Salgari who talked about the Middle East and Far East. He wrote a couple of Western novels, but most were in Hindu or Muslim settings. Also Kipling. Of course, I now realize that neither of these authors can be taken as good guides about the real East; but at the age of about seven or eight, I didn’t understand that they were not reliable sources.