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New age / new religious movement / cesnur CESNUR is a center for studies on new religions, based in Turin, Italy. According to their website, the CESNUR is devoted to promote scholarly research in the field of new religious consciousness, and are dedicated to exposing the problems associated with some movements, while defending the principles of religious liberty. CESNUR rebuts these criticisms by saying that most of the information supplied by anti-cult activists are mainly theoretical and anecdoctal, mostly based on second-hand accounts by families of members, press-clippings, and accounts of ex-members who rationalize their past. www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/cesnur.htm   (672 words)

CESNUR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The CESNUR is non-profit public entity, registered in the region of Piedmont, Italy. CESNUR has been criticized by the Christian countercult movement and cult-watching organizations, and some former members of purported cults. While no director of CESNUR International (as far as I know) is a member of Opus Dei or of Freemasonry, one of the directors, J. Gordon Melton, is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, and I am a member of Alleanza Cattolica. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CESNUR   (888 words)

CESNUR - What you should know about the Center for Studies on New Religions CESNUR describes itself as "an international network of associations of scholars working in the field of new religious movements." It has gained a reputation for being mostly uncritical and, in fact, supportive of movements considered to be cults by secular anticult- and/or Christian countercult professionals. CESNUR actively opposes legislation against "cults," on the grounds that a) an unpopular minority group might be falsely accused of something CESNUR claims does not exist (see CESNUR and Brainwashing, addressed later in this article), and b) any legislation would make a mockery out of the concept of religious liberty. CESNUR's implication is that a) this is the only information anticult- and countercult professionals rely on, and b) that this information can not be trusted - which is indeed the general view of cult apologists with regard to apostates. www.apologeticsindex.org /c10.html   (1867 words)

WorldWide Religious News CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, is an international network of associations of scholars working in the field of new religious movements. CESNUR is independent from any religious group, Church, denomination or association. CESNUR International's library - the second largest in the world and the largest in Europe in its field - is open to the public in Torino Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. www.wwrn.org /weblink.htm   (955 words)

The CESNUR Case CESNUR calls itself an "international network of scholars who study new religious movements" and claims to be "independent from any religious group, movement, denomination or association". Introvigne forgets to mention that Ferraresi also happens to be a well-known militant of Alleanza Cattolica (where his field is to provide ideological justification for private property, especially in large quantities, from a point of view which he calls "free market right wing", based on the ideas of the British author Colin Clark). CESNUR is especially virulent - as we can see in other articles on this website - against the testimony of former members of "cults", in certain cases even deliberately lying in order to discredit them. www.kelebekler.com /cesnur/txt/ces2.htm   (2819 words)

CESNUR and Massimo Introvigne exposed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) CESNUR is the alter-ego of cult apologist Massimo Introvigne who is actually an attorney specialized on intellectual property at Jacobacci and Partners, Turin. On 10.7.1998, I discovered that CESNUR had illegally made a copy of my web page (I removed my version at the end of 2000), i.e. On 6.8.1998, I learned that CESNUR had illegally made a copy of Mickael Tussier's page, which he and a friend had constructed by OCRing and HTMLizing a french government report. home.snafu.de /tilman/prolinks/cesnur.and.massimo.introvigne.html   (359 words)

Caodai overseas missionary (http://www.caodai.net) CESNUR - or the Centre for the Study of New Religious Movements is a scholarly-based organisation that operates from its headquarters in Italy. Massimo Introvigne, the president of the organisation noted in his opening address that although each annual conference of CESNUR was either hosted in Europe or North America, he was very happy to welcome delegates from as far away as Australia. I think it also shows that in the two years that Sergei and I have been attending the CESNUR conferences, a great deal was able to be achieved in terms of encouraging scholars around the world to learn and understand more about the Caodaist faith. www.caodai.net /English/Htm/Manifests_in_Riga.htm   (1031 words)

CESNUR (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) It was established in 1988 by a group of religious scholars from leading universities in Europe and the Americas, working in the field of new religious movements. They say they are devoted to promote scholarly research in the field of new religious consciousnes, and are dedicated to exposing the problems associated with some movements, while defending the principles of religious liberty. CESNUR has been criticized by the Christian countercult movement and the anti-cult movement including some former members of purported cults. cesnur.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888   (371 words)

Disreputable forces at work among the sect researchers at CESNUR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Reender Kranenborg, congress chairman and member of the board of directors which is allied with CESNUR, took the floor and asserted that he had never before heard of New Acropolis. Last year CESNUR released a collection of articles entitled Pour en finir avec les sectes - in which the authors accounted more for the ideas of the sects than with the sects themselves. It is difficult to believe, then, that Introvigne, the CESNUR director, knew nothing of her sect membership. www.rickross.com /reference/apologist/apologist16.html   (1868 words)

Why J. Gordon Melton is considered a cult apologist - Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects This Methodist minister (ordained elder in the United Methodist Church) is seen by many Christian and secular apologists and counter-cult professionals as a cult apologist. Not coincidentally, Melton is founder and chairman of ISAR (Institute for the Study of American Religion), and is a CESNUR boardmember (chaiman of CESNUR USA). Melton is founder and director of the Institute of American Religion (Santa Barbara, California), and chairman of CESNUR USA. www.xs4all.nl /~ahein/m06.html   (2438 words)

Lies and libels of CESNUR fascist Massimo Introvigne exposed Lies and libels of CESNUR fascist Massimo Introvigne exposed CESNUR uses public funds for a study labelling all its critics as "extreme terrorists" What makes this document peculiar is the fact that these allegations were made in what purports to be an "academic paper," on "Anti-Cult Terrorism via the Internet", presented on August 5, 1999, at the annual conference of the Association for Sociology of Religion (ASR) in Chicago, by Italian lawyer Massimo Introvigne. www.skeptictank.org /gen3/gen02087.htm   (466 words)

Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - CESNUR threatens Christian Ministry CESNUR is seen by many Christian and secular anti-cult and counter-cult workers as an organization of cult apologists. According to its official website CESNUR defends sects against charges of "the brainwashing or mind control model of conversion" since "In the 1990s it became apparent that inaccurate information was being disseminated to the media and the public powers by activists associated with the international anti-cult movement." (http://www.cesnur.org/whatisit.htm This morning I received a Certified Letter from a Salt Lake City, Utah, law firm representing CESNUR (the Center for the Studies of New Religions) accusing me of publishing "misrepresentations" concerning CESNUR's September 10-12 conference in an article I wrote in the October-December issue of COMMENTS FROM THE FRIENDS. www.xs4all.nl /~ahein/j03.html   (920 words)

Apologism At a 2002 CESNUR conference Geaves presented a paper on Elan Vital, neglecting to addend to the paper, either at the Conference or to its eventual Internet publication, the fact of Geaves' personal perspective on Prem Rawat. Academic cult apologism has attracted criticism because of the lack of demonstrable disinterest on the part of 'researchers'; recent revelations regarding Gordon J. Melton (www.rickross.com/apologist.html#Gordon_Melton) illustrate the scale of the problem. Melton is frequently referenced by other apologist writers and is a regular at CESNUR conferences, and is with Introvigne and Eileen Barker of the UK based INFORM, a co founder of CESNUR. www.prem-rawat-maharaji.info /index.php?id=41   (394 words)

Another Pope Dies: Clemente Dominguez of Palmar de Troya, 1946-2005 CESNUR - Centro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni diretto da Massimo Introvigne CESNUR reproduces or quotes documents from the media and different sources on a number of religious issues. Unless otherwise indicated, the opinions expressed are those of the document's author(s), not of CESNUR or its directors. www.cesnur.org /2005/gregory.htm   (1283 words)

topwhite1.gif CESNUR's Massimo Introvigne is bothered by the professional fees that I charge to law firms when I write statements in their cases. This scholarship has argued (according to Introvigne himself) that Scientology "is also, but not exclusively a religion" (CESNUR, 2000), which is correct, and a reasonable interpretation of extensive evidence. Introvigne realized that I have said consistently that Scientology "is not exclusively a religion" (CESNUR, 2000) but he fears that the statement makes "a fine distinction lost to the audiences and courts that received Kent's previous wisdom." Just so this distinction is not lost, let me state my position again. www.arts.ualberta.ca /~skent/Linkedfiles/massimo_court.htm   (2885 words)

Bartholomew's notes on religion Il CESNUR (Centro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni), nel 2002, elenca le sette sataniche in Italia specificando il numero di adepti: Bambini di Satana (50 adepti); Chiesa di Satana — razionalista (20 adepti); Chiesa di Satana — occultista (20 adepti); Gruppi minori (20 adepti). Sempre il Cesnur parla inoltre di 5.000 adepti nel mondo e stima che il maggior numero di aderenti si trovi negli Usa, seguiti da quelli di Spagna e Scandinavia. These statistics are hardly surprising or shocking (and by the way: the fact that not one hack who has covered this story bothered to contact CESNUR is pretty shabby). blogs.salon.com /0003494/2005/01/10.html   (734 words)

Amitrani, Alberto & Di Marzio, Raffaella: "Min Control in New Religious Movements and the American ... In the early 1980s, some U.S. mental health professionals became controversial figures for their involvement as expert witnesses in court cases against new religious movements, during which they presented their anti-cult theories of brainwashing, mind control, or "coercive persuasion" as if they were generally accepted concepts within the scientific community. According to CESNUR, the diffusion of the documents of the APA controversy had been vetoed by the lawyers of those accused by Margaret Singer of having engaged in a criminal conspiracy against her, including APA officers and several scholars. CESNUR acknowledges that it was our article that allowed it to prevail upon these lawyers and to post on CESNUR’s Web site most of the documents, including the DIMPAC report and two annexes to the 1987 APA Memorandum, which had never been published before. www.csj.org /infoserv_articles/amitrani_alberto_apaandmindcontrol.htm   (5974 words)

Massimo Introvigne, CESNUR's founder (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) One of the strangest episodes in the history of CESNUR involved Massimo Introvigne as co-founder of the secretive "Lodge of Thebes", a very small group of political and magical extremists who for a short period tried to unite the quarrelsome world of French occultists. CESNUR as usual threatened to sue the critics who had put the information out on the Net, apparently for having let the grassroots know too much. Most CESNUR supporters outside Italy are probably unaware that CESNUR here is constantly organizing lectures and seminars in Catholic institutions of every kind, teaching the "theologically correct" viewpoint on "new religious movements." To do so, CESNUR describes itself as a Catholic organization, under the patronage of a bishop. www.kelebekler.com.cob-web.org:8888 /cesnur/eng.htm   (4794 words)

Massimo Introvigne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia June 14, 1955 in Rome) is a social scientist and the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. During his studies and while holding several teaching positions in the field of sociology and history of religions in a number of Italian universities, Introvigne started collecting books on minority religions and esoteric-gnostic schools in the 1970s. Introvigne labelled Martinez as an "apostate" and Martinez strongly disagrees with Introvigne's description of apostates, including Introvigne's claim that their hostility is due, not to their former group, but to contact with the anti-cult movement. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Massimo_Introvigne   (1220 words)

SSPX Cult: Italian Police Include SSPX in their List of Cults in Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Other researchers have cast doubt upon the credibility of CESNUR, as the Director of CESNUR, Dr. Massimo Introvigne, is believed to have connections with the Catholic group Tradition, Family and Property (TFP). Dr Massimo Introvigne of CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions in Turin, Italy, says that the Italian police report is more scholarly than those filed with the French and Belgian parliaments. Introvigne, the Italian Police really did their homework, and while he can't comment on some of the "anonymous" intelligence sources they used, he says that the sources that are named in the report are quite reliable. www.sspx-schism.com /ItalianCultsReport.htm   (449 words)

Religious cults and sects - Consumer Alert: What You Should Know About CESNUR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) See also "CESNUR Threathens Christian Ministry." An article from Ex ZJ Infolink, Infoservice of the Network of Former Jehova's Witnesses in Germany, November, 1998. CESNUR - The Center for Studies on New Religions. CESNUR has recently tried to censor the site which carries that article. www.apologeticsindex.org /c10a07.html   (625 words)

German Scientology News in Bonn, Germany Introvigne is director of the Center for the Study of New Religions (CESNUR) in Turin,Meltonis Director for the Institute for the Study of American Religions (ISAR) in Santa Barbara. CESNUR copied Hausherr's text without mentioning it to him and put the document on its own web site. CESNUR also addresses reports from governments and parliaments which pertain to sects ("cult reports"). www.lermanet.com /cisar/survey/oa.htm   (10159 words)

New Religions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Psychologists debate to what extent mind-control or "coercive persuasion" are practiced or possible, while sociologist and other scholars are interested in the debate itself and its effect on polarizing the academic community. CESNUR cosponsors with ISAR of Syzygy: Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture, "an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of New Religious Movements." Tables of contents are available online at The institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara is a religious studies research facility focusing on the smaller religions of North America, also engaged in international research in conjunction with CESNUR. rand.pratt.edu /~giannini/newreligions.html   (4836 words)

Universal Soul :: Bibliography CESNUR'S XII International Conference, Turin, Italy, September 10th, 1998. Massimo Introvigne (Director of CESNUR) presented a paper on Universal Soul during a congress. CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions, directed by prof. www.animauniversale.it /en/biblio.php   (281 words)

UK Indymedia | CULTS AND FASCISM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Leading the way in cult apologism is an organisation called CESNUR and its director Massimo Introvigne, if anyone on the Left has doubts about the importance of the cult question to the Right, those doubts will be seriously challenged by a reading of CESNUR diatribes and the political beliefs of Massimo Introvigne. In the face of Macgregor refusing to be bowed by Elan Vital and the media attention that inevitably followed on the heels of Macgregor being legally gagged, Elan Vital has become increasing desperate in its communications with the outside world. How far the Elan Vital cult is on the road to violent response is anyone's guess, although thirty years ago US journalist Pat Halley was beaten half to death and left permanently disabled in an attack by two individuals, one of whom was then very close to the cult's leader Prem Rawat. www.indymedia.org.uk /en/regions/london/2004/04/288744.html   (591 words)

Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - CESNUR Explains Why Jehovah's Witnesses Did Not ... CESNUR objects to the public availability of this letter, and has requested CMR's publisher to remove it from this web site by the end of business, Wednesday, December 23, 1998. However, attorneys consulted by CMR's publisher state that reproduction of this letter is legal under US and Dutch laws. This transclusion is part of CMR's report on the dispute between CESNUR www.apologeticsindex.org /j04.html   (357 words)

Deja.com: Brainwashing CESNUR (by way of David e Fiorenza ) CESNUR has just being attacked on the Web by GRIS, the Italian counter-cult Catholic organization, on brainwashing. Although GRIS includes some fine and nice persons and we have always avoided any directattack, now we are more or less accused of lying about the American Psychological Association's position, and legitimate defense suggested to reply. digilander.libero.it /alessiaguidi/cesnur/attacco.htm   (187 words)

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