Nathalie Luca (born 1966) is a French research director at the

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(CNRS), an

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and a sociologist of religions. She is director of the Center for Studies on Social Sciences of the Religious (CéSor) at the

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(EHESS). She was co-editor-in-chief of the French review ''Archives de sciences sociales des religions''. She was a member of the French

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monitoring and combatting cultic deviances

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from March 2003 to November 2005. She resigned on the ground that she refused to participate in a predictable hardening of policy of this organization. She wrote many books on groups she defined as "cults" and is regularly interviewed in the media, and by

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organizations on this issue. She said she is not in favour of the establishment of a list of cults.

Bibliography

* ''Le salut par le foot - Une ethnologue chez un messie coréen'', Labor et Fides, 1997. * With Frédéric Lenoir, ''Sectes, mensonges et idéaux'', Bayard editions, Paris, 1998. * "Sectes, Églises et nouveaux mouvements religieux", in ''L'enseignement du fait religieux'', 5, 6 and 7 November 2002. * ''Les sectes'',

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, Paris, 2004. Third edition : 201

* "Is There a Unique French Plicy of Cults? A European Perspective, in ''Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe'', James T. Richardson, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York 2004, p. 53-72. * ''Individus et pouvoirs face aux sectes'', Armand Colin, coll. « Sociétales », 2008. * "Les «sectes» : une entrave à la citoyenneté ? Politiques européennes et états-uniennes", in ''Pluralisme religieux et citoyenneté'', Micheline Milot, Philippe Portier,

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, Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2010, p. 123-136. * ''Quelles régulations pour les nouveaux mouvements religieux et les dérives sectaires dans l’Union européenne ?'', PU Aix-Marseille, coll. « Droit et religions », 2011. * ''Y croire et en rêver. Réussir dans le marketing relationnel de multiniveaux'',

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, Paris, coll. « Religions en questions », 2012. * With Jean-Philippe Bouilloud, ''Croyance et persuasion'', Erès éditions, Toulouse, coll. « Nouvelle Revue de Psychosociologie », 16, 2013.

References

External links

Presentation of Nathalie Luca, on the Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux (CéSor) website
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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Luca, Nathalie 1966 births Living people French sociologists French women sociologists French anthropologists French women anthropologists Researchers of new religious movements and cults Sociologists of religion