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.

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

Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 4

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

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 1

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

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 3

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

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 1