MASSIMO INTROVIGNE

Massimo Introvigne, a law and philosophy graduate, is the managing director of CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, in Torino, Italy, and the executive secretary of APSoR, the Piedmont Association for Sociology of Religions. He is the author or editor of some sixty books in Italian on religious pluralism; some of these have been translated into French, German, and English, including the award-winning Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy, now in its third edition (2012).