Freedom of Religion or Belief · Spiritual Minorities · Global Advocacy
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An interview with the Lille psycho-sociologist on the church-sect distinction, on why there is no legal definition of a sect and why a pluralist State should not supply one, on the five sociological conditions that lead someone into a minority religious group, and on the turnover that sees followers stay four or five years.
Régis Dericquebourg's 1998 interview with the socialist mayor of Lens: an atheist's case for lending the municipal stadium to a minority the ADFI wanted banned, resting on Guy Mollet and the plain rule of law.
Régis Dericquebourg's CESNUR 2003 Vilnius paper: the 1905 framework, the Vivien and Guyard reports, the About-Picard law, the new mission's contested composition, and what fifteen minority groups expected of the right.
English translation of the CICNS interview with sociologist Régis Dericquebourg on fieldwork among healing churches and France's anti-cult climate.
10 November 2006