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. He is the author or editor of some seventy books on new religious movements, Western esotericism, and religious pluralism in English, Italian, French, and other languages, including The Plymouth Brethren (2018) and Inside The Church of Almighty God: The Most Persecuted Religious Movement in China (2020), both published by Oxford University Press, and the monumental Satanism: A Social History, published by Brill in 2016. In 2011, he served as the representative of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) for combating racism, xenophobia, and intolerance and discrimination against Christians and members of other religions. From 2012 to 2015, he was the chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2018, he is the editor-in-chief of the daily magazine on religious liberty in China and other countries Bitter Winter.

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