Nathalie Luca

Nathalie Luca (born 1966) is a French research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), an anthropologist and a sociologist of religions. She is deputy director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Religious Facts at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and co-editor-in-chief of the French review Archives de sciences sociales des religions with Pierre Lassave.

She was a member of the French government agency monitoring and combatting cultic deviances MIVILUDES 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 anti-cult 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.
• Les sectes, Que sais-je ?, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2004. New edition : 2011.[1]
• "Sectes, Églises et nouveaux mouvements religieux", in L'enseignement du fait religieux, 5, 6 and 7 November 2002.
• Individus et pouvoirs face aux sectes, Armand Colin, coll. « Sociétales », 2008.
• Quelles régulations pour les nouveaux mouvements religieux et les dérives sectaires dans l’Union européenne ?, PU Aix-Marseille, coll. « Droit et religions », 2011.

External links

• Presentation of Nathalie Luca, on the Centre d'études interdisciplinaires des faits religieux site