Introvigne Massimo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4970533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Introvigne Massimo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Introvigne |
| FAMILY NAME | Massimo |
| SIGNATURE | MASSIMO I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Salesian Pontifical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1336-1409 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran
The Revelation Spiritual Home: The Revival of African Indigenous Spirituality
Every Picture Tells a Story: The New York Unicorn Tapestries and Daesoon Jinrihoe’s Simudo Paintings
Both the late 15th-century Unicorn Tapestries now at the Cloisters Museum in New York and Daesoon Jinrihoe’s Simudo Paintings present a religious narrative through the symbol of the search for an animal that is then subdued. This is now the prevailing scholarly interpretation of the New York Unicorn Tapestries, with the unicorn representing Jesus Christ, although a concurrent reading alluding to human love cannot be excluded. The article examines…
Jo Jeongsan in Context: “Second Founders” in New Religious Movements
Scholars of new religious movements have emphasized the role of “second founders,” such as Judge J.F. Rutherford for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Brigham Young for the Mormons, or Deguchi Onisaburo for Oomoto. They systematize and structure movements often created by the “first founders” with a minimal organization only. The paper argues that the model for the sequence first founder/second founder described by these scholars is the relationship betwe…
Daesoon Jinrihoe
Weixin Shengjiao
Retrenchment and Mainstreaming
This final chapter presents a case study of Brethren IV, known today as the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC). It starts with a discussion of the legal case before the British Charity Commission, which lasted from 2006 to 2014, and finally led to the recognition of the PBCC as a bona fide religious body. The case is analysed in the context of controversies surrounding in various countries the PBCC and its schools. Some Christians accuse t…
Jehovah's Witnesses
Rodney Stark and Laurence Iannaccone (1997) noted that, despite their millions of members, until recently Jehovah's Witnesses failed to attract the attention of most sociologists of religion (Beckford 1975 is one of the rare book‐length studies). The difficult access to their international archives was a factor, together with a general underevaluation of non‐mainline Christian groups by certain sociologists. In the 1990s and 2000s, however, the s…
Satanism
While organized Satanism includes quite small groups, social scientists have studied Satanism mostly as the subject matter of juvenile deviance and social panics. Satanism may be defined as the adoration of the figure known in the Bible as the Devil or Satan. Its first incarnation was in the circle operating at the Versailles court of Louis XIV (1638–1715) around Catherine La Voisin (ca. 1640–80) and the defrocked Catholic priest Father Guibourg …
New Age
Although “New Age” is now a household term throughout the world, its precise definition remains elusive. Sociologists have insisted that, although it is often referred to as the “New Age movement,” it is not really a social movement but a network. Disparate “alternative” groups started networking together in the 1960s and met in common festivals, meetings, and conferences under the general label of “New Age,” and the common concept that a new, be…
Cults, Religion, and Violence
This explores the question of when and why violence by and against new religious cults erupts and whether and how such dramatic conflicts can be foreseen, managed and averted. The authors, leading international experts on religious movements and violent behavior, focus on the four major episodes of cult violence during the last decade: the tragic conflagration that engulfed the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; the deadly sarin gas attack by the A…
The Pragmatics of Defining Religion: Contexts, Concepts and Contests
This volume promotes a pragmatic, anti-essentialist and anti-hegemonic approach to the problem of the definition of religion. It argues that definitions of religion are context-bound strategies for pursuing a variety of purposes, extra-academic as well as academic. Religions being immensely varied, complex and multi-functional phenomena, they need to be studied by several academic disciplines from many different perspectives. It is, therefore, le…
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The Pragmatics of Defining Religion: Contexts, Concepts and Contests
This volume promotes a pragmatic, anti-essentialist and anti-hegemonic approach to the problem of the definition of religion. It argues that definitions of religion are context-bound strategies for pursuing a variety of purposes, extra-academic as well as academic. Religions being immensely varied, complex and multi-functional phenomena, they need to be studied by several academic disciplines from many different perspectives. It is, therefore, le…
Cults, Religion, and Violence
This explores the question of when and why violence by and against new religious cults erupts and whether and how such dramatic conflicts can be foreseen, managed and averted. The authors, leading international experts on religious movements and violent behavior, focus on the four major episodes of cult violence during the last decade: the tragic conflagration that engulfed the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; the deadly sarin gas attack by the A…
Jehovah's Witnesses
Rodney Stark and Laurence Iannaccone (1997) noted that, despite their millions of members, until recently Jehovah's Witnesses failed to attract the attention of most sociologists of religion (Beckford 1975 is one of the rare book‐length studies). The difficult access to their international archives was a factor, together with a general underevaluation of non‐mainline Christian groups by certain sociologists. In the 1990s and 2000s, however, the s…
Satanism
While organized Satanism includes quite small groups, social scientists have studied Satanism mostly as the subject matter of juvenile deviance and social panics. Satanism may be defined as the adoration of the figure known in the Bible as the Devil or Satan. Its first incarnation was in the circle operating at the Versailles court of Louis XIV (1638–1715) around Catherine La Voisin (ca. 1640–80) and the defrocked Catholic priest Father Guibourg …
New Age
Although “New Age” is now a household term throughout the world, its precise definition remains elusive. Sociologists have insisted that, although it is often referred to as the “New Age movement,” it is not really a social movement but a network. Disparate “alternative” groups started networking together in the 1960s and met in common festivals, meetings, and conferences under the general label of “New Age,” and the common concept that a new, be…
Retrenchment and Mainstreaming
This final chapter presents a case study of Brethren IV, known today as the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC). It starts with a discussion of the legal case before the British Charity Commission, which lasted from 2006 to 2014, and finally led to the recognition of the PBCC as a bona fide religious body. The case is analysed in the context of controversies surrounding in various countries the PBCC and its schools. Some Christians accuse t…
Daesoon Jinrihoe
Weixin Shengjiao
Jo Jeongsan in Context: “Second Founders” in New Religious Movements
Scholars of new religious movements have emphasized the role of “second founders,” such as Judge J.F. Rutherford for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Brigham Young for the Mormons, or Deguchi Onisaburo for Oomoto. They systematize and structure movements often created by the “first founders” with a minimal organization only. The paper argues that the model for the sequence first founder/second founder described by these scholars is the relationship betwe…
Every Picture Tells a Story: The New York Unicorn Tapestries and Daesoon Jinrihoe’s Simudo Paintings
Both the late 15th-century Unicorn Tapestries now at the Cloisters Museum in New York and Daesoon Jinrihoe’s Simudo Paintings present a religious narrative through the symbol of the search for an animal that is then subdued. This is now the prevailing scholarly interpretation of the New York Unicorn Tapestries, with the unicorn representing Jesus Christ, although a concurrent reading alluding to human love cannot be excluded. The article examines…
The Revelation Spiritual Home: The Revival of African Indigenous Spirituality
Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran
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