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French sociologist
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1967
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Biography
Introduction
Raphaël Liogier is a French sociologist. He is the director of the Observatoire du religieux and a professor at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence and the Institut de management public et de gouvernance territoriale.
He co-authored several articles on the theme of religion.
Liogier wrote his thesis on Buddhism under the direction of Bruno Étienne, a professor at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, and has among other things published a book on secularism in 2006. He works particularly on the issues related to Islam and cults and wrote many articles on religious topics including Pentecostalism, Catholicism and Soka Gakkai. He also criticizes the work made by MIVILUDES.
Bibliography by Liogier
- Une laïcité "légitime", la France et ses religions d'État, Médicis Entrelas, March 2006
- Être bouddhiste en France aujourd'hui (with Bruno Étienne), Paris, Hachette, 2004
- Géopolitique du christianisme (with Blandine Chelini-Pont), Ellipses, 2003
- Le Bouddhisme mondialisé, Ellipses, 2003