“Christmas, Get Out of China!” So said banners paraded in the streets in so-called “spontaneous” demonstrations, denouncing Christmas as foreign to both Socialism and traditional Chinese culture. Of course, in China there is no such a thing as a spontaneous street protest. All these events are authorized and planned by the CCP—or the protesters would […]
Author Archives: Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, established by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.
