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Jean-François Mayer

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Jean-Francois Mayer
Born25 April 1957
Fribourg, Switzerland
Website
mayer.info

Jean-Francois Mayer (born 25 April 1957 in Fribourg, Switzerland) is a Swiss religious historian, translator, and Director of the Institute Religioscope. His writing focuses on religion and new religious movements, the Unification Church, the Church of Scientology, the Order of the Solar Temple and the Pilgrims of Arès. He has also published works about aliens and links between religion and the Internet.

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Life and career

He has a doctorate degree in History at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 (1984).[1] From 1991 to 1998, he worked as an analyst on international affairs and policy for the Swiss federal government.[2][3]: 197  In 1999, he founded a firm of strategic researches named JFM Recherches et Analyses, and taught at the University of Freiburg from 1999 to 2007.[2] In 2007, Mayer founded the Institute Religioscope and became the director.[4]

Works

Mayer's writing focuses on religion and new religious movements, including Islam,[4] the Unification Church, the Church of Scientology, the Order of the Solar Temple and the Pilgrims of Arès. He has also published works about aliens and links between religion and the Internet.[5][6][7][8]

Mayer's book Les mythes du Temple Solaire, about the Order of the Solar Temple, was positively reviewed by sociologist Françoise Champion [fr], who called it a "valuable work" and praised Mayer's understanding of the people involved. In the book, Mayer regularly quoted the OTS's own writings, arguing that ignoring what he views as inseperable from the decline of the OTS would lessen understanding.[9] Mayer personally participated in the investigation of the OTS, being consulted by the Swiss police,[9][3]: 197, 203  after he was mailed the group's suicide note by its leaders.[10]

Mayer had studied the organization prior, and published the only academic writing on the OTS before the violence occurred, Templars for the Age of Aquarius: The Archedia Clubs (1984–1991) and the International Chivalric Order of the Solar Tradition,[11]: 3–4  published in the French newsletter Mouvements Religieux in January 1993.[11]: 7  Mayer had personally attended OTS meanings as far back as 1987.[3]: 203  Mayer's later article on the OTS, Our Terrestrial Journey is Coming to an End, was analyzed by Jean E. Rosenfeld writing for Nova Religio, who praised Mayer's scholarship as "admirably restrained",[3]: 197 and concurred with Mayer on applying Colin Campbell's "cultic mileau" concept to the OTS.[3]: 201 

Selected bibliography

This is a partial list of Mayer's works:[12]

  • La Nouvelle Église de Lausanne et le mouvement swedenborgien en Suisse romande des origines à 1948, Zürich, Swedenborg Verlag, 1984. ISBN 3-85927-402-3
  • Sectes nouvelles. Un regard neuf ; preface by Émile Poulat, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 1985. ISBN 978-2204024587
  • Les sectes. Non-conformismes chrétiens et nouvelles religions, 2nd edition, Paris, Éditions du Cerf/Saint Laurent (Québec), Fides, 1988. ISBN 9782204028110
  • L'Évêque Bugnion ou les Voyages extraordinaires d'un aventurier ecclésiastique vaudois, Lausanne, Éditions 24 heures, 1989. ISBN 2826510630
  • Les mythes du Temple solaire, Genève. Georg, 1996. ISBN 978-2-8257-0554-4
  • Confessions d'un chasseur de sectes, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 1990. ISBN 2-204-04060-6
  • Les fondamentalismes, Genève, Georg, 2001. ISBN 2825707678
  • La naissance des nouvelles religions, with Reender Kranenborg, Georg Editeur, Geneva, 2004, ISBN 2-8257-0877-1
  • Internet et religion, Gollion, Infolio, 2008 ISBN 978-2884740968

References

  1. ^ "Biography - Jean-François Mayer". Jean-François Mayer (in French). Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Jean-François Mayer" (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d e Rosenfeld, Jean E. (1 April 1999). "Response to Mayer's "Our Terrestrial Journey is Coming to an End"". Nova Religio. 2 (2): 197–207. doi:10.1525/nr.1999.2.2.197. ISSN 1092-6690.
  4. ^ a b de Pommereau, Isabelle (30 November 2009). "Swiss minaret ban reflects European fear of Islam". The Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  5. ^ Miserez, Marc-André (30 December 2009). "Dieu a-t-il aussi créé E.T.?" [Has God also created E.T.?] (in French). SWI swissinfo. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  6. ^ "Les sectes en Suisse à l'heure d'Internet" [Cults in Switzerland in the age of the Internet]. SWI swissinfo (in Swiss French). 22 July 2001. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  7. ^ Eichenberger, Isabelle (7 January 2012). "2012: la fin du monde ou le salut?" [2012: the end of the world or the salvation?]. SWI swissinfo (in Swiss French). Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  8. ^ Langfitt, Frank (15 May 2004). "Church dispute spills onto Internet". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  9. ^ a b Champion, Françoise (1997). "Les Mythes du Temple Solaire" [The Myths of the Solar Temple]. Archives de sciences sociales des religions (in French). 43 (98). School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences: 91–92. Retrieved 8 October 2023 – via Persée.
  10. ^ Palmer, Susan J. (October 1996). "Purity and Danger in the Solar Temple". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 11 (3): 303. doi:10.1080/13537909608580777. ISSN 1353-7903.
  11. ^ a b Lewis, James R., ed. (2006). The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death. Controversial New Religions. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-7546-5285-4. OCLC 1027650107.
  12. ^ "Jean-Francois Mayer, Liste des publications" [Jean-Francois Mayer, List of publications]. Jean-Francois Mayer (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2010.
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