Coralie Buxant is a PhD student
finishing her thesis in psychology of religion
on the motives of religious conversions (Center
for Psychology of Religion, Catholic University
of Louvain, Belgium). She conducted studies on
cults/new religious movements and mental health
within the framework of an interdisciplinary
(psychology and law) research project on
contested religious movements, a project funded
by the Belgian Federal Science Policy and
including, among others, empirical studies on
members’ psychology (predispositions, effects of
belonging, effects of exit, social perceptions).
Among several publications that resulted from
this project, we should note a book: Saroglou,
V., Christians, L.-L., Buxant, C., & Casalfiore,
S. (2005). Mouvements religieux
contestés: Psychologie, droit et politiques de
précaution. Gent: Academia Press, an
English summary of which can be found at
http://www.belspo.be/belspo/home/publ/pub_ostc/SoCoh/rSO10071_en.pdf
