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María del Mar Ramos-Lorente , Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of the Department of Sociology at the University of Granada, Spain. She received a Special European Mention for her Ph.D. thesis, “New Religious Movements in Spain: Context and Analysis of the Affiliation and Disaffiliation Process of their Adherents” [“Nuevos Movimientos Religiosos en España: contexto y análisis del proceso de afiliación y desvinculación de sus miembros”]. She has been a visiting research fellow in Germany at the Inst. für Systematische Theology, Arbeitsbereich Religiongeschichte, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Friburgo de Brisgobia and at the Religionsvetenska in the Swedish University, Åbo Akademi University. She has participated in numerous research projects and has approximately thirty publications and numerous conference presentations.

 

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