Dr. Vassilis Saroglou

Dr. Vassilis Saroglou is associate professor of psychology at the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), where he directs the Centre for Psychology of Religion (www.uclouvain.be/psyreli). He is also the coordinator of the European Network for Psychology of Religion (eight university partners) and Associate Editor of the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. He has carried out many research projects on personality and social psychology of religion and authored about fifty scientific publications. For his work, he received an Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association-Division 36 and the Quinquennial Award (Godin Prize) from the International Association for the Psychology of Religion. He is currently vice-president of the International Academy of Religious Sciences. During the last three years he directed (together with Louis-Léon Christians) 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

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