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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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