The Max Heindel (1865-1919) and the Rosicrucian Fellowship examples.


Par régis Dericquebourg

Speech at the conference : Changing Gods. Between Religion and Everyday Life. An International Conference organized by CESNUR, Italian Association of Sociology (AIS) – Sociology of Religions Section, and the School of Political Science – University of Torino. Torino, Italy, 9-11 September 2010. Session 18. Università di Torino – Facoltà di Scienze Politiche – Via G. Plana 10. Chair : Christopher Hartney.


I have devoted part of my research to religious therapy, circumscribing within the religious field a domain which I typified and called “Healing Churches”.

The first religions in my sample, Invitation to life and Christian Science, are Christian. The others are not: Antoinism stems from spiritism, Universal Alliance from Georges Roux’s followers and Scientology’s doctrines seem to belong to esotericism.

For this reason, my interest in spiritual therapy was oriented towards esotericism, in order to assess the case of therapy and psyche within this “form of thought”. Of course, esotericism is not a healing religion since it is not a religion.



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