Danièle Hervieu-Léger (born 3 February 1947) is a French sociologist specialized in the sociology of religion.
[1] As president of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) from March 2004 to March 2009, she undertook significant changes in the institution, particularly lowering the level of students before admission to the Master to abandon school diploma for the benefit of aligning the university system of LMD.
She has also initiated a relocation of the school outside Paris, in Seine-Saint-Denis, to integrate it into a new academic center for education, now called "Campus Condorcet", whose composition is constantly changing.
[1] In 2002 Hervieu-Léger received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
[4] She wrote a number of books and articles, notably on the Catholic Church[5][6] and on cults.