Nathalie Luca (born 1966) is a French research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), an anthropologist and a sociologist of religions.
She was co-editor-in-chief of the French review Archives de sciences sociales des religions.
[2] She was a member of the French government agency monitoring and combatting cultic deviances MIVILUDES from March 2003 to November 2005.
She resigned on the ground that she refused to participate in a predictable hardening of policy of this organization.
[3] She wrote many books on groups she defined as "cults" and is regularly interviewed in the media,[4][5] and by anti-cult organizations[6] on this issue.