Raphaël Liogier

[1] He has also been appointed to lecture at the International College of Philosophy (CIPh) in Paris[2] (Academic and Research Institution created by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida to promote new ideas).

[3] Liogier ran the Observatoire du religieux[4] from 2006 to 2014, which is the first European Social Sciences Research Center to have studied both the rise of the new Salafism (new Islamic fundamentalism) among young western Muslims and the rise of new groups of young people using Islam as an anti-social flag in order to justify violent behavior.

In 2015 he had a one-year appointment as visiting professor at the University of Louvain in Belgium in the Academic Chair of Prospective Anthropology (title of the course : « The Evolution of Mankind Narrative in the 21st Century related to the development of Technosciences »).

[9] Liogier wrote his thesis on Buddhism under the direction of Bruno Étienne, a professor at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, and has among other things published a book on secularism in 2006.

He works particularly on the issues related to Islam and cults[10] and wrote many articles on religious topics including Pentecostalism,[11] Catholicism[12] and Soka Gakkai.

He has recently published a book on violence and the evolution of religious and cultural identity in a global world (La guerre des civilisations n'aura pas lieu.

Coexistence and Violence in the 21st Century], 2017; and a book about the necessity to radically transform our social and economic system due to the development of artificial intelligence and the Internet (Sans Emploi.