Philippe Barbey

Philippe Barbey (born in 1960) is a French writer, historian, religion and secularism researcher and sociologist, with an interest in the academic study of new religious movements.

Education
Barbey graduated in 2001, and earned a Master 2 in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, and from 2008 he holds a PhD in social sciences from Paris Descartes University with the thesis Max Weber et les charismes spécifiques: la mondialisation d'un christianisme de conversion, un charisme d'évangélisation?: une étude de cas, les Témoins de Jéhovah under the tutelage of Michel Maffesoli.

Academic work
Barbey is member of the Association Française de Sciences sociales des Religions (AFSR) and member of the Groupe d'étude des sociologies compréhensives et phénoménologiques (GESCOP) of the Centre d'Etude sur l'Actuel et le Quotidien (CEAQ).