Association for the Study and Information on Religious Movements

The Association d'étude et d'information sur les mouvements religieux (AEIMR) is a French non-profit organization dedicated to the scientific study and public information about religious and spiritual minorities that are commonly described as 'sects'. According to its official presentation, the association's purpose is to examine these groups in a scientific spirit — without partisanship and without propaganda — while not concealing the objectively observed problems that some of them cause, and to inform the public about them in the same spirit. The AEIMR is based at 3 Rue Jacques Roth in Sarreguemines, in the Moselle department of eastern France. Its president, as listed on its official page, is Monsieur Bernard Blandre. The association has published the monthly bulletin Mouvements Religieux since 1980, making it one of the longer-running French-language periodicals devoted to the study of new religious movements and minority spiritual groups. Beyond its bulletin, the AEIMR maintains a documentation centre that is accessible by appointment to researchers, journalists and social workers, and it gives lectures on request. It also offers a range of publications, including books, bibliographies, book reviews and articles, and it sells books and cahiers as well as subscriptions to Mouvements Religieux in both paper and online formats, and to a related publication, Dynamique des Religions (DdR). The association operates in France and addresses a French-speaking readership of academics, professionals and interested members of the public. It is a small, specialized organization rather than a commercial enterprise, and its work sits at the intersection of religious studies, social work and public information about controversial or minority religious groups.

The Association d'étude et d'information sur les mouvements religieux (AEIMR) is a French association whose stated object is to study religious and spiritual minorities commonly called 'sects' in a scientific spirit, without partisanship or propaganda, while not hiding the objectively observed problems that some of them cause, and to inform the public about them in the same spirit. Its principal ongoing activity has been the publication of the monthly bulletin Mouvements Religieux, which it has issued since 1980. Over the years the association has built a documentation centre, accessible by appointment to researchers, journalists and social workers, and has given lectures on request. It has also produced and distributed a range of publications — books, bibliographies, book reviews and articles — and has offered subscriptions to Mouvements Religieux in both paper and online formats as well as to a related title, Dynamique des Religions (DdR). The association is based at 3 Rue Jacques Roth in Sarreguemines, in the Moselle department of France, and its listed president is Bernard Blandre. The available evidence does not record a precise founding year, founders, membership figures or formal legal status beyond its identification as an association.

• 1980

  The association begins publishing the monthly bulletin Mouvements Religieux.

A non-partisan, non-proselytizing French association providing scientific study and information about religious and spiritual minorities commonly labelled 'sects'.

• Mouvements Religieux

  Monthly bulletin published by the AEIMR since 1980, available in paper and online subscription formats.

• Dynamique des Religions (DdR)

  A related publication to which the association offers subscriptions.

• Books and cahiers

  Books and cahiers on religious movements that the association sells and for which it provides bibliographies and book reviews.

1. 1AEIMRinterassociation.org
2. 2Wikidata Q2867414wikidata.org