Nathalie Luca

Nathalie Luca (born 1966) is a French researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), an anthropologist and a sociologist of religions. She is chargé of research at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Religious Facts of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.

She was a member of the Mission interministérielle de vigilance et de lutte contre les dérives sectaires (MIVILUDES) until November 2005. She resigned on the ground that she refused to participate in a predictable hardening of policy of this organization.

As a sociologist of religion, she studied a Korean movement, the Church of the Providence.

She wrote many books on cults and is regularly interviewed in the media, and by anti-cult organizations on this issue. She said she is not in favour of the establishment of a list of cults.