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Website: www.jorgeerdely.com

Jorge Erdely, Ph.D., is Associate Editor of Revista Académica para el Estudio de las Religiones, a pluralistic, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on religious globalization and human rights . He is the author of several published scientific papers and twelve books on extreme religious groups, theology, and human rights. Among them, the international best-seller: Pastores que Abusan, Suicidios Colectivos Rituales and The New Jihad: Myths and States of Denial. Dr. Erdely is an Oxford Theological Foundation Fellow. He is a member of the Asociación Latinoamericana para el Estudio de las Religiones, the regional affiliate of the International Association for the History of Religion (IAHR). He currently focuses his research on the interrelation between globalization, contemporary religious pluralism, and human rights in Latin America (www.revistaacademica.com). His most recent books are Votos de Castidad (First Author, Random House,2005.) and La Explotacion de la Fe (Ediciones B, 2008).

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