2009
Glamorous Jewishness: Reflections on the Kabbalah Centre and Anti-Semitism, European Society or European Societies?, European Sociological Association, Lisbon (Portugal), 2nd-5th September 2009.
Laïcité is a laïcité does. Rethinking the French cult controversy, The Challenges of Religious Pluralism, International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 27rd-31st July 2009.
The Kabbalah Centre and European Judaism. An Anglo-French comparison, The Israeli Conference for the study of Contemporary spiritualities, University of Haifa, Haifa (Israel), 29th March 2009.
Yoga and Kabbalah as World Religions? A comparative perspective on Globalisation of Religion Sociology of Contemporary Jewish Mysticism research group, Institute for Advance Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel), February 24th 2009.
On the sociological use of the concept of laïcité, Religion in modernity discussion group, Queen’s University Belfast, January 27th 2009.
2008
Rethinking the French Cult Controversy and Laïcité, Trinity College French Society, Cambridge, November 18th.
A globalisação da Cabalá judaica. Comparação entre Reino-Unido, França, e Brasil. (The globalisation of Kabbalah. Comparison between the United Kingdom, France, and Brazil). Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 10 september 2008.
Updating the study of the French cult controversy, Twenty Years and More: Research into Minority Religions, New Religious Movements and ‘the New Spirituality’, INFORM, London, April 16th-19th.
Du Néo-Hindouisme à la Kabbale juive, ou comment des religions dites ethniques deviennent globales (From neo-Hinduism to Jewish Kabbalah: how so-called ethnic religions are becoming global), Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris), February 21st 2008.
2007
Anti-semitism in France: an overview and interpretation, Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society, European Sociological Association, Glasgow (United Kingdom), 3rd-6th September 2007.
A research project in the globalisation of NRMs: The universalisation of Jewish Kabbalah, Secularity and Religious Vitality, International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Leipzig (Germany), 23rd-27th July 2007.
(with J. Beckford), ‘Cult controversies’ in France: continuity and change, Secularity and Religious Vitality, International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Leipzig (Germany), 23rd-27th July 2007.
2006
Indian Gurus and their Western disciples: the diffusion of two neo-Hindu movements in Britain and France, Research Network on European History Panel, session on “The reception of the East, Religious History of Europe and Asia, European Association for the Study of Religion, Bucharest (Romania), 20th-23rd September 2006.
The mobilisation of “Anti Anti-cult movements”: A turning point in the French cult controversy? Intersections: History meets the Sociology of religion… Again, Association for the Sociology of Religion, Montréal (Canada), 10th -12th August 2006.
Indian Gurus and their Western disciples. Spalding Symposium on Indian religions, Oxford, March 31st -April 2nd 2006.
Les mouvements néo-hindous, des thérapies de substitution en Occident ? (Neo-Hindu movements in the West : substitutive therapies?), CIC, University of Geneva, (Switzerland), February 17th 2006.
Gurus in the West. A case-study in the Globalisation and Religion, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, February 9th 2006.
2005
Review of James T. Richardson, Regulating Religion : Case Studies from Around the World, International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Zagreb (Croatia), July 18th-22nd 2005.
Neo-Hinduism in the West between Religion and Psychology. The Innerworldly Reinterpretation of a Religious Path, Recherche Epistémologiques et Historiques sur les Sciences Exactes et les Institutions Scientifiques, University Paris 7, Paris, February 15th 2005.
Stratégies innovatrices et adaptatives du Siddha Yoga et des Centres Sivananda au « marché religieux » occidental (innovationist and adaptive strategies to the western “religious market” of Siddha Yoga and Sivananda Centres), Observatoire Suisse des Religions, University of Lausanne, April 14th -15th 2005.
2004
La globalisation de pratiques et de valeurs se référant à l’hindouisme : Une « orientalisation » de l’Occident ou un processus d’homogénéisation du religieux ? (The globalisation of practices and values referring to Hinduism: An “easternization” of the West or the homogeneization of religion?), Laboratoire d’Etudes Sociologiques des Transformations et Acculturations des Milieux Populaires, Nantes, December 2nd, 2004.
Les mouvements néo-hindous en Occident : Dialectique de l’affirmation identitaire et de la vocation universelle (Neo-Hindu movement in the West: Dialectic of identity affirmation and universalistic vocation), Association des Jeunes Etudes Indiennes, University of Rouen, November 18th, 2004.
2003
Neo-Hinduism in France and in the United-Kingdom : A Comparative Perspective. Local Adaptation and the Systems for Legally Recognising Voluntary Associations, Association for the Sociology of Religion, Atlanta, August 15th-17th 2003.
La diffusion de mouvements néo-hindous en France et en Angleterre (The diffusion of neo-Hindu movements in the West), MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, December 12th, 2003.
Sociologie des nouveaux mouvements religieux d’origine asiatique, hier et aujourd’hui (Sociology of Asian-based NRMs, past and present), International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Turin, July 21st-25 th 2003.
2002
Les Centres de Yoga Sivananda et leurs disciples : modalités de diffusion et d’appropriation du yoga en Europe (Sivananda Yoga Centres and their disciples: diffusion and practice of yoga in Europe), University of Lausanne, October 4th -5th 2002.
2001
On reconnaît l’arbre à ses fruits, Les sectes et l’Etat en France, histoire du délit de manipulation mentale, International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Ixtapan de la Sal (Mexico), August 20th -24th 2001.
Cults and State in France, a Misdemeanour of Mental Manipulation ? Association for the Sociology of Religion, Anaheim, August 17th-19th 2001.Diffusion and Implantation Processes of Siddha Yoga and Sukyo Mahikari into the West, with Frédérique Louveau, INFORM, London, April 19th-22nd 2001.
2000
Neo-Hindu movements in Europe : “Practical Religions”. Data from Interviews at the Sivananda Centre and Siddha Yoga, Association for the Sociology of Religion, Washington, August 10th-13th 2000.
Les mouvements néo-hindous en Occident (Neo-Hindu movements in the West), Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française, University of Laval, Quebec, July 3rd-7th 2000.
L’implantation du néo-hindouisme en Occident (The Diffusion of neo-Hinduism in the West), Association Française de Sciences sociales des Religions, Paris, February 8th, 2000.
Neo-Hinduism in France and the U.K.: Comparative Study about the Practices and Beliefs Referring to Hinduism, Postgraduate conference, British Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion study group, Bristol, January 28th-29th 2000.
1999
Spécificités des différents modes de diffusion des pratiques se référant à l’hindouisme en Occident : structure et organisation » (Characteristics of diffusion of practices referring to Hinduism in the West: structure and organisation), International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Louvain (Belgium), July 26th -30th 1999.
