Sociological Study of a Pentecostal Assembly Labelled a 'Cult': The Porte Ouverte Chrétienne Case
The CICNS's reading report on the 2004 Willaime and Amiotte-Suchet study of the Mulhouse Pentecostal assembly Mission du Plein Évangile - La Porte Ouverte Chrétienne: how a theological quarrel and some disappointed members were transformed, by the CCMM, the AVIPOC and a national anti-cult climate the sociologists call paranoid, into a full stigmatisation process, with long extracts on the semantic career of the word 'secte'.