With more than 4,000 world religions, making sense of other religions – their differences and similarities – has been intricately studied as a topic on both an academic and spiritual level in the United States and Canada.
In France, however, some types of religious organizations have been viewed as taboo. Unlike North America, little study has been done on (what some view as) alternative groups and religions.
Instead, according to Dr. Susan J. Palmer, professor of New Religion at Dawson College in Montreal, they are seen as criminal, “mafia-like” groups, and just to be associated with these groups can create a negative social stigma.
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