About the Author

Alejandro Frigerio, Associate Professor of Graduate Studies in the Sociology Department of the Catholic University of Argentina and Associate Researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research, received a Licenciatura en Sociologia from the University of Argentina in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1989.

Currently Associate Editor of the journal Sociedad y Religión, since 1982 Professor Frigerio has published extensively on the topic of religion in scientific journals of Argentina, Brazil and the United States. He has edited four volumes on the scientific study of new religious movements and has co-authored Gimenez, el Pastor: El fenómeno religioso de la década, a book which provides an analysis of the work of Argentina’s most famous Pentecostal pastor.

Professor Frigerio regularly helps to organize the “Conferences on Religious Alternatives in Latinamerica,” which is attended annually by religious scholars from countries throughout Latin America.