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Danièle Hervieu-Léger is a French sociologist who specializes in the sociology of religion, and her research focuses included the description of sociology and the theoretical interpretation of religion’s modern manifestations, including secularization, individualism of belief, forms of religiosity and of communalization and institutional transformations. Hervieu-Léger was the director of studies at France’s elite School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) from 1993 to 2004; from 2004 to 2009 she served as the president of the school. She had previously been a researcher with the National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) from 1974 to 1993. Hervieu-Léger also served as the editor in chief of the international journal Archives of the Social Sciences and Religion (Archive de Sciences Sociales des Religions) from 1993 to 2004.