- Paul Schnabel
Paul Schnabel (born
17 July 1948 ,Bergen op Zoom ) is a Dutch sociologist andas of 2006 the director of an agency of the Dutch government calledSociaal en Cultureel Planbureau ("Social and Cultural Planning Office"), usually abbreviated as "SCP" (or "SCPB"). cite web | url=http://www.oecd.org/speaker/0,3438,en_21571361_31938349_38463975_1_1_1_1,00.html|title=Paul Schnabel|publisher=OECD ]Schnabel grew up in
Breda . He studied sociology in Utrecht. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 for his dissertation onnew religious movement s andmental health .Apart from his work for the SCP he has other appointments in several institutions in Dutch society such as the Netherlands Institute for Art History RKD, and the Scientific Council for Government Policy. He is a columnist to the Dutch newspapers "NRC-Handelsblad" and "Het Financieele Dagblad" . As of 2008, he is also the chairperson of the committee that selected the 1,000 texts deemed as "key" of the the Dutch and Flemish cultural history for the
Digital library for Dutch literature . [Somers, Maartje "Van abel spel tot Achterhuis: De basisbibliotheek - het Nederlands erfgoed in duizend sleutelteksten" inNRC Handelsblad 4 April 2008 section 'Boeken', page 10] .In 2006 he was listed in
De Volkskrant in the top ten of the most influential persons in the Netherlands.References
*Delft, Dirk van "Snelle generalist" in the
NRC Handelsblad 29 July 2006 (Dutch language)elected bibliography
* "Tussen stigma en charisma: nieuwe religieuze bewegingen en geestelijke volksgezondheid"/"Between stigma and charisma: new religious movements and mental health"
Erasmus university Rotterdam, Faculty of Medicine, Ph.D. thesis, ISBN 90-6001-746-3 (Deventer, Van Loghum Slaterus, 1982) [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/schn016tuss01_01/index.htm available on the internet]
* "De weerbarstige geestesziekte: naar een nieuwe sociologie van de geestelijke gezondheidszorg", 1995, SUN (with Derksen, Jan)ee also
*
List of cult and new religious movement researchers External links
* [http://scp.nl/mensen/ps.shtml Webpage on the website of the Social and Cultural Planning Bureau]
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