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| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 446 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2009]
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| ISBN: | 9780195331493 (alk. paper) 0195331494 (alk. paper) |
Table of Contents:
- Birth of a religion / J. Gordon Melton
- The cultural context of Scientology / William Sims Bainbridge
- Researching Scientology : perceptions, premises, promises, and problematics / Douglas E. Cowan
- Making sense of Scientology : prophetic, contractual religion / David G. Bromley
- Scientology and self-narrativity : theology and soteriology as resource and strategy / Dorthe Refslund Christensen
- The growth of Scientology and the Stark model of religious "success" / James R. Lewis
- Community in Scientology and among Scientologists / Peter B. Andersen and Rie Wellendorf
- How should we regard the religious ceremonies of the Church of Scientology? / Régis Dericquebourg
- The development and reality of auditing / Gail M. Harley and John Kieffer
- Scientology as technological Buddhism / Frank K. Flinn
- Scientology, a "new age" religion? / Andreas Grünschloss
- Scientology : "modern religion" or "religion of modernity"? / Gerald Willms
- The nature of the new religious movements--anticult "culture war" in microcosm : the Church of Scientology versus the Cult Awareness Network / Anson Shupe
- Scientology in court : a look at some major cases from various nations / James T. Richardson
- The Church of Scientology in France : legal and activist counterattacks in the "War on Sectes" / Susan J. Palmer
- Scientology Missions International (SMI) : an immutable model of technological missionary activity / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard
- The Church of Scientology in Sweden / Henrik Bogdan
- Scientology down under / Adam Possamai and Alphia Possamai-Inesedy
- "His name was Xenu. He used renegades--" : aspects of Scientology's founding myth / Mikael Rothstein
- Celebrity, the popular media, and Scientology : making familiar the unfamiliar / Carole M. Cusack
- Sources for the study of Scientology : presentations and reflections / Dorthe Refslund Christensen
- Pastoral care and September 11 : Scientology's nontraditional religious contribution / Carole M. Cusack and Justine Digance.