The church of scientology : a history of a new religion
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| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [257] - 264) and index. |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2011]
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| ISBN: | 9780691146089 (hardcover : alk. paper) 069114608X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Table of Contents:
- The world's most controversial new religion and why no one writes about it
- L. Ron Hubbard : American entrepreneur, spiritual bricoleur
- Scientology, Inc. : becoming a "religion" in the 1950s
- A Cold War religion : Scientology, secrecy, and security in the 1950s and 60s
- The "cult of all cults"? : Scientology and the cult wars of the 1970s and 80s
- "The war" and the triumph of Scientology : becoming a tax-exempt religion in the 1990s
- Secrets, security, and Cyberspace : Scientology's new wars of information on the Internet
- New religions, freedom, and privacy in the post-9/11 world
- Appendix. A timeline of major events in Scientology's complex journey to becoming a "religion."