Handbook of Scientology /

Handbook of Scientology /

The Handbook of Scientology brings together a collection of fresh studies of the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religions. In recent years, increasing scholarly attention has been directed at the Church of Scientology, resulting in a small tsunami of new scholarship. We have...

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Other Authors: Lewis, James R., Hellesøy, Kjersti.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 14.
Brill's Companions to Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy Online I, ISBN: 9789004389434.

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Scientology.

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Call Number: BP605.S2

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • James R. Lewis and Kjersti Hellesøy
  • Introduction /
  • James R. Lewis and Kjersti Hellesøy
  • Researching Scientology and Scientologists in the United States: Methods and Conclusions /
  • Donald A. Westbrook
  • Rethinking Scientology: An Analysis of L. Ron Hubbard's Formulation of Therapy and Religion in Dianetics and Scientology, 1950-1986 /
  • Dorthe Refslund Christensen
  • Images of Religions and Religious History in the Works of L. Ron Hubbard /
  • Marco Frenschkowski
  • Not an Extraordinary Group: Scientologists in Hungary and Germany-Comparative Survey Data /
  • András Máté-Tóth and Gábor Dániel Nagy
  • The Relative Success of the Church of Scientology: A Discussion /
  • Liselotte Frisk
  • Scientology as 'Corporate Religion' /
  • Renee Lockwood
  • The Price of Freedom: Scientology and Neoliberalism /
  • Michelle Swainson
  • Deconstructing the Scientology 'Monster' of Popular Imagination /
  • Erin Prophet
  • The Anderson Inquiry and its Australian Aftermath 1963-1973 /
  • Bernard Doherty
  • 'Secrets, secrets, SECRETS!' Concealment, Surveillance, and Information-Control in the Church of Scientology /
  • Hugh B. Urban
  • Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Scientology and Conspiracism /
  • David G. Robertson
  • News Media, the Internet and the Church of Scientology /
  • Nicole S. Ruskell and James R. Lewis
  • "LRH4ALL!": The Negotiation of Information in the Church of Scientology and the Open Source Scientology Movement /
  • Shannon Trosper Schorey
  • Scientology in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012) /
  • Johanna J.M. Petsche
  • The Going Clear Documentary: A Matter of Framing /
  • Benjamin E. Zeller
  • The Cult of Geeks: Religion, Gender and Scientology /
  • Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen and James R. Lewis
  • Sexuality in Three Ex-Scientology Narratives /
  • Don Jolly
  • Affiliation, Disaffiliation and Its Significance for the Individual's Post-Movement Faith: A Sociological Study of Disaffiliated Scientologists with Emphasis on Their Post-Apostatic Religious Behavior and Attitudes /
  • Elisabeth Tuxen Rubin
  • Scientology Schismatics /
  • Kjersti Hellesøy
  • The Dror Center Schism, The Cook Letter and Scientology's Legitimation Crisis /
  • James R. Lewis
  • "Squirrels" and Unauthorized Uses of Scientology: Werner Erhard and est, Ken Dyers and Kenja, and Harvey Jackins and Re-Evaluation Counselling /
  • Carole M. Cusack
  • Space, Place and Religious Hardware: L. Ron Hubbard's Charismatic Authority in the Church of Scientology /
  • Mikael Rothstein
  • Astounding History: L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology Space Opera /
  • Susan Raine
  • The Citizens Commission on Human Rights and Scientology's War against Psychiatry /
  • Matthew Charet
  • Index /
  • James R. Lewis and Kjersti Hellesøy.