Handbook of Scientology / / edited by James R. Lewis, Kjersti Hellesøy.

• TeilnehmendeR: Lewis, James R.; Hellesøy, Kjersti.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (620 pages)

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 finally reached a point in time where a book on Scientology need not restrict itself to basics. Thus, for example, the historical chapters in the present volume are not really aimed at providing elementary facts on Scientology’s background, but, rather, focus on understanding how the Church of Scientology developed over the years. In short, the Handbook of Scientology will provide a wealth of new information on a topic that one might otherwise have thought exhausted.

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.