Handbook of Scientology / / edited by James R. Lewis, Kjersti Hellesøy.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Brill,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (620 pages) |
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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.