The church of scientology [electronic resource] : a history of a new religion / Hugh B. Urban.
Urban, Hugh B.
2011
BP605.S2 U73 2011eb
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Title The church of scientology [electronic resource] : a history of a new religion / Hugh B. Urban.
Author Urban, Hugh B.
ISBN 9781400839438 (electronic book)
9780691146089
069114608X
Imprint Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 268 p.) : ill.
Call Number BP605.S2 U73 2011eb
Summary Scientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century. To its detractors, L. Ron Hubbard's space-age mysticism is a moneymaking scam and sinister brainwashing cult. But to its adherents, it is humanity's brightest hope. Few religious movements have been subject to public scrutiny like Scientology, yet much of what is written about the church is sensationalist and inaccurate. Here for the first time is the story of Scientology's protracted and turbulent journey to recognition as a religion in the postwar American landscape.
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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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
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Appendix. A timeline of major events in Scientology's complex journey to becoming a "religion."

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