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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill handbooks on contemporary religion ; v. 14.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 592 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004330542
  • 9004330542
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Handbook of Scientology.DDC classification:
  • 299/.936 23
LOC classification:
  • BP605.S2 H35 2017
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
Handbook of Scientology; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chronology of Major Events in the History and Development of Dianetics and Scientology; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART 1: Introductory Essays; 1 Researching Scientology and Scientologists in the United States: Methods and Conclusions; 2 Rethinking Scientology: An Analysis of L. Ron Hubbard's Formulation of Therapy and Religion in Dianetics and Scientology, 1950-1986; 3 Images of Religions and Religious History in the Works of L. Ron Hubbard.
4 Not an Extraordinary Group: Scientologists in Hungary and Germany-Comparative Survey Data5 The Relative Success of the Church of Scientology: A Discussion; PART 2: Scientology and Marketplace Religion; 6 Scientology as 'Corporate Religion'; 7 The Price of Freedom: Scientology and Neoliberalism; PART 3: Controversy; 8 Deconstructing the Scientology 'Monster' of Popular Imagination; 9 The Anderson Inquiry and its Australian Aftermath 1963-1973; 10 'Secrets, secrets, SECRETS!' Concealment, Surveillance, and Information-Control in the Church of Scientology.
11 Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Scientology and ConspiracismPART 4: Media Treatments; 12 News Media, the Internet and the Church of Scientology; 13 "LRH4ALL!": The Negotiation of Information in the Church of Scientology and the Open Source Scientology Movement; 14 Scientology in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012); 15 The Going Clear Documentary: A Matter of Framing; PART 5: Sex and Gender; 16 The Cult of Geeks: Religion, Gender and Scientology; 17 Sexuality in Three Ex-Scientology Narratives; PART 6: Disaffiliation and Schisms.
18 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 Attitudes19 Scientology Schismatics; 20 The Dror Center Schism, The Cook Letter and Scientology's Legitimation Crisis; 21 "Squirrels" and Unauthorized Uses of Scientology: Werner Erhard and est, Ken Dyers and Kenja, and Harvey Jackins and Re-Evaluation Counselling; PART 7: lrh and His Legacy.
22 Space, Place and Religious Hardware: L. Ron Hubbard's Charismatic Authority in the Church of Scientology23 Astounding History: L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology Space Opera; 24 The Citizens Commission on Human Rights and Scientology's War against Psychiatry; Index.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1456055

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2017).

Handbook of Scientology; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chronology of Major Events in the History and Development of Dianetics and Scientology; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART 1: Introductory Essays; 1 Researching Scientology and Scientologists in the United States: Methods and Conclusions; 2 Rethinking Scientology: An Analysis of L. Ron Hubbard's Formulation of Therapy and Religion in Dianetics and Scientology, 1950-1986; 3 Images of Religions and Religious History in the Works of L. Ron Hubbard.

4 Not an Extraordinary Group: Scientologists in Hungary and Germany-Comparative Survey Data5 The Relative Success of the Church of Scientology: A Discussion; PART 2: Scientology and Marketplace Religion; 6 Scientology as 'Corporate Religion'; 7 The Price of Freedom: Scientology and Neoliberalism; PART 3: Controversy; 8 Deconstructing the Scientology 'Monster' of Popular Imagination; 9 The Anderson Inquiry and its Australian Aftermath 1963-1973; 10 'Secrets, secrets, SECRETS!' Concealment, Surveillance, and Information-Control in the Church of Scientology.

11 Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Scientology and ConspiracismPART 4: Media Treatments; 12 News Media, the Internet and the Church of Scientology; 13 "LRH4ALL!": The Negotiation of Information in the Church of Scientology and the Open Source Scientology Movement; 14 Scientology in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012); 15 The Going Clear Documentary: A Matter of Framing; PART 5: Sex and Gender; 16 The Cult of Geeks: Religion, Gender and Scientology; 17 Sexuality in Three Ex-Scientology Narratives; PART 6: Disaffiliation and Schisms.

18 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 Attitudes19 Scientology Schismatics; 20 The Dror Center Schism, The Cook Letter and Scientology's Legitimation Crisis; 21 "Squirrels" and Unauthorized Uses of Scientology: Werner Erhard and est, Ken Dyers and Kenja, and Harvey Jackins and Re-Evaluation Counselling; PART 7: lrh and His Legacy.

22 Space, Place and Religious Hardware: L. Ron Hubbard's Charismatic Authority in the Church of Scientology23 Astounding History: L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology Space Opera; 24 The Citizens Commission on Human Rights and Scientology's War against Psychiatry; Index.