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Scientology / edited by James R. Lewis.

Contributor(s): Lewis, James R
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, England ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xiv, 446 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780195331493 (alk. paper); 0195331494 (alk. paper)Subject(s): ScientologyDDC classification: 299/.936 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / James R. Lewis -- Birth of a religion / J. Gordon Melton -- The cultural context of Scientology / William Sims Bainbridge -- Researching Scientology : perceptions, premises, promises, and problematics / Douglas E. Cowan -- Making sense of Scientology : prophetic, contractual religion / David G. Bromley -- Scientology and self-narrativity : theology and soteriology as resource and strategy / Dorthe Refslund Christensen -- The growth of Scientology and the stark model of religious "success" / James R. Lewis -- Community in Scientology and among Scientologists / Peter B. Andersen and Rie Wellendorf -- How should we regard the religious ceremonies of the Church of Scientology? / Régis Dericquebourg -- The development and reality of auditing / Gail M. Harley and John Kieffer -- Scientology as technological Buddhism / Frank K. Flinn -- Scientology, a "new age" religion? / Andrews Grünschloß -- Scientology : "modern religion" or "religion of modernity"? / Gerald Willms --
The nature of the new religious movements - anticult "culture war" in microcosm : the Church of Scientology versus the cult awareness network / Anson Shupe -- Scientology in court : a look at some major cases from various nations / James T. Richardson -- The Church of Scientology in France : legal and activist counterattacks in the "war on Sectes" / Susan J. Palmer -- Scientology Missions International (SMI) : an immutable model of technological missionary activity / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard -- The Church of Scientology in Sweden / Henrik Bogdan -- Scientology down under / Adam Possamai and Alphia Possamai-Inesedy -- "His name was Xenu. he used renegades..." : aspects of Scientology's founding myth / Mikael Rothstein -- Celebrity, the popular media, and Scientology : making familiar the unfamiliar / Carole M. Cusack -- Sources for the study of Scientology : presentations and reflections / Dorthe Refslund Christensen -- Pastoral care and September 11 : Scientology's nontraditional religious contribution / Carole M. Cusack and Justine Digance.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BP605 .S2 S25 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903201081

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / James R. Lewis -- Birth of a religion / J. Gordon Melton -- The cultural context of Scientology / William Sims Bainbridge -- Researching Scientology : perceptions, premises, promises, and problematics / Douglas E. Cowan -- Making sense of Scientology : prophetic, contractual religion / David G. Bromley -- Scientology and self-narrativity : theology and soteriology as resource and strategy / Dorthe Refslund Christensen -- The growth of Scientology and the stark model of religious "success" / James R. Lewis -- Community in Scientology and among Scientologists / Peter B. Andersen and Rie Wellendorf -- How should we regard the religious ceremonies of the Church of Scientology? / Régis Dericquebourg -- The development and reality of auditing / Gail M. Harley and John Kieffer -- Scientology as technological Buddhism / Frank K. Flinn -- Scientology, a "new age" religion? / Andrews Grünschloß -- Scientology : "modern religion" or "religion of modernity"? / Gerald Willms --

The nature of the new religious movements - anticult "culture war" in microcosm : the Church of Scientology versus the cult awareness network / Anson Shupe -- Scientology in court : a look at some major cases from various nations / James T. Richardson -- The Church of Scientology in France : legal and activist counterattacks in the "war on Sectes" / Susan J. Palmer -- Scientology Missions International (SMI) : an immutable model of technological missionary activity / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard -- The Church of Scientology in Sweden / Henrik Bogdan -- Scientology down under / Adam Possamai and Alphia Possamai-Inesedy -- "His name was Xenu. he used renegades..." : aspects of Scientology's founding myth / Mikael Rothstein -- Celebrity, the popular media, and Scientology : making familiar the unfamiliar / Carole M. Cusack -- Sources for the study of Scientology : presentations and reflections / Dorthe Refslund Christensen -- Pastoral care and September 11 : Scientology's nontraditional religious contribution / Carole M. Cusack and Justine Digance.

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