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200 00$aScientology$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by James R. Lewis
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2009
215   $a1 online resource (461 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I. Introductory Essays; 1. Birth of a Religion; 2. The Cultural Context of Scientology; 3. Researching Scientology: Perceptions, Premises, Promises, and Problematics; Part II. Theoretical and Quantitative Approaches; 4. Making Sense of Scientology: Prophetic, Contractual Religion; 5. Scientology and Self-Narrativity: Theology and Soteriology as Resource and Strategy; 6. The Growth of Scientology and the Stark Model of Religious "Success,"; Part III. Community and Practices; 7. Community in Scientology and among Scientologists
327   $a8. How Should We Regard the Religious Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology?9. The Development and Reality of Auditing; Part IV. Sources and Comparative Approaches; 10. Scientology as Technological Buddhism; 11. Scientology, a "New Age" Religion?; 12. Scientology: "Modern Religion" or "Religion of Modernity"?; Part V. Controversy; 13. The Nature of the New Religious Movements-Anticult "Culture War" in Microcosm: The Church of Scientology versus the Cult Awareness Network; 14. Scientology in Court: A Look at Some Major Cases from Various Nations
327   $a15. The Church of Scientology in France: Legal and Activist Counterattacks in the "War on Sectes,""Part VI. International Missions; 16. Scientology Missions International (SMI): An Immutable Model of Technological Missionary Activity; 17. The Church of Scientology in Sweden; 18. Scientology Down Under; Part VII. Dimensions of Scientology; 19. "His name was Xenu. He used renegades . . .": Aspects of Scientology's Founding Myth; 20. Celebrity, the Popular Media, and Scientology: Making Familiar the Unfamiliar; 21. Sources for the Study of Scientology: Presentations and Reflections
327   $aPart VIII. Appendix22. Pastoral Care and September 11: Scientology's Nontraditional Religious Contribution; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
330   $aScientology is arguably the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religious Movements. The Church of Scientology has been involved in battles over tax issues, a ten-year conflict with the Food and Drug Administration, extended turmoil with a number of European governments, and has even been subjected to FBI raids in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.   Negative publicity, however, has not prevented the Church from experiencing remarkably steady growth. Official national census figures indicate that the number of Scientologists grew significantly in Canada, New Zealand, and Aus
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