Screen LibraryScientology /
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2009] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=1bf0782840ed47aeba781a3481a6d65b |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv, 446 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199715954 |
| Index Number: | BP605 |
| CLC: | B989.3 |
| Contents: |
Birth of a religion / cultural context of Scientology / Researching Scientology : perceptions, premises, promises, and problematics / Making sense of Scientology : prophetic, contractual religion / Scientology and self-narrativity : theology and soteriology as resource and strategy / growth of Scientology and the Stark model of religious "success" / Community in Scientology and among Scientologists / How should we regard the religious ceremonies of the Church of Scientology? / development and reality of auditing / Scientology as technological Buddhism / Scientology, a "new age" religion? / Scientology : "modern religion" or "religion of modernity"? / nature of the new religious movements-anticult "culture war" in microcosm : the Church of Scientology versus the cult awareness network / Scientology in court : a look at some major cases from various nations / church of Scientology in France : legal and activist counterattacks in the "War on Sectes" / Scientology missions international (SMI) : an immutable model of technological missionary activity / Church of Scientology in Sweden / Scientology down under / "His name was Xenu. He used renegades ..." : aspects of Scientology's founding myth / Celebrity, the popular media, and Scientology : making familiar the unfamiliar / Sources for the study of Scientology : presentations and reflections / Pastoral care and September 11 : Scientology' |