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The Church of Scientology : a history of a new religion /
"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 movem...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire :
Princeton University Press,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The world's most controversial new religion and why no one writes about it
- L. Ron Hubbard : American entrepreneur, spiritual bricoleur
- Scientology, Inc. : becoming a "religion" in the 1950s
- A Cold War religion : Scientology, secrecy, and security in the 1950s and 60s
- 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
- New religions, freedom, and privacy in the post-9/11 world
- Appendix. A timeline of major events in Scientology's complex journey to becoming a "religion."