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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Urban, Hugh B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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." 
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