Contributor
Lewis, James R.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Descriptionxiv, 446 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note: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? / Andreas 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
Note:nontraditional religious contribution / Carole M. Cusack and Justine Digance.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
