Scientology /
edited by James R. Lewis.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- xiv, 446 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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's nontraditional religious contribution / J. Gordon Melton -- William Sims Bainbridge -- Douglas E. Cowan -- David G. Bromley -- Dorthe Refslund Christensen -- James R. Lewis -- Peter B. Andersen and Rie Wellendorf -- Régis Dericquebourg -- Gail M. Harley and John Kieffer -- Frank K. Flinn -- Andreas Grünschloss -- Gerald Willms -- Anson Shupe -- James T. Richardson -- Susan J. Palmer -- Bernadette Rigal-Cellard -- Henrik Bogdan -- Adam Possamai and Alphia Possamai-Inesedy -- Mikael Rothstein -- Carole M. Cusack -- Dorthe Refslund Christensen -- Carole M. Cusack and Justine Digance. The The The The The The