The church of scientology : a history of a new religion /
Urban, Hugh B.
The church of scientology : a history of a new religion / Hugh B. Urban. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011. - x, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257] - 264) and index.
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."
9780691146089 (hardcover : alk. paper) 069114608X (hardcover : alk. paper)
2011018694
015820779 Uk
Scientology--History.
BP605.S2 / U73 2011
299/.93609
The church of scientology : a history of a new religion / Hugh B. Urban. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011. - x, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257] - 264) and index.
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."
9780691146089 (hardcover : alk. paper) 069114608X (hardcover : alk. paper)
2011018694
015820779 Uk
Scientology--History.
BP605.S2 / U73 2011
299/.93609