Scientology / 
edited by James R. Lewis. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  c2009. 
 - xiv, 446 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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 --  ReÌgis Dericquebourg --  Gail M. Harley and John Kieffer --  Frank K. Flinn --  Andreas GruÌnschloss --  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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195331493 0195331494 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008026684 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Scientology.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BP605.S2  / S29 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>299/.936