Urban, Hugh B. <br/><br/>
The church of scientology :  a history of a new religion / 
Hugh B. Urban. 
 - Princeton :  Princeton University Press,  c2011. 
 - x, 268 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [257] - 264) and index. 
<br/><br/>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." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691146089 (hardcover : alk. paper) 069114608X (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011018694 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015820779  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Scientology--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BP605.S2  / U73 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>299/.93609