TY  - BOOK
AU  - Urban,Hugh B.
TI  - The church of scientology: a history of a new religion 
SN  - 9780691146089 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - BP605.S2 U73 2011
U1  - 299/.93609 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Scientology
KW  - History
N1  - 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."
ER  -