ScientologyOxford University Press, 11 במרץ 2009 - 464 עמודים Scientology is arguably the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religious Movements. James R. Lewis has assembled an unusually comprehensive anthology, incorporating a wide range of different approaches. In this book, a group of well-known scholars of New Religious Movements offers an extensive and evenhanded overview and analysis of all of these aspects of Scientology, including the controversies to which it continues to give rise. |
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Part I Introductory Essays | 15 |
Part II Theoretical and Quantitative Approaches | 81 |
Part III Community and Practices | 141 |
Part IV Sources and Comparative Approaches | 207 |
Part V Controversy | 267 |
Part VI International Missions | 323 |
Part VII Dimensions of Scientology | 363 |
Part VIII Appendix | 433 |
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