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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The Cultural Context of Scientology | |
Perceptions Premises Promises | |
Prophetic Contractual Religion | |
Theology and Soteriology | |
The Growth of Scientology and the Stark Model of Religious | |
Community in Scientology and among Scientologists | |
Modern Religion or Religion of Modernity? | |
The Nature of the New Religious MovementsAnticult Culture | |
A Look at Some Major Cases from Various | |
Legal and Activist | |
An Immutable Model | |
Scientology Down Under | |
Aspects | |
Making Familiar | |
How Should We Regard the Religious Ceremonies of the Church | |
The Development and Reality of Auditing | |
Scientology as Technological Buddhism | |
Scientology a New Age Religion? | |
Presentations | |
Scientologys Nontraditional | |
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