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Contributors | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Introductory Essays | |
Birth of a Religion | p. 17 |
The Cultural Context of Scientology | p. 35 |
Researching Scientology: Perceptions, Premises, Promises, and Problematics | p. 53 |
Theoretical and Quantitative Approaches | |
Making Sense of Scientology: Prophetic, Contractual Religion | p. 83 |
Scientology and Self-Narrativity: Theology and Soteriology as Resource and Strategy | p. 103 |
The Growth of Scientology and the Stark Model of Religious "Success," | p. 117 |
Community and Practices | |
Community in Scientology and among Scientologists | p. 143 |
How Should We Regard the Religious Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology? | p. 165 |
The Development and Reality of Auditing | p. 183 |
Sources and Comparative Approaches | |
Scientology as Technological Buddhism | p. 209 |
Scientology, a "New Age" Religion? | p. 225 |
Scientology: "Modern Religion" or "Religion of Modernity"? | p. 245 |
Controversy | |
The Nature of the New Religious Movements-Anticult "Culture War" in Microcosm: The Church of Scientology versus the Cult Awareness Network | p. 269 |
Scientology in Court: A Look at Some Major Cases from Various Nations | p. 283 |
The Church of Scientology in France: Legal and Activist Counterattacks in the "War on Sectes," | p. 295 |
International Missions | |
Scientology Missions International (SMI): An Immutable Model of Technological Missionary Activity | p. 325 |
The Church of Scientology in Sweden | p. 335 |
Scientology Down Under | p. 345 |
Dimensions of Scientology | |
"His name was Xenu. He used renegades...": Aspects of Scientology's Founding Myth | p. 365 |
Celebrity, the Popular Media, and Scientology: Making Familiar the Unfamiliar | p. 389 |
Sources for the Study of Scientology: Presentations and Reflections | p. 411 |
Appendix | |
Pastoral Care and September 11: Scientology's Nontraditional Religious Contribution | p. 435 |
Index | p. 439 |
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