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Author Urban, Hugh B., author.
Title The Church of Scientology : a history of a new religion / Hugh B. Urban.
Publisher Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Copyright date ©2011



Descript 1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents 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."
Note English.
ISBN 9781400839438 (electronic bk.)
1400839432 (electronic bk.)
9780691146089
069114608X
9780691158051 (pbk.)
0691158053 (pbk.)
1283168995
9781283168991
9786613168993
6613168998
Standard no. 40019764213
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Author Urban, Hugh B., author.
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject Scientology -- History.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents 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."
Note English.
ISBN 9781400839438 (electronic bk.)
1400839432 (electronic bk.)
9780691146089
069114608X
9780691158051 (pbk.)
0691158053 (pbk.)
1283168995
9781283168991
9786613168993
6613168998
Standard no. 40019764213
Author Urban, Hugh B., author.
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject Scientology -- History.

Subject Scientology -- History.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents 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."
Note English.
ISBN 9781400839438 (electronic bk.)
1400839432 (electronic bk.)
9780691146089
069114608X
9780691158051 (pbk.)
0691158053 (pbk.)
1283168995
9781283168991
9786613168993
6613168998
Standard no. 40019764213

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