TY - BOOK ID - 138333061 TI - Handbook of Scientology AU - LEWIS, James R. (Ed.) AU - HELLESOY, Kjersti (Ed.) AU - Center for information and advice on harmful sectarian organizations PY - 2017 SN - 9789004328716 9004328718 9789004330542 PB - Leiden Koninklijke Brill NV DB - UniCat KW - Scientology KW - major events in the history and development of Dianetics and Scientology KW - the United States KW - L. Ron Hubbard's formulation of therapy and religion in Dianetics and Scientology, 1950-1986 KW - images of religions and religious history in the works of L. Ron Hubbard KW - Hungary KW - Germany KW - the Church of Scientology KW - Scientology and marketplace religion KW - corporate religion KW - Scientology and Neoliberalism KW - controversy KW - the Anderson Inquiry KW - Australia, 1963-1973 KW - concealment KW - surveillance KW - information-control KW - Scientology and Conspiracism KW - media treatments KW - news media KW - the internet KW - the negotiation of information in the Church of Scientology KW - the Open Source Scientology Movement KW - Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master' KW - the 'Going Clear' documentary KW - sex and gender KW - sexuality KW - post-movement faith KW - disaffiliated Scientologists KW - post-apostatic religious behavior and attitudes KW - Scientology schismatics KW - the Dror Center schism KW - the Cook Letter KW - Scientology's legitimation crisis KW - 'squirrels' KW - unauthorized uses of Scientology KW - Werner Erhard and EST KW - Ken Dyers and Kenja KW - Harvey Jackins and re-evaluation counselling KW - LRH KW - religious hardware KW - L. Ron Hubbard's charismatic authority in the Church of Scientology KW - the Citizens Commission on Human Rights KW - Scientology's war against psychiatry UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138333061 AB - The 'Handbook of Scientology' brings together a collection of fresh studies of the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religions. In recent years, increasing scholarly attention has been directed at the Church of Scientology, resulting in a small tsunami of new scholarship. We have finally reached a point in time where a book on Scientology need not restrict itself to basics. Thus, for example, the historical chapters in the present volume are not really aimed at providing elementary facts on Scientology's background, but, rather, focus on understanding how the Church of Scientology developed over the years. In short, the Handbook of Scientology will provide a wealth of new information on a topic that one might otherwise have thought exhausted. ER -