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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.

Scientology --- major events in the history and development of Dianetics and Scientology --- the United States --- L. Ron Hubbard's formulation of therapy and religion in Dianetics and Scientology, 1950-1986 --- images of religions and religious history in the works of L. Ron Hubbard --- Hungary --- Germany --- the Church of Scientology --- Scientology and marketplace religion --- corporate religion --- Scientology and Neoliberalism --- controversy --- the Anderson Inquiry --- Australia, 1963-1973 --- concealment --- surveillance --- information-control --- Scientology and Conspiracism --- media treatments --- news media --- the internet --- the negotiation of information in the Church of Scientology --- the Open Source Scientology Movement --- Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master' --- the 'Going Clear' documentary --- sex and gender --- sexuality --- post-movement faith --- disaffiliated Scientologists --- post-apostatic religious behavior and attitudes --- Scientology schismatics --- the Dror Center schism --- the Cook Letter --- Scientology's legitimation crisis --- 'squirrels' --- unauthorized uses of Scientology --- Werner Erhard and EST --- Ken Dyers and Kenja --- Harvey Jackins and re-evaluation counselling --- LRH --- religious hardware --- L. Ron Hubbard's charismatic authority in the Church of Scientology --- the Citizens Commission on Human Rights --- Scientology's war against psychiatry