From the Book - Regular Print
Birth of a religion / J. Gordon Melton --
The cultural context of Scientology / William Sims Bainbridge --
Researching Scientology : perceptions, premises, promises, and problematics / Douglas E. Cowan --
Making sense of Scientology : prophetic, contractual religion / David G. Bromley --
Scientology and self-narrativity : theology and soteriology as resource and strategy / Dorthe Refslund Christensen --
The growth of Scientology and the Stark model of religious "success" / James R. Lewis --
Community in Scientology and among Scientologists / Peter B. Andersen and Rie Wellendorf --
How should we regard the religious ceremonies of the Church of Scientology? / Regis Dericquebourg --
The development and reality of auditing / Gail M. Harley and John Kieffer --
Scientology as technological Buddhism / Frank K. Flinn --
Scientology, a "new age" religion? / Andreas Grunschloss --
Scientology : "modern religion" or "religion of modernity"? / Gerald Willms --
The nature of the new religious movements-anticult "culture war" in microcosm : the Church of Scientology versus the cult awareness network / Anson Shupe --
Scientology in court : a look at some major cases from various nations / James T. Richardson --
The church of Scientology in France : legal and activist counterattacks in the "War on Sectes" / Susan J. Palmer --
Scientology missions international (SMI) : an immutable model of technological missionary activity / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard --
The Church of Scientology in Sweden / Henrik Bogdan --
Scientology down under / Adam Possamai and Alphia Possamai-Inesedy --
"His name was Xenu. He used renegades ..." : aspects of Scientology's founding myth / Mikael Rothstein --
Celebrity, the popular media, and Scientology : making familiar the unfamiliar / Carole M. Cusack --
Sources for the study of Scientology : presentations and reflections / Dorthe Refslund Christensen --
Pastoral care and September 11 : Scientology's nontraditional religious contribution / Carole M. Cusack and Justine Digance.