Scientology
- ISBN-10
- 019988711X
- ISBN-13
- 9780199887118
- Series
- Scientology
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 464
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-03-11
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- James R. Lewis
Description
Scientology is arguably the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religious Movements. James R. Lewis has assembled an unusually comprehensive anthology, incorporating a wide range of different approaches. In this book, a group of well-known scholars of New Religious Movements offers an extensive and evenhanded overview and analysis of all of these aspects of Scientology, including the controversies to which it continues to give rise.
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Other editions
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- 2010-08-18
- 187 pages
- Paperback
- Verlag Ferd.Schââ¢ningh GmbH & Co KG
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