자료유형 | E-Book |
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개인저자 | Urban, Hugh B. |
서명/저자사항 | The church of scientology[electronic resource] :a history of a new religion /Hugh B. Urban. |
발행사항 | Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (x, 268 p.) : ill. |
ISBN | 9781400839438 (electronic bk.) 1400839432 (electronic bk.) |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-264) and index. |
내용주기 | 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." |
요약 | "Scientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century. To its detractors, L. Ron Hubbard's space-age mysticism is a moneymaking scam and sinister brainwashing cult. But to its adherents, it is humanity's brightest hope. Few religious movements have been subject to public scrutiny like Scientology, yet much of what is written about the church is sensationalist and inaccurate. Here for the first time is the story of Scientology's protracted and turbulent journey to recognition as a religion in the postwar American landscape. Hugh Urban tells the real story of Scientology from its cold war-era beginnings in the 1950s to its prominence today as the religion of Hollywood's celebrity elite. Urban paints a vivid portrait of Hubbard, the enigmatic founder who once commanded his own private fleet and an intelligence apparatus rivaling that of the U.S. government. One FBI agent described him as "a mental case," but to his followers he is the man who "solved the riddle of the human mind." Urban details Scientology's decades-long war with the IRS, which ended with the church winning tax-exempt status as a religion; the rancorous cult wars of the 1970s and 1980s; as well as the latest challenges confronting Scientology, from attacks by the Internet group Anonymous to the church's efforts to suppress the online dissemination of its esoteric teachings. This book demonstrates how Scientology has reflected the broader anxieties and obsessions of postwar America, and raises profound questions about how religion is defined and who gets to define it."--Book jacket. |
일반주제명 | Scientology -- History. Religion. Scientology. RELIGION -- Scientology. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. |
언어 | 영어 |
기타형태 저록 | Print version:Urban, Hugh B.Church of scientology.Princeton : Princeton University Press, c20119780691146089 |
대출바로가기 | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=380267 |
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