Free Zone Scientology
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-23299-0 (ISBN)
This book, by maintaining a double-focus on the top-down hierarchy of the Church of Scientology and the horizontal-fluid nature of the Free Zone, breaks away from previous research on new religions, which have tended to focus either on new religions as indices of broad social processes, such as secularization or globalization, or as exemplars of exotic processes, such as charismatic authority and brainwashing. Instead, Thomas adopts auditing as a method of providing an in-depth case study of a new religion in transition and transformation in the 21st century. This opens the study of contemporary and new religions to a series of new questions around hybrid religions (sacred and secular), and acts as a framework for the study of similar movements formed in recent decades.
Aled Thomas is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, Visiting Fellow at the Open University, UK and co-founder of alt-ac.uk.
Preface
1. Introduction: Researching ‘Scientologies’
Part 1: From Scientology to Scientologies
2. The Church of Scientology and the ‘Free Zone’: A Complex Relationship
3. Auditing and the ‘Tech’: The Basics
4. ‘You are YOU in a body’: Negotiating the Self in Scientology
Part 2: Fluidity and Boundaries
5. Authenticity and Innovation: The ‘True Tech’ and ‘Mistakes by Hubbard’
6. ‘Doing Scientology’: E-Meters, Objects, and Material Culture
7. Moving Forward: Reflections on Free Zone Scientology and the Wider Study of Religions
8. Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
Notes
References
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.10.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies |
Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-23299-8 / 1350232998 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-23299-0 / 9781350232990 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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