J.R. Lewis’s scientific contributions

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Scientology
  • Book

January 2011

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J.R. Lewis

Scientology is arguably the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religious Movements. The Church of Scientology has been involved in battles over tax issues, a ten-year conflict with the Food and Drug Administration, extended turmoil with a number of European governments, and has even been subjected to FBI raids in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Negative publicity, however, has not prevented the Church from experiencing remarkably steady growth. Official national census figures indicate that the number of Scientologists grew significantly in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia throughout the 1990s, and studies show that the Church gained 10,000 members in the United States during that decade. This has led Scientology to begin referring to itself as "The World's Fastest Growing Religion." But despite its highly public profile, recently enhanced by celebrity spokespersons like Tom Cruise and Isaac Hayes, little has been published about the Church, its history, theology, and mission. The present volume brings together an international group of scholars on New Religious Movements to offer an overview and analysis of all of these aspects of Scientology, including the controversies to which it continues to give rise. The book's six parts take a detailed look at the Church, through its similarities to and differences from other religions, conflicts with various groups, overseas missions, and its theology, history, and sociology.

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... Ciò che qui più interessa, però, è come il suo operato alla guida di Astounding possa essere letto, seguendo l'interpretazione avanzata dal critico Roger Luckhurst (2005, 50-75), come il culmine di ciò egli ha chiamato: «engineer paradigm». Nei racconti brevi, nei romanzi degli autori principali e negli editoriali della rivista sarebbe possibile rintracciare una complessa commistione ideologica di fiducia nella scienza e determinismo tecnologico, diretta evoluzione dell'infatua-3 Su Campbell e la Golden Age si vedano i resoconti storici riguardo l'evoluzione del genere come Aldiss 1973, 241-58;Ashley 2000, 135-64;Bould et al. 2009, 52-62;James;Mendlesohn 2003, 37-41;Sadoul 1975, 133-57. zione per i ritrovati tecnici che aveva caratterizzato la fantascienza dei decenni precedenti. ...

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Utopia, determinismo tecnologico, ingegneria sociale: la dianetica tra scienza e fantascienza
Scientology
  • Citing Book
  • January 2011