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New Religious Movements

The Church of Scientology

A History of a New Religion

by Hugh B. Urban

A historian of religion's account of Scientology from Hubbard's pulp fiction and occult contacts to its long struggle for recognition as a religion. Urban uses the case to ask how modern states and courts decide what counts as religion.

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