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The Road to Total Freedom

A Sociological Analysis of Scientology

by Roy Wallis

A pioneering sociological study tracing how the loosely organised Dianetics movement became the centrally controlled Church of Scientology. Wallis's account of the shift from a therapeutic 'cult' to an authoritarian 'sect' became a classic model in the sociology of religion.

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