2021
DOI: 10.1558/imre.42445
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Academic study of Scientology

Abstract: The discussion that was conducted at the British Association for the Study of Religion (BASR) conference by the Religion Studies Project (RSP) in 2018, with David Robertson, Carole Cusack, Stephen Gregg, and Aled Thomas have raised some of the challenges that are sometimes perceived as impediments to the study of Scientology by scholars. This paper tries to approach these challenges from the point of view of the study target: The Scientologist and the Church of Scientology itself. It develops several points th… Show more

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“…More than a decade after Cowan's remarks, first presented at an international CESNUR conference in 2004 (Cowan 2009: 73), the Church of Scientology seems to have passed through at least some of its growing pains and has been in its current post-Hubbard phase, under the leadership of David Miscavige since the late 1980s, for even longer than Hubbard guided the church during his own lifetime. The increase in scholarship over the past decade, much of it produced independently of the church's cooperation, input, or knowledge, may encourage even more historical, theological, and sociological research on this American-born religion moving forward (Doherty 2020;Roux 2020).…”
Section: Target Twomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More than a decade after Cowan's remarks, first presented at an international CESNUR conference in 2004 (Cowan 2009: 73), the Church of Scientology seems to have passed through at least some of its growing pains and has been in its current post-Hubbard phase, under the leadership of David Miscavige since the late 1980s, for even longer than Hubbard guided the church during his own lifetime. The increase in scholarship over the past decade, much of it produced independently of the church's cooperation, input, or knowledge, may encourage even more historical, theological, and sociological research on this American-born religion moving forward (Doherty 2020;Roux 2020).…”
Section: Target Twomentioning
confidence: 99%