New Directions in the Study of Scientology - Transcript

Authors

  • David Robertson Open University / Religious Studies Project
  • Carole M. Cusack
  • Stephen Gregg
  • Aled Thomas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.19168

Keywords:

Scientology, religious studies

Abstract

Recorded 19 November 2018. Transcribed by Helen Bradstock.

Author Biography

  • David Robertson, Open University / Religious Studies Project

    David G. Robertson is Co-Editor-In-Chief of the Religious Studies Project and a committee member of the British Association for the Study of Religion. He has published widely on new religions, millennialism, conspiracy theories and critical theory. He is the author of UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age: Millennial Conspiracism (Bloomsbury, 201He recently guest-edited a special issue of Nova Religio and is the co-editor of After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies (Routledge 2016).

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Cannane, Steve. 2016. Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia. Sydney: HarperCollins.

Gregg, Stephen and George Chryssides. 2016. “‘The silent majority?’: understanding apostate testimony beyond ‘insider/outsider’ binaries in the study of new religions.” In Visioning New and Minority Religions: Projecting the Future, edited by Eugene V. Gallagher, 20–32. Abingdon: Routledge.

ABC TV. 1992. Nightline with Ted Koppel and David Miscavige. https://youtu.be/exzmE3vW_Tw

Robertson, David G. 2017 “Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Scientology and Conspiracism.” In Handbook of Scientology, edited by James R. Lewis and Kjersti Hellesøy, 300–318. Leiden: Brill.

Urban, Hugh B. 2011. The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Wallis, Roy. 1977. The Road to Total Freedom: a sociological analysis of Scientology. New York: Columbia University Press.

Westbrook, Donald A. 2018. Among the Scientologists: History, Theology, and Praxis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Whitehead, Harriet. 1987. Renunciation and Reformulation: A Study of Conversion in an American Sect. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

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Published

2021-03-05

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 2: New Directions in the Study of Scientology

Section

The Religious Studies Project Podcast Transcription

How to Cite

Robertson, D., Cusack, C. M., Gregg, S., & Thomas, A. (2021). New Directions in the Study of Scientology - Transcript. Implicit Religion, 23(2), 89–101. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.19168