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Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America

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Title: Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America
Date: Thursday, 1 June 2006
Publisher: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Author: Hugh B. Urban
Main source: jaar.oxfordjournals.org

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Hugh B. Urban is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University, 431 Hagerty Hall, Columbus, OH 43210. From Tom Cruise’s wedding to South Park’s scathing cartoon parody, the Church of Scientology has emerged as one of the wealthiest, most powerful but also most controversial new religious movements of the last fifty years. Remarkably, however, it has rarely been subjected to serious, critical study by historians of religions, in large part because of the ... [Read the rest at jaar.oxfordjournals.org]