Free Zone Scientology: Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion (Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies)
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
Series: Book 12 of 19 - Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
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- Title
- Free Zone Scientology: Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion (Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies)
- Author
- Thomas, Aled
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1350232998
- ISBN 13
- 9781350232990
- Item weight
- 322 grams
- Series
- Book 12 of 19: Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
In this novel academic study, Aled Thomas analyses modern issues surrounding boundaries and fluidity in contemporary Scientology. By using the Scientologist practice of 'auditing' as a case study, this book explores the ways in which new types of 'Scientologies' can emerge. The notion of Free Zone Scientology is characterised by its horizontal structure, in contrast to the vertical-hierarchy of the institutional Church of Scientology. With this in mind, Thomas explores the Free Zone as an example of a developing and fluid religion, directly addressing questions concerning authority, leadership and material objects.
This book, by maintaining a double-focus on the top-down hierarchy of the Church of Scientology and the horizontal-fluid nature of the Free Zone, breaks away from previous research on new religions, which have tended to focus either on new religions as indices of broad social processes, such as secularization or globalization, or as exemplars of exotic processes, such as charismatic authority and brainwashing. Instead, Thomas adopts auditing as a method of providing an in-depth case study of a new religion in transition and transformation in the 21st century. This opens the study of contemporary and new religions to a series of new questions around hybrid religions (sacred and secular), and acts as a framework for the study of similar movements formed in recent decades.
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About the Author
Amy L. Allocco is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Multifaith Scholars Program at Elon University, USA.
Bettina E. Schmidt is Professor in the Study of Religions and Anthropology of Religion in the Centre of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK.
Steven J. Sutcliffe is Visiting Fellow in Religious Studies at The Open University, UK. He is the co-editor (with Carole Cusack) of The Problem of Invented Religions (2016) and (with Ingvild Gilhus) of New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion (2014), and is the author of Children of the New Age: A History of Spiritual Practices (2003). He is one of the editors of the series Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies, which publishes theoretically astute, evidence-based monographs and edited volumes on the study of religion.
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