Inside scientology

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A revelatory, page-turning investigation that puils back the curtain on life inside Scientology
"Inside Scientology is an engrossing, groundbreaking work that brings a welcome sense of fair-mindedness to a subject that is, for many journalists and scholars, too hot to touch. Reitman has accomplished the miracle of adding light without heat."
— Lawrence Wright,
author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
"Inside Scientology goes beyond the celebrities and the scandals — though they're here — to find in Scientology a more profound story about 'technology' as an article of faith and faith as a vessel for science, or, at least, science fiction. With precision and empathy, Janet Reitman has in this definitive investigation laid bare the gen-esis and possibly the endgame of America's strangest religion."
— Jeff Sharlet,
author of The Family and C Street
Scientology is known for its celebrity believers and its team of "vol-unteer ministers" at disaster sites such as... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A revelatory, page-turning investigation that puils back the curtain on life inside Scientology
"Inside Scientology is an engrossing, groundbreaking work that brings a welcome sense of fair-mindedness to a subject that is, for many journalists and scholars, too hot to touch. Reitman has accomplished the miracle of adding light without heat."
— Lawrence Wright,
author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
"Inside Scientology goes beyond the celebrities and the scandals — though they're here — to find in Scientology a more profound story about 'technology' as an article of faith and faith as a vessel for science, or, at least, science fiction. With precision and empathy, Janet Reitman has in this definitive investigation laid bare the gen-esis and possibly the endgame of America's strangest religion."
— Jeff Sharlet,
author of The Family and C Street
Scientology is known for its celebrity believers and its team of "vol-unteer ministers" at disaster sites such as the World Trade Center; its notably ag-gressive response to criticism or its attacks on psychiatry; its requirement that believers pay as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars to reach the highest levels of sal-vation. But for all its notoriety, Scientology has remained America's least understood new religion, even as it has been one of its most successful.
Now Janet Reitman telis its riveting full story in the first objective modern his-tory of Scientology, at last revealing the astonishing truth about life within the con-troversial religion for its members and ex-members. We watch the singular L. Ron Hubbard transform a self-help group into a worldwide spiritual corporation, at one point running the church írom his personal fleet on the high seas before establishing its base in sleepy Clearwater, Florida. As he became increasingly paranoid and re-clusive a young acolyte named Dávid Mis-cavige assumed control; after Hubbard's death in 1986 he quickly purged the ranks and began to transform the church once again. Miscavige has overseen somé of the church's greatest triumphs — among them a controversial billion-dollar IRS tax ex-emption and Tom Cruise's emergence as a vocal advocate — but he alsó has created a climate of fear and intimidation, according to ex-members whose stories of abuse Reitman shares. Reitman is the first to examine his twenty-five-year reign and what it might mean for the future of the church.
Based on five years of research, confi-dential documents, and extensive inter-views with current and former Scientolo-gists, this is an utterly compelling nonfic-tion account and the defining work on an elusive faith. Vissza