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Inside Scientology The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion

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ISBN-10: 0547750358

ISBN-13: 9780547750354

Edition: 2011

Authors: Janet Reitman

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Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world’s fastest growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of “volunteer ministers” offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World Trade Center. But Scientology is also a notably closed faith, harassing journalists and others through litigation and intimidation, even infiltrating the highest levels of the government to further its goals. Its attacks on psychiatry and its requirement that believers pay as much as tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars for salvation have drawn…    
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Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

JANET REITMAN is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone . Her work has appeared in GQ , Men's Journal , the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine , and the Washington Post, among other publications. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 2007 for the story "Inside Scientology."

Introduction: The World's Fastest-Growing Religion
The Founder
Dianetics
The Franchised Faith
The Bridge to Total Freedom
Travels with the Commodore
Over the Rainbow
DM
Power Is Assumed
Lisa
Flag
Seventeen Days
The Greatest Good
The Celebrity Strategy
The Seduction of Tom Cruise
The Bubble
Int
Exodus
Epilogue: What Is True for You
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index