Stephen A Kent
Biographic Data
| ID | 264252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen A Kent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kent |
| SIGNATURE | KENT S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘Lately Gone into Germany’: Thomas Tillam and his Treatises on Marriage, Divorce and Polygamy
Thomas Tillam lived in the middle of the seventeenth century and stands out as one of the most intriguing figures among the religious dissenters of the time. Having had short-term success establishing Baptist churches at Hexham and Colchester, he encouraged 100–200 families to emigrate to Southern Germany and set up a Judaeo-Christian community. In 1660–1665 his publications entitled Temple of Lively Stones and The Unequal Yoke Unloosed, reveal h…
Paul Hobson: ‘The Odour of Unsanctity’
In 1939, Whitley wrote a paper in the Baptist Quarterly which began ‘Paul Hobson came to the surface for a score of years, then vanished in the odour of unsanctity’.11 William Thomas Whitley, ‘The Rev. Colonel Paul Hobson’, Baptist Quarterly 9, no. 5 (1939): 307–310. This damning overview results from the fact that in 1665 two women at Devonshire Square Church, were disciplined for wanton conduct with him. Whitley also condemned Hobson for betray…
Thomas Tillam and the Hexham Church Records
Thomas Tillam was a fascinating Christian Evangelist who lived through the exceptionally disruptive period of the seventeenth century. Whilst a leader at Hexham Baptist Church in 1651–1655, he kept a church record and transcribed thirty-one letters pertaining to the church’s affairs. These have survived and provide an insight into the man himself; the problems of establishing a new church and the potential for external and internal disputes which…
Studying Scientology as an Anti-Democratic Institution: Suggestions and Cautions to Future Researchers
Addressing future researchers who may undertake research on Scientology, this commentary offers a number of cautions related to issues that they likely will encounter. Most of these issues stem from the organization’s anti-democratic, authoritarian nature and resultant policies, which include attempts to curtail any and all activities and research that its leaders conclude are out of alignment with members’ obligation to ‘keep Scientology working…
A war over mental health professionalism: Scientology versus psychiatry
Over 60 years ago, founder L. Ron Hubbard began what has become Scientology's greatest battle. Scientology emerged from Dianetics, which Hubbard hoped would replace the psychiatric profession. In this article, we discuss how Scientology attempted to position itself as a rival profession to psychiatry and the consequences of those attempts. Scientology's battle with psychiatry gained some success from the social conditions during which it emerged,…
Politiques de rage et narcissisme malin1
Dans cet article, le trouble de la personnalité connu sous le nom de « narcissisme malin » est présenté. Ce concept est par la suite utilisé pour expliquer la création, par le dirigeant d’un groupe, de politiques organisationnelles destinées à contrer les personnes qu’il considérait comme ennemies, mettant en évidence la rage narcissique à l’oeuvre. Notre argument est examiné à la lumière d’une étude de cas dans laquelle il est démontré que le di…
A Matter of Principle: Fundamentalist Mormon Polygamy, Children, and Human Rights Debates
This article returns to questions involving fundamentalist Mormon polygamy first raised in articles by Martha Bradley and Lori G. Beaman in vol. 8, no. 1 (July 2004) of Nova Religio. While both authors acknowledged the potential for abuses in these communities, Bradley stressed their "effective adaptive strategies" while Beaman concluded that "[f]undamentalist groups, like those in Bountiful [British Columbia], are not perceived as a threat to th…
From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era
Review Article| November 01 2004 From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era Stephen A. Kent Stephen A. Kent Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2004) 8 (2): 132–133. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2004.8.2.132 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Too…
Hollywood’s Celebrity-Lobbyists and the Clinton Administration’s American Foreign Policy Toward German Scientology
This article takes basic insights provided by resource mobilization theory in order to discuss how Scientology celebrities used their status to influence the international debate over Scientology between the United States and Germany. Their ability to have done so is another indicator of the access to American political elites that Hollywood cultural elites have gained in recent years, most especially during the administration of President Bill C…
The Globalization of Scientology: Influence, Control and Opposition in Transnational Markets
Locating itself within a sociological perspective that analyses religiously ideological organisations as transnational corporations, this study examines the global activities of Scientology. It summarises the organisation's resolution of its international conflict with Interpol, its take‐over of its internationally influential opponent, the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) and its heightened rhetoric against psychiatry. The article also highlights Sc…
Academic Compromise in the Social Scientific Study of Alternative Religions
Scientology's relationship with eastern religious traditions
Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, frequently made claims that Scientology was related to or shared significant similarities with Hinduism, Theravada Buddhism and Taoism. However, careful examination of Hubbard's claims indicates that he had only a superficial acquaintance with Eastern religions, and most of his attempts to associate Scientology with these faiths are unwarranted. Moreover, social and political pressures against his organisati…
Misattribution and social control in the children of god
Diabolic debates: A reply to David Frankfurter and J. S. La Fontaine
L'A. aborde la question des debats diaboliques en profitant de l'occasion pour repondre aux theses de D. Frankfurter et J.S. La Fontaine a ce sujet. Ces debats portent sur l'abus des rituels sataniques. L'A. a choisi de traiter le sujet d'un point de vue methodologique. Il tente de reduire ces phenomenes a leurs expressions psychologiques, pathologiques et psychanalytiques. Il ne nie pas l'existence de groupes sataniques et reunit de nombreux tem…
Deviant scripturalism and ritual satanic abuse part two: Possible Masonic, Mormon, Magick, and Pagan influences
Having shown in a previous paper the possible Judeo–Christian influences that may exist in ritual satanic abuse, this study compares portions of people's accounts (using interviews and diaries from several alleged survivors), with doctrinal precedents for satanic ritual abuse in deviant interpretations of Masonic, Mormon, Magick, and Pagan traditions.1
Deviant scripturalism and ritual satanic abuse part one: Possible Judeo-Christian influences
Sociologists are locked in a contentious debate with mental health personnel over the reality of intergenerational satanic abuse. Prominent sociologists insist that the satanic accounts are part of a moral panic fuelled by the media, conservative churches, and professionals who use directive, suggestive, or leading questions in their counselling and interviewing sessions. Many therapists, in contrast, are convinced that the intensity of their cli…
Radical rhetoric and mystical religion in America's late Vietnam war era
Using primary documents from various religious groups, interviews with former activists, and an array of alternative press literature, this paper analyzes the appropriation of radical rhetoric within the anti‐activist ideologies of mystical religions that flourished during the late Vietnam War period in the United States. Examples from several Eastern‐based religions (Divine Light Mission, Hare Krishna, and 3HO) and Western‐based groups (includin…
Social Control in Alternative Religions: A Familial Perspective
This article highlights the pervasiveness of family models in both the theological self-conceptions of alternative religious organizations and the sociological scholarship on them. We argue that these models provide useful directions for studying alternative religions, since both institutions frequently enmesh their members in constraining social environments that facilitate the occurrence of sustained and systematic abuse. Noteworthy, therefore,…
Deviance Labelling and Normative Strategies in the Canadian "New Religions/Countercult" Debate
Mysticism, quakerism, and relative deprivation: A sociological reply to R. A. Naulty
After reaffirming previous comments concerning the psychological reductionism of William James' interpretation of mysticism, this article, like its predecessor, concludes that early Quakerism and other forms of ‘mystical’ expressions are best interpreted as products of their cultures. Feelings of collectively-held relative deprivation frequently provide the social stimuli that lead people to believe that they have direct experiences of God or a t…
Max Weber: A Skeleton Key
Journal Article Max Weber: A Skeleton Key, by Randall Collins. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications. 1986. 151 pp. $16.95; 8.95 (paper) Get access Stephen A. Kent Stephen A. Kent University of Waterloo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 3, Fall 1988, Pages 314–315, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711599 Published: 01 October 1988
In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space
Journal Article In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, by Douglas Curran. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985, 132 pp. $16.95 Get access Stephen A. Kent Stephen A. Kent University of Waterloo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 2, Summer 1988, Pages 197–198, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711024 Published: 01 July 1988
Slogan Chanters to Mantra Chanters: A Mertonian Deviance Analysis of Conversion to Religiously Ideological Organizations in the Early 1970s
This paper uses Merton's theory of deviant responses to social norms to interpret the action of former political activists in joining new religious movements. Faced with the contradictions of partial success and continued failure of social movement organizations seeking a redistribution of power in society, some political activists deviated from movement means, norms, or both, through their involvement in religious groups. In so doing, they trans…
Psychology and Quaker Mysticism: The Legacy of William James and Rufus Jones
PSYCHOLOGY AND QUAKER MYSTICISM: THE LEGACY OF WILLIAM JAMES AND RUFUS JONES Stephen A. Kent* Periodically Quakers discuss the extent to which their Society arose as the result of mystical insight among its early members. Interpreters who emphasize early Quaker mysticism assume that the presumed experience of God in the form of "the Light within" bespeaks the supernatural rather than natural origins of the Society. They support their interpretati…
The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi 'Ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890
Journal Article The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi 'Ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890, by Said Amir Arjomand. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984, xii + 356 pp. $28.00 Get access Stephen A. Kent Stephen A. Kent University of Alberta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 4, Winter 1987, Pages 369–370, ht…
Weber, Goethe, and the Nietzschean Allusion: Capturing the Source of the "Iron Cage" Metaphor
Edward Tiryakian recently argued that Max Weber was so deeply affected by John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress that he personally identified with one of its characters, a man who was trapped in an iron cage of despair. Therein, Tiryakian claimed, lies the origins of the famous "iron cage" metaphor that appears in the final pages of Talcott Parsons' translation of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Challenging his view, this article ar…
The Globalization of Scientology: Influence, Control and Opposition in Transnational Markets
Locating itself within a sociological perspective that analyses religiously ideological organisations as transnational corporations, this study examines the global activities of Scientology. It summarises the organisation's resolution of its international conflict with Interpol, its take‐over of its internationally influential opponent, the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) and its heightened rhetoric against psychiatry. The article also highlights Sc…
Scientology's relationship with eastern religious traditions
Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, frequently made claims that Scientology was related to or shared significant similarities with Hinduism, Theravada Buddhism and Taoism. However, careful examination of Hubbard's claims indicates that he had only a superficial acquaintance with Eastern religions, and most of his attempts to associate Scientology with these faiths are unwarranted. Moreover, social and political pressures against his organisati…
Relative Deprivation and Resource Mobilization: A Study of Early Quakerism
Recent analyses of sectarian phenomena have utilized resource mobilization models at the expense of relative deprivation perspectives. Researchers justify their choice of resource mobilization perspectives by arguing that they not only direct their investigation to important elements of organizational development, but also avoid the unverified assumption of deprivation models that a link exists between pre-existing motivation and sectarian goals …
The Quaker Ethic and the Fixed Price Policy: Max Weber and Beyond
Max Weber undertook his research on the Quakers and their fixed price policy as part of his attempt to understand the role of the Puritan sects in the rise of early modern capitalism. Although his comments on the group were sympathetic and penetrating, they suffered from inattention to the historical context. He failed to see, for instance, that the Quakers'economic policies in large part reflected their resentful frustration over the Puritans'fa…
Deviance Labelling and Normative Strategies in the Canadian "New Religions/Countercult" Debate
Weber, Goethe, and William Penn: Themes of Marital Love
Havingargued in a previous study that Weber was deeplymoved by both Nietzsche's Obcrmen-schen concept and Goethe's embodiment of it, this research note demonstrates that Weber inter-pretedhisown asceticmarriage with Marriane in part through impressions that he held of William Penn's marital relationship and Goethe's presumablychaste relationship with Frau von Stein. De-spite, however, the extent to which Weber lauded the ethicaldimensions of marr…
Slogan Chanters to Mantra Chanters: A Mertonian Deviance Analysis of Conversion to Religiously Ideological Organizations in the Early 1970s
This paper uses Merton's theory of deviant responses to social norms to interpret the action of former political activists in joining new religious movements. Faced with the contradictions of partial success and continued failure of social movement organizations seeking a redistribution of power in society, some political activists deviated from movement means, norms, or both, through their involvement in religious groups. In so doing, they trans…
Psychological and mystical interpretations of early Quakerism: William James and Rufus Jones
William James' discussion of early Quakerism profoundly affected subsequent interpretations of the group by the prominent scholar and Quaker writer, Rufus Jones. Jones utilized James as a major exponent of the divine origins of George Fox's doctrinal beliefs and social protests. The major claims of James and Jones, however, are not sustained by more recent critical scholarship on Quakerism's early days. By examining and refuting these claims, thi…
Politiques de rage et narcissisme malin1
Dans cet article, le trouble de la personnalité connu sous le nom de « narcissisme malin » est présenté. Ce concept est par la suite utilisé pour expliquer la création, par le dirigeant d’un groupe, de politiques organisationnelles destinées à contrer les personnes qu’il considérait comme ennemies, mettant en évidence la rage narcissique à l’oeuvre. Notre argument est examiné à la lumière d’une étude de cas dans laquelle il est démontré que le di…
Deviant scripturalism and ritual satanic abuse part one: Possible Judeo-Christian influences
Sociologists are locked in a contentious debate with mental health personnel over the reality of intergenerational satanic abuse. Prominent sociologists insist that the satanic accounts are part of a moral panic fuelled by the media, conservative churches, and professionals who use directive, suggestive, or leading questions in their counselling and interviewing sessions. Many therapists, in contrast, are convinced that the intensity of their cli…
Radical rhetoric and mystical religion in America's late Vietnam war era
Using primary documents from various religious groups, interviews with former activists, and an array of alternative press literature, this paper analyzes the appropriation of radical rhetoric within the anti‐activist ideologies of mystical religions that flourished during the late Vietnam War period in the United States. Examples from several Eastern‐based religions (Divine Light Mission, Hare Krishna, and 3HO) and Western‐based groups (includin…
Psychology and Quaker Mysticism: The Legacy of William James and Rufus Jones
PSYCHOLOGY AND QUAKER MYSTICISM: THE LEGACY OF WILLIAM JAMES AND RUFUS JONES Stephen A. Kent* Periodically Quakers discuss the extent to which their Society arose as the result of mystical insight among its early members. Interpreters who emphasize early Quaker mysticism assume that the presumed experience of God in the form of "the Light within" bespeaks the supernatural rather than natural origins of the Society. They support their interpretati…
In Search of the Spirit of Capitalism: An Essay on Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis
The‘Papist’Charges Against the Interregnum Quakers
Hollywood’s Celebrity-Lobbyists and the Clinton Administration’s American Foreign Policy Toward German Scientology
This article takes basic insights provided by resource mobilization theory in order to discuss how Scientology celebrities used their status to influence the international debate over Scientology between the United States and Germany. Their ability to have done so is another indicator of the access to American political elites that Hollywood cultural elites have gained in recent years, most especially during the administration of President Bill C…
Mysticism, quakerism, and relative deprivation: A sociological reply to R. A. Naulty
After reaffirming previous comments concerning the psychological reductionism of William James' interpretation of mysticism, this article, like its predecessor, concludes that early Quakerism and other forms of ‘mystical’ expressions are best interpreted as products of their cultures. Feelings of collectively-held relative deprivation frequently provide the social stimuli that lead people to believe that they have direct experiences of God or a t…
Valentinian Gnosticism and Classical Samkhya: A Thematic and Structural Comparison
The‘Papist’Charges Against the Interregnum Quakers
"Early Samkhya in the "Buddhacarita
Relative Deprivation and Resource Mobilization: A Study of Early Quakerism
Recent analyses of sectarian phenomena have utilized resource mobilization models at the expense of relative deprivation perspectives. Researchers justify their choice of resource mobilization perspectives by arguing that they not only direct their investigation to important elements of organizational development, but also avoid the unverified assumption of deprivation models that a link exists between pre-existing motivation and sectarian goals …
A sectarian interpretation of the rise of Mahayana
(1982). A sectarian interpretation of the rise of Mahayana. Religion: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 311-332
Weber, Goethe, and the Nietzschean Allusion: Capturing the Source of the "Iron Cage" Metaphor
Edward Tiryakian recently argued that Max Weber was so deeply affected by John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress that he personally identified with one of its characters, a man who was trapped in an iron cage of despair. Therein, Tiryakian claimed, lies the origins of the famous "iron cage" metaphor that appears in the final pages of Talcott Parsons' translation of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Challenging his view, this article ar…
In Search of the Spirit of Capitalism: An Essay on Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis
The Quaker Ethic and the Fixed Price Policy: Max Weber and Beyond
Max Weber undertook his research on the Quakers and their fixed price policy as part of his attempt to understand the role of the Puritan sects in the rise of early modern capitalism. Although his comments on the group were sympathetic and penetrating, they suffered from inattention to the historical context. He failed to see, for instance, that the Quakers'economic policies in large part reflected their resentful frustration over the Puritans'fa…
Religion: Classic Sociological Approaches
Weber, Goethe, and William Penn: Themes of Marital Love
Havingargued in a previous study that Weber was deeplymoved by both Nietzsche's Obcrmen-schen concept and Goethe's embodiment of it, this research note demonstrates that Weber inter-pretedhisown asceticmarriage with Marriane in part through impressions that he held of William Penn's marital relationship and Goethe's presumablychaste relationship with Frau von Stein. De-spite, however, the extent to which Weber lauded the ethicaldimensions of marr…
Psychology and Quaker Mysticism: The Legacy of William James and Rufus Jones
PSYCHOLOGY AND QUAKER MYSTICISM: THE LEGACY OF WILLIAM JAMES AND RUFUS JONES Stephen A. Kent* Periodically Quakers discuss the extent to which their Society arose as the result of mystical insight among its early members. Interpreters who emphasize early Quaker mysticism assume that the presumed experience of God in the form of "the Light within" bespeaks the supernatural rather than natural origins of the Society. They support their interpretati…
The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi 'Ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890
Journal Article The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi 'Ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890, by Said Amir Arjomand. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984, xii + 356 pp. $28.00 Get access Stephen A. Kent Stephen A. Kent University of Alberta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 4, Winter 1987, Pages 369–370, ht…
Psychological and mystical interpretations of early Quakerism: William James and Rufus Jones
William James' discussion of early Quakerism profoundly affected subsequent interpretations of the group by the prominent scholar and Quaker writer, Rufus Jones. Jones utilized James as a major exponent of the divine origins of George Fox's doctrinal beliefs and social protests. The major claims of James and Jones, however, are not sustained by more recent critical scholarship on Quakerism's early days. By examining and refuting these claims, thi…
Max Weber: A Skeleton Key
Journal Article Max Weber: A Skeleton Key, by Randall Collins. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications. 1986. 151 pp. $16.95; 8.95 (paper) Get access Stephen A. Kent Stephen A. Kent University of Waterloo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 3, Fall 1988, Pages 314–315, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711599 Published: 01 October 1988
In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space
Journal Article In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, by Douglas Curran. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985, 132 pp. $16.95 Get access Stephen A. Kent Stephen A. Kent University of Waterloo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 2, Summer 1988, Pages 197–198, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711024 Published: 01 July 1988
Slogan Chanters to Mantra Chanters: A Mertonian Deviance Analysis of Conversion to Religiously Ideological Organizations in the Early 1970s
This paper uses Merton's theory of deviant responses to social norms to interpret the action of former political activists in joining new religious movements. Faced with the contradictions of partial success and continued failure of social movement organizations seeking a redistribution of power in society, some political activists deviated from movement means, norms, or both, through their involvement in religious groups. In so doing, they trans…
Mysticism, quakerism, and relative deprivation: A sociological reply to R. A. Naulty
After reaffirming previous comments concerning the psychological reductionism of William James' interpretation of mysticism, this article, like its predecessor, concludes that early Quakerism and other forms of ‘mystical’ expressions are best interpreted as products of their cultures. Feelings of collectively-held relative deprivation frequently provide the social stimuli that lead people to believe that they have direct experiences of God or a t…
Deviance Labelling and Normative Strategies in the Canadian "New Religions/Countercult" Debate
Social Control in Alternative Religions: A Familial Perspective
This article highlights the pervasiveness of family models in both the theological self-conceptions of alternative religious organizations and the sociological scholarship on them. We argue that these models provide useful directions for studying alternative religions, since both institutions frequently enmesh their members in constraining social environments that facilitate the occurrence of sustained and systematic abuse. Noteworthy, therefore,…
Deviant scripturalism and ritual satanic abuse part two: Possible Masonic, Mormon, Magick, and Pagan influences
Having shown in a previous paper the possible Judeo–Christian influences that may exist in ritual satanic abuse, this study compares portions of people's accounts (using interviews and diaries from several alleged survivors), with doctrinal precedents for satanic ritual abuse in deviant interpretations of Masonic, Mormon, Magick, and Pagan traditions.1
Deviant scripturalism and ritual satanic abuse part one: Possible Judeo-Christian influences
Sociologists are locked in a contentious debate with mental health personnel over the reality of intergenerational satanic abuse. Prominent sociologists insist that the satanic accounts are part of a moral panic fuelled by the media, conservative churches, and professionals who use directive, suggestive, or leading questions in their counselling and interviewing sessions. Many therapists, in contrast, are convinced that the intensity of their cli…
Radical rhetoric and mystical religion in America's late Vietnam war era
Using primary documents from various religious groups, interviews with former activists, and an array of alternative press literature, this paper analyzes the appropriation of radical rhetoric within the anti‐activist ideologies of mystical religions that flourished during the late Vietnam War period in the United States. Examples from several Eastern‐based religions (Divine Light Mission, Hare Krishna, and 3HO) and Western‐based groups (includin…
Misattribution and social control in the children of god
Diabolic debates: A reply to David Frankfurter and J. S. La Fontaine
L'A. aborde la question des debats diaboliques en profitant de l'occasion pour repondre aux theses de D. Frankfurter et J.S. La Fontaine a ce sujet. Ces debats portent sur l'abus des rituels sataniques. L'A. a choisi de traiter le sujet d'un point de vue methodologique. Il tente de reduire ces phenomenes a leurs expressions psychologiques, pathologiques et psychanalytiques. Il ne nie pas l'existence de groupes sataniques et reunit de nombreux tem…
Scientology's relationship with eastern religious traditions
Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, frequently made claims that Scientology was related to or shared significant similarities with Hinduism, Theravada Buddhism and Taoism. However, careful examination of Hubbard's claims indicates that he had only a superficial acquaintance with Eastern religions, and most of his attempts to associate Scientology with these faiths are unwarranted. Moreover, social and political pressures against his organisati…
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