Editing Scientology (section)

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* {{Cite book |title=Scientology|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/scientology-9780195331493|year=2009|editor-last=Lewis |editor-first=James R. |editor-link=James R. Lewis (scholar) |location=Oxford/New York |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-5331-49-3 |ol=16943235M |chapter=Making Sense of Scientology: Prophetic, Contractual Religion |pages=83–102 |first=David G. |last=Bromley |author-link=David G. Bromley |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331493.003.0005}}
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* {{Cite journal |last=Doherty |first=Bernard |title=Sensational Scientology! The Church of Scientology and Australian Tabloid Television |journal=Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions |volume=17 |issue=3 |year=2014 |pages=38–63 |doi=10.1525/nr.2014.17.3.38 |jstor=10.1525/nr.2014.17.3.38 }}
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* {{Cite book | editor1-last = Gallagher | editor1-first = Eugene V. | editor2-last = Ashcraft | editor2-first = W. Michael | title = Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America | series = Volume 5: African diaspora traditions and other American innovations | place = Westport, CT | publisher = Greenwood Press | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-0-275-98712-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ClaySHbUEogC|access-date=November 5, 2015}}
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*{{Cite journal|last=Halupka |first=Max |title=The Church of Scientology: Legitimacy through Perception Management |journal=Politics and Religion |volume=7 |issue=3 |year=2014 |pages=613–630 |doi=10.1017/S1755048314000066 |s2cid=143524953}}
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* {{Cite book |title=Scientology|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/scientology-9780195331493|year=2009c|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331493.001.0001|editor-last=Lewis |editor-first=James R. |editor-link=James R. Lewis (scholar) |location=Oxford/New York |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-5331-49-3 }}
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* {{Cite book |last=Shermer|first=Michael|chapter=The Curious Case of Scientology|title=Giving the Devil his Due|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|url=https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/psychology/psychology-general-interest/giving-devil-his-due-reflections-scientific-humanist?format=HB|isbn=9781108489782|location=Cambridge|pages=93–103|year=2020}}
* {{Cite book |last=Thomas |first=Aled |year=2021 |title=Free Zone Scientology: Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1-350-18254-7 }}
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* {{Cite book|last=Urban|first=Hugh B. |title=The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |location=Princeton and Oxford |url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691158051/the-church-of-scientology|year=2011 |isbn=978-0-691-14608-9}}
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