Religion and Spirituality: Religious Studies: New Religious Movements: Scientology

Paper on the religious heritage of Scientology by David Chidester, Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Study on Scientology by Calvinist, South African, professor of religion, laying the groundwork for Scientology's ultimate recognition by his government as a religion in the year 2000.

Dr. Parrinder, Methodist Minister and Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions University of London, on the controversy as to whether Scientology is a religion.

Dr. Alan W. Black examines Scientology against "seven dimensions of religion" and finds all to be present in it.

An expertise by James A. Beckford, Ph.D.University of Warwick, England, outlining the religious traditions of Scientology and its parallels to the Hindu and Buddhist religions.

An analysis of the religious nature of Scientology by Dr.Gary D. Bouma, sociologist of religion.

A study on the Church of Scientology by the Chair of the Department of Study of Religions, University of Helsinki and the Executive Chief of the Foreigners' Office of the City of Tampere, Finland.

Dr. Herbert Richardson summarizes a study he did of the Church of Scientology and why it should be classified as a religion.

Josef Wolf looks into various Scientology beliefs, and how Scientology compares with other new and mainstream religions.

An analysis of the Scientology religion by Michael A. Sivertsev, expert adviser on international matters to the Committee of the Russian Federation

A short study on the religious nature of Scientology, by Dr. Samuel S. Hill.

A comparison of the Church of Scientology against certain criteria to determine whether or not it is a religion, presented by Per-Arne Berglie, Professor of History of Religion, University of Stockholm.

J. Gordon Melton's study and findings on the Church of Scientology.

Analysis of Scientology against current criteria for classification of religions, by Dean M. Kelley who was an executive of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.

By Steven A. Kent. Revised version of a presentation given to 27th Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag. Argues that Scientology is a multifaceted transnational having religion as only one component.

An overview of the way religions are using cyberspace, focusing particularly on the Church of Scientology.