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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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