Constructing a Plan for Survival: Scientology as Cold War Psychology
Developed in the early 1950s by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology was part of the larger postwar therapeutic culture that blended religion and psychology in a search for mental well-being. Unlike contemporaneous self-help gurus such as Norman Vincent Peale and Harry Overstreet, howe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
[2017]
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Religion and American culture
Year: 2017, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-190 |
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Hubbard, L. Ron 1911-1986
/ Scientology International
/ East-West conflict
/ Religious psychology
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| Further subjects: | B
Scientology
B Cold War B Psychology B Cybernetics |
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