Web Directory

» A Short Study of the Scientology Religion
   J. Gordon Melton's study and findings on the Church of Scientology.
   http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/melton/page01.htm

» Altar Rhetoric and Online Performance: Scientology, Ethos, and the World Wide Web
   An overview of the way religions are using cyberspace, focusing particularly on the Church of Scientology.
   http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol4/iss1/articles/frobish.htm

» Is Scientology a Religion?
   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.
   http://www.religiousapartheid.org/critiques/ENG/Kelley/

» Scientology - Is This a Religion?
   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.
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/kent/religion.html

» Scientology A Comparison with Religions of the East and West
   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.
   http://neuereligion.de/ENG/Berglie/index.htm

» Scientology, Social Science and the Definition of 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.
   http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/Beckford/index.htm

» Scientology, a New Religion
   Dr. Herbert Richardson summarizes a study he did of the Church of Scientology and why it should be classified as a religion.
   http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/Richardson/index.htm

» Scientology: A New Religion
   A short study on the religious nature of Scientology, by Dr. Samuel S. Hill.
   http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/hill/index.htm

» Scientology: A Way of Spiritual Self-Identification
   An analysis of the Scientology religion by Michael A. Sivertsev, expert adviser on international matters to the Committee of the Russian Federation
   http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/Sivertsev/index.htm

» The Church of Scientology
   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.
   http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/Pentikainen/

» The Church of Scientology as a movement of a new age in the world
   Josef Wolf looks into various Scientology beliefs, and how Scientology compares with other new and mainstream religions.
   http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/Wolf

» The Religious Nature of Scientology
   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.
   http://www.religiousapartheid.org/critiques/ENG/ThreeExpertises/ba7.htm

» The Religious Status of Scientology
   An analysis of the religious nature of Scientology by Dr.Gary D. Bouma, sociologist of religion.
   http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/bouma/index.htm