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From: rnewman@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Newman)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: The Scandal of Scientology--REVIEW
Date: 7 Jul 1995 03:01:43 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
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In article <3thnnn$4i4@nyx10.cs.du.edu>,
henry <anon2c9e@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>whenever reading a book on scientology, the tendency is to
>compare it to _a piece of blue sky_ by jon atack, which is indeed
>the most complete book on scientology from an informational
>perspective.
Allow me a friendly disagreement here. The best book I know
of on the subject is Roy Wallis's _The Road to Total Freedom_
(Columbia University Press, 1977) which is one of the few done
from a detached, outside viewpoint. Wallis was a sociologist who
carefully documented the early days of Dianetics, as well as
the later history of Scientology. It was his book that first
made me recognize Scientology's pattern of trying to sue or harass
hostile books out of existence. (They tried it with him too,
but he was savvy enough to reach an agreement with the Church
that the Church actually obeyed!)