| 1. 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.... |
| 2. 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/artic... |
| 3. Is Scientology a Religion? |
| Dr. Alan W. Black examines Scientology against "seven dimensions of religion" and finds all to be present in it. |
| http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/Black/index.ht... |
| 4. 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/E... |
| 5. Religious Philosophy, Religion and Church |
| 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. |
| http://www.emanationinc.com/oost/ |
| 6. 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... |
| 7. 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 |
| 8. 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... |
