Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the prison of belief - Softcover

Wright, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909269409 ISBN 13: 9781909269408

Verlag: Silvertail Books, 2016

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Reseña del editor:

Scientology presents itself as a scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment, but its activities have long been shrouded in mystery and controversy. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright – armed with his investigative talents, years of archival research, and more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists – uncovers the inner workings of the church.

We meet founder L. Ron Hubbard, the science-fiction writer turned prophet, and his tough, driven successor David Miscavige. We learn about the church’s specialised cosmology and language, its legal attacks on the IRS, its vindictive treatment of critics, and its phenomenal wealth. We see the church court celebrities such as Tom Cruise while consigning its clergy to hard labour under billion-year contracts.

Through it all, Wright asks what makes a religion, and whether Scientology in fact merits this constitutionally protected label. Now an award-winning HBO documentary film, Going Clear pulls back the curtain on one of the most secretive organisations at work today.

Biografía del autor:

Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker. He is the author of a novel, God's Favorite, and has also authored six other books of nonfiction-City Children, Country Summer; In the New World; Saints and Sinners; Remembering Satan; Twins; The Looming Tower and Thirteen Days in September. The Looming Tower received many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. He is also a screenwriter and a playwright. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas.

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• Verlag: Silvertail Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1909269409
• ISBN 13: 9781909269408
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 556