Author: Whitehead, Harriet
Title: Renunciation and Reformulation: A Study of Conversion in an American Sect
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1987). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, 297 pp. Minor rubbing. Some light side page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Face of Scientology; The Origins of Scientology; The Puzzle of Religious & Psychotherapeutic Revelation; The Dynamics of Revelation; Scientology Auditing Techniques; Scientology Beliefs; Inhabiting the Scientology World; Renunciation & Reformulation; The Future of an Illusion;Conclusions.

Keywords: Sociology of Religion, Scientology, Sect Sects, Cult Cults, New Religions, Social Anthropology, United States, Conversion, Anthropology