For the past half-decade, Scientology has responded to withering attacks with a variety of aggressive and secretive tactics, drawing comparisons to the CIA and FBI. After a recent report alleging the use of violence, however, the church has responded by hiring an ‘independent’ panel of editors and journalists to produce a 20-page assessment of the report.
Hugh B. Urban
Hugh B. Urban is a professor of religious studies at Ohio State University. He has published six books, including Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion and Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism. He is currently writing a book on the Church of Scientology for Princeton University Press.
