The Handbook of Scientology brings together a collection of fresh studies of the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religions.

It is broken down into 19 separate bodies of technology, addressing the most common problems of man, such as: Education and how to handle illiteracy Relationships and how to maintain a successful marriage Solutions to the everyday problems of the workaday world Keeping children happy, productive and healthy Successful communication with anyone Assists for illness and injuries Overcoming the effects of drugs Today, the need for real solutions is crucial. Abuses of every description are rampant in the world?drugs, crime, conflict, terrorism, illiteracy, immorality?the list seems endless. To have any decent future at all, you need to know this manual for living and use it. Enough people doing so will create the positive effect our turbulent society must have.

Communication skills are essential to everything we do in life. In fact, when all is said and done, on whatever level, communication is the one activity all people share. Contained in this booklet is the exact formula for communication which, when understood and applied, results in an increased ability to communicate. And here too are drills anyone can do to improve personal communication skills and thereby enjoy greater success in life.

Scientology is arguably the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religious Movements. James R. Lewis has assembled an unusually comprehensive anthology, incorporating a wide range of different approaches. In this book, a group of well-known scholars of New Religious Movements offers an extensive and evenhanded overview and analysis of all of these aspects of Scientology, including the controversies to which it continues to give rise.